Mongolia-focused explorer Petro Matad has firmed up a drilling contract with Sinopec Mongolia as it prepares to drill two wells.

Designers at the ‘Bat Zuu’ company have sewed a 14m long and 18 m wide ‘Hunnu’ deel – the size of a six-story building. For three months, over 50 designers have been working on the world’s biggest deel.

According to the Mongolian National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), minor earthquakes were felt in the South Gobi (Umnugobi) and Bayankhongor provinces yesterday (4th of July).

The Mongolian Cabinet has decided to make the ‘Child Money’ programme available to every child, and to compensate those who have not received the allowance. The ‘Child Money’ programme is a monthly allocation of MNT 20,000 to every child.

The 8th Consultation Meeting on trade and investment between the governments and enterprises of Japan and Mongolia took place in Ulaanbaatar on 4th of July.

Voters residing abroad are casting their votes on 4th and 5th of July. Mongolia has registered a total of 7209 expat voters via 45 sub-commissions in 33 countries; 1629 are in South Korea and 1011 are in USA.

According to statistics, Mongolia’s foreign trade turnover reached USD 4 billion during the period from January to May of 2017.

Mongolian correction officials have announced new sentencing rules aimed at separating criminal and economic offenders; the new rules will also lighten punishment.

During the second polling of Mongolian Presidential Election, the sale of alcohol as well as public events are to be banned by decree of the mayor of Ulaanbaatar.

Twenty-two young Mongolian officials will receive JDS scholarships to study on master and doctoral programmes in Japan this year.