NEWS.MN, Mongolia’s first private media website, has won first place in a journalism contest entitled ‘Public Participation on Decreasing Air-Pollution’. The award was handed on 19 May at the Ministry of Environment and Tourism. Reporter E.Oyun-Erdene from Eagle TV won

Earlier today (20 May), Mongolians stranded in South Korea demonstrated outside its Foreign Ministry. Elderly people and those with disabilities participated in the peaceful demonstration; for various reasons, such as financial difficulties, they have been unable to secure places on

“The peoples of the United Nations have (…) reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress

Mongolia has put some 5000 people under observation for symptoms of COVID-19 and quarantined 283 suspected as having the virus since 6 January. Fortunately, over 80 percent of them have been confirmed as having respiratory disease, but not coronavirus.

Currently, some

Until the coronavirus pandemic hit, the Mongolian contortionist A.Uranbileg wowed spectators nightly at Cirque du Soleil shows on a cruise ship, contorting her body into a ball and balancing on a vertical stick held in her mouth.

For the past 50

The cost of expanding Rio Tinto’s Mongolian copper project could be cut by almost USD 1 billion under a surprise Mongolian government plan that could increase the host nation’s long-term influence over Rio and the project.

The Mongolian government has told

For years, it seemed that cashmere production simply wouldn’t be able to keep up with exploding demand. The expansion of luxury groups and the fine knits purveyors nearly caused the supply chain to buckle. But now, in a pandemic-stricken economy,

In Ulaanbaatar, there are some 540 private kindergartens where 5500 teachers work and over 40,000 children attend. Earlier today (19 May), teachers from these institutions demonstrated outside of Finance Ministry of Mongolia protesting against the halt in financing and for

A working group from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) held an online meeting with Mongolian government officials on 11-13 May. During the discussion, Mongolia requested emergency financial assistance under the Rapid Financing Instrument (RFI) to meet urgent payments of the

More than 130,000 Mongolians have returned home since 26 January; over 3000 of them were evacuated on the 15 charter flights and the remaining 5007 by trains or buses.

Last week, Mongolia evacuated 1070 of its nationals from Russia, Turkey and