G.Oyuntsetseg and B.Khishigbaatar, advocates for the Chief of the Anti Corruption Authority, Ch.Sangaragchaa, who has been detained in Gantskhudag for six days, will appeal against the judgment. They can do this within two weeks of the original verdict. Sangaragchaa has

Mongolian judo wrestler D.Munkhbayasgalan won a gold medal at the Jiu-jitsu Wrestling Championship of Pan America, held in Irvine city, California between March 24 and 27. He competed in the 82 kg category.A 20-member Mongolian team will take part in

The National Committee of Human Rights (NCHR) is today holding an open day in Khentii aimag, to be followed by another in Sukhbaatar aimag on March 30. The plan is to hold such events in all 21 aimags to allow

The Director of state-owned Erdenes MGL, B.Enebish, has told Reuters that the highly anticipated initial public offering by Erdenes Tavantolgoi will take place at the end of 2011 or the first quarter of 2012.  In another development, a South Korean

Nine Mongolians were among 25,000 runners from 28 countries who took part in an international marathon race in Jun Hou city of China yesterday. Trainer A.Gantulga had accompanied them. The event is called Jenkai and has been organized every year

Speaker D.Demberel is now in Khovd aimag, meeting with citizens to explain to them activities of Parliament, and studying local conditions. He arrived there on March 26 and will have visited Darvi, Tsetseg, Altai, Uyench and Bulgan soums, the Khushuut

Prime Minister S.Batbold’s concluding engagement in South Korea was joining his counterpart Kim Hwang-sik and other leaders to attend a Mongolian cultural performance named Country of Blue Sky at the National Theater in Seoul on March 25. The event marked

The Civil Will Party and the Green Party have decided to form an alliance. The two parties held their separate assemblies on March 26 to discuss the issue, and members at both ratified the decision. A subsequent joint meeting of

President Ts.Elbegdorj appointed several new judges. Ts.Tsogt was appointed Judge General of Administrative Appeal cases and M.Batsuuri, P.Soyol-Erdene, A.Otgontsetseg and G.Enkhmaa were appointed judges.Parliament passed the law on establishing a court to hear administrative appeal cases on December 31.

MP S.Byambatsogt has initiated a draft law on Parliament’s role that he hopes will be discussed in the Spring session. It seeks to make Parliament more active in overseeing implementation of laws it passes. The MP feels this is not