Overview
- - The State Election Commission drafted changes to the presidential election law to widen participation, including allowing overseas citizens to vote without prior registration, introducing pre‑voting for those unavailable on election day, and enabling out‑of‑district voting for people away from their home precincts.
- - Ulaanbaatar opened the Shinesaran temporary protection center on March 10 with capacity for 40 people, providing rights‑based psychological, legal and health services and accessibility features, developed with Asian Development Bank support and assistance from Japan.
- - Prime Minister G. Zandanshatar, visiting the General Staff, said the cabinet will phase in higher social guarantees for service members, consider adding more units to the official “remote” list, back housing solutions for about 2,300 personnel renting homes, and move proposals to raise pay for cyber and special forces and update the salary grid.
- - Registration for the 2026 Student Soldier program closed March 10 after offering 13 military specialties and expanded eligibility to first‑ through third‑year students, with a 2,000‑participant quota this year and more than 10,000 students having joined since 2014.
- - Ulaanbaatar will continue reserved meat sales through May 31 at 375 outlets, pricing beef at 15,000₮/kg and mutton at 13,000₮/kg, with 5,000 tons stocked and expanded twice‑weekly market days planned to reach target consumers.