Society
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18-year-old mother regrets leaving child in baby box
Baby boxes first came into use in the Czech Republic in 2005, offering mothers unwilling to care for their newborn an anonymous and above all safe means of giving up their…
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Prague street renamed in honour of Polish "human torch" against Soviet invasion
A street in Prague has been renamed in honour of a Polish man who committed suicide in protest at the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Ryszard Siwiec set himself…
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Central or Eastern? Schwarzenberg, Lavrov tussle over map of Europe
Prague, as any Czech schoolchild will tell you, is west of Vienna, and Czechs get notably prickly when their country is placed in “Eastern” rather than “Central” Europe…
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Cardinal Miloslav Vlk joins criticism over controversial papal pardon
The head of the Czech Catholic Church, Cardinal Miloslav Vlk, has joined criticism of Pope Benedict XVI over his decision to lift the excommunication of several bishops…
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A controversial artwork in Brussels
A recent opinion poll suggested that a majority of Czechs are so far satisfied with their government’s running of the EU presidency one month on – even its handling of the…
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Martin C. Putna, director of the Václav Havel Library
Czechs are reputed to be one of Europe’s most atheist nations. Yet in the course of its history, the nation has produced many outstanding religious thinkers, philosophers…
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Mailbox
In Mailbox this week: We reveal the identity of January’s mystery man and announce the names of the winners. Listeners quoted: David Eldridge, Jayanta Chakrabarty, Tracy A…
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Vietnamese nail salons something of phenomenon in Czech Republic
While in the 1990s immigrants from Vietnam ran many of the Czech Republic’s outdoor markets, in recent years they have won an increasingly large share of the corner store…
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Magazine
Lake Lipno in South Bohemia boasts the longest natural ice-skating track in the Czech Republic and possibly the longest maintained skating track in the world. A Czech…
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Czechs criticized for surgically castrating sex offenders
Europe’s leading human rights body has urged the Czech Republic to stop surgically castrating sex offenders immediately. The Council of Europe has called the treatment ‘…
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Young Czech journalist receives European award for article on Mongolian guest workers
On Thursday evening the young journalist Jan Gebert received an award from the European Commission’s “For Diversity. Against Discrimination” campaign. The Czech national…
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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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