On the first Saturday of May the popular resort of Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic will hold the traditional opening ceremony of the tourist season. The fest will begin on May 5 in the morning, when the ambassador of the Vatican and the apostolic nuncio in the Czech Republic Giuseppe Leanza will bless all 12 healing springs in Karlovy Vary. After that he will say the mass in the ancient church of St. Mary Magdalene.

Hundreds of protesters gathered on the streets of Prague to protest against plans of the city administration to demolish the old house in Art Nouveau style on Venceslav Square in Prague.

In the very first spring months spring one of the oldest European Airlines, “Czech Airlines”, plans to launch new air route Lviv-Prague.

A group of Czech university students invented their own scenario of gaining competitive advantage in the context of global economy downturn. They founded a cleaning agency named The Crazy Cleaners whose personnel unlike stuff of traditional companies of t

Ales Knizek, the head of the Czech Military Institute in Prague told CZK that the Czech Defence Ministry intends to buy for the Institute museum’s collection a rare LTP 38 tank made in Chechia in the end of the 1930s.

One of the world’s leaders on the network video solutions and monitoring systems Axis Communications published a press-release stating that during the next six years public buses in Prague are to be equipped with several hundred AXIS 209FD-R IP-cameras fo

Aktualne.cz quotes British dating website BeautifulPeople.com that has informed that Czech women are regarded among the prettiest in the world. This online dating service speciaziles on "beautiful people" only. Access to the website is granted to register

The management of the Sumava National Park (NPS) has no objections to construction of a cableway that would link Nova Pec, south Bohemia, and Austrian Hochficht ski area. Such decision was reached after a long series of negotiations that lasted about 13 y

According to information by National Park Šumava representatives foresters maintaining the Giant Mountain National Park (The Krkonose National Park - KRNAP) recently found traces confirming the presence of lynxes in over there.

A team of five Czechs has an intention to cross African continent in two East German oldtimers - Trabants 601 combi – without any modern technical equipment. Those guys are determined to pursue the route of two compatriots Frantisek Vladimir Fojta and Jir

An okapi calf was born in the zoo in East Bohemian town Dvur Kralove nad Labem last Sunday, September 22. It is the first baby okapi that has been ever born in the Czech Republic.

Prague Daily Monitor informs that two Czech students Martin Betko and Michal Vicar have set out on a worldwide expedition by classic Škoda 1000 MB car from Olomouc, North Moravia on Monday, September 1.