Deputy Prime Minister U.Enkhtuvshin received H.E.Suresh Babu, India’s Ambassador to Mongolia earlier today (14 November). During the meeting, the two sides discussed the construction of Mongolia’s oil refinery, direct flights between the two counties as well as an Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction to be held in Ulaanbaatar in 2018.

Mongolia’s 160.9 thousand herding households and their 66.6 million head of livestock are bracing for what is expected to be another tough winter.

The Mongolian People’s Party (MPP) is to appoint a new leader. The selection will be made at a party congress to be held on 21-22 November.

In the 2018 state budget, the Mongolian government is expecting tax revenue to increase by 607 billion MNT or 10.7 percent compared to the total expected revenue in 2017.

A national forum on ‘Sustainable Development-Statistics’ opened today (13 November) at the State House. The two day event is being organised by the National Statistical Office, the State Great Khural or Mongolian parliament in cooperation with the Word Bank.

The Mongolian Nuclear Energy Committee met earlier today (13 November). During the meeting, some new regulations regarding the radiation measurement safety code were approved.

The Permanent Committee of Preventing Earthquake Disasters held a meeting at the State House on 13 November. According to the study, over 1000 seismic tremours were registered in Mongolia during the first ten months of 2017.

A team of talented young Mongolian mathematicians returned home today, after having performed very well at the International Teenagers Mathematics Olympiad (ITMO), which has taken place in the Philippines.

The Mongolian National Olympic Committee has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Russian Olympic Committee.
The agreement was signed by Dr Demchigjav Zagdsuren and Alexander Zhukov, the respective presidents of the Mongolian and Russian Olympic Committees.

‘If you could date one famous Mongolian man – whom would you choose?’ was a post splashed on the ‘Pretty Women’ Facebook group.