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Ústí hospital sets up 3D printing laboratory...

3D printing has found a home in several industries, primarily the industrial and electrical sectors. But healthcare has also found many uses for the technology, including for creating medical devices, dental implants, patient-specific surgical...

National Day and Armed Force Day of the...

On the occasion of the National Day, Armed Force Day of the Republic of Croatia and 15 years of membership in NATO the Ambassador of Croatia H.E. Mrs. Ljiljana Pancirov and the Defense Attache Col. Zdravko Barbaric host a reception and...

Independence Day of the Republic of...

On the occasion of the Independence Day of the Republic of Azerbaijan, H.E Mr. Adish Mammadov and Mrs. Amanat Pashazade host a reception at the Bohemia Ballroom at the Prague Marriott Hotel. Mr. Jaroslav Kurfürst – Director General for...

CHILDREN GO TO PRAGUE ZOO FOR A CROWN AND...

Visitors to the Prague Zoo can expect several extraordinary events during the first weekend of June. On Saturday, June 1, all children under the age of 15 will be admitted to the Prague Zoo for a symbolic one crown. A special program for...

Zlatá Koruna monastery boasts authentic...

Have you ever wondered what a Baroque pharmacy looked like? The answer lies in a monastery called Zlatá Koruna, in southern Bohemia, which recently re-created such a pharmacy from authentic items dating back to the 18th century. Have you ever...

Nine-year-old boy leads annual Ride of Kings...

The annual Ride of the Kings folk celebration – a centuries-old UNESCO listed tradition – took place in the village of Vlčnov in South Moravia on Sunday. The festive ride of young men, led by a nine-year-old boy in the role of king, signifies...

EU leaders pledge increased support for...

The Czech prime minister on Tuesday hosted a work dinner for a group of EU leaders and the prime minister of Ukraine aimed at coordinating and strengthening aid to the embattled country in the face of continuing Russian aggression. The meeting...

Concert performance of Libuše to mark...

A special concert performance of Bedřich Smetana’s opera Libuše will be performed at Prague’s Rudolfinum on Tuesday, marking the 200th anniversary of the great Czech composer’s birth. The event, featuring Czech opera stars Kateřina Kněžíková...

The Olga Havlová Award

“The biggest obstacle is not the stairs, but the people,” says the thirtieth winner of the Olga Havel Award Doris Průšová On May 27, 2024, Doris Průšová received the Olga Havlova Prize awarded by the Committee of Good Will –...

Danuše Nerudová of Mayors and Independents:...

Danuše Nerudová is an economist and university professor and a former rector of Mendel University in Brno. She is running in the European elections for the Mayors and Independents Party. Ms. Nerudová, a recent poll showed that the issues Czechs...

Daniel Matejča on coming into his own and...

19-year-old Daniel Matejča is perceived throughout Czechia as a bit of a wunderkind. Studying under the mentorship and guidance of famous Czech pedagogue Ivan Straus, Matejča has been playing the violin since he was four, has impressed...

Discover the sights of the Liberec Region

The Liberec Region boasts a picturesque, hilly landscape, dotted with many castles and chateaus and a sight you can’t miss – the iconic TV transmitter on Ještěd. Czech out its landmarks in our photo gallery. See the rest here.

Test your knowledge of the Liberec region in...

The Liberec Region is known for its glassmaking tradition and its exquisite costume jewellery exported to many countries of the world. It offers great mountain hiking in both summer and winter, beautiful nature and picturesque towns. Test your...

Pirate Party election leader Marcel Kolaja:...

Marcel Kolaja is the leader of the Czech Pirate Party in the European elections. He is an IT specialist and internet freedom and digital rights activist and has served in the European Parliament since the 2019 elections. Europe has seen some...

“Not just about music”: Khamoro festival...

Billed as “the world’s largest professional Romani festival”, Khamoro, meaning ‘sunshine’ in Romani, has been taking place in Prague since 1999. But as Izabela Chalupníková from the festival’s production team told me, it’s not your typical...

Debut directors, Geoffrey Rush and “Pig...

Two Czech titles, Tiny Lights and Our Lovely Pig Slaughter, will be in the main competition at the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, organisers revealed on Tuesday. Meanwhile Hollywood star Geoffrey Rush will be part of the jury...

