The quarantine on the poultry farm Nionsheli in Khan-Uul
district of Ulaanbaatar will be lifted on September 22. A bird-borne disease
Newcastle that could affect the human eye by eating eggs was traced there. All
sick birds have been destroyed and no infection

Representatives of coal mining companies
urged the Government to raise coal prices at a meeting on September 18.
Officials from the Baganuur and Shivee-Ovoo mines, the two major suppliers to
power and heating plants, pleaded that they were in a very difficult situation
as

The tax on the number of livestock, imposed
in 1998, was discontinued after a year but now there is talk of reviving it.  The tax is not the same as the pastureland
tax, and is often called the “foot tax” as it

President Ts.Elbegdorj listened to citizens’ and civil
representatives’ opinions and heard the problems of  milk and vegetable producers during his visit
to Songinokhairkhan district, Batsumber and Bayanchandmana soums of Tuv aimag
last Thursday.

He visited Polivit Co., which has planted seabuckthorn in
Udleg in

Prime Minister S.Batbold is on an official visit to the
USA and Canada from September 20 through October 3. He will be in New York until
September 27, where he is to address the summit meeting of the UN General
Assembly and attend

Sh.Tuvdendorj, General Secretary of the DP, is the new
head of the party in Ulaanbaatar. A Consultative Committee of the party met on
Saturday where 91% of the members chose him from a list of three. Of the two
others, MP Kh.Temuujin was

Mongolia
has been ranked 99th among 139 countries in the just released Global
Competitiveness Report 2010-2011 published by the World Economic Forum. This is
a significant improvement on its last year’s performance when it was put 117th
among 134 countries, and is an acknowledgement

Khan Bank Foundation is sponsoring, for the fourth consecutive
year, the Young Leader Program of Zorig Foundation, aimed at developing future leaders of Mongolia.
Applications are now being received from young people for enrolment and 20
persons between 22 and 25 will be

The Citizen’s Chamber set up at the
initiative of President Ts.Elbegdorj has been nominated for the 2011 Reinhard
Mohn Prize(formerly known as Carl Bertelsmann Prize), awarded by the
Bertelsmann Foundation of Germany. The Prize, instituted in 1988, is awarded
annually and is worth €150,000.

The Asian
Development Bank (ADB) is
providing a two-year USD750,000 grant from the ADB-administered Regional
Cooperation and Integration Fund to examine market supply and demand for
microinsurance in China and Mongolia. The grant will address policy, regulatory
and institutional barriers in the region’s microinsurance sector.
ADB