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Around 3,000 roadside billboards around the country should disappear by Friday, though the actual removal process may take longer.

A City Hall working group has outlined measures to clamp down on the rocking offer of rooms and flats for tourist rents in the capital.

New apartment construction has grown sharply this year. But not enough to meet supply and curb fast rising prices.

The Czech Republic’s car fleet is ageing, prompting ministers to mull remedial measures.

The Czech government has moved to increase the minimum wage in the country to 12,200 crowns per month effective as of next year. This will meet the government’s goal of raising the minimum wage to at least 40 percent of the average salary.

Czechs are still the world’s leading beer drinkers, but consumer habits are changing. Whereas once the biggest share of beer produced was consumed at the pub, now Czechs are taking it home. While pubs and restaurants are selling less beer, sales of bottled beer have not dropped and sales of canned beer have seen a sharp rise.

The Czech Telecommunication Office (ČTÚ) has made a call which many of its critics say should have been pretty obvious by now and should have been made long ago. The office has decided that competitive market conditions do not exist on the market for mobile services for data.

Czechs have historically not had a stellar reputation as prompt payers. But that situation appears to be changing now.

Private Czech train and bus operator Leo Express has entered the German market, taking over the German long-distance operator Locomore, the daily iDnes reported on Wednesday, citing the German magazine Spiegel. Leo Express will operate a line between Berlin and Stuttgart in the southeast of Germany.

2017 is turning out to be a good year for Prague’s hoteliers, who have managed to raise their prices to previously unseen levels. Meanwhile, occupancy rates also mean that rooms are producing a markedly higher yield than in the past, according to a report in the business daily E15.