2021-03-15 17:23:33
Ulaanbaatar
/MONTSAME/. State Great Hural (Parliament) of Mongolia opened its regular
spring session of 2021 today.
In his opening speech,
Speaker of the State Great Hural G.Zandanshatar stressed that the package law on Courts
was the major legal document approved by the State Great Hural in the autumn
session of 2020 which aimed at reviving the amendments to the Constitution and
ensuring demand for social justice. He noted that when the law came into
force on January 1, the scandal surrounding the names of some court officials
was causing public outrage. This is a sign of the loss of independence of the
2021-03-15 15:52:44
Ulaanbaatar
/MONTSAME/ Today, on March 15, President of Mongolian National Olympic Committee (MNOC) N.Tuvshinbayar met with Governor of the Capital City D.Sumiyabazar,
exchanging views on issues related to hosting the 2
nd East Asian Youth Games in Ulaanbaatar city in 2023.
According
to an official request by the MNOC, Governor of the Capital City D.Sumiyabazar has
been appointed as the President of Organizing Committee of the 2023 Ulaanbaatar
East Asian Youth Games.
A tripartite
agreement was signed by the MNOC, Municipality of Ulaanbaatar City and East Asian
Olympic Committee on July 29, 2017 in Taichung, Taiwan, officially agreeing to
host the second edition of the East Asian Youth Games in Ulaanbaatar, the
2021-03-15 16:03:27
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Minister of Road and Transport
Development L.Khaltar discussed bilateral road and transport relations and
cooperation with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic
of Kazakhstan to Mongolia Zhalgas Adilbayev during a virtual meeting.
Minister L.Khaltar voiced hope that the important road and
transport development works discussed at the 8th meeting of Mongolia-Kazakhstan
Intergovernmental Commission for trade, economic, scientific, technical and
cultural cooperation will be carried out through effective cooperation. The
Minister expressed an interest in actively cooperating in the establishment of a transport-logistics
center and in the study of Mongolia-Russia-Kazakhstan railroad once
international traffic resumes.
2021-03-14 12:04:21
Ulaanbaatar
/MONTSAME/ At 11 a.m., March 14, the Ministry of Health provided updates on
coronavirus situation in Mongolia.
According
to the Ministry, 128 people were detected with coronavirus after involving
17,894 people in PCR testing nationwide in the past 24 hours.
Of the
cases, 127 were confirmed in Ulaanbaatar city and one person, who arrived on a charter
flight from Budapest on March 4, was tested positive by repeated test. Thus, the
number of imported cases of COVID-19 has reached 423.
122 of the
confirmed cases were close contacts of the previously confirmed cases while surveillance
work is underway to define infection sources for 5 people.
Mongolia
2021-03-13 12:07:02
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. The daily COVID-19 press briefing by the Ministry of Health for March 13, Saturday, reported that a total of 169 new coronavirus cases were confirmed in the past 24 hours. Some 19,318 COVID-19 PCR tests were carried out at laboratories in health clinics of Ulaanbaatar city and rural aimags.
156 newly-confirmed patients are close contacts of previously reported coronavirus cases and had been taken under precautionary home-based or hospital isolation. Health officials are working to establish source of infection for 13 of the new cases in Ulaanbaatar city, according to the Deputy Head of the National Center for Communicable Diseases E.Temuulen.