A top Mongolian security official lost his appeal Friday against extradition from Britain to Germany to face kidnapping charges, threatening to turn the case into a major diplomatic spat.
Bat Khurts, a key figure in Mongolia's National Security Council, is set to be extradited within weeks to face charges of kidnapping and abducting a Mongolian murder...
Britain: Court Orders Extradition of Mongolian Security Official
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
A top Mongolian security official lost his appeal Friday against extradition from Britain to Germany to face kidnapping charges. The High Court in London ruled that the official, Bat Khurts, a central figure in Mongolia’s National Security Council, should be sent to Germany, where he is charged with kidnapping a Mongolian murder...
Mongolian spy chief faces extradition on kidnap charge
By Cathy Gordon
A Mongolian spy chief has lost an appeal against a ruling that he can be extradited from the UK to Germany to face charges of kidnap and false imprisonment.
Bat Khurts, who claims he was lured to the UK so he could be arrested under a European Arrest Warrant, had his case rejected by judges at the High Court in London yesterday.
He...
India Inks Defence Cooperation Pact With Mongolia
PTI | Ashwini Shrivastava | Ulaanbaatar
Giving a fillip to its ties with Mongolia, India today signed a defence cooperation agreement with the northeast Asian country and announced that it would extend a USD 20 million Line of Credit for a joint IT, education and outsourcing centre to be set up here.
India and Mongolia also inked two pacts on media...
Indian President arrives in Mongolia
PRABAL KR DAS
ULAANBAATAR, July 27 – India and Mongolia will seek to enhance their bilateral ties after President Pratibha Devisingh Patil and her official delagation touched town at Ulaanbaatar today.
In a function organised by the Indian Community and Friends of India, the President appreciated the role of the small Indian community at Mongolia...
Mongolia expresses reservations about nuclear fuel repository plan
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Mongolia has reservations about a plan to build a facility there to store or dispose of spent nuclear fuel from other countries, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto said Wednesday.
Matsumoto told a parliamentary session that when he met with his Mongolian counterpart Gombojav Zandanshatar last Saturday, the Mongolian minister...
Mongolia state-owned miner signs coal deal with China's Chalco
ULAN BATOR, July 27 (Reuters) - Mongolia's state-owned miner Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi (TT) has agreed to sell $250 million worth of coal from the east Tsankhi deposit to Aluminium Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) , a move insiders said was aimed at raising cash to help fund its impending listing fees.
Under the agreement, Chalco would resell 30 percent of the...
Mongolia-India Business Forum to be organized in Ulaanbaatar
MONGOLIAN –INDIAN BUSINESS FORUM
Venue: “Altai” hall of Khan Palace Kempinsky hotel, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Date: July 29, 2011
Contact person: G.Selenge, Expert, Foreign Investment Agency of Mongolia
Contact tel: 326040, 88069779, Fax: 324076
E-mail: selenge@investmongolia.com
Website: http://www.investmongolia.com
Mongolia-India...
Fresh Protests in Inner Mongolia
Herders protest seizure of their grassland, a rights group says.
Ethnic Mongolian herders in China's northern region of Inner Mongolia have protested against the local government for allowing a local businesswoman to illegally seize their land, an overseas rights...
Letters from Mongolia
From:Mongolianviews.com editorial staff
Interesting notes by a American mormon missionary boy in Mongolia. Mormon missionaries are probably one of very active proselytizing faith groups in Mongolia. One can easily note them in Ulaanbaatar by their clean cut...
Draft accord notes Mongolia as home for spent nuclear fuel
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A draft Japanese-U.S.-Mongolian agreement over the creation of a nuclear fuel production and spent fuel disposal cycle clearly refers to Mongolia as the destination of such fuel, according to its text, which was obtained by Kyodo News on Monday.
The draft statement of intent among the three countries on the so-called "comprehensive...
US Promotes Nuclear Waste Dump in Mongolia
By Ken Timmerman
The Obama administration is seeking to help Mongolia become a vast nuclear waste dump for commercial reactors in Japan, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates, according to a draft nuclear cooperation agreement obtained by Newsmax.
