Society
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Army evacuates Czechs from Japan
Two army aircraft left Prague for Japan on Tuesday evening to bring back selected Czechs, Poles and Slovaks, primarily women and children, from the disaster-stricken main…
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Is man’s best friend leading a dog’s life?
It would be hard to find a country where the saying “a dog is man’s best friend” is more apt than in the Czech Republic. According to available statistics close to 40…
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Supreme Court: killing a thief when protecting property is murder
The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that anyone who kills a thief (or thieves) while protecting their property in the Czech Republic will in the future not be tried for…
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Disabled people set to protest social welfare reform proposal
Czechs with medical disabilities are upset by plans for social welfare reform that they believe could lower their standard of living, and that some have even called…
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Health ministry draws up proposal allowing patients to end treatment
The Czech Ministry of Health is treading on delicate ground. It is working on a proposal that would set out the scenario where patients could determine in advance when…
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Government’s Roma inclusion agency head Martin Šimáček: most mayors not ready to work hard on…
One of the gravest problems facing Czech society is the situation of the country’s Romany minority. According to official estimates, there are between 150,000 and 300,000…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox: Some more reactions to the end of shortwave broadcasts, "propaganda" on Radio Prague, last month's mystery Czech and a brand new quiz question. Listeners…
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Think tank recommends English being made sole obligatory foreign language in schools
This week the government’s economic think tank, NERV, issued a report recommending, among several changes, that English be made the only obligatory foreign language in…
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Czech Radio leads commemorations to mark 60th anniversary of Radio Free Europe broadcasts
The Czech Republic is preparing to mark the 60th birthday of the launch of Radio Free Europe broadcasts in Czech across the Iron Curtain to Czechoslovakia. The broadcasts…
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Author Arnošt Lustig dies at 84
The Czech Jewish writer, Arnošt Lustig died in Prague on Saturday at the age of 84. A survivor of several Nazi concentration camps, he made the Holocaust the central theme…
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Jakub Mareš – pioneering the co-working concept in the Czech Republic
Jakub Mareš is one of the operators of the Hub, Prague’s biggest co-working centre. They are a new kind of shared working environment where people whose main tool is their…
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There’s no room like the ballroom: Waltzing and other classic dances remain popular among young…
What do teenagers do in their spare time? Cha-cha, fox-trot and waltz might not be the first things to come to mind, but here in the Czech Republic, lessons in ballroom…
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