Mongolian and Chinese anti-corruption authorities have
signed an anti-corruption cooperation document, said the Mongolian
anti-corruption agency.

The document was signed Thursday during the visit of a Chinese delegation
headed by Qu Wanxiang, deputy head of the National Bureau of Corruption
Prevention of China. The document

Russian and Mongolian presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Tsakhia
Elbegdorj had a telephone conversation on Friday to discuss bilateral
cooperation and agreements reached during the Russian leader’s visit to
Mongolia last August, the Kremlin’s press service said.

The conversation took place at the initiative

Mongolia”s presentation at the recent meeting of the UN
Economic and Social Council Annual Ministerial Review — which this year featured
a record 13 countries making voluntary presentations on actions to mainstream a
gender perspective into all sectors and achieve international targets relating
to

Mongolia and Nepal will sign a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) on exchange of information to prevent money laundering and
terrorist financing at next week’s 
annual general meeting of the Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering
(APG) in Singapore. The MoU will make it mandatory for

Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, 
U.S. National Security Advisor during Jimmy Carter’s presidency, will be
visiting Mongolia during Naadam at the invitation of Prime Minister S.Batbold.
He will give a talk on “The foreign policy of the USA and Eurasia” to an
invited audience of politicians,

MIAT has rented an Airbus 330-300 from a Turkish airline
to cope with the demands of the peak tourist season. The Mongolian national
carrier’s international flights schedule was facing difficulties ever
since  one of its three Boeing 737-800
aircraft was badly damaged during maintenance

An exhibition of photographs,  on show until July 10 at the art gallery in
the Cultural Palace, gives evidence of the contemporary effect of the Mongol
Empire on societies in the huge landmass it controlled, as also of how
Mongolian-origin communities dispersed in

John Macken, President and Chief
Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Mines, has said that with the ramp-up to full
construction now well under way, the Oyutolgoi workforce has been increased to its current total of
3,100 men and women. Production of copper and gold

Coal miner Peabody
Energy, rebuffed in a recent acquisition bid in Australia, still wants to
expand there to meet Asian demand and is also pursuing opportunities in
Mongolia, Chief Executive Officer Gregory Boyce has said. He said his company
was looking at expanding into

AIM-listed miner Polo
Resources has finalized the sale of its coal and uranium joint venture in
Mongolia, just days after pulling out of a merger with Australian peer Caledon
citing volatile market conditions. Polo has sold its stake in the venture to
China-based miner