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Under a freshly launched project, Czech mushroom pickers are now able to turn the hugely popular hobby into cash. The South Bohemian company České houby is now buying up their finds and delivering them to supermarkets around the country, Hospodářské noviny reported.

Prague’s new planned metro line “D” will feature automated (or driverless) trains, according to new website iDnes. The first part of the ambitious project is to be completed by the year 2022. The decision was taken by councillors at Prague City Hall on Tuesday. Previous plans greenlighted by the former administration of Mayor Tomáš Hudeček, counted on drivers, but cutting them out of the equation would apparently lower operational costs.

The announced sale of Prague’s Hilton Hotel last year appeared to stir a lot of interest from would be investors. But their appetite looks like it will have to be put on hold amid a legal battle between the former Irish owner and the consultancy charged with offloading some of the choice property assets.

Fewer bank clients are opting for incentivised savings for home construction, renovation and refurbishment, Czech Radio reported on Friday, attributing the drop in interest to a lower state subsidy than in the past. According to the public broadcaster, 267 thousand clients signed contracts in the first half of 2015 – almost a third fewer than the same period last year. At the same time, an in interest in construction mortgages has reportedly gone up.

The price of newly-built flats in the Czech Republic is on the rise. The increase has been particularly visible in the capital Prague, which has the most such properties, Mladá fronta Dnes reported on Thursday.

Czechs are growing increasingly fond of cider. Nearly two million litres of the alcoholic beverage was sold in the Czech Republic last year and Czechs spent nearly 130 million crowns on the drink.

The Taiwanese electronics supplier Foxconn is considering an investment project in the Czech Republic worth billions of crowns, the Ministry of Industry and Trade announced on Monday. The investment would create thousands of new, highly qualified jobs, the ministry said in its press-release.

A Czech daughter company of Japanese car giant Toyota produces steering systems for a range of European small cars. After a modest start, JTEKT now has three Czech production sites and it is targeting it’s Plzeň facility for a 700 million crown investment over the next three years.

Moves to get Chinese businesses to look at the Czech Republic as a base for expansion seem to be having some results. One of China’s leading pharmaceutical producers recently scouted the country to determine whether it could be a distribution or production launch pad for the EU.

According to a report presented to the cabinet by the minister for human rights and equal opportunities, Jiří Dienstbier, Czech public administration is failing in its duty to employ a set number of people with disabilities or support their employment indirectly by purchasing goods or services from firms that employ them. According to the report not a single Czech ministry fulfilled the set 4 percent quota, paying almost 16 million crowns in fines for the failure.