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Some imported food products do not meet standards

Mongolia annually imports 550,000
tons of foodstuff and food products, packed and uncooked, from 60 countries.
The State Specialized Inspecting Agency, which gets to analyze around 40% of the
imports, has said 53.6% of the items tested did not meet approved standards.
Green products

Culture Naadam on July 11 and 12

The Arts Council of Mongolia is
organizing Culture Naadam on July 11 and 12 at Khui Doloon Khudag where the
horse races will be held during Naadam. It will offer facets of the nomadic
culture of Mongolian handicraft items, cultural performances and dramatic
representation

E.Saran to sing in Madame Butterfly in Florence

E.Saran, who is studying in the
USA, will sing in the role of Madame Butterfly in the opera of that name by G.
Puccini at Italiano Theater of Florence in September. She took part in a contest
of opera singers in Rome last

“Chinggis Khaan” exhibition to be on show in Ulaanbaatar

The exhibition “Chinggis Khaan” that
attracted a large number of viewers in U.S. cities like Dallas, Denver, Houston
and San Jose can now be seen in Ulaanbaatar. The Ministry of Education, Culture
and Science, the Arts Council of Mongolia and Dinodon LLC of

Ch.Sangaragchaa transferred to Zaisan prison

Chief of the ACA Ch. Sangaragchaa, who has been convicted to 2.4 years’ imprisonment, was yesterday transferred to Zaisan prison from the hospital in the transit prison. His deputy, D.Sunduisuren, is still in transit prison and the head of administration

Government discusses petroleum-related issues

Today’s regular meeting of the Government mostly discussed petroleum issues, including the general state policy, establishment of a refinery, excise taxes on some petroleum products and a draft law on oil. It also discussed customs tax and VAT exemption for

German loan to upgrade power station in Darkhan

The State Secretary of the Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy, D.Khurelbaatar, and the President of Asen Corp of Russia, V. I. Kostyakov, today signed an agreement to upgrade a power station in Darkhan. The German Government has given a

2 civil movement hunger strikers stop drinking fluid

Two of the seven members of the Managing Council of Gal Undesten Union began a hunger strike in detention six days ago and from today they have stopped drinking any fluid also. The condition of the movement’s Law Advisor, G.Dashdemberel,

China will export petroleum only under long-term agreement

Chinese Ambassador Wang Xiaolong yesterday called on Deputy Prime Minister M.Enkhbold to say China was ready to sell AI-92 to Mongolia, but only under a long-term agreement, and not as a temporary measure. Enkhbold had some days ago requested China

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