Prime Minister
S.Batbold was in Khovd province on Thursday as part of his extended tour of the
western provinces. At a meeting with citizens, he gave information on the progress
of exploiting mineral deposits, developing small and medium industries, and on agriculture,
and reforms in

Khaan Quest 2010 began
yesterday at the military training camp in Tavantolgoi and will run through August
22. This onternational military exercise is a US Pacific Command assisted
endeavor designed to train military personnel from many countries to help
United Nations peacekeeping operations (PKO)

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