A consultative meeting was held Wednesday to review
results of programs run with assistance from the United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA).  A.Matavel, the Permanent
Representative of UNFPA to Mongolia, and Ch.Khurelbaatar, head of the Cabinet
Secretariat, also discussed the goals for the assistance to

Ambassador to
Australia Ts.Jambaldorj recently gave a lecture 
on the foreign policy of Mongolia and how its diplomatic service works
at the School of Pacific and Asian Studies of the Australian National
University. The event was organized to mark the 100th anniversary of Mongolia’s
adoption

After failing to get its Smokeless UB program approved in
the Spring session of Parliament, the Government has now made some changes in
it, following suggestions from a working group established for the purpose. The
program is now called New Construction, to emphasize

The weather office
forecasts rain and a low temperature throughout the country from August 14. Wet
snow is also predicted next week in Khangai areas. The weather is cooling down
earlier than in the past few years, and there has been more rain

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