Overview
- Parliament voted to send the revised Family Law and a bill on adjudicating family cases to initial committee review, a step that includes plans for specialized family and child courts and stricter child‑support enforcement.
- The meteorological service forecast snow, blizzards and strong winds from Dec. 6–11 with severe cold across multiple regions, while Ulaanbaatar faces subzero conditions and intermittent snowfall.
- The Education Ministry ordered grades 6–9 at public and private schools in Ulaanbaatar to study online from Dec. 8–12 due to influenza trends, as grades 1–5 continue in person.
- Air‑quality monitors showed widespread pollution across Ulaanbaatar on Dec. 6, and the mayor said long‑term solutions require relocating households and accelerating housing redevelopment, including projects that transfer units to the city housing corporation.
- Parliament’s speaker met the central bank and lenders on easing pensioners’ debt, and Mongolbank said its Monetary Policy Committee will consider extending 18‑month pension loans to 36 months at its Dec. 11 meeting.