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A rift appears to have erupted between one of the Czech Republic’s biggest Internet operators and most of the major media companies putting their content over the web. How this tussle will conclude looks like anyone’s guess.

Potato growing in the Czech Republic has been on the decline in recent years. While over 1.5 million tonnes of the tuber were produced in 2005/2006, the figure has now fallen to 604,000 tonnes. Industry bodies have now come up with suggestions aimed at reversing that trend.

An increasing number of Czechs are facing problems with debts, the daily Hospodářské noviny reported on Wednesday. According to the daily, every tenth Czech has had some serious problem repaying debts and either they or their relatives are facing property seizure.

Czech tax authorities are reported to be taking a lot keener interest in the tax declarations and relations of major multinationals with local earnings.

Almost clinically dead, but back from the grave. That’s how some describe the turnaround of airline ČSA on reports of its best financial results for the last 10 years with an operating profit approaching 250 million crowns.

A Russian fashion for imported beers meant a boon for Czech breweries a few years back. However, the economic crisis of the last two years and restrictions on marketing have led to a marked fall in exports of Czech lager to the world’s biggest country, the daily Hospodářské noviny reported.

After years of decline, the Czech Republic’s real estate market is experiencing a boom. Prices of apartments in the Czech Republic are currently being sold for the highest price within the last five years, the daily e15 reported on Wednesday.

Plzeň-based turbine manufacturer Doosan Škoda Power has seen a record number of orders in 2015. The company, specialising in turbine production, signed contracts worth some nine billion crowns last year.

Over 100 representatives of Czech steel producers travelled to Brussels on Monday for a major protest. They joined thousands of others from around Europe in demanding that China not be granted market economy status – a move they say would make it harder for European companies to protect themselves from cheap Chinese steel imports and cost thousands of jobs.

First images of the Pražská Lítačka – the working title of a new planned card to be used as a chargeable pass by public transit users in Prague have been released, featuring simple lettering against a green backdrop. The card is to replace the city’s Opencard, the unhappy administration of which had fallen to City Hall over legal issues with the system's former administrator eMoneyServices.