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US city declares Friday as Mongolian Day

Dayton Mayor Jeffrey J. Mims will honor Dayton Flyers freshman guard Mike Sharavjamts by declaring Friday as Mongolian Day in the city.

Sharavjamts, the first Mongolian citizen to play Division I men’s college basketball, has started 20 games this season and appeared in all

Mongolian Search and Rescue Team heads to Turkey

Today (8 February), Mongolian Search & Rescue Team headed by the Deputy chief of National Emergency Management Agency, Brigadier-General B.Uuganbayar, his rescue team of 35 search and rescue specialists and two search dogs called Marta and Balu headed to Turkey

Five Mongolian operations in the fight against corruption

Prime Minister of Mongolia, L.Oyun-Erdene declared 2023 as the year of fighting against corruption. Mongolia fell six places in the corruption index where the country of 3.4 million placed in the 116th out of 180 countries, according to the 2023

MIAT could soon fly to United States

Back in 2019, Mongolia’s national airline, MIAT Mongolian, began the process of filing with the Department of Transportation (DOT) for launching flights to the United States. While plans for this were announced a few years ago, the reason this hasn’t

Mongolian court extends ex head of Erdenes-Tavantolgoi jail time by a month

Chingiltei District Court has granted a request to extend imprisonment of B.Gankuyag, ex-chief executive of Erdenes-Tavantolgoi JSC, for a month. 

On 8 December,  B.Gankhuyag  and several associates as well as family members have been arrested and await trial, accused of embezzling billions

Mongolia sending a rescue team and offers of aid

On Monday (6 February), a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey and Syria, killing more than 4,000 people.

President of Mongolia U.Khurelsukh sent a message of condolence to the President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “At this distressing

Mongolia plans to open casino for attracting tourists

In order to diversify and expand economy, Mongolia has renewed attempt to open the country’s first casino in more than two decades. A bill to legalise casinos, betting, lotteries and horse racing was submitted to Parliament in December and is making

Mongolia to launch direct flights with 6 countries

Mongolia announced 2023 as an “Year of Visit to Mongolia” for supporting tourism sector. As part of the campaign, a meeting with representatives of the tourism industry organized on 6 February.

Mongolia plans to reach 1.5 million air passengers this year

Pope Francis hopes to go to Mongolia in September

On Sunday (5 February), Pope Francis said that he expected to continue travelling despite his knee ailment, joking that “weeds never die” and adding that he hoped to go to Mongolia in September. The trip would be the first ever

More than 233,000 heads of livestock killed due to dzud

As of today (6 February), about 70 percent of the Mongolian territory has been covered with snow of up to 60 cm thick.

The condition increases the risk of extreme wintry weather — known as “dzud”, reported the country’s Ministry of

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