Czech Republic News

The Czech government today expressed regret at unlawful sterilisations of women, mainly Romanies, Human Rights and Minorities Minister Michael Kocab said today adding that measures are being prepared that should prevent repeat of such practice.

The number of overnight stays at hotels and other accommodation facilities in the Czech Republic fell by 2 percent year-on-year to 14 million in the third quarter of this year, the Czech Statistical Office announced Wednesday.

With a sharp increase in swine flu cases in recent days, hospitals across the country are bracing for an epidemic.

The teams travel to Prague in the Czech Republic to race. Cold Case 9:00PM - 10:00PM The 1983 murder of a Chinese-American teen is reinvestigated.

A 45-year-old foreigner died today probably of swine flu, the fifth person to die in the country in connection with the infection, Valasske Mezirici hospital spokesman Tomas Zelazko has told CTK.

Bringing more than twenty years of engineering expertise, Suk is responsible for driving the product strategy and leading the engineering efforts of Kerio's security and messaging product lines.

Monday, November 16, 2009 at 2:04 a.m. PRAGUE - The Obama administration hopes the Czech Republic will play an important role in a reworked U.S. missile defense plan, a top American official said Monday.

A RARE white tiger has been savaged to death by two lions who forced their way into her pen at a zoo.

When Don Wilkinson decided to pack up his benchdog and turn off the jig saw for the final time, the custom woodworker found being a man of leisure was not for him.

Czech philosopher, journalist and political analyst Erazim Kohak said he considers the medal of merit for contribution to science, education and public affairs he received from the Science Academy today the culmination of his return home from exile.

A 56-year-old man today died of swine flu that aggravated his overall severe health condition, Karlovy Vary hospital spokeswoman Zdenka Markova has told CTK.

A rare white tigress was killed by two lions at the Liberec Zoo in north Bohemia on Thursday, as zookeepers stood by helpless, unable to prevent the tragedy.

PRAGUE: Twenty years after the peaceful coup that toppled communism in their country, leaders of the 1989 Velvet Revolution agree that Czechs have yet to properly settle accounts with history.

A comparison of democracy in the first Czechoslovak Republic and the first 20 years of post-Communist democracy does not indicate that the current democracy is internally stronger than its predecessor, Dan Hruby writes in weekly Reflex out Thursday.

Many in the Middle East are too young to remember what happened in 1989. Most would know something of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the protests in Tiananmen Square.

A rare white tiger has been killed by two lions in a zoo in northern Czech Republic, a zoo official said Thursday.

Twenty years ago, the people of Czechoslovakia carried forward the wave of freedom that began in the Polish shipyards, surged over the Wall in Berlin, and ultimately liberated millions of people across Europe.

Czech politics is becoming empty 20 years after the November 1989 revolution, opening up space for other, dangerous ideas, and also giving greater chances to "Havlism," President Vaclav Klaus says in an interview for today's issue of daily Mlada fronta Dnes .

A Seal Harbor summer resident was sentenced this past week in New York on bribery charges.

College students in the Czech Republic are gathering today to retrace the steps of a march that took place on the 17th of November 1989, which changed the course of Czechoslovak history.