European Union finance ministers agreed on Tuesday to remove eight jurisdictions, including Mongolia, from the EU blacklist of tax havens, one month after the list was set up.

A Mongolian delegation led by Foreign Affairs Minister D.Tsogtbaatar is attending the 48th World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The event is being held from 23 to 26 January. The delegates include Mining and Heavy Industry Minister D.Sumiyabazar and other senior officials.

Fifteen Mongolian children aged 12 to 15 arrived on the slopes of the Vallée De Joux for two weeks of training and a competition venue for the upcoming Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Lausanne in 2020. They will do same in 2019, in the hope of being picked for the eight-strong Mongolian cross-country skiing team.

During a regular session on Wednesday, the Mongolian cabinet proposed to abolish excise taxes on some petrol imports.

The Ulaanbaatar Winter Festival 2018 is to be held at the National Garden Park on 3-4 February.

Mongolian Immigration Service officers have been working in three soums (districts) of the South Gobi (Umnugobi) province to check the papers of foreign nationals and enterprises.

The construction of a new railway from Erdenet to the Ovoot mining complex is expected to start next year. The issue was discussed during a meeting between J.Bat-Erdene, Minister of Road and Transport Development with representatives of ‘Northern Railways’ LLC, which is the project contractor.

The National Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring Agency warned that night-time temperatures in some provinces of Mongolia are expected to fall to -51C in the period up to 28 January.

Mongolia was rated as ‘free’ with an aggregate score of 85 out of 100 in the latest Freedom in the World 2018 annual report released by the non-governmental organization Freedom House.

A British-Australian citizen jailed for 11 years in Mongolia over a soured mining deal has taken his case to the United Nations human rights council claiming he was denied a fair trial.