KIEV, Aug. 6 – Government domestic loan bonds to pay a debt on VAT reimbursement (VAT bonds) worth some UAH 16.4 billion would be sent to taxpayers' accounts in August, the deputy head of the State Tax Administration, Oleksiy Liubchenko, has told the press.

KIEV, Aug. 6 - The hot weather will continue in Ukraine, apart from in western regions, until late August, Anatoliy Prokopenko deputy head of the Ukrainian Weather Forecasting Center told Interfax-Ukraine on Friday.

KIEV, Aug. 7 – Kyivstar GSM says the high payments for the 3G license are hardly justified, head of company's public relations department Zhanna Revnova told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 7 – A 92.11% stake in Pavlohradvuhillia (Dnipropetrovsk region), which belonged to Avdiyivka coke chemical plant, a part of Metinvest group, was transferred to Donetsk-based Donbas Fuel and Energy Company, which manages fuel and energy assets of System Capital Management.

KIEV, Aug. 7 – Ukrtransgaz company pumped 3.87 billion cubic meters of natural gas into underground gas storage facilities in July 2007, which is 19.8% up year-on-year.

KIEV, Aug. 7 - Ukrainian iron ore producers boosted pellet production in the first seven months of 2007.

KIEV, Aug 7 – The liquidation of the state Resource and Document Company at Ukraine’s Interior Ministry would worsen servicing of the public, increase lines and burden of employees of the passport service, according to Resource and Document Director General Volodymyr Shvachko.

KIEV, Aug. 7 – The Bogdan Corporation, one of the largest Ukrainian car market players, plans by late 2007 to additionally attract three long-term credits worth EUR100 million to complete the creation of car production facilities in Ukraine, Bogdan Corporation President Oleh Svynarchuk said in Slovakia last week.

KIEV, Aug, 8 – The restrictions placed by the National Bank of Ukraine on the interest rates on credits residents can take on the foreign markets, are very strict and impede the entry to the foreign loan markets of small and medium companies, according to experts polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

AMSTERDAM, Aug. 8 - ING Groep NV said it plans to open a retail bank in Ukraine next year as the Dutch banc assurer continues its expansion in Eastern Europe, Thomson Financial reported Wednesday.