The Mongolian Tourism Development Centre signed a memorandum of cooperation with South Korea in Wonju city on 16th of May.

A team of doctors from the Third State Central Hospital, the National Centre for Maternal and Child Health of Mongolia and the Sondra Eye Hospital has performed eye lens transplant surgery on an eight-year-old boy.

Mongolia is to host the East Asian Men’s Volleyball Championship from 20th to 26th of May.

In a bid to encourage the general public to donate blood, the Ulaanbaatar City Administration has decided to issue free bus passes to those who do so regularly, officials said.

The Mongolian General Election Committee has just registered S.Ganbaatar from the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP) as candidate for the upcoming Mongolian presidential election.

Shares in Turquoise Hill rose sharply on Tuesday after the company announced better than expected revenues amid declining production at its massive Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine in Mongolia.

Mongolia’s economy, which grew only 1 percent in 2016, expanded 4.2 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, buoyed by the coal sector’s turnaround, government data showed on Tuesday (16th of May).

Coaches from the famous German football club Borussia Dortmund are training Mongolian children in Ulaanbaatar.

“Hold your dog!”, is the traditional greeting when approaching a Mongolian ger – it is also a practical request, because the Bankhar, as the dog of the nomads is called, is a fierce defender of the livestock.

A Mongolian judo team is to fly to Russia’s fourth-largest city, Yekaterinburg, for the Grand Prix competition this weekend.