Finance Minister S.Bayartsogt submitted broad outlines of the budget for 2011 and draft assumptions for the budget for the two years after that to Parliament Speaker D.Demberel on Saturday. The outlines are based on the National Policy for Development, the

President Ts.Elbegdorj met a cross section of metropolitan citizens yesterday at the Great Hall of Government House. In the 10 months since being elected President, he has visited 30 soums of 10 provinces and met citizens.
“Spring is here and the

Hakuho will arrive in Mongolia on May 31 for a short visit. He will watch the junior sumo championship named after him and organized by himself in cooperation with the Mongolian Sumo Association and Bolor Luu Production.
The 69th yokozuna

With 73.2 percent of MPs voting for it, Parliament approved on Friday the proposed law to change the procedures of computing minimum wages. The law comes into force on January 1, 2011.
Wages in certain jobs will be calculated on the

A special Government meeting on Friday adopted a comprehensive plan on improving conditions in the animal husbandry sector hit by natural disaster, and also approved a temporary measure to provide animals to herders who are left with no livestock.
The

President Ts. Elbegdorj has issued a decree designating the Saturdays in the second complete weeks in May and October as National Tree Planting Days. He has called upon individuals, households, government and non-government organizations and business entities to come together

Prime Minister S.Batbold has said people need to be convinced that the Government and other authorities are serious about eradicating corruption and that “our words are not empty rhetoric”. He was speaking at a seminar on methods of implementing an

In a country where livestock outnumber people by an order of 16 to one, animal welfare is no small matter, says a report in The Economist. In Mongolia this year the animals are not faring well at all, and the

Mongolia’s Ser-Od Bat-Ochir, and Joseph Mbithi Mutunga of Kenya lead the entries for a race in Brighton, England which is threatening to become the second biggest marathon in only its second year. Former Brighton-based hero and Olympic gold medalist Steve

Park University in Kansa, USA, will highlight the music, arts, history and food of Mongolia at its annual Cultural Sharing event on April 23.
“The annual Cultural Sharing event creates the opportunity to celebrate the colorful cultures of our world and