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Czechs Still Kicking in Euro 2008 The Czech Republic national team has so far won one game and lost one game in the UEFA Euro 2008 Championships tournament, with one game to go in their group. T... | Current Affairs |
US Base Referendum Rejected The Communist deputies have proposed a referendum about the proposed U.S. missile radar base which was shot down by the Czech government. A similar proposal had... | Current Affairs |
NATO Approves US Missile Shield As the NATO summit goes on in Bucharest, one of the topics of discussion is the proposed American missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland. Thursday, the... | Current Affairs |
Czech Republic and US Strike Visa Deal The United States and the Czech Republic have signed an important agreement that has left some delighted, some infuriated, and few unaffected. The important doc... | Current Affairs |
Klaus 2.0 After three rounds of elections, incumbent President Vaclav Klaus won a second five-year term on Friday, leaving him in office until 2013. Klaus just barely bea... | Current Affairs |
Coffee Invasion The inevitable has finally happened in Prague: Starbucks, the coffee behemoth from Seattle has invaded the Czech Republic. The American coffee chain so far has ... | City Focus |
Missile Talks in Prague While it looked like the missile shield talks had stalled in Warsaw, Poland and the Czech Republic have decided to team up for the forthcoming negotiations with... | Current Affairs |
Flat Fire Reveals Artefacts A fire in a Prague flat has revealed thousands of historical artefacts. The artefacts, mostly metal, include bronze arrow tips, buckles, and pieces of weapons a... | History |
Czech Crime of the Century Recently, a Czech security employee pulled off the biggest crime in Czech history, making off with 560 CZK from the G4S security agency's Prague office. The the... | Current Affairs |
Police Sued Over Neo-Nazi Demonstration On the 10th of November, the anniversary of the Kristallnacht anti-Jew pogrom in Nazi Germany, right-wing extremists led by the Young National Democrats group p... | City Focus |
Extremists Fight to March In perhaps the textbook definition of insensitivity, Czech right-wing extremists (i.e. "neo-Nazis") have decided to march through Jozefov, Prague's Jewish Quart... | City Focus |
Kundera Awarded Literature Prize Famed exile Czech novelist Milan Kundera has received the honour of his most well-known novel, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, becoming a best-seller in the ... | Art and Culture |
An Iranian Politician in Prague Iranian politician Alaaddin Borujerdi, chairman of the Iranian parliament foreign committee, has arrived in Prague for a meeting to discuss diplomatic relations... | Current Affairs |
Who Owns St. Vitus? Recently, an ownership dispute has been the talk of the town in Prague, though it's been going on for the last fourteen years. The object in question is Prague'... | City Focus |
No More (Czech) Visas to America In a historic and long-overdue piece of legislation, both houses of the U.S. Congress have passed a measure then signed by President George W. Bush allowing fiv... | Current Affairs |
Charles Bridge 650 Years Young While the Charles Bridge seems to be getting more and more crowded with each passing tourist season, it's still looking fine for all of its years. The historic ... | City Focus |
Boats to the Rescue While seeing the Charles Bridge full of souvenir stands, artwork for sale, musicians, and swarms of people might be charming to tourists, residents of Prague ha... | City Focus |
An American President in Prague American President George W. Bush has begun his eight-day tour of Europe, kicking it off in our lovely Prague. While visiting, no doubt top on President Bush's ... | Current Affairs |
Prague Citizens: No to Radar! While Poland seems gung-ho about hosting the United States' missile defence shield, Czechs, known for their culture of protesting, have taken to the streets in,... | City Focus |
Prague Life PDF Now Available! Have you been thinking lately, "Gee, Prague Life's online guide sure is helpful, but I wish I could take it with me on my trip to Prague!"? Well fear not, we ha... | City Focus |
Bradgelina in Prague Celebrity couples might be all the rage in the UK and US, but Czechs have their shot at getting into the craze this month, when America's famous couple, Brad Pi... | Art and Culture |
US Missile Defense Agency Chief in Prague Despite constant protests from Moscow, talks of an American missile defense shield being build in the Czech Republic and Poland continue. This Monday, US Missil... | Current Affairs |
Crazy Taxi! While tourists are probably quite sick of getting ripped off by Prague's many taxis, taxi drivers aren't too happy about having to give up ripping off tourists ... | City Focus |
Czech and Germans Fight Over Football We always knew football was a violent sport (for the fans, that is, not so much for the players), but Prague is a civilized city and the Czech and German people... | Current Affairs |
Visa-Free Meeting to be Held in Prague A meeting concerning the movement towards a visa-free regime with the U.S. will be held in Prague on Wednesday, 24 January. The meeting concerns the so-called "... | Current Affairs |
A Grand Ambassador The Czech Republic's finance minister, Vlastimil Tlusty, will be making his way to Brussels this month - but not alone. Accompanying him will be an unusual amba... | Business |
Terrorist 'Test' on Olso-Prague Flight In the recently released Czech security police (BIS) annual report for 2005,
there is mention of a previously unreported incident upon Czech Airlines flight OK... | Comment |
Cambodian King in Prague The Czech Republic is the second homeland for Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni, he told journalists after meeting Czech President Vaclav Klaus today.
"I canno... | Current Affairs |
Shrooms and bombs If you go down to the woods today, you could be in for a big surprise; a loud, explosive surprise. Bomb disposal experts were busy this week in Czech woods afte... | Current Affairs |
Foreign workers flock to Prague Figures just released have shown a large increase in the numbers of foreign workers moving to the Czech Republic, and particularly Prague.
This inxflux of fo... | Current Affairs |
Taking a shoeing Customs officers made an interesting seizure last week in Prague - not drugs, or exotic animals, but shoes: CZK 45 million (GBP 1 million) worth of shoes to be ... | Current Affairs |
May day without communism Thousands of people gathered at Letna plain on May 1st to resurrect an old celebration, but with a difference: this time they were not forced to attend by the g... | Current Affairs |
Ranting and raving Around 300 people gathered on Kampa island yesterday to protest at the lack of an official investigation into police conduct at the CzechTek 2005 rave event, at... | Current Affairs |
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