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Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ Last Friday, the Minister of Environment and Tourism received governors of the districts of the city, and obliged them to clean waste created from construction works and households, in June 15. A contract on the matter has been established with the governors of nine districts.

Present at this meeting were N.Batsuuri, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Tourism; G.Monbayar, the Mayor of Ulaanbaatar city; and other authorities of the Ministry. They have shared views on collaborating in improving the city's environment.

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Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ The Prime Minister S.Batbold met Mr. Kandeh Yumkella, the Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), who started an official visit on Monday.

Beginning the meeting, the Premier thanked the UNIDO for working out a research document for a basic guideline of Mongolia's industrial policy with its expenses, in respect of his request, and then said the government of Mongolia is about to put forward cooperation proposals to the UNIDO to realize the biggest projects and programs based on the document.

The Premier stressed that Mongolia always thanks the UNIDO for significantly contributing to developing the industrial sector, and gave a brief report to Mr. Yumkella on a present socio-economic situation in Mongolia.

Mentioning that the government of Mongolia intends to carry out a new policy on industrial policy with an aim to provide Mongolians with job places, the Premier underlined an importance of the UNIDO's assistance and aid.

In turn, Mr. Yumkella thanked the Premier for an audience, and said he plans to hold meetings with the Foreign Minister, the Minister of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry, and the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, in accordance with a visiting program. Mr. Yumkella said that the UNIDO intends to carry on the collaboration with Mongolia in ensuring a complex program of the technical cooperation.

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Source:mongoliaeconomy.blogspot.com

The Mongolian government has welcomed a full scholarship offer for its students to study in Malaysia by Limkokwing University of Creative Technology.

Malaysian Ambassador to China and concurrently accredited to Mongolia Datuk Iskandar Sarudin said the Malaysian university would sponsor 10 Mongolian students for a four-year programme.

The scholarship covers tuition fees, meals, accommodation, basic insurance and hospitalisation. The programme starts in September.

Students who pass the programme will get a direct entry into the undergraduate course in business and computer science.

The Mongolian Education, Culture and Science Ministry said that currently, the universities in Mongolia are collaborating with several higher institutions from Germany, the Netherlands and the United States to run 2+2 programmes.

At the meeting with Mongolian Education, Culture and Science Minister Yondon Otgonbayar, the ministry suggested that the university offer three more scholarships to Mongolia’s neighbouring countries as their students understand the Mongolian culture and it was also much more cost-effective to do the 2+2 programmes in Mongolia first, followed by Malaysia.

The government will be opening a new education hub 120km away from Ulan Bator to accommodate the 120,000 student population in Mongolia.

The minister welcomed the initiative by foreign countries including Malaysia, to establish a branch campus or university in the proposed hub.

He also proposed that Malaysia conduct training courses in mining so that young Mongolians can enter the job market.

Limkokwing China representative office chief Foong Kah Wai said if the university were to set up a branch campus in Mongolia, it would be more like a resource centre that provides job opportunities and internships as it has strong corporate links.

This is the second initiative by a Malaysian institution after Al-Bukhary International University offered Mongolian students 15 full scholarships for foundation studies at the university for a year.

Source:english.news.mn

Top defense officials from Mongolia and the United States here on Saturday discussed ways to boost bilateral military cooperation.

At a press conference following his meeting with visiting U.S. Acting Under-Secretary of Defense James N. Miller, Mongolian Defense minister Jadambaa Enkhbayar expressed his satisfaction with the current Mongolia-U.S. military cooperative ties. 

He also said the two sides exchanged views on international and regional security issues of common concern, including the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, adding that both sides believe the issue should be solved through peaceful means.

Miller arrived here on Friday for a two-day visit.

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Construction begins today on a thermo-technical retrofitting project that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help make Ulaanbaatar an environmentally-friendly city.   A collaborative project between U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), three schools in Ulaanbaatar City have been selected for rehabilitation - School No. 63, No. 79-1 and No. 79-2.

This project uses clean energy – through solar power and thermal insulation - to increase heat levels in the school buildings.

In addition to introducing these technologies, local contractors, engineers, and architects will receive on-the-job training on the application of environmentally-friendly techniques; learning modules on clean energy will also be provided to teachers and students.

Funding for this 13-month project totals $1,517,000 USD.

Heat energy consumption and CO2 emissions are expected to be reduced by 50% after the thermo-technical retrofitting.

Source:english.news.mn