Mongolia has increased prizes money from the VAT lottery which would be held in 2018. The decision was confirmed by decree of the Finance Ministry on 26 December, 2017.

Shanghai police issued a statement on Wednesday on the death of a girl from Mongolia. Police in Xuhui district said the deceased girl was Boldbaatar Maralmaa, aged 21.

Acrid coal smoke from 200 thousand ‘ger’ stoves and nitrogen dioxide from 400 thousand cars in Ulaanbaatar are blamed for air-pollution.

It has been four days since China closed the Gants Mod border crossing to Mongolia. Chinese enterprises have presented twelve demands regarding Mongolian regulations on international transport to officials.

A subsidiary of one of Mongolia’s largest coal producers has been ordered by a Hong Kong arbitral tribunal to repay USD 11.5 million to a commodities firm following a dispute stemming from a coal supply agreement, according to a Thursday notice.

Earlier today (12 January), over 3000 people demonstrated outside the State Palace on Sukhbaatar square.

A political cooperation meeting between Mongolia and France was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs earlier today (12 January) following a six-year break.

The “Altan gadas” (Order of Polar Star) medal was presented to Dr Koo Byung-sok, president of the Korean Open Doctors Society in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the Mongolian health sector.

A working group from the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) is coming to Mongolia on January 25 on their latest evaluation mission.

Air quality has already become one of the most serious problems in Mongolia and the Number One problem in the capital, Ulaanbaatar.