During the tourism peak season, the on the route Japan – MIAT Mongolian Airlines will have 3 flights to Tokyo and 2 flights per week to Osaka and Nagoya respectively, effective this summer. Also, the Boeing aircrafts will fly to Irkutsk, Russia in July and August 2008.

Mongolia got 13 air gates by using new air gates and roads starting from April 10, 2008. By virtue of opening new air gates and new air roads, a number of international transit flights over the territory of Mongolia will substantially increase, and a concrete contribution will be made to the economy of Mongolia.

Ulaanbaatar, /MONTSAME/. Petro glyphs found in a cave named Khoid Tsenkher in Mankhan soum of Khovd aimag will be registered in the World Cultural Heritage at the UNESCO /United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization/. Such a decision has been made in accordance with a support from the Mongolian National Commission of the UNESCO, the Archeological Institute at the Academy of Sciences and the United Nations World Heritage Committee. It is decided thus to cooperate with the local authority in protecting the cave called "nature's open museum", in collecting documents about it and renewing maps.

At the Information and Communication Technologies Agency, a ceremony was held Thursday to inaugurate a program for providing all soums of the country with cell phone services. Under the program, networks of five cell phone operators will be introduced in 331 soums and 90 settlement areas within the first six months of this year. Over MNT 20 billion will be spent on the implementation of this program.

Ceremony took place Thursday to lay a foundation stone of the space research museum-planetarium "Polar Star". For the time being, more than 40 countries have sent their cosmonauts to the space. Mongolia is listed the 10th among these countries. Mongolian first cosmonaut, Hero of former Soviet Union and of Mongolia J.Gurragchaa greatly contributed to creating the above objects.

Teacher of the Culture and Arts University, State Prize holder, composer and doctor of arts S.Soronzonbold has written and published a research book named "Mongolian music and the 13th century". In 2005, he delivered a report themed "Mongolian music of the 13th century" at scientific conference in scope of the exhibition "Chinggis Khaan and his descendants" in Germany' Bonn city. He also announced a Chinggis Khaan's sacrificial song for the first time to the world. Considering that, S.Soronzonbold aimes to tell through his book that a history of Mongolia's ceremony, military, civilian, customs, shamanism and religion' music influenced on development of the Oriental music, kinds of the European opera and ballet. For being able to tell so, he has researched sacrificial music played at the times of Mongolian emperors like Chinggis Khaan, Ogoodei, Zuchi and others.