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The BILLA chain is launching its BILLA Bio private label, until now sold in Austria, on the Czech market. The first wave covers plant-based drinks, pasta, cold-pressed oils, cheeses and breakfast products; each carries the EU organic-production logo. Holders of the BILLA klub app get 20 per cent off the whole range from 2 September to 1 December.

Of the 66,574 items that passed through one Prague pickup network in 2025, 47 percent were collected outside the eight-to-four window. The busiest hour is 4 p.m., with 11.1 percent of all pickups.

Road-marking crews repaint crossings and signs by schools and nurseries while also putting up temporary signage for closures, often a few metres from moving cars. The work runs from design through printing and vinyl to installation on site, and is done under contract and instructions from the city roads authority.

Hlídač státu has published the incomes and multiple offices of councillors in the Czech statutory cities for 2025. Top of the list is MP and Hradec Králové councillor Jiří Mašek with 5.3 million gross including allowances; the first ten places all went to ANO politicians. The most offices at once were held by regional governor and České Budějovice councillor Martin Kuba and Jihlava councillor Jiří Kotlík — eight each.

According to the survey, the commonest tip sits between 6 and 10 percent of the bill. Seventeen percent of diners object to the preset amount on the card terminal — they feel pushed into tipping.

A statutory limit on phones in lessons does not mean classrooms without technology, the text argues: a personal device distracts, while equipment bought for the classroom is meant to help the teacher explain and involve the class.

Between January and July 1,356 used cars of Chinese makes changed hands in the country, 57 % more year on year. Three in four carried the MG badge (1,015 units), BYD 73 and Jaecoo 67. For scale: 125,068 used Škodas sold in the same period, 26 % of the whole second-hand market.

In the digitalisation and infrastructure pillar the country rose from fourteenth to seventh among the EU's twenty-seven, between Estonia and Hungary. Public transport and progress in e-government drove the gain. Broadband coverage remains the worst in the whole union.

The release argues that the main risk in adopting artificial intelligence is not the technology but dependence on a single model vendor.

The Prague 4 district and Skanska opened the refurbished underpass beneath 5. května street near Pankrác; it links the area towards Sdružení street and is meant to ease children's route to school. The work was paid for by the developer building nearby.