The Government has decided to issue bonds worth MNT16
billion to raise capital for the new National Development Bank.

The MNT19 trillion needed to implement the government’s
Industrialization program has not yet been found. A survey has revealed that in
2010-2012 the government’s

The Standing Committee on National
Security and Foreign Policy agreed on Tuesday to establish consular services in
San Francisco, Osaka,
and Hong Kong. The day’s meeting was supposed
to discuss sending manpower to foreign countries but instead it reviewed the issue
of importing manpower. T.Gandhi

Prime Minister S.Batbold inaugurated
Wednesday’s conference of the National Council for Children, which he heads. He
regretted that despite much talk, there has been little progress in improving
the lot of children and felt it is “high time for the government to take
decisive

The Standing Committee on
the State Structure had many questions to ask about proposed revisions to the
laws on inspection, nature and environmental protection, and on inspection and
quarantine of raw materials of animal and botanical origin at the border.

J.Sukhbaatar thought the
revisions

A MIAT spokesman failed to give any commitment on
Thursday when international flights would resume. Today was the third day they
remained canceled.  Alternative
arrangements are being made for stranded passengers.

The Government yesterday announced the airline will fly
today but could not find enough

The Standing Committee on
the Economy has accepted the recommendations of a working group headed by R.Bud
on road construction to be included in the revised 2010 budget, the social security
fund and the budget of the Human Development Fund. The  group was

Cafés and restaurants serving liquor, and all shops and
supermarkets selling alcohol have been ordered by Mayor G.Munkhbayar to install
cameras. The move comes in the wake of persistent complaints that the rule
prohibiting sale or serving of alcohol after 12 midnight was

The Standing Committee on Environment, Food and
Agriculture yesterday refused to approve the draft law on establishing an
agriculture stock exchange, and asked its initiators to redraft it in the light
of the Mongolian Livestock program approved by Parliament last week.

The proposed stock

The Government submitted to Parliament on Thursday
morning the report of the working group on Tavantolgoi, which it had discussed
the day before. It includes the draft of investment agreement, suggestions for
amendments to the Mineral Law, the draft of the resolution Parliament

All
figures in the following social and economic data released by The National
Statistical Office are for the four months ended April 2010, unless otherwise
specified, and all comparisons are with the same period in 2009, unless, again,
mentioned otherwise.

Consumer
price index

The
national consumer price