As a step towards cutting air pollution, which is extremely serious in the capital, Ulaanbaatar, the Mongolian government has approved regulation to cut electricity night tariff for ger district households, where most of the harmful smoke is produced, to zero.

The National Museum of Mongolia is exhibiting some of the best artwork by Russian artist Nadya Rusheva (1952-69).

Mongolia drew attention after mandating banks for a proposed new dollar issue and tendering for its old USD and Renminbi 2018 bonds.

A team of South Korean archaeologists has found the mummy of a man wearing Chinese clothes in an unearthed tomb believed to date back about 2,000 years in western Mongolia, a state-run think tank said Monday.

The 25th anniversary concert of the Morin Khuur Ensemble will be held on 21st of October.

Since 2002, the Mongolian National Statistical Office (NSO) and the World Bank have engaged in extensive co-operation involving staff capacity building and jointly developing a methodology for studying household income expenditure, living standard surveys and poverty measurement.

President Kh.Battulga has formed a working group for restoring the death penalty in Mongolia. The decision to change the law came after the horrible news of the rape of a 5-year-old girl by her step-father broke this week. This tragic case has shocked the nation.

Khuvsgul provincial section of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has organised diving training in the waters of Mongolia’s deepest lake. During three days training, the ‘life-savers’ dived to up to a depth of 15 meters depth in Lake Khuvsgul.

The baby girl of Mongolian couple who was diagnosed with a hernia of the diaphragm under her lungs has been operated on successfully, thanks to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Centre.

Following a year of extreme weather, including a very severe winter followed by a drought, not to mention some severe flash flooding, Mongolia’s herders have suffered severely.