Deputy Prime Minister M.Enkhbold addressed today’s annual
meeting of senior officials of construction companies at Misheel Expo and Mayor
G.Munkhbayar spoke on what opportunities will be available for the sector in
the capital city under the New Creation program. The meeting reviewed the

Parliament yesterday decided to send back to the Standing
Committee on Justice a draft law on insurance for drivers of vehicles. The
draft proposes that drivers paying an annual premium of MNT53,000 would be
eligible to receive MNT5 million from insurance companies in

First Deputy Prime Minister N.Altankhuyag recently
visited some of the 114 business organizations in Bayan-Ulgii aimag that have
altogether received MNT1.5 billion in loans from the SME Fund in the last two
years. He also heard complaints that several loans given to officials’
relatives

The Office of the President organized on Wednesday a discussion
in the Civil Chamber on suitable legislation to achieve a “Mongolia without
alcoholics”. Representatives of the Ministries of Health, of Social Welfare and
Labor, of Education, Culture and Science, the State Specialized Inspecting
Agency,

The
fifth meeting of the Mongolia-Ukraine
inter-governmental commission on trade, and economic, scientific and technical
cooperation will be held in
Ulaanbaatar on May 23 and 24. The fourth meeting was held in Kiev in 2005 and
the delay is because of political conditions in Ukraine.

Mongol
Wonders is this summer’s offering for tourists from the National Song and Dance
Academic Ensemble. Its first performance will be today on the ensemble stage.
The program that includes national dances, contortion, long song and tsam, will
be repeated until September.

Delegates of the Free Zone Council of Mongolia recently
visited the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) of South Korea to exchange
experience and views with managing officials there. IFEZ will soon be completing
the second phase of its development and is expected to

Mongolians
won two silver medals and one bronze in the Asian Para Archery Tournament in
Bangkok between May 10 and 18. Paralympics champion D.Baatarjav won a silver
medal in the men’s category while B.Javzmaa (silver) and B.Oyun-Erdene (bronze)
were the successful women. Archers trained

A factory to produce
sugar from sugar beet has come up in Bayangol soum in Selenge aimag and will
begin working once the sugar beet is harvested. The soum Governor, B.Enkhbat,
has said sugar beet for the factory would this year be grown

Opera singer
E.Amartuvshin and students Ch.Enkhtaivan and J.Byambajav will take part in an international
contest in Moscow and St Petersburg between June 14 and July 2. The contest, named
after P.I.Tchaikovski, has been organized every four years since 1958 and is intended
to give