May 1884: Kafka’s literary executor Max Brod...

Max Brod, an important representative of Prague Jewish German literature, was born 140 years ago, on May 27, 1884. He is best known as the saviour of Franz Kafka’s work. Max Brod was born into the family of a German-speaking clerk. After...

Jazz Dock Orchestra releases live album

Jazz Dock, one of Prague’s most popular jazz clubs thanks to its cool location in a modern glass building that appears to be floating on the river Vltava, plays host to a wide variety of jazz, funk, Latin and soul bands. But it also has its own...

Regional investment support centers are...

The regional centers for Housing Investment Support, which was established in April by the State Investment Support Fund (SFPI), are already fully providing services to municipalities. They register dozens of requests for consultations of...

“I never thought I’d do a knee-slide”:...

Czechia won the Ice Hockey World Championship with a 2:0 defeat of Switzerland in the final on Sunday night. The Czechs, led by star David Pastrňák, secured the title for the first time in over a decade and a half in front of an ecstatic home...

Exhibition shines light on Prague-born...

Lucia Moholy was a Prague-born photographer who documented, often uncredited, the interwar Bauhaus movement in Germany. She has largely been overlooked as an artist – something a major new retrospective at the gallery Kunsthalle Praha aims to...

Czechast with Daniel Hrbek, Theater Director

Czechast invites Daniel Hrbek, the director and manager of Švanda Theater in Prague, to discuss the enduring appeal of live theater, even in our digital age. Despite the rise of streaming services, Prague’s theaters are thriving, with shows...

Atlas of Climate Change aims to empower non...

Facts on Climate Change, a Czech team of independent analysts and experts, is committed to making the public debate on climate change factual, constructive and based on scientifically verified data. They recently published an English version of...

Macumba, Icon of Gorilla Conservation, Has...

“Stay where you are. Don’t move,” German primatologist Daniela Hedwig was whispering into a loud gorilla shouting. “It is OK, just don’t move,” she repeated, and I wondered if I should pick up my camera and try to take the photo of my life. I...

Allianz Insurance is a new signatory of the...

Allianz Insurance has joined 9,616 companies worldwide that have declared their commitment to gender equality and women’s empowerment within the UN Sustainable Development Goals and ESG agenda. It did so by signing up to the Women’s...

News from Afrikatu Kofi – Humanitas...

Dear Families and Friends, sincere greetings to you all wherever you are right now from Humanitas Afrika we wish you only good health, happiness, and prosperity. We have the pleasure always to update and inform you and where possible to invite...

World Bee Day 2024 Celebrated in Prague –...

To mark the 7th World Bee Day 2024, the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Prague, together with the Prague 6 and in cooperation with the United Nations Information Centre in Prague, opened an outdoor exhibition “Saving the Future:...

From Taiwan to India to Žižkov: Prague...

From Monday 27th May – Friday 1st June audiences can enjoy over 140 performances of 36 productions from 15 different countries around the world! The traditional (and not so traditional) theatres and performance spaces of Prague’s Malá Strana...

THE POLAR BEARS TWINS HAVE ARRIVED AT THE...

Two polar bears from the Warsaw Zoo arrived at the Prague Zoo yesterday evening. Thirteen-year-old twins Gregor and Aleut came to Prague based on the recommendation of the European breeding coordinator of this species. Her decision follows the...

OPENING OF THE NEW EXHIBITION OF FURRY...

On Saturday, May 25, the Prague Zoo will open a new exhibit for hairy porcupines. An aviary of East Asian birds was created last year at the place of their previous enclosure near the Sichuan pavilion, and so the group of these prickly rodents...

UN Tourism News

UN Tourism Connects Leaders for Investment Conference Focused on Middle East Opportunities Public-private partnerships can stimulate investment into tourism and help drive the sector’s transformation across the Middle East. You can read more at...

Ukrainian defence minister: We can win this...

As Russia steps up its offensive in Ukraine, the country’s leadership is stressing the urgent need for more weapons and soldiers to hold the front. In an exclusive interview for Czech Radio, Ukraine’s Defence Minister Rustem Umerov spoke about...

