Speaker D.Demberel has been meeting with herders and
visiting new construction projects during his visit to Duut and Mankhan soums
of Khovd aimag. Herders have told him that the price of cashmere and camel wool
is rising and meat sales are also good. 
They

Construction on the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project  is pushing on ahead of schedule and under
budget and will take advantage of strong prices for both commodities, the chief
executive of the project owner, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. , said Wednesday. Robert
Friedland, who also

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Managing officials of Ulaanbaatar
are discussing their winter preparation. Reports from the provinces say there
are plans to prepare one million tons of hay. Besides, herders will prepare 40,000
tons of fodder and factories another 130,000 tons. Uvs aimag is preparing
50,000 tons of

12 motorcyclists from Moscow,
Samara and Perm will follow the route taken between 1247 and 1249 by Alexander
Nevskii to reach Kharkhorin, the capital of the Mongolian Khaan, and then
return to his homeland. The adventure was suggested by a priest of the

The Foreign Investment and
Foreign Trade Agency (FIFTA) and the Factories Union of Finland are organizing a
business forum of Mongolia and Finland on August 31, when the President of Finland,
Tariya Halonen, will be on a state visit here. The forum will

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has expressed Mongolia’s unhappiness with the decision of the High Court in Britain to extradite B.Khurts, head of administration at the National Security Council, to Germany. However, the Ministry says it is not to

The cases of the former Chief of National Emergency General
Board, P.Dash, and the former Chief of the State Reserve Completion Office,
L.Altangerel, have been transferred from the Anti Corruption Authority to
Ulaanbaatar Prosecutors’ Office. They are accused of causing a big loss

Managing officials of Sukhbaatar district have asked the
capital city administration for MNT11 billion. MNT5 billion of this will go to
construction of an administrative office for the district and MNT5.6 billion to
implement a project to improve the flow of water in

The Chief of the Standing Committee on State Structure and a member of the working group on the draft law on election, J.Sukhbaatar, has said reform of the election system is as much concerned with election as with what society