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PM visits uranium exploration sites

During his tour of the Gobi
provinces, Prime Minister S.Batbold visited sites in Dornogobi where Areva is
conducting uranium exploration operations. The French State-owned company has
been working as Kojegobi in Mongolia since 1997 and operates in Dornogobi and
Sukhbaatar provinces. It hopes to

Red Cross, EU to give hay to herders in 5 provinces

Herders lost about nine
million animals in the winter, mainly because there was no food for them at the
unusually low temperature. Many herder families are coming to Ulaanbaatar to make
a new life, while weather forecasts caution about another harsh winter this
year.

Judoka Dulguun wins silver medal in Singapore games

Judoka O.Dulguun won a
silver medal in the mixed team event in the Singapore Youth Olympic Games on
Wednesday.  His team Belgrade had
wrestlers from Mongolia, New Zealand, Germany, Turkmenistan, Russia, Malta,
Belgium and Senegal. His success is specially commendable as he was competing
in

MNT keeps growing stronger

For the first time in months, the USD sold for less
than MNT 1300 throughout this week. On Thursday it was MNT1291 in the exchange
market, and marginally more in banks. A Chinese yuan sold for MNT191 and one
ruble for MNT40.90.

Forum draws 100 foreign delegates

B.Ganbold, head of the Asia Desk in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Trade, has said the present 19th North-East Asian
Economic Forum is significant as, apart from Mongolians, it has over 100
delegates from Russia, USA, South Korea, China and Japan, including

Convicted man’s father says he made a mistake but committed no crime

D.Tsakhilgaan, a former
ambassador to China and father of Ts.Jargalsaikhan, who was recently sentenced
to 17 years in prison for passing State secrets, said at a   press
conference on Wedenesday that the sentence was too harsh and would very badly
affect the country’s foreign

Mongolians among 1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe

Nine Mongolians are among
the world’s 1000 PeaceWomen in an exhibition now here after traveling in more
than 60 countries since 2005. The nine work for human rights, civil
communication, environment, education and health.

The traveling exhibition was
brought to Mongolia under the aegis

Mongolia, Korea hold consular meeting

The consular consultative
meeting between  Mongolia and Republic of
Korea was held on Wednesday. The two sides were led by D.Gankhuyag and Peg Ju
Heong respectively. Both are heads of the consular department in their Foreign
Ministry.

The Mongolian side expressed
its positions and put

City to pay for measures to save the Tuul

The MPRP and an NGO, Green Canal, have been working together
for the past two months on a project called Khatan Tuul and Time to raise
public awareness of the threat to the Tuul river. As part of the project, a
press conference

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