Minister of Social Welfare and Labor T.Gandi has met with Ms. Constance Thomas, a Director of ILO Office for China and Mongolia.

An Ambassador in charge of energy and minerals of the Republic of Korea Shin Jae Hyong was received by N.Enkhbayar, the President of Mongolia, on Tuesday.

After incurring a loss of more than Tg20 billion so far this year, Ulaanbaatar Railway Company has decided to raise both domestic cargo tariff and passenger fares any day now. The company says the increase will not help them make a profit, but was aimed at recovering losses.

Of the 61,200 enterprises on the Business Register Database at the end of September 2008, around 36,000 or 58.9 percent were in active operation. Of these, 80.9 percent had 1-9 employees, 9.1 percent 10-19, 6.5 percent 20-49, while 3.5 percent employed more than 50 people.

Mongolia's Foreign Investment and Foreign Trade Agency in association with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Osaka city, Japan, will host a business forum of Mongolian and Japanese food and agricultural sectors.