Last year MNT 4 trillion was granted to small and medium enterprises, which means an increase by MNT 719.7 billion compared to 2018.

According to the classification of loans by sector, 4.2 percent was granted to agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting fields and 15.1 percent to manufacturing, 12.4 percent to construction, 32.4 percent was to wholesale and retail, machine and motorcycle maintenance, 8.5 percent was to services and 27.4 percent of the loans went to other sectors.

Thus, as accordingly, the Ministry has reflected additional certain measures, including financing and action plan in the framework of the IFAD Project for Market and Pasture Management Development (PMPMD), in the agreements signed with aimag governors on January 24.

The PMPMD project is being implemented in 18 soums of 6 aimags, namely Arkhangai, Uvurkhangai, Khentii, Dornod, and Sukhbaatar. In aims of increasing the number of those that will be benefiting from the project, the project will be implemented in 98 soums in 2020. A total of MNT 8.9 billion will be invested in the project framework, of which MNT 6.4 billion will be from IFAD, and MNT 2.5 billion from local budgets.

The company said the issue involves an indicator light staying on longer than intended. The light is associated with the stabilizer trim system, which raises and lowers the plane's nose.
Boeing said the problem was discovered during flight testing of the 737 Max's updated software. It said the problem was with the inputs into the plane's flight control computers.
"We are incorporating a change to the 737 Max software prior to the fleet returning to service to ensure that this indicator light only illuminates as intended."

The 737 Max has been grounded worldwide since March following two fatal crashes that killed 346 people. The crashes have been linked to a safety system designed to force down the nose of the plane in case it was climbing too fast and was at risk of stalling. Boeing has been working on a fix of the software on that system for more than a year.
Since its grounding, investigators and Boeing engineers have identified several other issues with the plane. Boeing let the FAA and its airline customers know about the problem with the light during the week of Jan. 20, the company said. It was revealed publicly on Thursday by Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Steve Dickson when he was answering reporters' questions following remarks in London.
The same week Boeing disclosed the problem with the light to the FAA, it announced publicly that it believed the Max would not be approved to return to service until the middle of this year.

Asked Thursday about when the jet might fly again, an FAA spokesperson repeated, "there is no set timeframe for when the aircraft will be cleared for return to passenger service. It will be approved only after our safety experts are fully satisfied that all safety-related issues are addressed to the FAA's satisfaction."

Chinese officials said tariffs on some goods would be cut to 5% from 10%, and on others from 5% to 2.5%.

The two countries have been stuck in a long-running trade war with both imposing tariffs on imported products.

A partial resolution was agreed last month with China promising to boost imported US goods by $200bn.

This latest announcement to reduce tariffs is China's first response to the "phase one" agreement .

China's economy has been under additional pressure this year as the coronavirus outbreak threatens to derail the economy. Factories across the country remain closed and its manufacturing sector faces a severe drop in production.

The tariff cuts, which cover $75bn of US goods coming into China, will take effect on 14 February. Tariffs remain on a further $35bn worth of US goods.

The US will also roll back some tariffs on Chinese goods as part of the agreement.

It is being seen as a significant step towards resolving the US-China trade war. In a statement, China's finance ministry said the aim was ''to promote the healthy and stable development of Sino-U.S. economic and trade relations''.

Talking about the timing of the tariff reductions, Julian Evans-Pritchard, senior China economist at Capital Economics, said: ''Perhaps they want to show goodwill and send the message that they are still committed to de-escalating trade tensions despite the coronavirus delaying the ramp-up in their imports from the US''.

Stock markets around Asia rallied on the news. Both Hong Kong's Hang Seng and Japan's Nikkei 225 both rose 2.6% following the announcement.

The two suspects were arrested early this week while attempting to sell the meat of three wild boars in Bukhmurun soum in the western Mongolian province of Uvs, the police department said in a statement, noting that an investigation is still underway.

Wild boar in reeds has been registered in the Mongolian Red Book of Endangered Animals.

Under Mongolian law, a person convicted of killing wild boars in reeds will be fined at least 2.7 million Mongolian tugriks (982 U.S. dollars) or liable to imprisonment of at least a year, according to the police department.

The Mongolian government established the ecological police department in January, in order to strengthen the enforcement of the environmental laws and regulations of the country and the detection and investigation of suspected violations.

The trek arrives on the heels of the band’s 2019 North American tour in support of their debut album, The Gereg, which saw The Hu perform their signature brand of “hunnu rock” – a one-of-a-kind mixture of Western rock music combined with traditional Mongolian instrumentation and throat-singing sung in their native language – to 75% sold-out crowds.

Due to kick off on 10 April at Coachella in Indio, in the State of California the tour will make stops in Tucson, Detroit, Nashville, Atlanta, New Orleans and more, before wrapping up on 24 May in Dallas, Texas. This will follow the band’s currently sold-out European/UK run.

“We’re so excited by the reaction to our performances and tours everywhere,” said the band in a recent statement. “Our fans are the best and we are humbled by their overwhelming support. We can’t wait to return to the USA and perform at Coachella and so many other great festivals and venues.”

The approval is jointly supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the National Health Commission and the National Medical Products Administration.

Remdesivir is a drug developed by Gilead Sciences, an American pharmaceutical company, said Cao Bin, head of the drug's clinical trial program, at the conference held by the MOST at the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, central China's Hubei Province.

The drug has shown good antiviral activity against SARS and MERS coronavirus in previous cell and animal experiments. Its clinical trials against Ebola infections have been conducted abroad. In related domestic research, it has also shown fairly good antiviral activity against the 2019-nCoV at the cellular level, said Cao.

A total of 761 patients have been enrolled in the trials, which will adopt a randomized, double-blind and placebo-controlled study method.

The trials, led by the China-Japan Friendship Hospital and the Institute of Materia Medica under the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS), will be conducted in several hospitals in Wuhan, including the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital.

Hopes have been pinned on the drug, but we have to wait for results of its actual effectiveness in the clinical trials, said Wang Chen, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of the CAMS. ■

Head of Monitoring, Inspection, Evaluation and Internal Audit Department of the MRTD Enkhbold reported that three flights, which are planned to be operated on January 28, 29 and 30, twenty flights to be conducted in February and another two flights in March, 2020 have been cancelled. Train is traveling to the People’s Republic of China everyday except Sunday.

Moreover, train travels NO 3 and NO 4 in route Beijing-Ulaanbaatar-Moscow have been stopped beginning from today, February 6 by the request of the Russian Federation. Officials also warned Mongolian passengers not to travel to China through airways and railroads.

If the citizen has urgent necessity to travel, it is required to get permission from the General Authority for Border Protection.