The Ministry of Social Welfare and Labor has identified 4,271 families in Khovd, Khuvsgul, Dornod and Dundgobi provinces and Songinokhairkhan district of Ulaanbaatar for distribution of food coupons under an ADB-funded scheme to support extremely low-income or otherwise vulnerable households.

The Bayangol District Court ruled on August 1 that the case
against two doctors of the Maternity Scientific Research Center should be
investigated again. The two are accused of professional negligence after they
performed surgery on a three-month-old child in 2008. The child

First Deputy Mayor B.Baatarzorigt
was unhappy with the quality of construction work financed by the capital
budget when he inspected some sites in Khan-Uul district on Monday. It was
found that poor quality material had been used and the overall work was shoddy.
He

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