Mongolia and Italy signed a Memorandum on Cooperation in Maritime Transport, Seaport Access and Logistics on December 6 in Geneva. The memorandum was signed by Ambassador of Mongolia to Italy Ts.Jambaldorj and Paolo Emilio Signorini, President of the Port Authority of Genoa and Savona.

Japan’s ABEMA TV made a great offer of JPY 10 million to anyone who can defeat former Mongolian sumo wrestler ‘Asashoryu’ D.Davgadorj.

The Parliamentary Budgetary Standing Committee held a meeting on Tuesday (12 December) to discuss the draft 2018 audit bill.

Mongol HD TV has successfully aired a show called the “Shark Tank” where entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to a panel of investors.

With a long swan-like neck, flipper-like arms and long predatory talons, researchers say a newly discovered dinosaur species found in Mongolia could swim like a penguin and walk on land like a duck, Radio New Zealand reports.

D.Sumyabazar, Mongolia’s Minister of Mining and Heavy Industries visited the Gashuun Sukhait border crossing where custom workers are having difficulty coping with the daily 130 kilometers long queue of coal trucks bound for China.

Ulaanbaatar Railway has unveiled its first ever express train travel on the route from the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar to Ulan-Ude, the capital city of the Russian Republic of Buryatia and from there to Irkutsk in Siberia, passing Lake Baikal en route.

Earlier today (12 December), the Mongolian National Statistical Office (NSO) issued the 2017 social and economic index data. According to the statistics, a total of 606.3 thousand employees from 38 thousand enterprises paid social security and health taxes.

A herd of Mongolian gazelles has returned to Uvs Provice, in the western part of Mongolia after sixty years. The animals have migrated from the Khom steppe of neighbouring Zavkhan Province.

Two fractions of the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP) held separate congresses at the weekend (9-10 December).