Prime Minister S.Batbold yesterday
left Ulaanbaatar on a tour of the Gobi provinces that will end on August 28. According
to D.Nyamjav, director of the Government Office, the Prime Minister will visit
Dundgobi, Dornogobi and Umnugobi provinces.

He goes to Dornogobi first,
where he

The annual New Art exhibition of the association “New
generation and art” is on show from today at Zanabazar Fine Arts museum. This
is the 5th year of the exhibition and presents 40 works of 18 artists in
mediums like oil, video art,

Germany has given 10 military vehicles worth Euro 140,000 to
Mongolia. The two countries’ cooperation in the field of defense has expanded
in recent years and Germany has donated clothing,  radio communication equipment, and  medical supplies worth Euro 1.7 billion so
far.  Defense

South Korea plans to help Mongolia build up maritime
transportation capability in exchange for gaining access to the landlocked
country”s abundant natural resources.
The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs has said Seoul aims to
train sailors, share commercial maritime management systems and

Former yokozuna Asashoryu reckons
the Japan Sumo Association should not be hiring an independent committee to
reform the national sport. “Your average person doesn”t know his left from
his right (when it comes to sumo),” Asashoryu said Monday, after arriving
in Japan from his

Our journalist talked to the Chief of General
Staff of the Mongolian Armed Forces, Lt.-Gen Ts.Byambajav about the just
finished Khaan Quest 2010.

What are the plans
for next year’s training exercise?
We expect to have participation from all the countries that were here. We

Khaan Quest 2010, this year’s annual international
peacekeeping training exercise, was held in the Tavan Tolgoi training area on
8-20 August.  Organized jointly by the US
Pacific Military Command and the Peacekeeping Foundation of UN Mongolia, the
aim of the training was to improve

The US army has built a bath house at a
cost of USD105,000 in Songinokhairhan district of Ulaanbaatar. At a recent
ceremony, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense, Wallace Gregson handed over the
key of the bath house, and also 10 Ford jeeps to the

N.Molor, Director of the National Tourism Center, has commented
that proper tourism has failed to develop in Mongolia. Visitors feel respect
for local culture and traditions only if these are competently and carefully
explained to them.  Molor feels most
tourist guides in Mongolia are

President Ts.Elbegdorj has received an invitation from
Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic
Forum, to become a member of the Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Climate
Change,”given your thought and leadership in this field”.