St. Wenceslas Day or the Day of Czech Statehood, on September 28th, will kick off a month of nation-wide celebrations marking the centenary of the birth of Czechoslovakia. Prague’s famous astronomical clock on Old Town...
Daily news summary 27.9.2018
Pork tests,Lidové noviny scandal,OKD making healthy profit
Czech industrialists mapping out opportunities in UAE
As the United Arab Emirates continue to lower their country’s economic dependency on oil, new opportunities are on the rise. Czech companies, for whom the UAE are the biggest trading partner in the Persian Gulf,...
Weather forecast
Friday should be sunny to partly cloudy with day temperatures between 18 and 22 degrees Celsius.
New centre to oversee landscape management
A new Land and Water Centre has just been established by experts at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. Its aim is to search for measures that would adapt the country’s landscape to...
Munich Agreement – The behaviour of the great powers explained
This Sunday will mark the 80th anniversary of the infamous Munich agreement - the deal between Hitler, Mussolini and the two western European powers, which cut off the German speaking borderlands from Czechoslovakia, including a signi...
Epic silent-film era biopic “Saint Wenceslas” screening with long lost musical score
Ahead of the Day of Czech Statehood on September 28th, special screenings of the silent film “Svatý Václav” (Saint Wenceslas), accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra of Prague, are taking place at the grandiose Municipal House, the...
Senate chairman to hand out medals of merit
Twenty-one leading personalities from the field of science, culture, sport and public life will be awarded the Silver Commemorative Medal of the Senate by the Chairman of the upper chamber Milan Štěch on Thursday evening on...
Pork imports to undergo testing for African swine fever
Czech importers of pork and pork products from states where African swine fever has been confirmed will be held responsible for getting such imports tested for the virus, the Czech State Veterinary Authority said on Thursday....
OKD could continue coal mining until 2030
The black coal mining company OKD, which underwent reorganization following insolvency procedures in 2016, is making a profit and could continue to mine until 2030, Prime Minister Andrej Babiš said following talks with the company’s ma...