The Supreme Court,
the Anti Corruption Authority and a UN project together reviewed the status of
implementation of the UN convention against corruption on Monday. The Director
of Research Center of the Court, Ch.Nyamsuren, spoke on how the convention aims
to curb corruption among

Pianist
S.Sayantsetseg, who was the first Mongolian to perform in New York’s Carnegie
Hall, will invite students and young pianists to take part in “Beyond Musica”
beginning on June 18. This will be the second year of the festival that she and
her husband

Advisor to the President L.Erkhembayar received on Monday
a team from Khalimag headed by the Director of Agriculture Research Institute there,
Arilov Anatolii Nimeevich. President Ts.Elbegdorj will soon visit Russia when
he will also be in the Khalimag Republic.

Nimeevich told Erkhembayar that

The Ulaanbaatar
Prosecutors’ Office  has forwarded to the
Investigation Department of the Anti-Corruption Authority (ACA) a letter N.Davaa,
a member of the Representatives’ Managing Council of the erstwhile Anod Bank,
sent it through his wife T.Oyungerel. This was his third letter from jail, all
of

Bayangol district
police nabbed a group of 15 robbers in a combined operation on May 12- 13
night. All those arrested are men between 20 and 25. They have for some time
been active in stealing mobile phones, picking pockets and lifting things

Prime Minister
S.Batbold is spending today in Ugtaaltsaidam, Bornuur and Batsumber soums of
Tuv aimag following the progress of spring planting with new technology. He
also will inaugurate the wheat storage elevator of Agro Complex LLC built with
money from the Agriculture Support Fund.
He

Having its own oil
refinery is the only way Mongolia can break out of its dependence on Russia for
its fuel needs. The Government wants a refinery to use the 120,000 tons of
crude drilled in Tamsag and 300,000 tons in Zuunbayan.
The

Russia has finally
agreed to supply 80,000 tons of diesel in May, according to the Mineral Resources
and Petroleum Authority (MRPA). This will meet the normal monthly demand of
34,000 tons plus this month’s special needs for spring planting.
The MRPA does not

The Standing Committee on the Economy and the Subcommittee
for SME Development yesterday held a joint discussion on the present and future
status of SMEs. The head of the Standing Committee, D.Zorigt, later answered our
journalist’s questions about the discussion.
How effective has the

The Chief of the Human Rights National Commission (HRNC),
J.Byambadorj, and one of its members, J.Dashdorj, left on Monday for Geneva, to
attend the three-day 24th Annual Meeting of the International Coordinating
Committee of national human rights organizations, beginning  on May 17.

The ICC