CR: With the fall of communism, it was not long before foreign investors began taking an interest in Czechoslovakia. This ranged from huge industrial multinationals to young college graduates, who arrived in Prague with backpacks in the early 1990s, and happened to spot a business...

CR: It was meant to be the pride of Brno - the town’s own astronomical clock to rival Prague’s famous Orloj and attract tourists to the Moravian metropolis. Located on the city’s Freedom Square the shiny black six-metre-tall, phallus-shaped clock has attracted praise and insults in equal...

CR: Klaus: Election results clear and comprehensible   The Czech president, Václav Klaus, has described the outcome of regional and Senate elections as clear, unequivocal and comprehensible, and said that everybody should draw their own conclusions from them. The right-of-centre...

CR: ČEZ excludes French firm Areva from Temelín tender The Czech state-owned energy company ČEZ on Friday excluded the French firm Areva from a multi-billion dollar tender to build two new blocks at the Temelín nuclear power plant. Without giving further details, ČEZ said in a press...

CR:The state-run power company ČEZ has excluded France’s Areva from a multi-billion dollar contract for the completion of the Temelín nuclear power plant, leaving just two contenders - Russian and US firms - in the running for the country’s biggest-ever energy deal. The news has left analysts...

CR: The Basilica of St. Procopius in Třebíč is one of only 12 places in the Czech Republic inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. In this edition of Spotlight we’ll give you a taste of some of what makes the 12th century structure such a marvel.   Photo:...

Převzaté reakce z diskuzkuzních fór :   Milan Pepo, Semněvice Středa, 18.září 2013, 10:48:25  Opět musím připomenout. Je zvláštní, aby se stejném názoru shodly tak odlišné zdroje. Christian Science Monitor Inopressa 23.8. 2013. AP, Reuters, SANA, ITAR-TASS a Fondsk.ru 24.8. 2013....