The China-Mongolia-Russia International Youth Sports Meeting
opened at Hohhot in Inner Mongolia yesterday. The meet features
51 disciplines from six sports of track and field,
wresting, boxing, judo, table tennis and archery.
More than 700 athletes from the three countries will vie for 51

Mongolia will keep full
ownership of Tavantolgoi, its mining minister, D. Zorigt has said while
expressing the hope that the coking coal deposit 
is likely to finally go ahead in 2012. “A state-owned company is
going to own 100 percent of Tavan Tolgoi and

The committee that works on cases of victims
of political repression has revealed that the names of 29,800 of the 35,000
recorded as killed have so far been cleared. Their families and descendants
have received MNT19.8 billion as compensation. Besides, MNT2.5 billion more
have

A program that began on September 5, the
Mayor’s Office hopes, will give pavements in Ulaanbaatar back to pedestrians so
that they no longer have to share streets with vehicles.  The program will clear pavements of all
unauthorized encroachments, be they fences, garages,

First Deputy Prime
Minister N.Altankhuyag will lead the working group recently set up to
expedite introduction of European Union (EU) standards in all spheres of economy
and business in Mongolia. Prime Minister S.Batbold has urged the group to
urgently update an existing draft plan to

Many, surprised by the suddenness of
the fall of Anod Bank, have wondered why mandatory annual audit of its accounts
every year for seven years by Mongolbank never found any cause for concern,
until it said the bank was in deep trouble, suspended

Australia-based General Mining is to commence drilling
this month at its fully-owned Uvs Basin potash project in Mongolia, once all
necessary approvals are received. The project comprises 5 granted exploration
licenses covering more than 2,000 sq. km within the Uvs Nuur Basin.
Apart

The construction of the processing plant building on site at
Garrison International’s Tovshiir Gold Project is well under way with all
concrete foundation footings and beams installed, concreted and welded in
place. All steel upright columns and roof beams, including C-channels have also
been

Prime Minister S.Batbold told Mrs. Sezin Sinanoglu,
Permament Representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in
Mongolia at a meeting on Thursday that he wants to arrange a seminar where the
government, the UN, NGOs and members of the public will recommend

September 10  is
the 20th anniversary of the day of remembering victims of political repression.
Among those who attended a meeting organized at Chinggis Hotel by the Union of
Victims of Political Repression (UVPR) to mark the occasion were First Deputy
Prime Minister and