Josef Suk: Fantastic Scherzo

Fantastic Scherzo by the great Czech composer Josef Suk premiered at Prague’s Rudolfinum in 1905. Josef Suk, who was born in 1874, was one of Antonín Dvořák’s favourite students and indeed married Dvořák’s daughter, Otilie Suková. The composer...

Czech Prima Donnas at the Met Opera in New...

A new exhibition opens on Wednesday evening at the Czech Center New York presenting Czech female opera singers whose careers brought them onto the stage of one of the world’s most prestigious opera houses – the Metropolitan Opera in New York...

Swedish Chapel in Opava boasts frescos...

The town of Opava has a unique octagonal chapel, called the Swedish Chapel, which boasts a rare find. Its walls are covered with fragments of 15th century frescoes depicting the Apocalypse. The octagonal Chapel of the Holy Cross –commonly known...

Efforts to save unique mosaic made by...

Conservationists are attempting to save a large-scale mosaic created by the famous twin sisters Jitka and Květa Válová in the late 1970s. The artwork, believed to have been lost, was discovered some time ago in a building, which is slated for...

„Burn it all!“ The death and legacy of Franz...

The last years of Kafka’s life were associated with severe illness and numerous stays in sanatoriums. On this account, Kafka has often been described as sickly. However, as long as his health allowed, he exercised regularly, washed with...

“It’s exciting and frightening”: Architect...

The great Czech architect Eva Jiřičná has been living in the UK for many decades. But the biggest project in the 85-year-old’s career, a 1,000-apartment development, is set to go up in Prague. I spoke to Jiřičná on Monday at a presentation of...

May 18, 1899: Guth-Jarkovsky founds Czech...

Czechs contributed to the foundation of the International Olympic Committee and to the creation of Olympism as we know it today. One of the co-authors of the Olympic Charter was Czech Jiří Stanislav Guth-Jarkovský. The origins of Olympism in...

Hundreds of tickets sold for Hockey World...

Disappointed fans, crying children, angry parents: some of the scenes that could be witnessed at the turnstiles to hockey arenas in Prague and Ostrava when excited ticket holders realised the passes they had bought to the 2024 IIHF World...

Czechia in the grip of hockey mania

The 2024 Ice Hockey World Championships are well underway in the Czech cities of Prague and Ostrava. The tournament, which brings together teams representing 16 nations, is held annually in alternating host cities. As the group stage of the...

On the trail of handmade glass in Harrachov

The making of glass and jewellery by hand, a tradition which has survived for hundreds of years in the Liberec Region, draws thousands of tourists to the area each year. Radio Prague paid a visit to the oldest still-functioning glassworks in...

Translator Mark Harman: Kafka’s imagination...

Translations of short stories by the Prague German-language writer come out this week. Entitled Selected Stories, the collection is the work of Mark Harman, an Irish-born, US-resident academic who has been described as “the finest living Kafka...

From Taiwan to Žižkov: 23rd Prague Fringe...

Final preparations are underway for the 23rd edition of the Prague Fringe, which starts on Monday. Alongside an array of artists from around the globe, this year’s edition will also include a local company performing a play “by” fictional Czech...

Czech scientists turn chicken feathers into...

Every year, Czechs consume millions of chickens, leaving behind tons of feathers as a by-product. The feathers typically end up in incinerators or on landfills. Czech scientists have now come up with a way of repurposing this by-product –...

Official: Czech artillery initiative could...

A fresh Russian offensive targeted at Kharkiv puts Ukraine’s efforts to defend itself against Putin’s aggression under renewed focus. It may also increase the importance of a Czech initiative to provide large amounts of artillery ammunition to...

THE POLAR BEARS TWINS HAVE ARRIVED AT THE...

Two polar bears from the Warsaw Zoo arrived at the Prague Zoo. Thirteen-year-old twins Gregor and Aleut came to Prague based on the recommendation of the European breeding coordinator of this species. Her decision follows the March departure of...

CEO Ondřej Dvořák on why Czech firms are...

Czech firms have increasingly been looking across the ocean at opportunities to expand to North American markets, specifically in fields such as IT. But what specific skills can Czech born businesses offer these already competitive...

