Some 70% of the 36,000 foreign
citizens who have been asked to take new residence cards have already done so.
The cards come in different colors to indicate the different reasons for being
in Mongolia. Investors are given cards in grey, students pink,

The price of the less polluting
stoves has been drastically reduced to attract more buyers. Officials of the
Ulaanbaatar Air Pollution Reduction Committee, the Ulaanbaatar Air Quality
Office and Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy D.Zorigt yesterday held a
meeting to discuss the situation

According to projections in the
draft budget for 2012 and the preliminary budgets for 2013 and 2014, GDP will
rise by 16.6% in 2012, 14.8% in 2013 and 15.5% in 2014. Prices are expected to
rise between 8% and 9% between 2012 and

The UN Regional Program
Coordinator of Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in the Asia-Pacific region,
Ms. Anuradha K. Rajivan, and UNDP Senior Economist in Mongolia, Dr. Saurabh
Sinha, yesterday called on the Chief of the Standing Committee on Social
Policy, Education, Culture and Science, D.Ochirbat,

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