Society
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Controversial football boss released on bail
Last November saw the dramatic arrest of controversial football boss Jaroslav Starka, in one of the most high-profile police operations the country has seen in recent…
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Music composer's suicide fills psychiatric wards
Crowds thronged Prague's Strasnice crematorium on Tuesday to pay their last respects to the composer Karel Svoboda, who committed suicide last week. The sudden death of…
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"Twenty-first century slaves" to return to North Korea this year
There are hundreds of North Korean women working in the Czech Republic under a system in which half of the money they earn is said to go straight to Pyongyang. They have…
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Niall Keyes - managing director of recruitment agency with branches around region
Irishman Niall Keyes is the managing director of Grafton Recruitment and is responsible for the agency's activities across the central and eastern European region. After…
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New Ministry of Labour booklet advises foreigners on how to behave in Czech society
Any foreigner who has lived in the Czech Republic can tell you stories of how difficult it is to truly assimilate with the local population. No matter how well you learn…
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Magazine
Romania or Romany? There's a tiny chance your GPS system could lead you astray. Czech drivers will soon get the first ever highway chapel in the Czech Republic - but will…
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Czech literary legend Bohumil Hrabal died 10 years ago
Saturday is the tenth anniversary of the death of acclaimed Czech author Bohumil Hrabal. Although he published his first major work well into his forties, Hrabal soon…
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New Milos Forman film sees Prague premiere and other Arts news
In today's Arts: a look at Milos Forman's new film Goya's Ghosts, starring Natalie Portman and Xavier Bardem. (A gala premiere was held in Prague this week). Also, a new…
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Floating shelter opened for Prague's homeless population
In the Communist era, it was illegal in this country not to have a place to live. All this has changed in the 16 years since the Velvet Revolution, however, and there are…
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Catholic Church to screen priests for collaboration with StB
Thousands of public officials have had their pasts scrutinised under a lustration or screening law adopted two years after the fall of communism. It aims to stop former…
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Prague to open its technological heritage to tourists
Have you been to Prague a few times and think you've seen it all but you would still like to return? Then you are one of those people that the Prague authorities had in…
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2006 sees highest rise in new HIV cases since 1985
The number of people infected with the HIV virus in the Czech Republic increased significantly last year. According to the National Reference Laboratory for AIDS, 2006 saw…
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