A painting by D.Badam named “Summer at the White Stupa”
has been given  as present to the
Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, by Prime Minister S.Batbold. It will be only
the second Mongolian painting there, after “Kherlen” by Ts.Budbazar which the
Hermitage obtained 50 years ago.
Badam

A doctor at the
National Trauma Center, T.Bat-Erdene, has said at least 10 people have their
limbs frozen daily frozen from exposure to cold. They include homeless people
and also others too drunk to go home. Many of the latter are under 25,

The Meteorology Institute says snow now covers 70% of the
territory and some soums of Bayan-Ulgii, Uvs, Zavkhan, Khuvsgul, Arkhangai,
Uvurkhangai, Bulgan, Selenge, Dundgobi, Khentii, Dornod and Sukhbaatar aimags
are under 10 and 45 cm of snow. Some 20% of territory has snow

The
unwritten law that the poverty is reduced if the economy grows does not seem to
hold true in Mongolia. Why is this so? A  World Bank 
report on the puzzle was yesterday released by the Bank’s economists
Andrew D Meson and Tran B

The
working group that is preparing “Mongol Citizen-2020”, a comprehensive economic
development program adopted at the 32nd meeting of the DP National Consultative
Committee, met yesterday with 80% of its members in attendance. It discussed
the group’s structure and staff needs, and also its

The
National New Party (NNP) plans to hold a national conference on March 1, 2011 “to
bring together all divinely blessed Mongolian nationalists” in a discussion of
political issues from a new angle.         The
party gives national interests primacy over individual human rights and

President
Ts.Elbegdorj yesterday told Mrs. Sezin Sinanoglu, the UN permanent coordinator
and the UNDP representative here, when she called on him that Mongolia would next
year be celebrating the 50th anniversary of its membership in the United
Nations. The years have seen fruitful cooperation,

The
brainchild of President Ts.Elbegdorj, the Citizens’ Chamber has just completed
its first year. In these 12 months it has organized 19 open debates that were
attended by 1,643 citizens, 49 meetings attended by 2,781 citizens, and discussed
68 issues where 4,424 citizens gave

The following report is based on a dispatch from our
correspondent, M.Tumennast, who is accompanying Prime Minister S. Batbold in
Russia, supplemented by inputs from Itar Tass.

Nine cooperation agreements, including those settling
Mongolia’s debts and laying down fundamentals of the Dornod Uranium

Deputy Prime Minister
M.Enkhbold, head of the working group charged with implementing business
environment reforms in 2010, has said it has been decided to cancel 101 of the
337 regulations enforced by 11 ministries and 25 agencies. NGOs will be
responsible for enforcing 10