J. Unenbat, Executive Director of
the Center for the Development of Corporate Governance, which is arranging the
Mongolia: Money and Markets forum for banking and financial organizations on
October 5-6, has said the banking sector is merely one of the several
components of the

The Foreign Investment and Foreign
Trade Agency (FIFTA) has organized business forums in Helsinki, Finland on
October 6 and in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 8. While the goal of both
meetings will be to attract investment, the emphasis will be different. The
first will

Delegates at the 13th Annual Investors Conference of the
North America-Mongolia Business Council, which began on Tuesday, did not
discuss the usual issues such as investing capital, exploiting mines and
evaluating business risks. Instead they focused on availability of manpower at
all levels and

Yesterday’s conference organized by the London Stock
Exchange (LSE) in Ulaanbaatar discussed issues relating to investment in
Mongolia, the future of the Mongolian Stock Exchange (MSE), corporate
governance and plans to develop the capital market.  The LSE held a similar conference last year
and

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed the arrest in
London of B.Khurts, head of Administration at the National Security Council,
but has not given any further detail. Representatives of the Mongolian Embassy
in London have met with Khurts at his temporary place

The new system of civil registration has so far
covered 1,151,236 adults, or 61% of the total number, and 448,707 children and
adolescents, or  56% of the total number.
It has covered between 74.6% and 87.0% of the people in Dundgobi, Dornogobi,
Bulgan and

Canada is increasing its
agriculture cooperation with Mongolia with the signing of an important
Agriculture Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two countries.
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz joined the Ambassador of Mongolia to Canada, Z.
Tundevdorj, to sign the MOU which will be key

Canada”s Prime Minister
Stephen Harper and visiting Mongolian Prime Minister S. Batbold on Tuesday agreed
to deepen their nations” economic ties, eventually opening free trade talks. “Our
countries are committed to developing our relationship,” Harper said in a
statement. “We look forward to further

Shares
of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. soared Tuesday after announcing a “remarkable” kilometer-long gold and copper find at
its Oyutolgoi mine in Mongolia. “There could be an awful lot more resource
there than originally thought, and that’s providing a lot of excitement out
there,” said

Marubeni
Corp will collaborate with Mongol Sekiyu, a Mongolian firm, and Japan”s Toyo
Engineering Corp on a USD600-million project to build the first oil refinery in
Mongolia. The refinery, slated to be up and running in autumn 2014 and located
in Darkhan city about