The story of ‘Eagle Huntress’ or Aisholpan Nurgaiv will inspire thousands of children worldwide. The young Mongolian Kazakh girl is considered as one of the 100 most extraordinary women and her story has been included in the children’s book ‘Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls’.

G.Gantumur, director of the Mongolian Agency for Standardisation and Metrology is under suspicion of embezzlement and the abuse of power.

Mongolia is implementing several projects targeted at using renewable energy. Several plants have already been put into operation including the 50 MW ‘Tsetsii’ wind farm in Tsogttsetii Soum of Umnugobi Aimag and a 10 MW solar power plant in Khongor Soum of Darkhan-Uul Aimag.

Mongolia is constructing a new international airport to the south of the capital Ulaanbaatar. The new airport will provide better safety and reliability, good links to the city and will contribute to the economic development of Mongolia.

The Government of Japan has agreed to give a JPY 32 billion soft loan to Mongolia.

Mongolian students have dominated the 2017 World Memory Championship which was held in the Indonesian capital Jakarta from 1-3 December. The competition was organized by IAM (International Association of Memory).

An intergovernmental meeting of UNESCO has officially listed the ritual of hill worship as a Mongolian Intangible Cultural Heritage. The meeting is currently being held on South Korea’s Jeju Island, from 4-9 December.

However, on Tuesday (5 December) the European Union published its first blacklist of tax havens, naming 17 territories including Mongolia.

As of November 2017, a total of 469 people have been killed in road traffic accidents in our country which has a population of only three million.

Mongolian President Kh.Battulga, is expected to visit China in 2018. According to Foreign Minister D.Tsogtbaatar, the president will visit Beijing to coincide with a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).