The protocol, drafted by Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman in February and revised...
Al Jazeera reports on Mongolian religious scene
Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan reports on religious scene of Mongolia. Representing Buddhism, head of Mongolian New Buddhist Center, Sanjdorj and representing Shamanism, Bobo zairan gave interviews.
Source:Al Jazeera
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Mongolia works to avoid curse resource wealth
Government looking to Norway, Canada, Chile for development model
No one missed the symbolism when earlier this month the Mongolian government announced which companies are getting the rights to develop the western block of the world's largest known coal reserve, Tavan Tolgoi, in the Gobi Desert.
The Chinese company Shenhua Energy won the right to...
Tenth Anniversary of First Major Gold and Copper Discovery at Oyu Tolgoi by Ivanhoe Mines Coincides With Period of Peak Construction on Mongolia's Largest Mining Complex
ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA, Jul 17, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Ivanhoe Mines' CA:IVN +2.78% IVN +3.33% IVN +3.33% Chief Executive Officer and founder, Robert Friedland, and Senior Vice President of Exploration, Douglas Kirwin, observed today's 10th anniversary of the company's first major mineral discovery at Oyu Tolgoi with a tribute to the 14,000...
China, rich with coal, seeks more next door in Mongolia to meet its energy needs
By Andrew Higgins
Andrew Higgins/The Washington Post -
Od Jambaljamts, a former Mongolian diplomat who is now a
businessman, at a coal mine in the Gobi Desert that have made him and
his brother billionaires.
TAVAN TOLGOI, MONGOLIA — Overlooking...
Mongolia: Vibroseis 2D survey to cover two blocks
By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, July 14 -- A second seismic survey is starting on the Zuunbayan-XIV and Tsagaan Els-XIII blocks in Mongolia, said Manas Petroleum Corp., Baar, Switzerland.
Gobi Energy Partners GMBH, operator of the blocks, said the 2D Vibroseis survey will cover as much as 1,700 line-km over 10 prospective areas identified by integrated interpretation...
Leica provides equipment to monitor Mongolian mineral works
By Doug Murphy
Leica Geosystems has provided crucial surveying equipment for a joint German-Mongolian surveying project, aimed at monitoring the increasing extraction of the Central Asian nation's rich mineral reserves.
The project was proposed after more and more mining and ore extraction operations started up on the previously untouched, remote...
Mongolia Mining Report Q3 2011 in terms of coal production report forecasts an annual average growth rate of 17.0% reaching 27.0mntpa by 2015
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7bfe20/mongolia_mining_re) has announced the addition of the "Mongolia Mining Report Q3 2011" report to their offering.
Mongolia Mining Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, mining associations, government departments and regulatory bodies with independent...
Al Jazeera reports on Tavan Tolgoi coal mine
Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan reports from Tavan Tolgoi-motherlode of Mongolian mining. The report is short but precise.
Source:Al Jazeera International
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Rains that Don’t Wet
by Daniel Grossman of Environmental Journalist, News Watch Contributing Editor
Hatgal, Mongolia
If you visit a Mongolian ger, be prepared for a few things. First, you’ll be served a thin-walled bowl of weak tea. Sometimes it tastes salty. Sometimes the surface glistens with a few spots of fat that’ll coat your lips. It’s always served with milk—yak,...
Lucky Strike Resources to acquire 80% of 6 Mongolian coal licenses
Lucky Strike Resources (CVE:LKY) reported Wednesday that it has signed definitive agreements with five private Mongolian companies to acquire an 80% stake in six mining exploration licenses and coal properties.
The Choir-Nyalgia properties, which encompass an area of 13,096 hectares, are situated 170 kilometres from the Trans-Mongolian Railway.
Under...
Mongolia: Looking East, Looking West
Written by Jonathan Berkshire Miller
President demonstrates considerable flexibility in balancing strategic relationships
Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj continues to ascend up the list of priority partners in the capitals of North Asia’s key power brokers. Elbergdorj has demonstrated remarkable tact in his management and enhancement of...
