The Embassy of Japan, the Japanese Language Teachers’ Federation and the Mongolia-Japan Center will jointly hold a contest for Mongolians on speaking in Japanese. Anyone between 18 and 54 can compete, except for those who have lived in Japan for

The Government has approved a plan to implement the national strategy to support the development of the private sector. Capital resources would be included in local budgets. The national strategy calls upon the state to establish a favorable environment for

The Government meeting yesterday decided to go ahead with building a power plant in the Mogoin Gol coal mine area in Telmen soum of Zavkhan aimag to supply electricity to Zavkhan and Gobi-Altai aimags. Work on the first phase of

Two Aberdeen graduates are preparing to embark on a 16,000-km charity rally – in an ambulance. Calum Hill and Mark Hadfield will buy an ambulance, drive it from London to Ulaanbaatar, and hand it over for use in the country’s

The 7th Annual Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival is primarily devoted to Mongolian music, according to its director, China-born Jindong Cai. While growing up in Beijing, Cai remembers hearing exotic music from the distant northern provinces, haunting sounds that stayed in

Scientists in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciense in Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, USA, will join researchers from other universities in investigating the high altitude topography of Mongolia starting this summer. The US National Science Foundation presented Lehigh”s EES

The Ministry of Nature, Environment and Tourism has failed to identify any clear winner in the Nymphean Hosts contest for conservation work. Reviewing 80 applications with the help of six basic indicators, it found none was substantially better than others

Russian players  dominated the week-long 7th International Chess Festival Moscow Open Young Grandmaster Tournament,  that ended on February 6. The biggest success for Mongolian contestants came when Grandmaster B. Munguntuul won the silver medal in the women’s section, after a

Honored Athlete N.Tugstsogt, a World Championship silver medal winner, won his second fight in the World Series boxing tournament on February 5 in Baku, where he represents the Baku Fires team. He defeated Mirjan Rahimjanov of Kazakhstan, of the Astana

The Jazz Sound band of the State Philharmonic and  Bayan Mongol Ensemble will present love songs in a performance on Valentine’s Day in Philharmonic Concert Hall on February 14. A ticket costs MNT8000 and will be sold from February 9.