0 Accidents / Business / Local News / Social Media Posts 1 November, 2019 Four people injured in explosion at Explosia, the Pardubice explosives factory where Semtex is produced; incident follows 2017 explosion in which three people were injured (Denik.cz) [Social Media Post] External Link
0 Business / Media / Social Media Posts / Television 28 October, 2019 Czech billionaire Petr Kellner’s PPF group agrees to buy TV Nova-owner Central European Media Enterprises (CME) for 2.1 billion US dollars (48.4 billion crowns) (Blesk.cz) [Social Media Post] External Link
0 Business / Real Estate / Security / Social Media Posts / Spies 23 October, 2019 Cover blown: Prague 6-Dejvice house used as secret base by Czech foreign-intelligence agency UZSI is listed in justice.cz’s publicly available company register as seat of publicly named UZSI official’s business, along with names of other people and businesses based there (iROZHLAS) [Social Media Post] External Link
0 Art / Business / Expats / History / Social Media Posts 20 October, 2019 Oskar Kokoschka painting of view from Old Town’s Klaster krizovniku (Knights of the Cross monastery) breaks Czech auction record for work of art, fetching 78.5 million crowns in Prague (iDNES.cz) *edited* [Social Media Post] External Link
0 Business / Security / Social Media Posts / Technology 9 October, 2019 Vaclav Havel Airport Prague excludes Chinese technology firms Huawei and ZTE from hardware tender because of security risk; decision follows last year’s (2018’s) warning from Czech government cyber-security agency NUKIB against using those companies’ products (Denik N) [Social Media Post] External Link
0 Business / Design / Fashion / Gift Ideas / Shopping / Social Media Posts / Trains 1 October, 2019 Czech Gift Ideas: Watchmaker PRIM produces men’s and women’s watches based on the Ceske drahy railway station clock (PRIM) *edited* [Social Media Post] External Link
0 Business / Law / Pivo / Social Media Posts 28 September, 2019 Good Read: Beer expert Evan Rail explores the increasingly confusing “Budweiser” dispute, involving brewing giant AB InBev, Czech state-owned Budvar and Ceske Budejovice’s “other” brewery, Samson (Good Beer Hunting) [Social Media Post] External Link
0 Business / Czechs Abroad / Social Media Posts 23 September, 2019 Czech travel agency CK Neckermann stops holiday sales because of collapse of British parent company Thomas Cook, until questions over its future are resolved; Czech customers currently on holiday with Neckermann or that have already bought Neckermann holidays not expected to have problems (iDNES.cz) [Social Media Post] External Link
0 Business / Film / Leisure Time in Prague / Social Media Posts 22 September, 2019 Prague 4-Haje’s Galaxie cinema shows its last film, 23 years after becoming the Czech Republic’s first Western-style multiplex; current owner Cinema City blames competition from its new cinema in nearby Chodov (Denik.cz) [Social Media Post] External Link
0 Business / Czech Travel / Driving / Local News / Social Media Posts / Technology 19 September, 2019 Video: Two giant storage tanks are transported by truck from the MICo factory in Trebic, South Moravia, down the country roads of the southern Czech Republic, towards a waiting ship on the Danube in Bratislava; final destination: a power station in the UK (Nova) *edited* [Social Media Post] External Link