Mongolia Brief September 11, 2014 Part II
King Epics Palace Opens
By B.
Amarsaikhan
Ulaanbaatar,
September 11 (MONTSAME) The opening ceremony of the “King Epics Palace” epics’
hall ran Thursday in Bogdkhaan’s palace museum, co-organized by Department of
Cultural Heritage in the Ministry of Culture Sports and Tourism, The Cultural
Heritage Center and Bogdkhaan’s Palace Museum.
Mongolian epics
has been a treasured tradition of tale-telling about protecting the mother
earth, the ways of living in harmony with nature, patriotism, families and
nation’s historic pride, and of better bringing up of the younger generations.
The epics’ hall is of great importance in preserving the traditions and
advertising and propagandizing the national folklores.
The opening of
this hall is a big contribution to the implementation of the government action
plan on Development of Mongolian Epics’ Arts. Audio, video and manuscripts fund
will be embodied in all types of Mongolian epics. Through this, the folktales
and other oral cultural heritages will be registered in the state registry, and
be delivered to the future generations.
Deputy Premier Gives Speech at WEF in China
By B. Khuder
Ulaanbaatar,
September 11 (MONTSAME) The Deputy Prime Minister D.Terbishdagva addressed the
"Summer Davos Meeting" of the World Economic Forum (WEF) which
started Wednesday in Tianjin of China.
He underlined
that Mongolia has been selected as one of those with the fastest economic
growth according to the World Bank (WB) survey. Due to its intensive development,
the exploration sector is currently making up 20% of the total GDP of
Mongolia, increasing twice against a size of a decade before. Mongolian
economic growth was 6.4% in 2010, went up to 12.5% in 2013. A double-digit
growth is expected to continue until 2017, Mr Terbishdagva said. Indicators of
the national macro economy such as population’s education, a decrease of
poverty rate and of budgetary expenditure and profits are also expected to be
positive next years, he went on.
Although the
current economy of Mongolia is still based on the agricultural sphere, the
industrial and mining sectors are boosting in the last years in
Mongolia,"and we are focusing on specializing its economy because it will
make the national economy more stable".
Despite improvement
of the internationally-measured indexes of friendly business environment and
corruption perception, Mongolia has set a big goal to make the business
environment friendlier, he emphasized.
The WEF in
Tianjin will continue until Friday.
Health Minister Meets Ambassador of Russia
By B. Khuder
Ulaanbaatar,
September 11 (MONTSAME) The Minister of Health N.Udval Thursday received Mr I.K.Azizov,
the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to
Mongolia.
She briefed
about achievements in the bilateral ties and cooperation in the health sector
and on related works, projects and programmes and considered as necessity to
talk about ways of expanding the cooperation and bringing it to a newer level.
She noted that
the cooperation protocol between the two countries’ Ministries of Health
expired in end of 2010 and conveyed her invitation to Russian Health Minister V.Skvortsova
in order to update this document. "Despite it, a traditional collaboration
has been continuing in training doctors and experts in Russia," Ms Udval
said.
Then she
proposed cooperating in four directions such as involving doctors and
pharmacists in postgraduate training; cooperating in prevention of infectious
diseases of livestock near borders; improving a monitoring over trade turnover
of medicine and medical products; developing the cooperation in introducing
progressive technologies of medical treatment and diagnosis.
In response, Mr
Azizov promised to deliver the invitation to the Russian Health Minister and to
convey these proposals to related officials. He said that Russian Republics of
Buryatia, Tuva and Irkutsk oblast want to cooperate with Mongolia in the health
sphere.
"Makh Impex" Company about Horse Meat Export to Russia
By B.
Amarsaikhan
Ulaanbaatar,
September 11 (MONTSAME) “We are preparing a process for exporting to
Russia a horse meat, about which was discussed a month ago," the
"Makh Impex" company's director B.Badmaa was quoted as saying by the
MNB on Thursday.
Tracks to
transport the meat have already come from Russia, "we will export 400
tonnes of horse meat by 20 tonnes in every shipment”.
As known, the
President of Russia expressed an interest in meat import from Mongolia
"provided the health requirements are satisfied", said the MNB.
Fair of Selected Breed Animals Approaching
By B. Khuder
Ulaanbaatar,
September 11 (MONTSAME) A fair called “Livestock of selected breeds-2014” will
take place this September 12-14 in the “Mongol Naadam” complex at the Khui
Doloon Khudag horse race area.
The measure is
organized in frames of the “Green days of autumn-2014” exhibition with aims to
select animals of top breeds, to hold auctions of animals and to propagandize
them.
Within the
measure, fairs of pets and Mongolian shepherd dogs will be mounted. Moreover,
exhibitions of Mongolian national costumes, tools of animal husbandry, books,
fodder, medicine and dairy products will be organized.
Inflation Increases by 0.4 Percent
By B.
Amarsaikhan
Ulaanbaatar,
September 11 (MONTSAME) The price index of consumer goods showed 13.7-percent increase
against the same period of 2013, reports the National Statistical Office of
Mongolia.
In August,
there was 0.4-percent increase in the consumer goods price index against July
and a 7.7-percent increase against the beginning of this year.
This increase
has been affected by 16.8-percent soar in educational services, 1.6-percent in
shoes and clothes basket, and 1.5-percent in housing, water, electricity and
fuel.
The good news
is that the childbirth rate has gone up three percent against the same period
of 2013.
Androulla Vassiliou Gives Lecture
By N. Khaliun
Ulaanbaatar,
September 11 (MONTSAME) The European Commissioner for Education, Culture,
Multilingualism and Youth Ms Androulla Vassiliou gave a lecture on
"Rapprochement between the European Union and the Mongolian people"
for students and teachers of Mongolian State University of Culture and Arts.
Then Ms
Vassiliou met with E.Sonintogos, a rector of the university, to discuss an
expected in 2015 program on promoting Mongolian arts and culture in Brussels.
The Partnership
and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) between Mongolia and the EU was signed in April
of 2013 during the visit of High Representative of the Union for Foreign
Affairs and Security Policy for the European Union, Vice-President of the
European Commission Ms Catherine Ashton.
Diplomats Visit Prisoners in Thailand
By B. Khuder
Ulaanbaatar,
September 11 (MONTSAME) Diplomats of the Mongolian Embassy in the Kingdom of
Thailand visited September 9-10 seven Mongolians who have been jailed in Thai
prisons.
The talked to
them, received their requests and gave books, newspapers, necessary things and
foods sent by their families. The prisoners said all of them are well, and that
they communicate through mails with their families.
Twitter user sues Ulaanbaatar City Mayor
September 11
(news.mn) A Twitter user has sued the Governor of the Capital and Mayor of
Ulaanbaatar E.Bat-Uul for his offensive remarks about Twitter users in his
latest newspaper interview. The Ulaanbaatar City Mayor's criticisms of Twitter
users are being called offensive and abusive and have been described as
"absolutely astonishing and inappropriate," on social media.
The individual
suing E.Bat-Uul is active Twitter user T.Munkh-Orgil. He says that the
Ulaanbaatar City Mayor has defamed Twitter users just like Twitter user and
aviation engineer Ts.Bat was accused of defaming the Minister for Roads and
Transport, A.Gansukh.
Ts.Bat, who was
sentenced to three months in jail, was released on bail on Tuesday. This is the
first case in Mongolia involving the arrest of a social media user for
defamation.
Governor of the
Capital City and Mayor of Ulaanbaatar E.Bat-Uul has not responded publicly to the
lawsuit.
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