Ulaanbaatar’s
children will receive an exciting gift on this year’s Mothers’ and Children’s
Day. On June 1, the City administration will bring together 100 animals of
several species found in Mongolia,
such as wolves, rabbits, foxes, and deer.
The Government has accepted the proposal of the Mineral
Resources and Energy Ministry and appointed N.Myagmarsuren to head the
Coordinators’ Council of the Energy Regulation Authority. He succeeds R.Gaanjuur
who was removed from his post because of unsatisfactory performance.
Another member of the Council,
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrives in Mongolia
on June 1 and will leave the next day, according to the Mongolian Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and Trade. He will hold wide ranging talks with his host, Prime
Minister S. Batbold.
A formal ceremony on Monday saw Satbir Singh present his
credentials as Indian Ambassador to Mongolia to President Ts.Elbegdorj.
Singh is not new to the region as he earlier served at India’s embassy in Moscow and was for some time acting
ambassador there.
The
At a meeting in Ulaanbaatar
on May 24, First Deputy Premier N.Altankhuyag, who is also head of the
Mongolian side of the Mongolia-Russia Intergovermental Commission, and the new Governor
of the Sverdlovskaya province in Russia, A.C. Misharin, stressed the
long tradition of friendly bilateral
The biennial World Harmony Run, first organized by a
US-based Indian philosopher and campaigner for peace, Sri Chinmoy, in 1987,
reached Mongolia
on May 15. As always, it was flagged off at the UN headquarters in New York and will cover
more than 100
A strike by technical staff led to the cancellation of this
morning’s MIAT flight to Seoul.
J.Bat-Erdene, State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport, Construction and City
Planning, some 90 workers are involved. If they continue to refuse to work,
replacements will be brought
Waves of migration from the
provinces have meant that almost half of the Mongolian population now lives in
its capital city, straining its infrastructure and increasing various forms of
environmental pollution. Parliament therefore had no hesitation when it
recently approved the Government’s Smokeless Ulaanbaatar
Ivanhoe Mines Ltd., building the Oyu Tolgoi project with Rio
Tinto Group, has said it may bring in another partner. “This is likely to have
another participant before it’s all over,” Deputy Chairman Peter Meredith has
said. “We’ve had a lot interest from
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