Josef Suk: Fantastic Scherzo

The third part of our video series on Czech Music Greats is devoted to the Fantastic Scherzo by Art Nouveau composer Josef Suk, pupil and son-in law of Antonín Dvořák, and the country’s only Art Nouveau Composer. The piece received its premiere...

The spa season has started in Czechia

The spa season has officially kicked off around Czecia with traditional ceremonies at the country’s  many healing springs. Pictured here are girls in traditional costumes at a healing spring in Luhačovice. Source: ČTK

May 12, 1884: Czech music great Bedřich...

One of the greatest Czech composers, Bedřich Smetana, known as “the father of Czech music,” died on this day, 140 years ago. Bedřich Smetana (March 2, 1824– May 12, 1884) is one of the most influential figures in Czech music...

The infamous nine percent: Czech firm tests...

What really happens to your plastic after you’ve carefully sorted it and put it in your local recycling container (in Czechia, those iconic yellow bins)? According to many recent media reports, rather than being recycled, it likely ends up in...

Ferdinand Porsche, car designer whose idea...

Ferdinand Porsche was a Liberec-born genius engineer, who designed the first-ever hybrid car. He also contributed to the development of Volkswagen Beetle, which remained in production for 65 years. Ferdinand Porsche was born on September 3...

Looking to ride Prague City Hall’s...

Perhaps you’ve seen one in the Charles University Faculty of Law building – the old wooden ‘infinity’ elevator known as a paternoster. The vintage ride has become quite a tourist attraction, especially the one at Prague’s City Hall. But the...

“More than 100 buildings are open to the...

Open House Prague, the week-long festival where many buildings throughout the city normally closed to the public open their doors, kicks off this week. Until May 19th, visitors will be able to explore famous sites across the city, and learn...

The National Gallery Prague will present the...

Visitors will be able to view more than two hundred works, not only graphics, but also drawings, paintings, and artistic crafts. The exhibition “From Michelangelo to Callot. The Graphic Art of Mannerism”, on which the NGP...

“A five-star general of the army of...

Professor Josef Michl, a world-renowned Czech chemist, died on Monday at the age of 85. Professor Michl, who excelled both in theoretical and experimental chemistry, led research groups at Prague’s Institute of Organic Chemistry and...

Decision to keep Soviet-era sculpture at...

If you’ve taken the metro to Prague’s Anděl station, you may have noticed a bronze sculpture that reads ‘Moskva-Praha’. Constructed in 1985, it was meant to symbolize friendship between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union. After the fall of the...

Siřem: could this north Bohemian village...

In the previous episode of ‘In Kafka’s Footsteps’, we visited the town of Frýdlant, believed to have inspired Kafka’s novel ‘The Castle’. But there is another contender vying for the same accolade: the village of Siřem, a tiny hamlet in...

Czech and Slovak Museum in Iowa launches...

The National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is marking the 50th anniversary of its founding this year. Rawdio Prague was at the launch of the official celebrations, which kicked off earlier this month in the Midwest...

Hit maker Petr Hapka, one of the most...

Singer and songwriter Petr Hapka, one of the most significant composers of Czech film music scores, would have turned 80 this week. He died at the age of just 70 in 2014, leaving an unforgettable music legacy behind. The popular Czech composer...

Jane Goodall in town to name Prague Zoo’s...

Jane Goodall, the famous English primatologist and anthropologist who has spent decades studying chimpanzees, is paying a special visit to the Prague Zoo this weekend. Goodall will be naming one of the Zoo’s new baby gorillas, a special event...

From Taiwan to India to Žižkov: Prague...

From Monday 27th May – Friday 1st June audiences can enjoy over 140 performances of 36 productions from 15 different countries around the world! The traditional (and not so traditional) theatres and performance spaces of Prague’s Malá Strana...

The Singing Fountain will be heard in the...

The fountain has been out of service since it was damaged in the fall of 2022 and restoration work began. Visitors to the Royal Gardens of Prague Castle can listen to it again from tomorrow, always from ten in the morning to seven in the...

