Zuzana Vesela

In many parts of Western Europe, local authorities have privatized public sector housing over the past few years. Now the Czech Republic is following suit, and many local…

The Cultural Ministry and the Museum of Czech Writing have just presented awards for the "Most Beautiful Books" of 2003. This "beauty contest" has a tradition of almost…

Last week Sisyphus, the Czech Club of Skeptics, awarded the Czech Republic's "greatest" pseudo-scientists for 2003. The annual award has existed for six years with the aim…

The Charter 77 Foundation has launched an interesting new project called Making Chances Equal; it supports computer literacy in schools for blind students and children…

This week students all over the country have been holding a week of protests to highlight the dramatic lack of funding in the Czech Republic's higher education sector…

Have you been living with the same person for twenty years? Do you have a teenager at home? Then you have the ability to tackle life's most difficult challenges and…

As decided in Lisbon the European Union plans to become the most competitive knowledge-based economy by 2010. To achieve this goal it strongly supports education and…

As experts say, some migrating birds are nowadays too lazy to fly south for the winter and others are not eager to return home. But for those who do still follow the…

The Pardubice and the Hradec Kralove regions have always been great rivals. However now, the rivalry seems to have cooled, after representatives from both areas got…

The Czech Republic has overcome a past "boom" in drug abuse and the situation is now far more stable. The government now wants to focus more on the prevention of organised…