Information,
Emergency Control Center has officially started its operation on Friday. The
opening ceremony was attended by Vice PM M.Enkhbold, Government member,
Minister for Internal Affairs Ts.Nyamdorj, Ambassador of South Korea Jong Il,
executive director of LG Group of Korea and other officials and

Ulaanbaatar
is getting ready for the coming days of Naadam. Repair work on the Central
Stadium will be over by July 8. MNT632 million will be spent by the Government for
Naadam. MNT100 million of this will come from the Government, MNT198 million
from

Mayor
G.Munkhbayar has asked the Metropolitan Health Department to have enough
ambulances ready to cope with the increasing number of calls for help to people
affected by the hot weather. The heat is causing older people’s blood pressure
to rise and children to have

Parliament
Speaker D.Demberel and the United
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Representative Arjentina Matawel
held wide ranging talks on Friday.  Matawel
gave a brief summary of UNFPA’s plannned programs for 2007-2011 in Mongolia to
support the county’s development and also reviewed projects under implementation.
UNFPA supports the

The
Government has been faulted for not providing too many details on its  Tavantolgoi policy and also for not
clarifying what the policy means in terms of specifics, but the people seem to
be enthusiastic about what  has been
announced. A survey covering 730

D.Damba,
President of the Mongolian National Mining Association (MNMA), does not think
much good will come out of the government’s decision to extract the Tavan
Tolgoi deposit through operating contracts. Since the operating companies will
be required to make sizable investments, they will raise

U.S. Senator
Charles Schumer has blasted China for alleged predatory trade practices,
including shipping its honey to the United States through India, Mongolia and
Malaysia so that tariffs would be cheaper. Schumer called the practice “honey
laundering” and said he will support a bill

An Indian
government and business joint delegation on the mines sector, led by the
seniormost bureaucrat at the Ministry of Mines, Ms. Santha Sheela Nair, visited
Mongolia recently. The delegation called on Prime Minister S. Batbold and
briefed him about the proceedings of the

Scandals do
not seem to leave sumo, venerated by the Japanese people as a pillar of
tradition and as a way of life. Last week, the country’s top police official
called for action to rid the sumo world of links to yakuza crime

Parliament’s approval last
week of the Government policy to build a rail line linking with Russia to help
tap large coal deposits in the south is the latest move in the long-delayed
project that could make the poor but mineral-rich nation less dependent