Mongolian Airlines (MIAT) has concluded a leasing agreement with the Boeing Company in assistance with Avolon Aerospace Leasing Limited regarding two Boeing 737 MAX 8 airpcraft. The national carrier is to lease the two Boeing aircraft for 12 years starting from 2019.

The Cabinet submitted amendments to the 2017 state budget to Parliament on Friday that include increased taxes on income and imports.

The Earth Hour event first took place in Sydney in 2007 with some two million people switching off their lights.

The Kenya Banking Association (KBA) amd the Mongolian Bankers Association (MBA), members of the IFC-supported Sustainable Banking Network (SBN), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to advance environmental and social risk management and sustainable financing practices for the Kenyan and Mongolian banking sector.

A new rail route to transport coal from Olon-Ovoo station in the Dornogobi province to China’s port city of Tianjin started operation on 23rd of March. Tianjin is the closest sea port to Mongolia’s southern border and the most important logistics hub in the north of China.

S.Batbold, the Mayor of Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia started his European working by visiting Warsaw on 22nd of March. In the Polish capital, S.Batbold discussed cooperation between two cities with Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz.

Mongolia’s new international airport currently under construction 60 kilometers from Ulaanbaatar at Khushigt Valley in Sergelen soum of Tuv Province is nearing completion.

Nearly 30 Mongolians have been protesting outside the building of the Czech Embassy to Ulaanbaatar over visa requirements.

The Mongolia government has jointly announced with the IMF that it will implement the politically difficult – but inevitable – rescue package, and avoid becoming a delinquent international debtor.

A Mongolian girl, a member of ‘Circus Mongolia’ has died in the United States. According to an unofficial source, the girl, who is a contortionist might have been killed by someone.