According to statistics, a total of 27 percent of Mongolian population are smokers.

Mongolian Health Minister A.Tsogtsetseg has held a meeting with Xing Haiming, Ambassador of China to Ulaanbaatar in order to discuss continued cooperation in the medical sector.

A South Korean delegation from the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office has just concluded a four-day mission to Ulaanbaatar for a joint project combating drug addiction with the Mongolian Police Department.

On Thursday night (13th of April), the Mongolian State Great Khural (parliament) approved amendments to the 2017 state budget these  include increased taxes on income and imports.

According to the press release of the government of Taiwan, ROC, “Reporters Without Borders” will open its first Asian bureau in Taipei.

South Gobi (Umnugobi) province of Mongolia has been cooperating with the Alsha province of Inner Mongolia, which is part of China. Since 2004, the two provinces have been developing cooperation in health, education, culture, agriculture and farming.

L.Battulga, Ambassador of Mongolia presented his credentials to Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of Kazakhstan on 11th of April.

The 7th Global Coking Coal Resource & Market Summit was held in Beijing from 6th to 7th April. Mongolian mining companies namely, ‘Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi JSC’ (Erdenes TT), MAK, MonEnko  participated in the event.

On 10th of April, Ts.Munkh-Orgil, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia, discussed the issue of granting multiple-entry visas for Mongolians who were previous visa-free-entrants with U Sung, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea to Mongolia.

The Mongolian Ministry of Energy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Poh Golden Ger Resources Pte Ltd, which is the Mongolian subsidiary of Singapore’s ”Poh Group Pte”, for coal aerification and power generation.