Overview
- Cabinet ordered a reorganization at Zamyn-Üüd with unified leadership across border and local agencies, rotation of customs officers to avert conflicts of interest, a review of free-zone land allocations, and financing to complete border housing.
- Parliament Speaker N. Uchral advanced the declared Child Protection Year by inspecting a key shelter, calling for unified management and standards, targeting March 1 to open a new 61-room facility once financing is finalized, and seeking to make the 107 hotline free while preparing a witness–victim protection law.
- Prime Minister G. Zandanshatar told police leaders that law enforcement must steer the clean-up drive, urging data- and tech-driven policing, tougher anti-narcotics efforts, improved staff retention and pay, and better victim compensation mechanisms.
- The government is updating disaster-protection plans nationwide as a $100 million ADB-backed resilience program proceeds, and Ulaanbaatar will install 15.1 km of stormwater drains at 12 sites in 2026 with a 12.6 billion MNT city budget.
- In parallel with a push to raise Mongolia–China trade to $20 billion in 2026 reaffirmed in talks with Beijing’s envoy, the Democratic Party says it has 32 MPs’ signatures to table a no-confidence motion, which it plans to press in the spring session.