Mongolian Mining Corp. (975 HK): Mongolia's biggest closely held coking-coal producer said Chief Executive Officer Battsengel Gotov didn't give an estimate of 2011 revenue of $700 million in press interviews, dismissing media reports of the number as "pure speculation."
The stock declined 0.2 percent to HK$9.02.
Source:Bloomberg news wire servi...
Russian Railways Ready to Invest $1.5 Billion in Mongolia
OAO Russian Railways, the country’s rail monopoly, is ready to invest $1.5 billion in Mongolia’s train network to help the country exploit its natural resources, Chief Executive Officer Vladimir Yakunin said.
Mongolia is expected to name the partner that will help it expand the country’s rail network in June or July, Yakunin told reporters today in...
GTSO Moves Forward with New Rare Earth Profit Agreement with Mongolian Mining Company
Definitive Agreement to be Followed by Shipment of Rare Earths from Mongolia to South Korea
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Green Technology Solutions, Inc. (OTCQB:GTSO) President and CEO John Shearer said today that the company is close to finalizing a new profit agreement with the Mongolian mining and trading company Ar Erkhes, LLC.
“It’s...
Russia Rail may spend $1.5 bln in Mongolia coal project
MOSCOW May 31 (Reuters) - A consortium of investors including Russian Railways (RZhD) are ready to spend up to $1.5 billion on rail infrastructure in Mongolia if the group wins a bid for the Tavan Tolgoi coal field, RZhD said on Tuesday.
RZhD head Vladimir Yakunin also told journalists that Mongolia will decide on the list of final bidders in June...
China Makes Effort to Cool Unrest in Inner Mongolia
y BRIAN SPEGELE
HOHHOT, China—Authorities in Inner Mongolia sought to calm some of the worst ethnic strife in two decades by pledging to address concerns of the local Mongol population about the environmental costs of mining in the resource-rich region, and by announcing that a Han Chinese will be tried for murder over the death of a young Mongol...
Protests break calm in China's Inner Mongolia area
By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Associated Press
BEIJING – Calls for justice by Mongols in the resource-rich, prosperous borderland of northern China have shattered the calm there to which Chinese leaders have grown accustomed.
Clashes that left two Mongols dead in mid-May triggered protests in several cities and towns last week that have become the largest...
China's Inner Mongolia region under heavy security
BEIJING – Authorities poured more police into the streets and slowed Internet service in several parts of China's Inner Mongolia on Monday, trying to head off more protests in a resource-rich borderland not usually troubled by ethnic tensions.
Large numbers of police patrolled the regional capital, Hohhot, especially around the main square, where...
Herder's death deepens tensions in Inner Mongolia
Protests erupt after Mongolian herder run over by coal truck as he tried to stop mining convoy driving across prairie land
By Jonathan Watts in Xilinhot
Outside the closed gates of the Xilingol Mongolian high school, Chinese police watched warily as hundreds of students performed calisthenic exercises in a yard they had left the previous day to...
Parts of China's Inner Mongolia "under martial law" as protests spread
* China's Mongolians protest for 5th day in rare sign of defiance
* Students locked up in some schools to prevent participation in protests
* Resource extraction has eroded way of life for Mongolians -exiled Mongolian (Refiles, changing headline)
By Ben Blanchard and Sui-Lee Wee
BEIJING, May 27 (Reuters) - Chinese authorities sealed off parts of...
Mongolia faces critical diesel shortage
By Simon Rabinovitch and Leslie Hook
Mongolia is running critically low on diesel after Russian deliveries failed to arrive, a development that threatens to crimp mining activity in the resource-rich country.
The Mongolian government has ordered a temporary halt of diesel supplies to some miners and has dipped into its emergency stockpile, according...
Mongolia and NATO hold High-level talks in Ulaanbaatar
Mongolian and Nato military officials in Ulaanbaatar
The NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, Mr. James Appathurai, travelled to to Ulaanbaatar from 25-27 May 2011 for the first high-level talks between Mongolia...
Statement by H.E. Ms. Enkhtsetseg Ochir, Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations, Head of the Delegation to the XVI Ministerial Conference and the Commemorative Meeting of the 50th Anniversary of the Non-Aligned Movement
Enkhtsetseg Ochir, Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations, Head of the Delegation to the XVI Ministerial Conference
Bali, Indonesia, 26 May 2011
Mr. Chairman,
Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Let me begin by expressing...
Sheep Eats
Trying to get through a traditional Mongolian feast.
By Catherine Price
One afternoon in Ulaan Baatar, Otgoo invited my husband and me to a traditional Mongolian feast. Otgoo, a friend of our host family, had given us tours of little-known temples; she'd helped us bargain for belt buckles in Naran Tuul, an enormous outdoor market. Young and fashionable,...
Inner Mongolian herders take to the streets, four arrested
Herders Take to the Streets, Four Arrested
On the morning of May 23, 2011, hundreds of Mongolian herders from Right Ujumchin Banner of Southern (Inner) Mongolia took to the streets in the Banner capital (equivalent to the county level of government) to protest...
Chinese Mongolians make rare "protest" after death of herder
BEIJING May 25 (Reuters) - A large group of ethnic Mongolians protested in front of a government building in northern China on Wednesday angered by inaction over the death of a herder, a rights group said, in a rare instance of unrest by the minority ethnic group.
The New York-based Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Centre said that almost...
China Airlines donates 350 LCD monitors to Mongolian schools
China Airlines donated 350 used 15” LCD monitors to the Ulaanbaatar Trade and Economic Office in Taipei, Mongolia's representative office in Taiwan, at the inauguration ceremony yesterday of the Mongolia Culture, Education, Health and Economic Cooperation Association in Taiwan.
The monitors will be distributed to 33 schools and one hospital in remote...
OSCE-Mongolia Conference co-operation with Asian Partners
The FINANCIAL -- ULAANBAATAR, 23 May 2011 – Strengthening synergies between the 56 participating States of the OSCE and its Asian Partners for Co-operation in addressing transnational threats, such as illicit drug trafficking.
Advancing international economic co-operation, in particular on transport and energy security; as well as promoting human rights...
