The Mongolian National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has held a drill to train officers in evacuating civilians to safety in the event of an earthquake. The two-day exercise took place in Dornogobi, which is a province in the south of Mongolia.

In 2017, Mongolia had been planning to export a total of 11.5 million tonnes of coal to China; however, coal export has slowed due to the limited capacity at the border crossing on the Chinese border; this has resulted in queues of almost 100 km.

The World Bank has approved credit to Mongolia aimed at promoting employment worth USD 25 million. Using this loan, the country will implement job creation projects providing new opportunities for people to start and grow sustainable micro-enterprises.

Annual Model UNESCO Mongolia conference will be held on 18th of November. The conference is being organized by the United Nations Youth Advisory Panel in partnership with Mongolian National Commission for UNESCO and UNESCO Beijing Office.

The Mongolian under 19 football team has defeated Singapore 4:2 at a qualifying competition for Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-19 Championship. The young Mongolian footballers won their last match in the division on 8 November.

Earlier today, 9 November, the Mongolian State Great Khural (parliament) overruled the Presidential veto on the 2017 budget amendment. A total of 85 percent of the MP’s present in the chamber backed the decision of the two standing committees to reject the veto. President Kh.Battulga fully vetoed amendments to the bills on the 2017 State Budget and the Social Insurance Fund which had been approved by parliament.

Mongolian peacekeepers under the command of Lt. Col. B.Chinzorig who have returned from Afghanistan, have been awarded state orders and medals. Over 100 Mongolian troops from the fifth deployment participated in NATO’s ‘Decisive Support’ in Afghanistan.

The Mongolian Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports has confirmed that the teachers will receive the one-off bonus of MNT 516 thousand, being proposed by the government. The bonus is not only for the teachers but for everyone in the educational sector

Invalid children have demonstrated with their parents and teachers outside the demolished building of their old kindergarten. The protest consisting of wheelchair-bound children aged two to six years of age took place earlier today (9 November) at the spot where Ulaanbaatar’s10th special kindergarten had once stood. In temperatures of -5 C, the parents, teachers and children demanded that the Mongolian Government includes a new kindergarten in the 2018 State Budget.

Mongolian Prime Minister U.Khurelsukh, has held a meeting at State House with Aisholpan Nurgaiv, a 11th grade schoolgirl from the Zaiyed School in Bayan-Ulgii province – better known as the ‘Eagle Huntress’. Aisholpan starred in a documentary film of that name about a young girl from an ethnic Kazakh family of twelve generations of eagle hunters, who against all odds continues the age old tradition.