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,
The Government
meeting on Wednesday decided to allow students to pay tuition for just four months
at a time, and not the whole year. Many families will now be able to use the
money they are due to receive from the Human Development
The Government
meeting yesterday made a decision to lower the tax on A-80 petroleum by
MNT70,000 so that retail prices do not have to be raised, after Russia had
increased its price by USD68.
Ts.Amaraa, deputy
director of Oil Agency, said, “There is speculation that
Following the
publication of a news story in News.mn on how hundreds of people live in the
Ulaanchuluut garbage dump, even giving birth and raising babies, the
President’s Office and an NGO have taken up a project to provide education to
children there. The
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