The
aim of the recent Competitive Mongolia exhibition was to demonstrate that a
“strong Mongolia can be established only by allowing domestic producers, goods
and service providers to participate in the grand development of mining in the
Mongolian Gobi”, according to its joint organizers,

The train transporting Mongolian coal to
the Russian port of Vostochnii has completed its trial run successfully. It
took four days to reach the port from the border point without hitch.
Infrastructure Development, the company which organized the transportation,
carefully monitored the progress of

Figures
released by the administration in Inner Mongolia reveal that Chinese imports of
Mongolian coal in the first nine months of this year were 10.95 million tons,
an increase of 145% over the same period last year. At present, China is the
only buyer

Rio Tinto,
working in cooperation with Zorig Foundation, has awarded scholarships to 20
students of domestic universities in the present academic year, majoring in
geology, mining, economics, and law. At a recent ceremony to formally announce
the recipients MP S. Oyun, representing the Foundation,

A team of 12 senior executives and
specialists from the Erdenet Mining Corporation recently visited the Oyutolgoi
project site to observe the grand development going on there. Considering that
they run similar operations, there was a lot of exchange of ideas and
information between

The famous 9th symphony of Beethoven was
performed by musicians of the State Philharmonic at the Academic Theater of
Opera and Ballet on December 16 for the first time in 30 years, with N.Butenbayar,
son of Ts.Namsraijav, who conducted its first performance in

Prime Minister S.Batbold’s aim to adopt
European standards in Mongolia received a boost with the signing on December 20
of a Collaboration and Partnership Agreement between Mongolia and the European
Union. The agreement, signed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and
Trade, B.Bolor,

Khan Resources LLC of Canada owns 58% of the
Central Asian Uranium Co., which has worked in the Mardai uranium deposit in
Dornod aimag, while Monatom LLC of Mongolia and ARMZ LLC of Russia own 21% each.
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) cancelled

The National Council of the three-year Atar-3
project, initiated by S.Bayar when he was Prime Minister to increase
agricultural production, met on December 20 to review final results. Several
aimag Governors urged continuance of the project so that its gains could be
consolidated. 

The

The Social Health Institute has found that
the volume of nitric dioxide, carbon dioxide, and dust particles in the air in
Ulaanbaatar is respectively 1.5 times, 4.2 times and 7.8 times more than the
accepted level. Power stations and steam boilers annually burn