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

A special team set up yesterday by the DP group in
Parliament to discuss the law on the election system is meeting behind closed
doors today. The MPP group wants 50 seats to be filled directly and the other
26 seats in proportion

The Standing
Committee on the Budget today voted against amendments to the law on the Human
Development Fund that would permit the monthly HDF allowance of MNT21,000 to be
directly used to repay bank debts of herders, elders and SME businessmen.
However, since

Yesterday’s heavy
rain washed away 20 gers in the Ulaanbaatar districts, with Bayanzurkh,
Chingeltei and Sukhbaatar the worst affected areas. Some 150 rescue workers of
the Emergency Department of the districts are at work. The extent of loss has
not been computed yet.
The

The Anti Corruption
Authority will conduct further investigation against seven  present and former senior officials of
Ferrous Metal Factory of Darkhan as the Ulaanbaatar Prosecutors Office feels it
needs more evidence to initiate criminal proceedings against them. The charge
against them is one of

Тус компани нь 2010 оны наймдугаар сард  нийтдээ 79 сая тонны нөөцтэй
төмөрийн хүдрийн Монгол дахь хоёр орд газрыг 170 сая юаниар худалдан
авах анхны гэрээ байгуулсан ч өнгөрсөн тавдугаар сард тус гэрээг цуцлах
шийдвэр гаргаснаа мэдэгдсэн бөгөөд шалтгаанаа тодруулаагүй

Energy Resource LLC, which
held an IPO in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in the name of its parent company
Mongolian Mining Corporation, has published its report for 2010. It produced
3.9 million tons of coal in the year. Work on a coal