KIEV, Aug. 30 - First Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev has instructed the local authorities to take urgent action to reduce the price of liquefied gas sold to households, Kliuyev's press service reported on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, Aug. 30 - International payment system PayPal will not start money transfers to Russia and Ukraine in September as earlier reported, the company said in a statement.

KIEV, Aug. 30 – Ukraine and Brazil are considering the potential for boosting cooperation in the military and defense sector.

Mutual interest in the development of a partnership in that sector was confirmed by the sides at the fourth meeting of the intergovernmental commission for trade and economic cooperation in Brasilia, Brazil.

KIEV, Aug. 30 – The first Indian Air Force An-32 overhauled and upgraded at Civil Aviation Plant 410 with the participation of Antonov state-run enterprise made its maiden flight on August 27 in Kiev.

KIEV, Aug. 30 – It is likely that notion of a single tax will be excluded from the new tax code, Deputy Prime Minister Borys Kolesnikov said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) newspaper.

KIEV, Aug. 31 – Ukrinterenergo state company starting Sept. 1 will resume commercial electricity supplies to Poland's Zomar S.A., which were suspended in June, Ukrinterenergo director general Valentyn Bondarenko reported.

KIEV, Aug. 28 – The impact of interest rate policy on the state of the monetary and credit market is falling, and this is prompting the National Bank of Ukraine to focus on the quantitative parameters of cash supply.

KIEV, Aug. 28 – The National Bank of Ukraine is analyzing the practicality of introducing a regulation which foresees the payment of interest on currency deposits and currency deposits in hryvnia, First Deputy NBU Governor Anatoliy Shapovalov said.

KIEV, Aug. 28 - Most of Ukraine's larger steel mills posted a surge in profit and sales in the first half of 2008, Interfax reported, citing a government source.

ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih, the biggest steel mill, boosted pretax profit 66.5% year-on-year to UAH4.267 billion.

KIEV, Aug. 28 - VEKA Ukraine Ltd. is going to launch the first stage of a polyvinylchloride profile plant in Kalynivka (Kiev region) on Sept. 5.

VEKA Ukraine is a daughter company of Germany's VEKA AG. It makes plastic profiles for windows and doors.