The first item on the agenda of President Ts.Elbegdorj’s official visit to the USA was a meeting yesterday with about 600 Mongolians in San Francisco. The President briefly spoke about policies and activities of the Government and answered questions, which

Former President N.Enkhbayar was
recently in Great Britain and France where he studied the heritage of Mongolian
culture and history in the two countries. He and his wife O.Tsolmon have now
organized an exhibition of rare photographs of Mongolians there between 1910
and 1920.

The Chief of the DP Members and Supporters,
T.Khasbaatar, sent on Monday a demand note to Prime Minister S.Batbold, for the
fifth time. This time the demand has been made along with the National
Association for Protection of Ger Districts’ Citizens’ Interests.

Their demand

Mongolian men won two medals at the Asian Freestyle Wrestling Championship in Jakarta between June 9 and
12. B.Maidar (50 kg) and B.Nomindalai (74 kg) won a bronze medal each. Earlier,
Mongolian women had won six medals in the tournament.

The Mongolian

Managing officials and workers of
Baganuur mine are against somebody chosen on political grounds succeeding the
present Executive Director who retires soon. They held a meeting on Monday to
formulate their views on the impending succession and then issued a note to
Minister for

Taking part in the discussion on
amendments to the law banning exploration and exploitation in river and forest
basins, G.Bayarsaikhan has told Parliament that the law is absolutely necessary
to protect the country’s nature and environment. He suspected that some MPs who
had links

Minister for Finance S.Bayartsogt
today received Chinese Deputy Minister for Commerce Chen Zyan, who is in
Mongolia as head of his country’s team to the 12th meeting of the
intergovernmental commission for trade, economy, science and technology.

Bayartsogt expressed his
satisfaction that the soft

The National Committee on Labor
and Society is to check the salaries paid in all state-owned and private
organizations in aimags and the capital to make sure that the present trilateral
agreement is being followed. It will review all contracts and see that

Prime Minister S.Batbold is now
in Hong Kong on the first leg of his official visit to China. Today he formally
opened a Mongolian Consulate there and also a MIAT office. He had discussed the
consulate and direct flights from Ulaanbaatar with the

The Standards and Measures
Department of Bayankhongor aimag has set up a building material testing
laboratory and has bought equipment for it with money from the local budget.
The aimag has 10 building material factories and Minister for Road,
Transportation and Urban Development Kh.Battulga