With full support from the weather children (and also
their parents) had a wonderful time on Children’s Day. A visit to Sukhbaatar
Square appeared to be mandatory, keeping the place crowded and festive for the
whole day.

The celebrations there began in the

Chinese
Premier Wen Jiabao left Ulaanbaatar at 11 on Wednesday morning after spending a
program-packed 30 hours here. He held wide ranging talks with Mongolian Prime
Minister S. Batbold, called on President Ts. Elbegdorj, and met with other
national leaders.

The highlights of the visit
were

The visit by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will help turn a new page in the
bilateral ties between the two neighbors, according to  L. Begzjav, head of Chinese studies at the
Mongolian Academy of Sciences. The leading Mongolian scholar told Xinhua
bilateral relations

The European Union on Tuesday sent USD2.5
million in aid to help Mongolia deal with the aftermath of one of the coldest
winters on record.

The EU”s executive, the European
Commission, estimates that 600,000 people – mainly nomadic herders – are in
danger of starvation

Polo Resources has
announced execution of a memorandum of understanding with Peabody Energy
Corporation and Winsway Coking Coal Holdings for the sale of Polo”s 50%
interest in the Peabody-Polo Resources B.V. Mongolian joint venture. The JV was
formed to hold all of Polo”s coal

The Global Times,
a daily Chinese newspaper focusing
on international issues and produced by the official Chinese Communist Party newspaper, the People”s Daily, has
published in some detail the views of Michael Aldrich, an American  lawyer who divides his time between
Beijing  and Ulaanbaatar,

Conversations with residents of Ulaanbaatar are full of
references to Mongolia”s mining wealth, and the booming interest from
international governments and multinational corporations, found a visiting
journalist from Britain’s The Guardian. The common theory, or hope, expressed
by those working in the mining industry

The European Bank of Reconstruction
and Development is providing USD25 million in loan to APU, a private brewery,
to support the company”s drive to expand production capacity and diversify its
product range. Established in 1924, APU is the leading beverage producer in
Mongolia and

Fourteen agricultural experts from Inner Mongolia are now
working in Mongolia under  the two-year
China-Mongolia “South-South Cooperation” Project, providing
technological aid. They are based in eight regions in Mongolia, and provide
expert technical aid focusing on animal feed production, livestock farming,
plant protection, agricultural irrigation,

The Environment and Tourism Minister has canceled 59 licenses
for land use in the Bogd mountain protected area with effect from June 1. The
holders of these licenses have either not paid the required annual fees for more
than two years, or have