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NHL Team to Open Season in Prague
Opening the forthcoming 2010-2011 NHL (National Hockey League) season, American ice hockey team the Boston Bruins play two games in Prague.
Several other NHL... | City Focus |
Prague a Hit with Traveler's Choice Awards
Popular travel website TripAdvisor has announced the results of its annual Traveler's Choice Awards, and Prague, particularly its hotels, has come out a winner.... | City Focus |
Christmas and New Year's in Prague
Heading to the Paris of the East this winter season? If this Christmas turns out to be a white one, you're in for quite the view. But there's more to Prague tha... | City Focus |
Saddam and the Soviet Tank
What have Saddam Hussein and a Soviet tank got in common? Well they both feature in an exhibition by controversial Czech artist David Cerný, who shook up EU po... | Art and Culture |
What NOT to do in Prague this summer
Off for a short break to Prague anytime soon? The city remains an absolute must for anyone travelling around middle Europe, and its reputation as lively and cu... | City Focus |
Twitter your way to a free stay
Fancy a free stay in Amsterdam? HostelBookers can get you there. Just go to HostelBookers Easter Egg Competition on Twitter, and you soon could be savouring the... | Comment |
Obama Choses Prague
"Strengthening US ties to Europe" is the main subject of the American president Barack Obama’s first public foreign-policy speech, which will take place in Prag... | Current Affairs |
Bertramka Villa Back To It's Owners
The 18th century villa in Prague, home to the Museum of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was returned to the Czech Mozart Association.
After years of law suits, the... | Art and Culture |
Ignoring UNESCO, Are We?
Although the representatives of UNESCO objected to the idea of erecting two Pankr·c skyscrapers in Prague, stating that they're too high to fit in the historica... | Current Affairs |
Czech Republic to Rule Over the EU
Although the middle of an economical crisis isn't the best time to take responsibility for anything, on January 1 the Czech Republic will be assuming the presid... | Comment |
Titanic moored in the Lucerna Great Hall
Everybody knows the tragic story of Titanic. You've read papers, you've seen the movie, you've heard Celine Dion sing...Now you can get to know the magic atmosp... | Art and Culture |
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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