Monday’s regular weekly meeting of the Democratic  Party group in Parliament  spent its entire time discussing use of the electronic voting system, and found no time to review the draft law on a new election system. MNT24 million has been

The State Secretary
State of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, D.Tsogtbaatar, has been
working as Deputy Chairman of the First Commission of 67th Session of UN
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, which is being held in
two phases

The State Forum of
Information and Communication will be held in Government House on May 25 and 26,
to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the sector’s establishment in Mongolia.
Officials of the Information, Communications, Technology and Post Authority
expect 800 domestic and foreign delegates

Noted antiques
collector A.Ayurzana inaugurated an Art House Center on May 20. The center has
a shop where authentic antique items will be on sale, as also an exhibition
hall where collectors will be able to show their store of antiques.

The DP organized on Sunday a discussion on its Mongol
Citizen 2020 program in Songinokhairkhan, the most populous district in
Ulaanbaatar. Similar discussions have already been held in four other districts
of the capital. MPs D.Batbayar and Batj. Batbayar, the Chief of the

Mongolian athletes
won 11 medals in the Asian Freestyle Wrestling Championship in Tashkent from
May 18 to 22. The men’s team won five bronze medals and the women’s three
silver and three bronze medals. They had competed in seven weight categories.
Both teams came

B.Gangaamaa became the
first Mongolian woman to climb Mt. Everest when she reached the summit on May
21, according to reports received by the Mongolian Expeditions LLC, which sponsored
the expedition led by G.Usukhbayar who had climbed the world’s highest peak in
2007. Gangaamaa

The Shareholders’
Committee in the three Mongolia-Russia joint ventures — Ulaanbaatar Railway,
Mongolrostsvetmet and Erdenet Copper — held its annual meeting on May 19. It
reviewed last year’s work in the three units, the activity plan for 2011, and
also discussed projections for 2012.

The MPP’s standing committee on politics organized an
open meeting on May 20 to discussed the draft law under which elections are
expected to be held in 2012. There was wide support for the combined method
suggested in the draft, in place of

The Ministry of
Social Welfare and Labor is cooperating with the Ministries of Road,
Transportation and Urban Development and of Mineral Resources and Energy to
train professional workers to meet their needs. It has made a study of the
likely demand for skilled workers