Thursday should be clear to partly cloudy, with daytime highs of 25 to 29 degrees Celsius. Light showers are expected overnight in Western Bohemia, and rain is in the forecast for the Prague and Vysočina...
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Ex-Interior Ministry employees charged in Fujitsu Technology case
Four former senior Interior Ministry employees have been charged with circumventing the Public Procurement Act and mismanaging state property in connection to a contract with Fujitsu Technology on the licensing of Microsoft products am...
Average mortgage rate in August rose to 2.53 pct
The average mortgage rate rose marginally in August to 2.53 percent, according to data compiled by Fincentrum Hypoindex, whose figures are based on the real values of freshly agreed contracts, including refinancing deals. In July, the...
Interwar architecture focus of new Prague exhibition
A new exhibition entitled Architecture in the Services of the First Republic has just been opened at the National Technical Museum in Prague. The show highlights around 100 noteworthy buildings dating from Czechoslovakia’s interwar per...
Astronomical clock back in operation on September 28
Prague’s famous astronomical clock will go back into operation on September 28, St. Wenceslas’ Day. The clock at the city’s Old Town Hall has been undergoing repairs for several months. Freshly restored statutes of the apostles...
Astronomical clock to return to operation on September 28
Prague’s famous astronomical clock will go back into operation on September 28, St. Wenceslas’ Day. The clock at the city’s Old Town Hall has been undergoing repairs for several months. Freshly restored statutes of the apostles...
Government agrees next year’s budget
The 2019 draft budget is to focus on investment, increase of public sector salaries and the raising of pensioners’ living standards, Finance Minister Alena Schillerová said after it won government approval on Wednesday. The budget pro...
Bureaucracy to blame for rise in Prague house prices, claims study
Czech economic research institute CETA (Centrum ekonomických a tržních analýz) published a study focused on the residential housing market in Prague on Friday, which claims that bureaucratic hurdles, coupled with high demand, are prim...
Sculptor discovers monument by National Museum was actually dedicated to Jan Palach
A sculptor tasked with reconstructing the communist era pylon in front of the National Museum’s New Building has discovered old documents which show the monument’s author, Czech architect Karel Prager, dedicated it to Jan Palach, who...
Daily news summary 18.9.2018
Petříček for foreign minister; orphans resolution tabled; Šilhavý soccer boss