With support from international partners, the Mongolian Red Cross (MRS) has provided 1.2 billion MNT (50.1 million U.S. dollars) to 4,500 herder families whose livelihoods are at risk from severe winter conditions, the leader of the agency said on Monday.

Mongolia has started a project to expand its ‘Biocombinat’ state-owned enterprise in cooperation with Hungary. The Minister of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry of Mongolia discussed the project with Hungarian Ambassador Mihaly Galosfai on 12 March.

Mongolia and Turkey will celebrate their 50th year of diplomatic relations in 2019, in which they will seek to reach a new strategic level in ties and increase cooperation between their parliaments.

Here are eight reasons why Ulaanbaatar would be the right location:

Mongolia first joined the United Nations peacekeeping force in 2002 with the deployment of two unarmed military observers to the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara.

Mongolia’s former president today suggested on Twitter that his country should host the pair’s historic meeting. The meeting, set to occur “by May”, will make Trump the first ever US President to meet with a North Korean leader.

A vaccination programme against pneumonia started in all district hospitals of Ulaanbaatar on 1 March. Two months-old infants are getting the jab first.

Honoured Mongolian State Artist, E.Amartuvshin was awarded with an honour award at the Bravo International Professional Music Awards on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

Ch.Munkhdalai is a brave young disabled Mongolian. In 2014, he rode 6300 km by bicycle through the territories of western Mongolia. Despite being unable to communicate with others due to being deaf and dumb, Munkhdalai travelled all the way alone for four months.

On Monday, NEMA organised an intensive training programme (AHC-18) for rescue dogs from Ulaanbaatar, Selenge, Khentii and Bulgan. A total of ten animals participated in the training together with the officers who are their handlers.