Czechast with Karel Barták

There is no doubt that one of the pivotal moments in Czech history I just mentioned came twenty years ago when this country joined the European Union. In the last episode, I talked to a businessman with experience from the highest echelons of...

The Ambassadors of Wild Nature

According to the book of Genesis, Noah’s Ark was 300 feet long and 50 feet wide. Converted to current units, it measured roughly 135 to 22 metres. Squeezing a pair or even seven pairs of all animal species on to it must had been a completely...

Large brown bear spotted on outskirts of...

A brown bear weighing as much as 200 kilogrammes has been spotted on the outskirts of the Moravian city of Zlín. The authorities say the animal could be passing through the area but have warned locals to exercise caution. The brown bear...

The Speaker of the House discussed Czech...

The Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Markéta Pekarová Adamová, started her working trip around the Baltics with a visit to Lithuania. There, she discussed joint security issues with Parliament Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, Prime...

65th Anniversary of the establishment of...

On the occasion of the 65th Anniversary of the establishment of Moroccan-Czech Diplomatic Relations, The Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco in Prague Kingdom of Morocco H.E. Ms. Hanane SAADI in collaboration with The Music and Dance Faculty...

The Baby Boom Is Not Ending, an Orangutan...

Another baby! Third time this year I announced a birth of an ape. After two lowland gorillas a Sumatran orangutan baby was born on May 2, after the noon hour! And on top of that, it is a grandchild of the famous and genetically valuable Káma...

POSTCARD FROM KAZAKHSTAN

This year, the Prague Zoo will transport Převalsky’s first horses to Kazakhstan as part of the Return of Wild Horses 2024 project. A total of three stallions and five mares will be flown on June 3 by CASA military aircraft from Prague and...

One of last two surviving WWII Czechoslovak...

One of the final two Czechoslovak RAF veterans still alive today celebrated his 100th birthday on Thursday. Jiří Pavel Kafka, also one of the “Winton children”, marked his centenary in the hangar of Prague’s Kbely military airport in the...

UN Tourism Launches Women in Tech Startup...

UN Tourism has launched the second edition of its Women in Tech Startup Competition: Middle East. The initiative aims to highlight and support women entrepreneurs who are shaping the future of sustainable tourism and technology across the...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives...

Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Markéta Pekarová Adamová received Speaker of the Slovenian National Assembly Urška Klakočar Zupančič. The main topic of the joint meeting was the current issue of the expansion of the European Union to include...

Locksmith-turned-sculptor wows locals with...

Karel Raab trained as a locksmith in view of taking over the family firm, but his yearning to create art was stronger. He started out by creating small pieces for his garden in his spare time. They soon got noticed and enabled him to turn his...

Berliner Philharmoniker to open this year’s...

The 79th edition of the Prague Spring International Music Festival, the largest and oldest classical musical festival in Czechia, gets underway in the Czech capital next Sunday with a performance of Bedřich Smetana’s My Country by the Berliner...

What to do in Ostrava when the hockey is...

Are you a hockey fan in Ostrava for the World Championship and are wondering what to do in the evening before or after your team’s game? We have some advice for you. Stodolní Street –a place to party! A visit to Ostrava’s Stodolní...

Prague metro celebrating 50 years of service

The Prague metro is celebrating 50 years of service this week with a number of special events for the public. People can visit an exhibition on the history of the metro, ride on the historic first trains that opened the Prague subway or play a...

Klárov: Prague’s “secret metro station”

Thursday marks exactly 50 years since the opening of the first section of the Prague metro, running between Kačerov and Florenc on the C line. Today there are 61 stations and three lines. But did you know that there is also a secret metro...

7 May, 1939: The funeral that turned into a...

The second funeral of poet Karel Hynek Mácha, whose remains were exhumed from the occupied Sudetenland 85 years ago and taken to Prague for a second ceremonial burial, ended up turning into one of the biggest anti-Nazi protests in the early...

“That’s how his literature got into my...

Among the books nominated for the prestigious Magnesia Litera Award this year was a graphic novel called Arnoštova cesta, describing the life story of the great Czech Jewish writer Arnošt Lustig. I met with his daughter Eva, a writer and...

Trans rights advocate: “Society is getting...

