An exhibition of photographs of
facets of the life of handicapped citizens was opened on Friday in Government
House to mark Handicapped Citizens’ Rights Day, observed internationally on
December 3 since 1981. Mongolia has 113,000 people with handicaps, and most of
the 39,000 children

Mayor G.Munkhbayar has asked Huan Chan Cho, director of the
International Financial Corporation (IFC) for China and Mongolia to build 400
apartments for households preseently living in the ger districts. The IFC is
part of the World Bank and supports the private sector.

The three-day Mongolia ITF-2010 began at Misheel Expo center on Thursday. The sixth international
tourism exhibition has been jointly organized by the Ministry of Nature,
Environment and Tourism and the National Center of Tourism. Environment and
tourism organizations of 21 aimags and business

The French company Kogegobi LLC began work on underground uranium in
Ulaanbadrakh soum of Dornogobi aimag on December 1.

The Millennium Challenge Found (MCF) yesterday handed over altogether 16
GPS equipment worth MNT1billion to the Ministry of Road, Transportation,
Building and Urban Planning. Of these, 6 are permanent stations able to
determine locations from satellites, 4 of which would be installed in
Ulaanbaatar,

The real reason why the MPRP changed its name is that
it does not want to answer any angry questions before the 2012 election on why
the MPRP promise to give every citizen MNT1.5 million has not been kept. Many
citizens still retain

The President’s Office, and the Administration Office of the National
Security Council yesterday organized an open debate on in the Civil Hall on
“Use of alcohol, tobacco and drugs”, a topic suggested by the President
himself. Representatives of the Central Intelligence Service, the

Deputy Speaker and Chief of
the Redressal Commission (RC), N.Enkhbold, yesterday opened a research
conference to mark the 20th anniversary of the RC and noted there is much more
to be studied about “the historically difficult period of repression when many
innocent citizens were

The National Consultative Committee (NCC) of the DP
recently rejected by 85% majority a demand from 
some young members for a special assembly, but the party’s
Secretary-General, D.Erdenebat, yesterday signed an agreement with the
Coordinator of the “Special Assembly movement”, T.Khasbaatar. Erdenebat said
there are

Parliament yesterday agreed with 85.7% support to further discuss draft
procedures to amend the Constitution after the Standing Committee on the State
Structure discusses them next week.
Nine MPs including U.Enkhtuvshin and Ch.Saikhanbileg started work on the draft
procedures a year ago, with