Russian oil giant Transneft is eyeing Mongolia as a possible transit shortcut for crude oil supplies to China. The current Kazakhstan route could lose Russia up to $2.6 billion a year in export levy.Transneft is looking for new efficient ways

The Directors Board of state owned airlines, MIAT, held a meeting on Thursday March 28th to discuss the delay in Moscow on March 24th of the Berlin-Moscow-Ulaanbaatar flight ОМ136. During the meeting issues of responsibility failure and the flight delay

Chingeltei Distrcit Court will review the case of former hip hop singer Baavar, or Sh.Batbayar, who is suspected of narcotic possession and sale, at 01.00 pm on April 2nd. The trial had been scheduled to take place in March but

A month long campaign under the title of Let`s Make Participation for Action for the Disabled is to begin tomorrow. As a part of the opening ceremony of the campaign there will be a parade of 1000 people from the

Prime Minister Norov Altankhuyag gave the order to intensify construction work to extend the bottleneck transportation load at Zamiin-Uud border crossing and to complete the customs control complex. It is designed to pass trucks through a 2.3 km customs control

The National Emergency Management Agency received a report on Sunday that large amounts of mercury had leaked near wells of 2nd sub-station in Erdenebulgan sum in Arkhangai aimag. State Emergency staff and a working group inspected a tank that had

Mongolian Prime Minister, Norov Altankhuyag, welcomed the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday March 30th. At the beginning of the official visit the Prime Ministers of the two countries held a tete-a-tete  as well as official discussions. The Prime

Re-polling for the Parliamentary Election in 23rd electoral district will run in Songinokhairkhan district on Saturday March 13th. Citizens in Songinokhairkhan district will vote for one of the candidates Dorlgorsuren Sumiyabazar DP or Lombo Erkhembayar as their representative in Parliament.

Local police revealed that an Irkutskii trade house in Bayanzurkh district in Ulaanbaatar city was a place of prostitution. Irkutskii trade house, a subsidiary of Russian house LLC, a 100 percent Russian owned company in the area of 14th khoroo,

The board of Mongolia’s Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine agreed to continue funding the project through April, Mining Minister Davaajav Gankhuyag said in a mobile-phone text message.The mine, 66 percent-owned by Rio Tinto Group (RIO) and 34 percent-owned by