A Mongolian film entitled “Eleg Negten” (The Third Eye of God) has won the Best Direction Award as a foreign film at the Navi Mumbai International Film Festival (NMIFF).

On 3rd of February, J.Erdenebat, Prime Minister of Mongolia received Tatiana Valovaya, the Minister of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) responsible for integration and macroeconomics, at Government House.

The International Judo Federation has awarded all 14 judokas who ended 2016 as world leaders with an extra USD 50,000 each in prize money.

Mongolia was visited by 404,000 tourists in 2016; 153 thousand of them from China.

At the end of last year, representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) visited the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar, to evaluate the state of the economy and conduct meetings with the government.

The Law to Combat Domestic Violence was approved by the Mongolian Parliament in December. The law identifies domestic violence as a crime and came into effect on 1st of January.

Mongolia has been paying off its USD 350 million debt to the Chinese aluminum company (CHALCO) in the form of all its deliveries of coal from the East Tsankhi section of the Tavan Tolgoi deposit.

Mongolia faces hefty debt repayments beginning in March, when payback time for a $580 million bond issued by the Development Bank of Mongolia comes around.

he Mongolian Tugrik is, day by day, is firmly rising against the US dollar. Today, (1st of February) at the ‘Naiman Sharga’ currency exchange, the Mongolian tugrik stood at MNT 2455 against the US dollar.

A Mongolian student was shot and killed in Canada last week.