The Standing Committee on Social Policy, Education, Culture and Science yesterday completed discussion of the draft combined budget for 2011and forwarded it to the Standing Committee on the Budget.The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has asked for MNT649.6 billion

The Traffic Management Center has repaired 46 cross traffic lights and set up 26  cameras at crossroads since June to collect traffic data. Kh.Gansukh, of its media department, says that the center has no enforcing authority and passes on all

A group of children between 13 and 15 years old have been found responsible for the11 cases of arson in Sukhbaatar soum of Selenge aimag. The Criminal Police and the General Police Department worked hard to crack the case. All

The Center of Wildlife Research and Protection has published an encyclopedia of Mongolin birds  with the aim of involving citizens in bird protection, raising awareness and increasing knowledge of birds and popularizing the hobby of bird watching. The encyclopedia lists 

According to figures released by the Mongol Bank, 130 companies and 800 indiovidual gold miners sold 9803.3 kg of gold to it in 2009, 5,380.5 kg less than in 2008. It is widely believed that mined gold was regularly smuggled

The case of the Russian locomotive gets more and more curious. Russian media report two were sold to Ulaanbaatar Railway and one is not working in the Mongolian winter, suggesting that old and substandard equipment was passed on to Mongolia.

The Government meeting yesterday decided to suspend the mining activity of 1,782 license holders in areas near river basins and forests. Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy D.Zorigt told media the total number of mining licenses is 4,000 at present.

The Ministry of Mineral Resources and Energy will take over 7736.1 hectares of land in the Oyutolgoi area, 3661.3 hectares in Tavantolgoi deposit in Tsogttsetsii soum, and 3512.5 hectares kept for an industrial complex  in Khanbogd soum. These will be

The Mongolian Embassy in Cairo organized Id celebrations for Kazakhs from Bayan-Ulgii and Uvs aimags and also from Nalaikh district in Ulaanbaatar who study theology at the Al Azhar in Egypt, and their  family. Other Mongolians in Egypt also joined

With nations scouring the globe in pursuit of dwindling mineral supplies, the world”s attention has shifted to Mongolia, a country some are heralding as the next resource success story. Among the last places on earth with rich, untapped mineral deposits,