The Chief of the Foreign
Investment and Foreign Trade Agency (FIFTA), B.Ganzorig, has said around 130 leading
businessmen from India and Mongolia took part in a business forum last week. Representatives
of 30 Indian business organizations came to Mongolia with the country’s President
and

The Governor of Uvs aimag,
E.Tsaschikher, and the Prime Minister of Tuva, Sholban Kara-ool signed an
agreement in Ulaangom during celebration of the anniversary of the Mongolian
aimag. The agreement covers cooperation in trade, economy, science, technology,
and culture.

Uvs province and the
Republic of

Mongolian Ambassador to
India V.Enkhbold has said last week’s state visit of the Indian President, Mrs.
Pratibha Devinsingh Patil, took bilateral relations to a new stage. The two
countries have convergence of opinion on many important issues and the
agreements signed during her visit

The 10th Assembly
of international Mongolist scholars will be held at Government House between
August 9 and 13. President Ts.Elbegdorj is the patron of the conference that is
being jointly organized by the International Union of Mongolian Studies and the
Science Academy.

The assembly

It has now been confirmed that B.
Khurts lost on Friday his appeal against extradition from Britain to Germany to
face kidnapping charges. The High Court in London ruled that  Khurts, head of administration at the  National Security Council, should be sent

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is
providing a US$ 20 million equivalent loan to help Mongolia improve the quality
of its higher education system and increase enrollment by youth from poor,
remote communities. The ADB Board of Directors approved the financing for the
Higher

A
scientific research team led by Clyde Goulden, an ecologist at the Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, set up a seasonal research camp in the Dalbay
valley in Northern Mongolia in 1994, and he has been returning there every year
since. About a

Prime Minister S.Batbold took
part in last week’s 70th anniversary celebration of Dundgobi aimag,
which is his mother’s birthplace. He gave a ger as a mark of respect. Later,
Batbold attended the inauguration ceremony in Mandalgobi, the aimag center, of a
statue of Chin

The program to provide food
for vulnerable and homeless people has been extended by a year and will now
continue until 2013. The Asian Development Bank financed the program while the
Government is responsible for implementation. The Ministry of Social Welfare
and Labor has

The President of the
International Criminal Court, Sang Hyun Song, was in Mongolia from July 27 to
30. He held talks with his host, Judge General of the State Supreme Court and
Chief of the General Courts Council, Ts.Zorig, on expansion of cooperation
between