An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff team led by Mr. Geoff Gottlieb visited Ulaanbaatar from January 24 to February 6, to conduct discussions on the third review of the three-year Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement approved on May 24, 2017, in an amount equivalent to about USD 434.3 million.

The Standing Justice Committee has backed a draft resolution about receiving asylum seekers from 2018-2020.

The annual Ulaanbaatar winter festival took place in the National Park over the weekend. The festival was organised by the city administration in cooperation with the Ulaanbaatar tourism department.

Turkey has been pursuing a world-wide campaign to shut down schools linked to exiled Turkish cleric Fetullah Gulen. To date, around 1,000 private schools linked to his organisation have been closed.

A woman in her 40’s hit eleven vehicles on the road behind of the Children’s Palace on Monday in central Ulaanbaatar.

The Mongolian national football team will play two friendly matches in March. These will be against Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur on 22 March.

D.Tsogtbaatar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia is to make an official visit to Pyongyang on 3-6 February at the invitation of his North Korean counterpart Ri Yong-ho.

Cancer is second leading cause of death in Mongolia; at present one in five people die of cancer. According to a specialist: ‘the high rate of cancer fatality is caused by late diagnoses. 76 percent of patients are being diagnosed in the fourth stage cancer’.

The parliamentary group of the opposition Mongolian Democratic Party demonstrated against the government and the cabinet during the Thursday session of parliament with slogans.

Mongolia has 66 million livestock; however, there is a lack of leather and meat processing factories.