Japanese
national Kayuchi Namae has planted 100 cherry trees in Sainshand soum of
Dornogobi province. She wants to do this every year.

Kayuchi was
the first Japanese citizen to introduce cherry trees in Mongolia. Some
200 years ago he planted many of them at the

Parliament on
Thursday, April 29, 2010 approved, after just one reading, the proposal to
build a copper smelting factory, with 77.4 percent of MPs supporting it.

A survey in
2009 by the Ministry of Nature, Environment and Tourism  revealed that 3,732 traditional water courses
and streams ion the country, as well as 1,162 natural water reservoirs were dry.
The number of fish in the Tuul
River has been grossly
depleted

The following is the text of a press
conference at Nalchik
where B. Munguntuul answers questions from the organizers of the FIDE
tournament.

Which visit to Nalchik
has been better for you –the present one or your first experience?

This time I haven’t been anywhere yet,

After successive victories in the first two
rounds at the ongoing FIDE Grand Prix tournament in Nalchik
in Russia, one of them
against the rating favorite of the tournament Humpy Koneru from India, Mongolia’s B. Munguntuul
disappointed her supporters by losing in the next

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The State
Specialized Inspection Agency is preparing a list of areas left unrehabilitated
after extraction and other mining activities in Khentii, Bayankhongor,
Arkhangai, Uvurkhangai, Umnugovi, and Dornogovi provinces. A preliminary

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The Ministry
of Minerals and Energy has announced areas totaling 25,412.7 square km will be
covered by geological survey and study this year. Ten new projects will be
surveyed in

If there was a competition to find the ugliest city on Earth, Ulaanbaatar
would be the leading contender for the title, says a report in The Telegraph in
London. The
combination of grim, Soviet-style concrete high-rises, rambling slum-shanties
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The
Government has asked Ministers, the Mayor of Ulaanbaatar, and Governors of provinces to
begin preparatory work for the first-stage assessment of the implementation of
the Millennium Development Goals-based

The
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) board recently agreed to
allow Mongolia
to remain an EITI Candidate. Mongolia,
which is yet to be confirmed as EITI Compliant, submitted its final EITI
validation report before its deadline of March 9. The Board welcomed the
country”s achievements in