The Government of Mongolia and the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in collaboration with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, UN-ISDR) will host the ISDR Asia Partnership (IAP) meeting in Ulaanbaatar on 4th-5th of April.

According to Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi LLC, Mongolia’s debt to the ’Aluminum Corporation of China’, better known as CHALCO, has finally been extinguished. 

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is considering lending up to USD 30 million (EUR 28m) for the construction of the 55-MW Sainshand wind park in Mongolia’s Gobi desert.

Ulaanbaatar Mayor S.Batbold, has announced that the operation of a quarry next to the River Tuul is to cease. The ban comes into immediate force from  today (29th of March).

The Mongolian Great State Khural (parliament) approved a ’Law on Deliberative Polling’ during the autumn session. In this connection, Ts.Tsolmon, State Secretary of the Office of Parliament has met Professor James S. Fishkin, director of Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy to discuss an agenda for implementing the law.

D.Zagdsuren has been reelected as Mongolia’s NOC president at the committee’s seventh elective congress in the country’s capital Ulaanbaatar.

The Speaker of the Mongolian Parliament, M.Enkhbold, is currently on an official trip to Japan. Yesterday, 28th of March, Mr Enkhbold had a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Taiwan’s first library taking the form of a Mongolian yurt was inaugurated on Saturday on the 11th floor of the National Immigration Agency (NIA) building in Taipei, allowing second-generation Mongolian children to enjoy the experience of reading Mongolian books in a yurt (ger).

The Mongolia Ministry of Finance and the World Bank have launched an Export Development Project aimed to help small- and medium-sized enterprises(SME’s) in the non-minerals sectors, to strengthen their export capacity and boost their access to export markets.

The United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) has reported that Mongolian peacekeepers in Bentiu have saved the lives of domestic refugees during a kidnap attempt.