The Czech Constitutional Court has ruled to abolish forced sterilization for individuals who want to make an official sex change. Czechia is one of the last few EU countries enforcing the sterilization requirement. The change, which will...

The Sudetenland town believed to have...

Frýdlant, a town of about 7,400 inhabitants in Czechia’s Liberec Region, certainly has a Kafkaesque feeling about it. You arrive there only to find that the people you arranged to interview suddenly don’t have time to meet you, saying they are...

“For Czechs, hockey is more than a sport”:...

The National Gallery at Prague’s Kinsky Palace has been converted into a hockey fans paradise for a new exhibition titled “Get on the ice! Ice Hockey and Skating in Art”. The exhibit showcases skating and hockey in Czech fine art throughout the...

“Maybe Czechia is the underdog who could...

The 2024 Ice Hockey World Championships are set to begin this Friday in host cities Prague and Ostrava. The tournament, which brings together 16 teams, will take place over the course of two weeks. But how is the Czech team expected to perform...

Przhevalsky versus Stoliczka

We have already three “Przhevalsky’s” in the new Gobi Exhibit – three animal species, which were named after Russian geographer Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky (1839- 1888). Besides Przewalski’s horse it is Gobi racerunner (Eremias...

MAY ZOO PRAGUE: SUNSHINE ANIMALS AND...

The eight-strong gorilla troop at the Dja Reserve visited the outdoor enclosure for the first time with the two cubs this week. Giraffes, zebras and antelopes graze in the open air in the large African enclosure, hippos alternately sunbathe and...

May 1954: First appearance of Škoda Spartak

The Škoda 440, known in Czechoslovakia as the Škoda Spartak, was first seen by the public in a May Day parade in company town Mladá Boleslav in 1954. The period socialist press ran articles telling the public that the car market would improve...

Property prices rising in Czechia after...

After a period of stagnation, prices of apartments and houses in Czechia are again on the rise, according to players on the property market. But what is driving this development? And what other trends can be observed? According to a study by...

“We punch above our weight”: Czech...

The first ever National Development Day was held at the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday. The event highlighted the country’s active cooperation with developing countries around the world – including in the human rights field. The...

Explore the Liberec region from above!

Join us on a trip to the Liberec Region. Our drone video will show you the region’s hilly landscape with its many castles and the iconic TV transmitter on Ještěd. See the rest here. Author: Vít Pohanka

Prague discussion hosted by protection group...

Since 2008, the organization ComingOut has been working to protect the rights of LGBTQ+ folks in Russia, as a response to the many dangers and difficulties this community faces on a daily basis. Georgii Kalakutskii, a member of the queer...

Good things come in 4’s: The Kukal Quartet

Chamber music is a vital part of Czech musical traditions, and on this episode of the Faces of Czech Music, we sat down with four talented and bright young musicians who are adding their take on this classical genre. Together, Eliška Kukalová...

“People are loving it”: Internationally...

Czech-made video game Kingdom Come: Deliverance achieved massive success at home and abroad when it was released in 2018. Warhorse Studios, the games developers are gearing up for the highly anticipated sequel to be released. Tobias Stolz...

Franz Kafka Museum: a journey through the...

The Franz Kafka Museum in Prague gives visitors an insight into the inner world of Franz Kafka, one of the most important writers of the 20th century. The exhibition portrays Kafka’s life and work, his fascination with Prague and how its...

Prague expecting influx of fans for Ice...

The 2024 Ice Hockey World Championships are set to commence on May 10th in Prague and Ostrava. The tournament, which includes 16 teams, attracts fans from all over the world to the hosting country. So how many hockey fans are expected to...

20 years of Czech membership in the European...

Twenty years ago, Czechia officially became a member country of the European Union. Few people doubt that it was a truly historic moment. The simultaneous accession of ten mostly post-communist countries on May 1st, 2004, was the largest in...

AN ORANGUTAN WAS BORN IN THE PRAGUE ZOO. THE...

A Sumatran orangutan was born at the Prague Zoo shortly after noon Thursday 2.5.2024. This is the first cub of the 11-year-old female Diri, who was also born in the Prague Zoo. The father is a 22-year-old male from Paga. According to the first...