The annual Naadam Festival, the biggest celebration in Mongolia was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic in July.

However, the governors of three Mongolian provinces namely, Selenge, Khovd and Dornod announced that they will host horse races in August.

Entitled ‘Selenge Khurd

Japan has signed an agreement with Mongolia to extend 883 million yen (USD 8 million) in grant aid to help the country fight the coronavirus pandemic.

Under the agreement, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will provide Mongolia with cold chain

Today (3 August), Mongolia confirmed 1019 new cases of coronavirus: 220 in the capital Ulaanbaatar and 799 in the provinces. This indicated that Covid-19 infection is decreasing in Ulaanbaatar, but increasing across the rest of the country. Separately, four people

Mongolian Minister of Foreign Affairs B.Battsetseg arrived in Beijing yesterday for an official visit at the invitation of China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi. The two sides Tuesday have held talks in north China’s port city of Tianjin.

Mongolia’s Foreign Minister B.Battsetseg

The UK’s financial watchdog is conducting a probe into Rio Tinto and its late-running USD 6.75bn underground copper project in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert.

The Financial Conduct Authority is investigating whether the Anglo-Australian company breached listing rules in disclosures about the value

Saeid Mollaei, a former Iranian judoka now representing Mongolia, took home the silver medal in the men’s 81-kilogram division, losing the gold to Takanori Nagase of Japan.

It was the first Olympic medal for Mollaei, two years after he acquired Mongolian

A total of 78 people have been killed in 67 water-related accidents across Mongolia so far this year, the country’s National Emergency Management Agency said on Monday. Unfortunately, 17 of them were children.

According to the agency, 29 of them lost

A total of 782 people have died of Covid-19 in Mongolia since November, 2020, when the country of three million confirmed its first local transmission.

Earlier today (26 July), Mongolia’s Health Ministry reported that eight people aged between 21 and above

Mongolia’s Prime Minister has congratulated M.Urantsetseg on winning her first Olympic medal – special addition to a collection that already includes 4 world medals. She won the bronze medal in the 48 kg categories of the judo competition of the

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 struck northern Mongolia on Thursday morning, according the country’s Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics.

The quake happened about 49 km south of Yeruu Soum (administrative subdivision) of Selenge Province at 9:12 a.m. local time