President Ts.Elbegdorj’s first stop in Moscow yesterday was a visit to the ITAR-TASS head office where Directors and Editors of Russian media agencies and newspapers such as NTV, Channel 1, Russia Today, Russia-24, Echo Moscow and Voice of Russia received

The DP group in Parliament yesterday reviewed a report on the implementation of the Government program between 2008 and 2012 and concluded that the Government’s performance has not been good, especially in areas such as industry, and infrastructure and urban

The International Day of UN Peace
Keepers was held in Sukhbaatar Square on May 28. Prime Minister S.Batbold,
Minister for Defense L.Bold, Chief of the Office of the President D.Battulga, and
other officials attended the ceremony where troops from peace keeping units and
Ulaanbaatar

The Office of the President and
the Standing Committee on the Budget organized a discussion on “Increasing
local authority with citizens’ participation” at Government House on May 27,
with the head of the committee, P.Khayankhyarvaa, in the chair. Among those who
took part in

Dr. Andreas Auer, Director of the
Center for Research on Direct Democracy in Switzerland, is in Mongolia on President
Ts.Elbegdorj’s invitation and read a paper on “The local-level structure of direct
democracy in Switzerland” at the International Relations School of the National
University of

The Ministry of Health and the
National Committee for Control and Prevention of AIDS/HIV are holding their
joint fifth national forum at Chinggis Hotel on Tuesday and Wednesday, with
support from UN and international organizations in the related field.

Present activities will be
reviewed and

Following a decision taken by bus
companies in the face of the diesel shortage, there are fewer buses on
Ulaanbaatar streets since Sunday, and ticket prices have also gone up. 26 bus
service companies run 800 buses on 64 routes.

The Mongolian team finished fifth
at the Moscow Grand Slam of the International Judo Federation that saw 459
wrestlers from 63 countries competing for honors on May 28 and 29. M.Bundmaa
(52 kg) won a gold medal, thus repeating her feat in the

Three wagons, each with 180 tons
of diesel, arrived from Russia today. Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy
D.Zorigt is visiting China to seek diesel and the Deputy Minister is in talks
with Russian officials to get more diesel from there.

The Government

Inner Mongolians in Mongolia demonstrated before the Chinese
Embassy on Sunday to protest against the Chinese Government’s actions following
the death earlier this month of an ethnic Mongolian herder, who was killed when
he was struck by a coal truck. The government has