Russia and Mongolia have agreed to establish tourist flights between the two countries in the Lake Baikal region. Following meetings earlier in the week, G.Yondongombo from the Ministry of Road, Transport and Tourism of Mongolia said an agreement had been reached with Russian tourism officials.

We reported earlier that the Mongolian team is competing in the last Olympic qualifying boxing tournament held in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. By the end of the tournament 3 Mongolian boxers P.Serdamba in the 48kg section, Z.Enkhzorig in the 57kg section and U.Monkh-Erdene in the 64kg section qualified for the Olympic Games which begin August 8.

Mongolia’s Asashoryu won the Spring Grand Tournament sumo tournament in Tokyo Sunday by defeating grand champion Hakuho, also from Mongolia. The victory for Asashoryu was especially sweet since it was Hakuho who defeated him in January, thus preventing his winning his comeback match upon his return to Japan.

A tournament, which allow the last right of the Beijing Olympia, was taking successfully place on 17-23, March of 2008 in Astana, Kazakhstan. And eight athletes from Mongolia participated in the tournament and five have been selected a semi-final of the tournament hosted on 22, March.

Modern technology is coming to the rescue of thousands of pages of historic Mongolian documents. Mongolia’s National Archives and the Gandan Tegchenling Monastery are being assisted by UNESCO in digitizing their collections to guarantee their being preserved as well as distributed to wider audiences.