U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will visit Mongolia on August 19 to study the state of democracy and economic growth in the country. He will come here from China and will go to Japan to conclude his three-nation Asian tour.

The First Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of South Korea, Park Suk-hwan, called on President Ts.Elbegdorj on Thursday to discuss preparations for the state visit of the President of South Korea, Lee Myung-bak, between August 21 and 23.

Government House and the Standing Committees have together received 1,033 citizens in June and July to hear their complaints and requests. In the same period MPs received 855 representatives of NGOs and citizens. Government House staff forwarded 49 complaints and

The Union of Construction Engineers is organizing a meeting with Japanese construction engineers in September. A team of Mongolian engineers and others in the construction business are now in Japan attending a meeting of Japanese construction engineers between August 7

National network Monfemnet is
training women to develop political skills and also educating voters in Tuv, Bayan-Ulgii,
Orkhon, Darkhan-Uul, Khuvsgul, Zavkhan, Dundgobi and Uvs aimags in their
democratic rights. The program is run with support from the Women’s Foundation
of the USA.

Two groups

U.Lkhamsuren has won her first
game against a Mexican opponent at the World Youth Chess Championship now being
held in Chennai, India. Altogether 69 women from 30 countries, all under 20
years of age, are competing in the tournament being played in the

The head of the State Property
Committee (SPC), D.Sugar, has told the Mongolian Mining Journal that selection
of strategic investors of West Tsankhi of Tavantolgoi would be finalized in
October because several issues regarding the strategic investors’ consortium are
yet to be decided. The

The Public Transportation Office and the Auto Road Board have together begun work on building 10 new taxi stations in six districts of Ulaanbaatar. They should be ready on August 10.Among the new stations will be one near the Sansar

The coming academic year will see students entering 102 institutes and universities, instead of the 154 last year. This is because some private centers have been closed down because they did not meet the proper standards and also because the

All 25 websites that are members of the Website Union of Mongolia recently conducted a joint online survey of how their readers rated politicians, from 1 to 76. The results are given below but concern has been expressed that several