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June 27 to September 01 "Closest Approach to Shambala" Mongol Caligraphical Exhibition at the Art House Center July 10 to October 10 "Chinggis Khaan" exhibition at the National Museum of Mongolian History August 23-29 Joint exhibition by N.Nyamjav and B.Tumurbaatar at the Union of Mongolian Artists
The Chinese tourism magazine "Deep" will publish a special issue about Mongolia, specifically the tourism industry of Mongolia. Journalists from the magazine met and interviewed Ch.Jargalsaikhan, the Deputy Minister of Nature, Environment and Tourism on the theme of "Immediate and long-term development planning of the Mongolian tourism industry" on August 25, 2011.
The Minister for Social Welfare and Labor T.Gandi met with the representatives headed by the Minister for International Cooperation of Canada Beverly Joan Oda yesterday on August 25, 2011.
The Japanese Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories, Inc. has announced that dinosaur remains discovered in the territory of Umnugovi aimag in 2002 that were unknown to date belonged to the family of Pachycephalosaurus on August 25, 2011.
The Mayor of Ulaanbaatar city G.Munkhbayar received a Japanese delegation led by a member of Tokyo Parliament Yuko Hattori, on August 25, who came to keep abreast of the issues of Ulaanbaatar city’s water supply through the "Oiska Mongol" organization.
The inaugural of Mongolian Studies Open Conference (MOSOC) is announced in Canberra, Australia on November 25, 2011 which is sponsored by the Mongolian Studies Centre, Australian National University. The MOSOC is a multi-disciplinary conference which provides a forum for the presentation of new research on Mongolia and Mongols in Australia.
Mongolian gazelle (antelope) that live in the steppes to the Russian border with Mongolia may be able to migrate freely across the border. In the past decade, several times there was a mass migration of antelope winter from Mongolia to Russia because of increased snowfall winters and the related starvation since 2000.
Most of the members of the "Tsakhim Urtuu" association consist of Mongolians who work and study abroad. The association has announced on August 24th that the "Tsakhim Urtuu University" is going to be established based upon the wide range of support from its highly sophisticated members around the world.
The Tourism and Development Board of the Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry has organized a national symposium "Tourism and Competitiveness 2011" under the auspices of the Prime Minister of Mongolia on March 28th 2011, through which, the value added decision was approved to discover brand new tourist attractions and to determine and introduce the Natural Wonders of Mongolia to the domestic and global arena.
According to the Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology a strong colder change is expected at the end of August in the western regions, and in some mountain areas Altai, Khangai could reach up to minus 2°C degrees. On August 25-30, a sudden cold spell is due also in central regions and mountain areas reaching minus 4°C degrees. And minus 3°C degrees will be in eastern parts of the country.
The Institute of History of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences (MAS) in association with the Centre of Turkic languages and Altai studies at Astana University, Republic of Kazakhstan have discovered a unique historic finding while conducting a digging in "Shoroon Bumbagar" Ulaan Kherem monument in Bayannuur sum, Bulgan aimag, informed MAS on August 24, 2011.
Japan is considered a highly industrialized nation in the world but the wild animals there are still becoming extinct from time to time. For instance, the wolves became extinct in Japan a hundred years ago while Mongolia has a wide distributed population of wolves across the country. As per historical notes, the last wolves alive recorded in Japan were in Hokkaido 1896 and in Honshu 1905, which means a whole century ago.
The Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry is hosting an "Environmental journalism workshop" seminar for journalists on August 24, 2011.
The Altai Falcon export issue was held forth in the Parliamentary Session of the Government of Mongolia on August 17th 2011; at the same time, was approved a decision to export 240 live Altai Falcons in 2011 and relevant obligatory duties shall be monitored by the Minister for Nature, Environment and Tourism L.Gansukh in accordance with the pertinent laws and regulations of Mongolia.
The agency of Taiwanese "Child and family support foundation" in Mongolia has been giving scholarships to students of higher education institutions for the last several years.
The Mongolian Meat Association NGO had received the meat purchase inquiries from the Middle East countries and Russian Federation; at the same time, the countries expressed their willingness to purchase horse meat, goat meat and mutton from China.
The new schedule for public transportation means of Ulaanbaatar was issued by the Public Transport Office due to increasing road flows and traffic overload in the coming September which includes the re-arranged schedule for 1,083 public transport buses; 812 large capacity buses between Monday to Friday and 271 small capacity buses during the weekends will be applied for public transportation service in Ulaanbaatar from August 23, 2011.
The Mayor of Ulaanbaatar city G.Munkhbayar received Li Jong Chul, the Director General of the Yonsei medical institute, who is in a high-level delegation led by the President of Republic of Korea on August 22, 2011.
Nowadays, there are a total of 102 higher education institutions throughout the country. Preliminary results show that over 170 thousand students will be studying at public and private institutions of higher education in the academic year of 2011-2012.
The General Staff of the Mongolian armed forces in association with the Military Command of the USA in Pacific Ocean is organizing "MPAT-TE-20" international command staff exercise on August 18-26, 2011.
"The researchers of the Russian Geographical Society found" that numerous gold and mining deposits in the surrounding areas of Ulaanbaatar are polluting Lake Baikal, informed Russian "Argumenty Nedeli" on August 22.
Every academic year the management team of Higher Education Institutions sets the standard rate of tuition fees consulting with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science based on the inflation rate set up by the National Statistical Office of Mongolia.
Government Organizations and NGO’s (Non-Government Organizations) have started taking the appropriate safety measures for water supply units along the banks of the Tuul River which is the main pure-water source of Ulaanbaatar city, Mongolia.
Within the framework of "Clean air" project which aims to reduce air pollution in Ulaanbaatar, energy efficient products and low emission, heating stoves are on sale with discounted prices for the residents living in ger districts starting from August 18, 2011.
The Government of Mongolia made a decision through its parliamentary session on July 6th 2011 to establish the Institute of Internal Affairs under the Ministry of Justice and Internal Affairs of Mongolia in which will be incorporated the current three institutes such as the Police Academy of Mongolia, the University of Mongolian Border Troops and the National Intelligence Academy of Mongolia.
The Ministry of Road, Transportation, Construction and Urban Development of Mongolia will organize a "New Housing EXPO 2011" exhibition at the Cultural Centre of Mongolian Trade Union on August 19-21.
Recently, the Government of Mongolia has supported an ongoing deal of the Development Bank of Mongolia with the Chinese Exim Bank (The Export and Import Bank of China) to get a loan worth 300 billion MNT for the project financing of the "New Yarmag" complex apartment blocks and decided to make a resolution regarding the loan deal accordingly.
The Government of Mongolia made a decision through its parliamentary session on August 17th 2011 to provide MNT491,960 for fiscal 2011-2012 tuition fees to students under the government scholarship program for higher education courses. 






