The Taiwan Fund will award 164 Mongolian students scholarships of MNT 400,000 each for the 2011-12 academic year at a ceremony at Jing Di restaurant in Ulaanbaatar today. The scholarships are awarded annually by the Taiwan Fund. Students who receive

Mongolians have won four medals at the 26th Summer Universiade (or World University Games) in Shenzhen, China. The games end today. Earlier, Mongolians won silver medals in judo, shooting, and chess. And today, Ch. Narantuya picked up a silver medal

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden came to Mongolia on a state visit yesterday. At a “mini Naadam” held in his honor, Mr. Biden watched a traditional Mongolian wrestling match and an exhibition of contortionism, and even practiced some archery. Mr.

A center to fight desertification in Mongolia has opened in Rahsaant soum in Bulgan aimag. Mongolia developed its first anti-desertification program in 1996, and updated it in 2003. The Government has spent MNT 3.5 billion on more than 240 projects

Ch. Saikhanbileg, a member of the Mongolian Parliament, has implemented a project to provide internet access in Ulaanbaatar’s ger districts. Currently every khoroo (or subdistrict) in the Baynzurkh district has free internet access in local government buildings. Over 30 fully-equipped

The Mongolian Tax Administration has introduced a new online system for delivering tax bills and providing other services. Under the new system, taxpayers can receive their bills electronically. It is hoped that the new system will enable more taxpayers to

Opponents of efforts to bury nuclear waste in Mongolia held another demonstration in Ulaanbaatar on Monday. Groups taking part in the demonstration at the Central Library included the Green Coalition, Freedom Observer Party, People’s Union to Require Promise, Gal Undesten

A road construction project in the Songino-Khairkhan district of Ulaanbaatar that was supposed to be completed last week has been delayed until Wednesday or Thursday, a transportation official tells our correspondent. The road, sometimes known as the “22nd Checkpoint,” was

Two truck drivers were killed in separate accidents near Khanbogd soum in Umnugovi aimag on August 19. That’s according to a report issued by Lieutenant Battogtokh, the chief of the local police station. One of the drivers was Mongolian. The

Mongolian chess grandmaster B. Munguntuul has won a silver medal at the 26th Summer Universiade, or World University Games, in Shenzhen, China. She won the medal by defeating Irina Vasilevich of Russia. Several other Mongolian women participated in the chess