According to an inter-governmental agreement, the Mongolia-Chinese border crossings will be closed on 30th of May for the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival and 1st of June for Mongolian Children’s Day.

Opening a major United Nations conference on risk reduction in Cancun, Mexico, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed cautioned that the world would not reach its development goals without tackling climate change and disaster risk reduction.

N.Enkhbold, Parliamentary Speaker and leader of the Mongolian People’s Party (MPP) has received various foreign delegates who are participating in the fourth conference of the Progressive Alliance.

A threatening phone message was has been repeatedly sent to E.Anar, son of Mongolian Parliamentary Speaker M.Enkhbold.

As Mongolian high school students take their final exams this month, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports is facing a wave of criticism after copies of a maths test for 12th grade students — and the answers — were leaked by an official.

The plenary session meeting of the State Great Khural (parliament) brought into the discussion the issue of dismissing some ambassadors and appointed new ones to represent Mongolia in foreign countries.

An Open Door Day was organised by the Ministry of Road and Transport Development on Ulaanbaatar’s Sukhbaatar Square on 24th and 25th of May.

Mongolian Foreign Minister Ts.Munkh-Orgil will make an official visit to the USA in June.

‘Naadam’, Mongolia’s biggest annual national festival will take place from 10th to 13th of July.

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved a three-year extended arrangement under Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for Mongolia in a total amount of the Special Drawing Right (SDR) 314.5054 million (about US$434.3 million, or 435 percent of quota) to support the country’s economic reform program.