The transport services witnessed the sharpest price increase at 1.24%.
Meanwhile, costs of housing-electricity-water-fuel edged up by 0.58%, followed by culture-entertainment-tourism (up 0.28%), garments and footwear (up 0.19%), household utensils (up 0.03%), other goods and services (up 0.03%), medicine and medical services (up 0.02%).
Prices of post and telecom remained stable meanwhile educational costs dipped 0.01%.
Also in August, prices of gold and dollar dropped 0.48% and 0.41%, respectively./.
By Kim Anh