‘News Archive’ Archives
Goyol Fashion Show Next Month
{mosimage}Mongolia's Goyol Fashion Show–2008, the most anticipated event in Ulaanbaatar’s fashion calendar, will this year be held on December 12. As usual the event will name the year’s best models, chosen separately from among both men and women, the best designer and also the top model of the year, the best of the best, as [...]
Bayar Sails Through
{mosimage}THE Standing Committee on State Structures unanimously approved on Wednesday the nomination of S.Bayar, Chairman of the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP), the dominant partner in the ruling coalition, to take over as Prime Minister of Mongolia. (more...)
Mongolia urges UN to create International Day of Rural Women
{mosimage}Mongolia has introduced a measure at the United Nations to have each October 15 recognized as the International Day of Rural Women. The issue was approved in committee and sent for consideration to the General Assembly. (more...)
Rare Mongolian horse born in Australian zoo
{mosimage}An Australian zoo announced the successful birth of a rare Mongolian Przewalski's horse on Sunday. Officials of the Adelaide Zoo in Adelaide, South Australia, said the white foal has been named “Effie,” after Melbourne Cup winner Efficient. (more...)
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...)
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. [...]
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...)
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...)
S.Bayar to be Prime Minister of Mongolia
{mosimage} MONGOLIA will have a new Prime Minister soon. The ruling Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP) last week elected a new chairman and also resolved that the Party Chairman and Prime Minister will from now on be the same person. (more...)
Mongolia “A Solid Friend”, Says Bush as MCC Deal is Signed
{mosimage} THE US$285 million Millennium Challenge compact assistance program to reduce poverty through economic growth in Mongolia was signed on October 22. President N.Enkhbayar and President George W. Bush signed the five-year agreement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in a sober ceremony marked with quiet but confident optimism. [...]