The Chief of the Standing Committee on Social Policy,
Education, Culture and Science, D.Ochirbat, read a paper in Tuesday’s open
discussion in Government House on pressing social problems and how to solve
them. He noted Mongolia’s commitment to achieving Millennium Development Goals before
other

Some MPs including
J.Sukhbaatar, Z.Altai, E.Bat-Uul and Ts.Munkh-Orgil submitted on Tuesday a
draft law on automatic voting system to Speaker D.Demberel. This would be part
of the reform of the election process, said the MPs.

The results of the 2010 population and housing census have
been put on the website of the UN Statistical Commission. The population of
Mongolia stood at 2,754,685 on November 10, 2010 and 107,140 Mongolian citizens
had been abroad for six months or more

The State Specialized Inspecting Agency has found
medicines being sold without being recorded in the state register and thus
without any quality guarantee. The country imports medicine from 40 countries
of Europe and Asia, apart from illegal import of mostly spurious drugs. The
result

The team set up by the DP group in Parliament failed at
their closed-door meeting today to find any common ground with the MPP on
changes to the election system. The DP group favors 50 MPs to be elected on the
proportional method

An open discussion on pressing social problems and the
ways to solve them was held yesterday at Government House. Prime Minister
S.Batbold, Ministers for Social Welfare and Labor T.Gandhi, for Health
S.Lambaa, for Education, Culture and Science Yo.Otgonbayar, Chief of the
Standing Committee on

President Ts. Elbegdorj will pay a
state visit to Ukraine on June 26-30. The leaders he will meet with include
President Victor Yanukovych, First Vice Prime Minister Andriy Klyuev and
Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Lytvyn.

The visit is expected to lead to

Around 19,000 of the approximately 36,000 foreign
citizens in Mongolia who have to hold residence cards have already done so. The
law on foreign citizens, recently passed by Parliament, charges the Foreign
Citizens Affairs Office with issuing such cards in seven different colors

The MPP and the DP
groups in Parliament yesterday held a joint meeting to discuss their
disagreements over provisions of a draft law on the election system. The Chief
of the MPP group, D.Lundeejantsan, said after the meeting that it was just an
exploratory

D.Enkhbat, MP and
leader of the Civil Will-Green Party, has told our reporter that the MPP seems
to be going back on its promise made in 2008 to reform politics. First, some of
its MPs headed by D.Lundeejantsan submitted a draft law calling