The registration for the General Entrance Exam (GEE) for the 2020-2021 academic year started today (10 February) and will last until 6:00 pm on 15 April. Approximately 3,200 students are expected to take the GEE. Mongolian education officials have announced

The Mongolian National Emergency Commission decided on Monday (10 February) to suspend the Tsagaan Sar celebration. This came at the request of the health minister. According to law, the decision must be discussed by the National Security Council of Mongolia

Mongolia has quarantined all schools, universities and kindergartens until 2 March in order to prevent the spread of the highly infectious coronavirus. The move has had positive effect in reducing the seasonal flu outbreaks which has decreased across the country.

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According to custom officials, Mongolia imported 68.7 thousand face masks in January, 2020; this is an increase of 59.0 thousand on the same period previous year. This demand for masks is being driven by highly infectious coronavirus outbreak in China.

As of today (6 February), a total of seven people in addition to the students evacuated from Wuhan have been isolated at the Mongolian National Centre for Communicable Diseases (NCCD). Among them, an Australian man has been examined and isolated:

Spoons are known to have been used during the time of ancient Egypt, and the Shang dynasty as early as 4,000 years ago. We now know that ancient Mongolians used to make spoons out of bone at least 3,800 years

Earlier today (5 February), Mongolia evacuated more than 300 people from Erenhot, which is located in northern China. As we have reported, the government in Ulaanbaatar has closed border with its southern neighbour until 2 March, however, three buses evacuating

Recently, there has been great concern about the declining numbers of Mongolian Saiga antelopes. However, there is good news: the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has reported that the population of the animals reached 5074 in January 2020, representing