The Swedish-Mongolian Foundation
and the Viking Foundation jointly organized a festival of Mongolian life and
culture in Scania, the southernmost province of Sweden on July 23 and 24. Counsellor
at the Mongolian Embassy R.Munkhuu opened the festival. He and senior local
officials joined the

The agenda for the Autumn session
has been finalized and the first item to be discussed is the draft budget of
2012. The budget draft usually goes through four discussions, all of them in
the Autumn session, and the deadline for its approval

Erdenes Tavantolgoi LLC has concluded an agreement to sell coal to the Chinese state-owned company Chalco, but few details have been made public. Chalco will make an advance payment of USD250 million which would go into the Human Development Fund,

Khamug Mongol Alliance led by MP Ts.Shinebayar today announced to journalists that it has moved into its own office. The alliance was founded by Shinebayar in December, 2010.  He said the alliance wants to unite public opinion against the proposal

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a USD 20 million equivalent loan to help Mongolia improve the quality of its higher education system and increase enrollment of youth from poor, remote communities. The ADB Board of Directors on Friday

Kh.Bat-Yalalt, who is head of both the NGO Justice for Citizens and of the For Human Party, has told the Uls Turiin Toim newspaper about these two organizations. The NGO was established in 2007 to protect citizens from state officials’

Most of the letters citizens in the provinces have written in recent weeks to their local MP or to the Parliament Office relate to complaints against the work of mining companies. A citizen of Darkhan soum in Khentii aimag has

Family members and friends of B.Khurts, who would be extradited from Great Britain to Germany, and representatives of some NGOs demonstrated this morning in front of the British Embassy in Ulaanbaatar. They said the British court which rejected Khurts’s appeal

A team from the Mongolian Sports Management Agency has won the first American football tournament in Ulaanbaatar. Six teams competed but organizers hope the number will certainly increase with time. They plan to hold a league championship in the fall.

The Chief of Building and Apartment Policy Board of the Ministry of Road, Transportation and Urban Development, B.Baasan, has said work on about half of the apartments under the 100,000 Apartments project began in April. The Ministry is working on