On Wednesday, the Mongolian government approved a plan to build the country’s first oil refinery in its southeastern Dornogovi Province. Construction is scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2018.

Kh.Battulga, President of Mongolia will continue his direct meetings with the public – this time in the countryside. President Battulga is expected to visit the Khentii, Dornod, Sukhbaatar and Gobisumber aimags (provinces) from 24-28 January.

Teachers from the Mongolian School for the Blind and Visually Impaired are to be trained in Poland. The issue was discussed during a meeting between Ts.Tsogzolmaa, Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Sports and H.E. Michael Labenda, the Polish Ambassador to Ulaanbaatar.

During his visit in Hanoi, the Speaker of the Mongolian Parliament M.Enkhbold has met with Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang. The meeting took place on Monday 22 January.

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.