KYIV, Sept 23 – Parliament passed at second reading bill No. 1053-1, which provides for the introduction of cash registers from October 1 for risky industries and 2021 for the rest of the sectors, and also increases the annual income limit for the second group of taxpayers using the simplified taxation scheme from the current UAH 1.5 million to UAH 2.5 million.

KIEV, Sept. 22 – Nine out of the 15 largest banks in which stress tests were conducted will require additional capitalization, said Alla Shulha, director of the general banking supervision department of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 24 - Skhidny Mining and Enrichment Combine (VostGOK, Zhovti Vody, Dnipropetrovsk region), plans to increase its production of uranium concentrate by 8.5% or 78 tons in 2014, to 1,000 tons, Skhidny Mining Director General Oleksandr Sorokin told reporters in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – The decline of the labor market in Ukraine caused the civil unrest on the Maidan Square at the end of 2013 and early 2014, Serhiy Marchenko, the director for development of the Work.ua job search Web site, said at a press conference on Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – Westinghouse may participate in the construction of reactors three and four of Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant, Westinghouse President for Europe, Middle East and Africa Yves Brachet told reporters in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, Sept. 24 - Ukraine might buy up to one million tons of fuel oil to replace the gas shortfall this winter, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Prodan told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 24 - Ukraine has cleared the new design of Westinghouse nuclear fuel assemblies, opening way for an alternative to Russian fuel supplies to its nuclear power plants later this year, an official said Wednesday.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – The restoration of financial cooperation with the International Monetary Fund is the best way for Ukraine to quell doubts about the country's near-term solvency, according to experts polled by Interfax-Ukraine on the sidelines of the 10th Yalta Annual Meeting.

KIEV, Sept. 24 - Ukraine increased grain exports 14.3% on the year to 5.3 million metric tons between July 1 and September 20, the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry reported Tuesday.

The latest data support an earlier forecast by the Ukrainian Grain Association that Ukraine may become the world’s second biggest exporter of grain in the 2013-2014 marketing year.

KIEV, Sept. 24 - Ukraine’s national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny plans to further expand its exploration and development of oil fields in Egypt next year, a senior official said Tuesday.