B.
Munguntuul answered media questions midway through the tournament. A selection
of the questions and answers follows.

When did you start playing chess?

Our

North Asia Resources Holdings, formerly known as Green
Global Resources, has announced plans to spend HKD195.5 million to acquire iron
ore assets

Centerra Gold, that owns 
the  Boroo mine in Mongolia, has
reported higher-than-expected quarterly earnings, as increased production and
strong gold prices helped the

The 5th
FIDE Women’s Grand Prix in Ulaanbaatar was won yesterday by Hou Yifan of China,
with 8 points in 11 matches.

Problems with collateral
were reported to have affected the disbursement of MNT30 billion as loans to
small and medium enterprises in all

According to the latest
survey of the National Statistical Office, unemployment has reached 11 percent,
with 138,000 people without a regular job.

The State Secretary of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia, D.Tsogtbaatar, told a press conference
on Monday that Ajay Chhibber, UN

Speaking to traders and buyers at a food market in a
western province, Prime Minister S. Batbold recently said Mongolia would

The EBRD and Mongolia’s largest bank, Khan Bank, have
signed a participation agreement for USD10 million under the EBRD Medium-Sized
Co-Financing Facility

Petro Matad has provided an update on the company”s
drilling operations. The first 2D seismic survey has commenced on the Blocks