The Ulaanbaatar administration and the Ministry of
Environment and Tourism have chosen Baganuur as the site for a new power plant,
in a bid to reduce the air pollution in the capital city. Another decision with
the same goal is to popularize the

Ts.Jargalsaikhan, advisor at the Foreign Relations Department
of Parliament, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for passing on through
email to Chinese officials secret documents related to the Speaker’s visit to
Russia. He is the son of D.Tsakhilgaan, a former Mongolian

A delegation of Mongolian MPs, all of them members of the
Standing Committee on the Budget, recently visited Botswana to learn how the
country has successfully managed revenues from minerals. The MPs have decided
to study practices in Botswana, Norway and Chile before

Prime Minister S.Batbold received earlier this week Wang
Jiarui, head of the International Department of the Communist Party of China
(CPC) Central Committee, to discuss bilateral ties. Batbold, who is also
chairman of the MPRP, said Mongolia will continue to work with China

A team of Scots
fund-raisers racing a fire engine to be donated to emergency services in
Mongolia has had to change course after being held on the Russian border for
five days. Despite support from MPs, and the British Embassy in Moscow,
officials demanded

B.Ganbat, a departmental head in the National Development
and Innovation Committee, says a proper development strategy for Mongolia must
have provision for setting up high-tech industry. The present situation, where
the country exports only raw and unprocessed output from the mining and
agriculture sectors,

The National Life Insurance LLC has introduced two new
products. With its voluntary retirement plan, Mongolians now have the
opportunity to be insured in two kinds of retirement plans. The first of these
is the existing compulsory retirement plan where the premium is

Matthew Wood, chairman of Australia-listed Hunnu Coal,
has echoed the warning of Ivanhoe Mines Chairman Robert Friedland that Mongolia
could kill the Australian coal industry. He said the warning could become
reality as South and Middle Gobi coking and thermal coal begin shipped

Taking a lesson from
the dzud that saw herders lose 8.1 million animals and left the national
economy poorer by MNT350 billion, all provincial and soum governors have been
asked to prepare grass for local use. With 6.7 million of the 9.1 million
animals

The Prime Minister
told Wednesday’s cabinet meeting that a large number of people he met during
his recent tour of 9 central and western provinces asked about job prospects
laces in the Oyutolgoi project. He has asked the Ministries of Social Welfare
and Labor,