Overview

• Parliament’s State Structure Standing Committee opened debate on dismissing the prime minister, then adjourned until Monday at 11:00 to allow party groups to consolidate positions, the committee chair said.
• Ulaanbaatar’s mayor inspected Tuul River outfalls and ordered roughly 80 high‑impact firms to install pre‑treatment, warning noncompliant companies will lose municipal clean‑water supply and sewage services starting in 2027.
• City plans include commissioning a new 250,000 m3/day wastewater plant, advancing a sludge‑to‑energy project with construction targeted to begin in 2026, and routing half of treated gray water to industry under an MCC facility.
• Mongolia and Oman agreed to draft an environment cooperation memorandum for presentation and signing at UNEA‑7 in December, with joint work on water quality, integrated land and water management, and desertification; technical teams are meeting during the IUCN congress in Abu Dhabi.
• At the JEF‑2025 forum, media and technology leaders stressed AI’s ethical challenges for journalism, as local firm Bolorsoft promoted its Mongolian‑language Egüne Chat AI for broader use.