Ruth Fraňková

The city of Prague has opened a furniture bank, which collects old furniture and other household appliances for socially disadvantaged people and low-income families.

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Czech scientists from Masaryk University in Brno are heading for their annual expedition to Antarctica.

Jewellery designer Anna Škarda from the north-Bohemian town of Frýdlant is producing a jewelled headpiece for the US pop star Beyoncé.

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Czech sales of Swedish furniture giant Ikea have remained strong.

This week marks exactly 55 years since the construction of Prague’s Metro began, although at the time, the plan envisaged just building a tunnel for an underground tramway.

Czech company CB21 Pharma has announced a major breakthrough. It is the first in the world to be able to produce and sell final medical devices containing CBD.

The Czech Jesuits have completed the first phase of the beatification of Adolf Kajpr, a priest and journalist who was imprisoned both by the Nazis and the Communists. 

Czech households spent a record high sum on alcohol in 2019, over CZK 90 billion, suggest newly released data by the European statistical office, Eurostat.

Christmas in Czechia wouldn’t be complete without Jan Jakub Ryba’s Czech Christmas Mass, but he also composed dozens of pastorals, celebrating the birth of infant Jesus.   

Despite the disappointing figures from the spring auction season, the anti-coronavirus measures did not affect the Czech Republic’s art market as much as experts predicted.