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New Mongolian PM appoints his Cabinet

“The geopolitical situation is becoming increasingly complex. The government decided to immediately begin work and maintain the continuity of state policy. Therefore, a third of the previous government is retained,” G.Zandanshatar said.

ADB grants USD 20 million to improve education

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

Darkhan citizens want mined areas to go to Bor-Undur

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

Khurts’s family and friends lead protest before UK Embassy

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

First American football tournament held

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.

Dornod power plant seeks more generation capacity

The Dornod Region Energy
System has been a reliable source of electricity in the eastern region for 40
years but its 36-mw capacity will not be enough to meet the growing demand that
the expansion in mining will generate. The state-owned organization is

Women’s foundation gets more active as election draws closer

The Women’s Leadership
Foundation has recently included new goals in its program, aiming to achieve
wider empowerment of women as next year’s election comes closer. The organization
feels that having more women in positions of leadership would have a positive
impact on society, the

106 Chinese deported

The Foreign Citizens’
Affairs Office recently checked the papers of 2,405 foreigners, most of them
Chinese, employed at 61 construction sites and ferrous metals factories. Altogether
106 Chinese were deported, 71 for working without permission and 35 whose visa
had expired.

Another 35 Chinese were

Slow progress in construction of 1100-km railway

Lack of money is holding up
work on the 1100-km railway in the gobi region. The Ministry of Road,
Construction and Urban Development says the project will need between USD2
billion and USD3 billion in four years of construction. The state-owned
Mongolian Railway has

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