After weeks of uncertainty, it’s now a done deal: The Philadelphia Orchestra will, indeed, touch down June 2nd at Mongolia’s Genghis Khan International Airport as part of its Asian tour, which starts Tuesday. But in the midst of that country’s bankruptcy crisis, only about one-fifth of the group — 18 musicians — will take the Mongolian leg of a tour that’s full of promising new beginnings and disappointing might-have-beens.

Russia’s rail monopoly RZD says that using Mongolia rather than Kazakhstan for transshipment of China-Europe rail cargo could save shippers 15 to 20 percent of their current costs.

The Mongolian Parliament has approved the first ever legal action for the younger generation – the Law on Youth Development.

The River Bulgan which is located in Khovd Aimag in the west of Mongolia, has flooded as a result of snow melt water from the Altai Mountains.

Young artists from ‘Mongol Content’ LLC are creating Mongolia’s first ever animation series in the framework of ‘Maamuu’ national project. Four series of the ‘Maamuu’ animations have been created with a sign language explanation for children with impaired hearing.

The Mongolian Tourism Development Centre signed a memorandum of cooperation with South Korea in Wonju city on 16th of May.

A team of doctors from the Third State Central Hospital, the National Centre for Maternal and Child Health of Mongolia and the Sondra Eye Hospital has performed eye lens transplant surgery on an eight-year-old boy.

Mongolia is to host the East Asian Men’s Volleyball Championship from 20th to 26th of May.

In a bid to encourage the general public to donate blood, the Ulaanbaatar City Administration has decided to issue free bus passes to those who do so regularly, officials said.

The Mongolian General Election Committee has just registered S.Ganbaatar from the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP) as candidate for the upcoming Mongolian presidential election.