Football: Latka signs one year contract with Slovan Liberec
Thirty-one-year-old defender Martina Latka, who has played for roughly 13 years with Slavia Prague, has signed with Slovan Liberec. The news was confirmed on twitter. Slovan Liberec is preparing for the final preliminary round of the...
Report: Odometer fraud up by two percent
Forty-two percent of vehicles sold on the used car market in the Czech Republic have had mileage tampered with on the odometer, the Czech News Agency reported on Monday citing a study by Cebia. The study suggests that some vehicles' mileage was modified by 100,000 kilometres or more to secure a...
Singer, lifelong communist Prusalis dies at 67
Czech singer of Greek descent Statis Prusalis, a lifelong supporter of communism who made no secret of cooperating for years with Czechoslovakia’s former secret police, died on Saturday at the age of 67. The news was confirmed by the Communist Party on twitter. In documentary testimony, Mr Prusalis said...
Czech Republic sees roughly same number of asylum seekers in first seven months of 2016
A total of 872 foreigners applied for asylum in the Czech Republic in the first seven months of 2016, just 12 fewer than over the same period in 2015, the Interior Ministry’s Department for Asylum and Migration Policy reported on Monday. The largest groups seeking asylum so far in 2016 have been from...
Sports News 15.8.2016
In Sports News this Monday: Czechs take four bronze medals in Rio in two days, including three in tennis; after winning his first Olympics medal in the mixed doubles, veteran Štěpánek says success in Czech colours tops other honours; and rower Synek, who came third in single sculls, concedes he may never top...
News site: Transfer of ownership of train stations to put focus on outlets’ contracts
Following the transfer of around 1,500 train stations around the Czech Republic to a new owner later this month, the focus won’t just be on the state of the buildings themselves: Contracts with newsagents, bakeries and other outlets are also set to come up for review.
Agriculture Ministry to launch funding programme to counter drought
The Agriculture Ministry will launch a new funding programme next year to improve irrigation worth 1.6 billion crowns. In all, the government is to invest some 28 billion crowns by 2022 in fighting drought. The news was confirmed on Monday by Agriculture Minister Marian Jurečka, who said that along with...
Slovakia’s Mountain Rescue Service confirms death of Czech speleologist
Slovakia’s Mountain Rescue Service has confirmed that a Czech speleologist died in Slovakia at the weekend in a cave-in at a recently discovered natural cave near Banská Bystrica. The man lost consciousness when he was buried under debris in the collapse; colleagues attempted artificial resuscitation...
Penny Market to become first supermarket chain in Czech Republic to sell wonky vegetables
Penny Market has become the first supermarket chain in the Czech Republic to sell fruit and vegetables which don’t fall within the strict cosmetic standards. The wonky carrots and other less perfect produce will be supplied exclusively by Czech farmers and will be sold with a ten percent discount. According...