The Mongolian National League basketball competition among teams from the 21 provinces has been taking place in Ulaanbaatar since October.

Tens of thousands of nomadic herders in Mongolia face hunger and the loss of their livelihoods, the Red Cross warned on Thursday, as temperatures plummet and heavy snow blankets much of the country for a second straight winter.

Mongolian Foreign Minister Ts.Munkh-Orgil will visit Beijing on 20th-21st of February at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart, Mr Wang Yi.

Mongolian Prime Minister J.Erdenebat received Sergey Levchenko, governor of Russia’s Irkutsk Oblast (region) at Government House earlier today (16th of February).

The National Museum of Mongolia is presenting an archaeological exhibition entitled ‘Fourth Display of New Finds’. The exhibition opened on 15th of February.

A total of 61 million livestock have been enduring an extra harsh winter in Mongolia.

The ‘Cinema for Peace’ awards ceremony is part of the Berlin Film Festival, which is being held on 13-19th of February.

According to an inter-governmental agreement, the Mongolia-Chinese border crossings will be closed from 27th of February to 1st of March for the traditional spring festival ‘Tsagaan Sar’ (White Moon).

Based on the statistics released by the National Centre for Communicable Diseases, there have been a total of 229 cases of HIV/AIDS since the first HIV case was reported in Mongolia 25 years ago.

Viktoria Raidos, winner of the 16th season of Russia’s “Battle of the Psychics” TV show, will visit Mongolia on 3rd of March. She came to Mongolia for the first time last year.