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Six people including two children die in car crash

A car crash killed six people in western Mongolia, according to a press release from the country’s traffic police on Friday (7 Aug). The accident occurred on Thursday evening when the car hit the welcoming gate for the Nogoonnuur Soum

A home for the new Mongolian Ministry of Culture

One of the major administrative decisions taken by the Mongolian Cabinet, following the recent election, has been the established of a Ministry of Culture. The decision was taken on 16 July. The Ministry of Culture has been formed from the

Bubonic Plague in Mongolia: 12 dead marmots seized in Khuvsgul

Police in northern Mongolia have seized 12 dead marmots from a vehicle, which could have spread the deadly bubonic plague, the country’s Ecological Police Department said on Wednesday.

The dead animals were found on Tuesday in a vehicle in the Tarialan

Mongolian man arrested for killing endangered deer

The Mongolian police have arrested a man under suspected of illegally hunting an endangered red deer, the country’s Ecological Police Department said on Wednesday.

The man was arrested on Tuesday evening while transporting the meat, skin and horns of a red

UB-Darkhan Highway will not open this year

Mongolia’s busiest road, connecting the capital city of Ulaanbaatar with the third largest municipality of Darkhan, will not be opened this year. The modernisation work on the 202-kilometer highway started in June, 2019. According to Minister of Road and Transport

14 Mongolian peacekeepers recover from COVID-19

Earlier today (5 August), 14 peacekeepers were discharged from the National Centre for Communicative Diseases after having fully recovered from the coronavirus infection.  Mongolia repatriated 62 peacekeepers from Afghanistan on 12-14 July after some of them had contacted coronavirus. Therefore,

Mongolia isolates some 17,000 people for coronavirus observations

Last week, Mongolia repatriated a total of 1221 of its nationals with five charter flights; 43 of these passengers have been taken for observation to the Central Military Hospital, 12 people have isolated in the National Centre for Communicative Diseases