Parliament on Friday reviewed progress on implementation of the Government’s agriculture policy in the last two years. Prime Minister S.Batbold said that the Government is studying ways of repaying herders’ loans from their dues from the Human Development Fund. It

The meeting of the Standing
Committee on Security and Foreign Policy on Tuesday saw some members launch a
scathing criticism of the way mineral resources organizations and agencies functioned
and demand the resignation of their chiefs. The
Chief of the Mineral Resources and

Minister for Health
S.Lambaa opened a three-day exhibition, Medical Equipment 2011, on Friday at
Misheel Expo. The event includes a research conference on new medical
technology, the first forum of medical equipment engineers and the national
forum on tomography diagnostics.

Ulaanbaatar Court postponed on Thursday its
hearing of the appeal in the case against the Government by The United
Movements for Rivers and Lakes because of the absence of Deputy Minister for
Mineral Resources and Energy B.Ariunsan, who is accompanying the President in
Russia.

Prime Minister S.Batbold did not make his scheduled statement on the
Altandornod Mongol case to Parliament on Friday. He was to give details of the
expenses incurred on the case in the international arbitration council and also
explain why Prosecutor General D.Dorligjav has

Minister for
Mineral Resources and Energy D.Zorigt has returned from China where he sought diesel
for Mongolia and also took part in the second meeting of the commission for cooperation
in mineral resources and energy sectors. He called on the Chief of the
Development

Parliament agreed today to extend to December
31, 2011 the ban on granting new mineral resources exploration licenses as proposed
by President Ts.Elbegdorj. The Government plans to prepare a new law on mineral
resources and wants the ban to continue until this new

President
Ts.Elbegdorj was in St. Petersburg yesterday
and visited the Piskarevsky Memorial Cemetery and the Hermitage. At the museum what absorbed the interest of the President
and his team were items of historical craftsmanship from Mongolia, such as Buddhist
deities sculpted by Zanabazar and

D.Bold will present a
Mongolian pop performance in the Great Hall of Government House at 6 pm on June
4. The event will begin with the ritual of white felt that used to be part of
state ceremonies in the days of the

Each trip on a large bus now costs MNT100 more, a move leading to
resentment among middle- and low-income citizens who depend on public
transportation. The decision was taken yesterday by the bus owners’ union which
blamed accumulated losses, burden of debt repayment,