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Austrians demonstrate against Temelin nuclear power plant

Austrian anti-nuclear activists staged another demonstration at the Wullowitz Czech-Austrian border check point in South Bohemia on Friday. They are protesting against the…
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University study: Czechs waste 10 percent of the food they buy

On average, every Czech throws away roughly 70 kilograms of food a year. In an effort to get them to stop, economists have now calculated just how much money they waste.
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Anti-corruption watchdog says government has disappointed over action to tackle graft

Measures to tackle corruption were one of the centerpieces of the coalition agreement that paved the way for the current government. But with an anti-corruption strategy…
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Young Czech artist helps dyslexic children

Around five percent of Czech school-goers are diagnosed with dyslexia. Although it has been proven that there is no direct link between dyslexia and IQ dyslexic children…
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Court orders compensation in baby-swap case

A Brno court has ordered Třebíč hospital in Moravia to pay a total of 3.3 million crowns in damages to the families of two baby girls who were accidentally switched at…
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Corruption concerns over huge biggest ever environmental tender

The interim Czech government is pushing ahead with a tender for the biggest environmental clean-up operation in the country’s history – removing environmental damage…
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Environmental groups focus on local damage caused by controversial ČEZ power plant

Headlines around the world have been made by a small Pacific island state’s challenge to plans for a large Czech coal-fired power plant. But Czech environmental groups are…
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New school year brings better pay for teachers, equal opportunities for children with disabilities

September 1st was back to school day for thousands of children around the country and over 100,000 first graders who are traditionally given a special welcome. What makes…
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Czech Republic moves to fulfil international climate change pledge

After months of delays, the Czech Republic’s lower house of parliament took a first step towards approving the Paris climate change agreement. The Chamber of Deputies…
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Czech and British companies join forces to develop VR headset

A Czech Hi-Tech and software engineering company known as Quanti together with the British firm Delion, have created a new virtual reality (VR) headset capable of…
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News Sunday, AUGUST 02th, 1998

Hello and welcome to the programme. I'm AS and we start with the headlines: The new Czech cabinet will appoint a special governmental representative for human rights The…
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News Monday, APRIL 13th, 1998

Radio Prague e-news: April 10, 1998 Written/read by: Ray Furlong Those are the headlines, I'm Ray Furlong, and now a look at the news in more detail. The tension between…
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News Sunday, APRIL 12th, 1998

Radio Prague e-news: April 10, 1998 Written/read by: Ray Furlong Those are the headlines, I'm Ray Furlong, and now a look at the news in more detail. The tension between…
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News Saturday, APRIL 11th, 1998

Radio Prague e-news: April 10, 1998 Written/read by: Ray Furlong Those are the headlines, I'm Ray Furlong, and now a look at the news in more detail. The tension between…
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Reliance on coal makes Czechs Europe’s fifth biggest CO2 polluters

Despite the latest UN report on climate change, which warns that global warming will be far greater than expected, surveys suggest Czechs don’t feel personally responsible…
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News

Czech police mission in Iraq to be extended The Czech government has agreed to extend the mission of its military police officers deployed in Iraq by two months…
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Entomologist on butterflies' side in uphill battle

The Czech Republic's butterflies have gone down a tough road. Scientists say about half of their species are endangered and 18 species have gone extinct over the past…
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Making babies - Czech doctors battle infertility

With one of the lowest birth rates in the world, the Czech population is aging. Government measures aimed at making family life more attractive are not proving as…
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Green belt could soon replace the former Iron Curtain

Prior the fall of communism the border separating socialist Czechoslovakia from the capitalist West was notoriously well-guarded, creating a virtual no-man's land. Few…
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Lubos Kropacek on the small but important Muslim community in the Czech Republic

The popular French Institute in Prague has been running a special series of lectures open to the public titled "Understanding Today's World". Topics that have been covered…
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Temelin high on the agenda again

Tuesday´s public hearing in Vienna on the results of an environmental impact study of the Czech Temelin nuclear power plant was accompanied by protests. Anti-nuclear…
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Press Review

All the Czech newspapers today carry photos of the former Defence minister, Vladimir Vetchy, who was sacked on Thursday, as well as snapshots of his successor Jaroslav…
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News of Radio Prague

Competition chapter closed The Czech Republic has closed the competition chapter in EU accession talks. The Netherlands removed the last roadblock to agreement on…
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Press Review

People who like to eat their breakfast while browsing through Mlada Fronta Dnes are likely to choke over their coffee this morning. "The food you are eating may be full of…
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Agenda 21 conference calls for greater "environmental democracy"

A vast section of Europe badly affected by Communist industrialisation is slowly beginning to heal from decades of environmental abuse, but faces new pressure in the era…
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