The Ulaanbaatar Labor Office (ULO) organized a meeting on Wednesday to discuss employment opportunities for the disabled. The meeting was part of a program that included a two-month training project for the disabled that ended September 10. The program aims

Honored Artist E.Amartuvshin, an opera singer with the State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet, has been named one of 12 finalists in the prestigious “Competizione dell’Opera” competition in Moscow. 120 singers from 40 countries took part in the competition,

An international conference of lawyers is being held at the Government House. Lawyers from Russia, Japan, Germany, South Korea, the United States, and Mongolia are taking part. The President’s Office, the Standing Committee on Justice, and the Mongolian Advocates Union

B.Bolor, the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and head of a working group on the B.Khurts case, told our correspondent that the matter is still under investigation, and that Khurts is being held in a prison in Germany.

The newspaper Undesnii Shuudan has published a report saying a nine-year-old boy from Mongolia has been determined to be the successor to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama, 76, has said that the fate of Tibet would be

Journalism awards named in honor of Ts.Baldorj will be handed out Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Ulaanbaatar Restaurant.The president, politicians, business leaders, and figures from the culture and arts communities traditionally take part in the ceremony.The annual awards are

The DP on Thursday launched its “Perfect Democracy” campaign in Sukhbaatar Square. DP leader and First Deputy Prime Minister N.Altankhuyag, MP R.Gonchigdorj, DP coordinator general of members and supporters T.Khasbaatar, and other party officials formally opened the campaign and gave

A job fair for Mongolians educated abroad was held at the Chinggis Khaan Hotel in Ulaanbaatar on September 13 and 14. Entitled “Labor Fair 2011,” the event was organized by the National Committee for Employment Support and a Mongolian-German NGO

D.Otgontsetseg won a silver medal in the women’s 51-kg division at the World Wrestling Championships in Istanbul on Wednesday. She is one of 14 Mongolians taking part in the tournament, which includes men’s freestyle, men’s Greco-Roman, and women’s wrestling.Zamira Rakhmanova

Our correspondent spoke with B.Chadraa, the director of the Physics and Technology Institute of Science Academy. He said the public has positively received the president’s decree banning government officials from negotiating agreements about nuclear waste storage in Mongolia. He says