Head of the Prime Minister’s Office and Minister of Mongolia Ch.Khurelbaatar told MPs P.Altangerel, S.Byambatsogt, D.Gankhuyag and G.Zandanshatar on Friday that the Tavantolgoi deposit contains 6.42 billion tons of coal. About 28 percent or 1.8 billion tons of this can

Parliament agreed on Friday that minimum wages should be fixed on the basis of hours worked, and not months, as has been the practice since the socialist times.  The draft amendment was sent to the concerned Standing Committees which will

While population rises, the number of students in educational institutions of all types taken together fell 2.4 percent at the beginning of academic year 2009-2010 from the figure in the previous year. Excluding Mongolians studying abroad and those attending evening

The price of gold this year will likely rise above 2009″s record of USD1,226/oz  and could even climb as high as USD1,300/oz if the global economic recovery proves sufficiently sluggish and new investment money continues to enter the market, according

Japan”s sports minister has asked the Japan Sumo Association to investigate allegations that sumo grand champion Asashoryu assaulted a man during a late-night drinking session, according to an AP report carried in The Canadian Press. “The association is responsible for

During a recent visit to Germany, Minister of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry T.Badamjunai told Ms. Gudrun Kopp, Parliamentary State Secretary to the German Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, that the Mongolian Parliament has identified agriculture as “a

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Representative Chuck Howell, CEO of Xac Bank M. Bold,  and Deputy CEO of Khan Bank D. Batsaikhan recently signed an agreement  to support up to USD25 million in lending to small and medium enterprises

Mongolbank figures reveal that money supply (broad money or M2) increased to MNT2,880.0 billion at the end of December 2009, recording a rise of 6.1 percent over November 2009 and of 26.9 percent over December 2008. Currency in circulation was

The third meeting of the Mongolia-China working group has ended with agreements between the Director of the Ulaanbaatar Representative Office in Tianjin, J.Gankhuyag, and the deputy director of Dunziang free trading port, Yang Jun Chan, regarding use of the port.

Both the MPRP and DP groups in Parliament yesterday discussed the proposed state property privatization directions to remain in force until 2012. Both groups wanted the Erdenet factory kept out of the list of entities to be privatized, since it