Minister for Education, Culture and Science Yo.Otgonbayar
has said that all schools will receive
their books by August 25. This is despite the alarming fact that printing
orders are yet to be given.
The tender for printing the books was announced on June
29 but
Figures released by The
National Tourism Center show that there has been a 50.9% increase in the number
of tourists arriving in Mongolia in the first six months of 2010 over the
corresponding period last year. Citizens from Asia Pacific countries account
for more
U.Altangadas, Director of Implementation Department at
the Anti-Corruption Authority, was released on Tuesday after being held in
Gants Khudag prison since July 28. It is believed that .he was arrested because
of his reportedly illegal investigation of the former director of the ACA
investigation
Yu Myon Su, Resident Representative of Industrial and
Human Resource Department of the Republic of Korea in Mongolia, has ruled out
relaxing the language test criterion for Mongolians seeking a job in South
Korea. Yu was on a visit to Mongolia to discuss
U.S.-based international law firm Hogan Lovells has
entered into its first alliance since its 1 May merger after sealing an entente
with Mongolian firm GTs Advocates. The two firms have been loosely affiliated
for the last three years. Hogan Lovells partner Michael Aldrich
Ambassador Jonathan Addleton and other U.S. Embassy staff
participated in a recent celebration marking the 20th anniversary of the
reopening of Amarbayasgalant Monastery.
The monastery complex is nearly 300 years old, but communist purges
starting in 1937 forced its closure as tens of thousands
Mongolia’s national farm show, ATAR III 2010, is being
held on August 13-15 in Selenge, the major agricultural province of the
country. For the first time, the Embassy of Canada is the co-sponsor of this
important event, the other sponsors being the Ministry
S.Bat-Ochir, director of UB
Railway’s Customer, Transportation Department, dismisses all talk about
non-availability of accommodation on trains to Zamiin-Uud and Dornogobi and
answers questions on the rumors.
Why
is it so difficult to get tickets to Zamiin-Uud? Will increasing the number of
passenger trains help matters?
More than 30,000 students
come to Ulaanbaatar each year from the countryside and stay in dormitories. Only
about half of the about 90 universities and institutes they attend have their
own dormitory, so many thousands of students have to make their own
arrangements.
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