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The Czech government has agreed to introduce a 5 percent digital tax on the local revenues of internet giants such as Amazon, Google and Facebook. The aim is twofold: to boost state coffers by billions of crowns and level the playing field for domestic rivals.

It took thirty years for the Czech authorities to buy out a pig farm that was built on the site of a WWII concentration camp for Romani and Sinti people at Lety in South Bohemia. The sale was finally sealed last year and demolition work on the pig farm is due to begin in the coming months. Plans are also afoot to transform the area into a dignified memorial for the more than 300 men, women and children who died there. The winner of an architectural competition for a memorial on the site was announced this week, as Vincent Farnsworth reports.

A politician, journalist and organizer of the Czech and international women's movement who, in the period between the two world wars, pushed for a number of laws bettering the position of women and mothers.

Foreigners who are planning to visit the Czech Republic in the coming weeks and months might be confused by the constantly changing information regarding coronavirus travel restrictions. Who exactly will be allowed to travel to the Czech Republic and under what conditions? Here is an updated overview of measures that will come into force on June 15, 2020.

June 10 marks the anniversary of the Lidice massacre, ordered by Hitler in retaliation for the assassination of Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak paratroopers. The atrocity struck a particularly deep chord in Mexico, among the first countries to pay tribute to the 340 innocent victims, where many girls were named ‘Lídice’ in their memory.

Writer and playwright, author of theater plays set in the Slovácko region of Moravia which present a mirror for the morality of that time.

The Speaker of the Czech Senate Miloš Vystrčil will lead a trade mission to Taiwan in August, he announced at a press conference on Tuesday. The decision comes after many months of consideration from the speaker’s side and strong Chinese diplomatic pressure to prevent the visit from happening.

The eastern parts of the Czech Republic have just seen devastating flash floods that overturned cars, flooded houses and undermined roads after just a few hours of torrential rain. One person was killed, another is missing and damages to property and infrastructure are extensive. Given that flash floods are not uncommon in this country –could the impact of this natural disaster have been mitigated and are we partly to blame for being ill-prepared for periods of torrential rain? That’s a question I put to hydrobiology expert David Pithart.

Painter and book graphics pioneer, tireless organizer of Czech art life.

According to the World Health Organization, snakebites claim more lives each year than do all other “neglected tropical diseases” combined. This month, Doctors without Borders starts using a mobile application co-developed by a Czech researcher to identify deadly snake species on the spot.