Archive for November, 2007
United Arab Emirates to propose flights to Mongolia
{mosimage}Officials in Dubai said on Thursday they will seek permission to offer flights from the United Arab Emirates to Mongolia. Government officials said Mongolia will soon be approached about establishing the first-ever air route between the two countries. (more...)
Reports say Mongolian sumo champion, Asashoryu, to return to Japan
{mosimage}Japanese media are reporting that disgraced Mongolian sumo grand champion, Yokozuna Asashoryu, will return to Japan to resume wrestling on November 23. (more...)
DP Rejects Fiscal Proposal, Wants Spending Reduced
{mosimage}THE Democratic Party (DP) Council in Parliament has notified the Government as also Parliament’s Standing Committee on the Budget that it rejects the fiscal proposal for 2008 submitted by the Government. The DP wants budgeted administrative expenditures to be brought down from 47 percent to 35 percent of the country’s GDP. [...]
800 Mining Investors Meet
{mosimage}DISCOVER Mongolia, an international mining conference to be held on November 8-9 at the Children’s Palace in Ulaanbaatar, will give an opportunity to about 800 foreign and local investors to talk directly with decision makers in the Government. (more...)
Frontier Asks Mongolian Companies to Cross Frontiers
{mosimage}FIVE Mongolian companies already fulfill all the criteria to be listed for trading in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, according to Masa Igata, Chief Executive Officer of Frontier, an international brokerage, dealing, and underwriting firm. (more...)
MONGOLIAN WRESTLERS ARE TAKING PART IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
{mosimage}12 Mongolian male and female wrestlers led by Kh.Erdenet-Od, Honored sportswoman and five times World Champion of sambo sport, are taking part in the 31st World Amateur Sambo Championship in Prague, the Czech Republic. The competitions are attended by 780 wrestlers from 45 countries. (more...)
Mongolian Prime Minister M.Enkhbold Resigns
{mosimage}PRIME Minister M.Enkhbold and his whole cabinet are resigned when the country's Parliament today approved his resignation by majority, 91.7 percent. Earlier, The Standing Committee on State Structures approved the proposal and sent it to Parliament on Wednesday for its discussion. (more...)
Boxer’s Silver Medal Gives Mongolia 10th Place
{mosimage}E.BADAR-UUGAN has made his country proud by winning a silver medal – missing the gold by a whisker – at the amateur boxing world championships in Chicago. His medal in the 54-kg weight section was the only success for Mongolia but it was enough to put it in the 10th place among the more than 100 countries participating. [...]
The Moon Last Week
{mosimage}HOW many of you in Mongolia looked at the moon last Thursday night, or even on Friday? Those who did might have noticed something different; on both nights, especially on Thursday, our one and only satellite was at its biggest and brightest - 14 per cent bigger and 30 per cent brighter than the average full moon. (more...)
Aero Mongolia Flights Stopped
{mosimage}ALL domestic and international flights of Aero Mongolia, a private civil aviation company, were suspended for an indefinite period by the Mongolian Civil Aviation Authority (MCAA) on October 31. (more...)