The 3rd national
report on realization of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) conclude that
despite steady progress, it will be difficult to achieve them by 2015.The
report was presented at a ceremony on Friday in the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. It was attended by

Following Russia’s
announcement on a ban on wheat exports, the price of flour in Mongolia went up by
MNT 3,500-MNT6,000 per ton over the weekend. Some shops in Narantuul, Bars and
Bumbugur markets refused to sell flour until they could raise prices. A

Parliament Speaker
D.Demberel received Ajay Chhibber, UN Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant
Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, and
told him his visit just a year after the visit of UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon indicated the great importance the UN

Mongolia Bike
Challenge 2010, an international competition for mountain bikers taking place
for the first time in Asia, was ceremonially flagged off  at Sukhbaatar Square on Sunday.

Co-organized by Mongolia
Expeditions LLC, Italy”s Progetto Avventura Eventi Company, Mongolia”s
Federation of Adventure Sports and Cycling Tours,

Matt Clements’ photographs of the Mongolian people and
landscape will be on show for about a month at the Cornwall Library early next
year. The exhibition will also include textiles woven by ethnic Kazakhs who
live in the Western section of the country,

The Director of the newly established
Economic Policy and Competitiveness Research Center, Ch. Otgochuluu, says the
Memorandum of Understanding recently signed with the Global Competitiveness
Research Center in Switzerland will help fulfill the desire of President
Ts.Elbegdorj that a Mongolian institute should take up

Mayor G.Munkhbayar told a recent
meeting of the Ulaanbaatar Citizens’ Representative Assembly that last year’s
budget surplus of MNT7.6 billion will be used in a few selected programs this
year. MNT2 billion will be spent on temporary relocation of 300 households
necessitated by a

G.Bayarsaikhan (DP), who was among
the MPs who had initiated the controversial law that prohibited mining
operations in certain areas to protect the environment, has admitted that both
exploration and extraction work continues, almost as before, near prohibited
areas. He has noted with regret

Alaska National Guardsmen are taking part in Khaan Quest 2010. Units
from the Army National Guard”s 38th Troop Command Unit, along with Air Guard
members of the 1-76th Medical Group, arrived
in
Mongolia over the weekend to join 220 members of the Mongolian armed
forces

South Korea will send
seven staff-level officers to a US-supported peacekeeping military exercise in
Mongolia, according to a Yonhap News Agency report quoting the Joint Chiefs of
Staff (JCS). This year’s Khaan Quest exercise, which kicked off Saturday   and runs through August 22,