Newspaper advertising published in the United States last week calls on the U.S. government to cut off aid to Mongolia unless the Mongolian government acts to “eliminate corruption and protect private property.”

The First International Festival of Morin Khuur will be organized by the Mongolian State Philharmonic, the Morin Khuur Ensemble, and the Cultural and Scientific Foundation for the Mongol Race on 4-7, May in the city of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

Mongolian dust has spread across the Pacific Ocean and can be seen in the skies of Alaska. The dust from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, coupled with smoke from raging Russian wildfires, have caused a whitish-yellow haze stretching east from China and Russia into south central Alaska.

Details of the sumo-wrestling exhibition tournament to be held in Ulaanbaatar later this year were announced by organizers this week. The Japan Sumo Association last year announced that Mongolia would host the tournament, which is rarely held outside of Japan, from August 26-29.

Despite being a “low prevalence” country in HIV/AIDS figures, the problem still remains in Mongolia
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Parliament last week (April 17) started initial discussions of the draft amendments to the minerals law in a meeting held behind closed doors for “national security reasons.”