Today is Students’ Day. There are more than 160,000 students
in the country of whom 130,000 are in Ulaanbaatar. The Government has allocated
MNT18.7 billion for subsidized transportation for 80,000 students. There have
been many complaints, however, especially about the electronic cards, many
The Harvest Committee of the Ministry of the Food,
Agriculture and Light Industry met yesterday to discuss harvest-related issues,
including delivery to local economic entities. Altogether 264,600 tons or 75.6%
of the planned harvest has already been bought in from 192,500 hectares. This
includes
Pedestrians who violate traffic rules will be fined between
MNT100 and MNT8,000 from October 15. This
is expected to bring down the number of accidents which has reached 1,418 so far
in 2010. At 28, fatalities in pedestrian-related accidents were 68.3% of the
total
Nine months of the year dedicated to reforming the business
environment are now over. B.Arvinbayar, Chief of the Private Sector Policy of
the National Development and Innovation Committee (NDIC), answers our
journalist’s questions on what has been achieved.
The
Foreign Investment and Foreign Trade Agency (FIFTA) will hold a ‘Mongolian-French
business meeting’ on October 13 in Ulaanbaatar as part of the program of the
official visit to Mongolia of Ms. A.M.Idrac, France’s Secretary of State for Foreign Trade on October 13-14.
In the crimson-painted interior of the Shand Khiid monastery in
central Mongolia, boys as young as 6 face one another cross-legged on
benches and chant Tibetan Buddhist prayers that they barely understand, says a
report in the Los Angeles Times.
Some fidget and get
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