ULAN BATOR, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- The number of China-Europe freight trains traveling through Mongolia increased by well over 50 percent in 2018, benefiting the landlocked country's economy, a senior foreign ministry official said Saturday.
"The China-Europe freight rail service network is a crucial part of China's Belt and Road Initiative. We believe...
Mongolia's foreign trade up 41.6 pct in Jan.
ULAN BATOR, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia's goods trade rose 41.6 percent year on year in January to 1.1 billion U.S. dollars, official data showed Tuesday.
Exports grew 43.3 percent year on year to 607.3 million dollars in January, while imports rose 39.6 percent to 504 million dollars, the Mongolian Customs General Administration (MCGA) said in...
Mongolia says it earns over 169 mln USD from coal exports to China in Jan.
Mongolia earned 169.2 million U.S. dollars from coal exports to China in January, the Mongolian Customs General Administration (MCGA) said Tuesday.
The Asian country exported a total of 2.1 million tons of coal in January, virtually all to China, the MCGA said in a statement, adding that the figure is an increase of around 192,000 tons from the same...
Mongolia's prostitution zones, where women trade sex for fuel in sub-zero temperatures
By Meghan Davidson Ladly
It’s nearing midnight in an unadorned bar on a backstreet off
Sükhbaatar Square, and 31 year-old Minjuur rubs her hands to shake off
the cold.
Speaking in a whisper, she explains her average evening. Men pick her
up from the park by the Central Tower office building, then they go to a
nearby hotel for an hour...
Mongolia, Cuba to Boost Bilateral Relations
Ulan Bator, Feb 14 (Prensa Latina) Mongolia''s State Secretary Davaasuren Damdinsuren and Cuba''s ambassador in Ulaan Bator, Raul Delgado, agreed Thursday on the need to boost bilateral cooperation.
Damdinsuren welcomed the Cuban diplomat at the Mongolian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with whom he talked about various issues of mutual interest.During...
Mongolia posts 6.9 pct economic growth in 2018
ULAANBAATAR, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Mongolia saw its economy grow 6.9 percent in 2018, beating expectations and accelerating from 5.3 percent growth in the previous year, the country’s statistics office said on Friday.
An increase in foreign trade, particularly mining products like coal and copper, most of which are sold to neighboring China, helped...
Airlines Vie for Lucrative Flights to Mongolia
Korean airlines are competing fiercely for lucrative flight routes to Mongolia after the two sides agreed to allow multiple carriers to fly between Incheon and Ulaanbaatar last month.
Until now flag carrier Korean Air has monopolized the route over the last three decades.
Flag carriers are trying to consolidate their presence in the mid and long-haul...
Solar Empowerment of Nomads in Rural Mongolia
Solar power is not only an environmentally friendly alternative, but in many cases the only available source of energy.
One third of the Mongolian population is living a nomadic life. They sustain livestock and move seasonally across the vast Mongolian grasslands, bringing with them their Ger— foldable traditional homes made of felt and yak’s...
Two arrested in Mongolia for killing endangered snow leopard
ULAN BATOR, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Mongolian police have arrested two men involved in poaching of an endangered snow leopard, the country's National Police Agency (PLA) said Wednesday.
The two suspects were arrested in early February while attempting to sell the skin and frozen meat of the snow leopard at the Emeelt raw material market on the outskirts...
Mongolia-China-Russia economic corridor benefits all sides: officia
ULAN BATOR, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- The Mongolia-China-Russia economic corridor is beneficial for all three parties, a senior Mongolian official has said.
"The trilateral economic corridor is an important part of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)," Tuvshintugs Battsetseg, deputy director of the Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation...
Meningococcal disease kills one in Mongolia
ULAN BATOR, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Six cases of meningococcal disease have been reported in Mongolia so far this year, one of the victims has died, local media reported Thursday, citing the National Center for Communicable Disease (NCCD).
The patient died after arriving too late at the hospital, Choirog Urtnasan, doctor at the NCCD, told daily newspaper...
59 suspects of drug trafficking arrested in Mongolia this year
ULAN BATOR, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Mongolian police arrested three people in the capital city of Ulan Bator on Tuesday when they were transporting a large amount of narcotic drugs, the country's National Police Agency (NPA) announced Wednesday.
The new arrest makes the number of people apprehended for drug trafficking in the country so far this...
Korean Air set to lose monopoly over Mongolia route
By Nam Hyun-woo
Korean Air Chairman Cho Yang-ho
Korean Air will lose its monopoly over an air route linking Incheon and Mongolia's capital of Ulaanbaatar as the government plans to allow Asiana Airlines or one of low-cost carriers (LCCs) to operate on the lucrative...
Mongolia's Hope: Baasansuren Khadsuren, the Singing Abbot of Erdene Zuu
Although Buddhism has watched over Mongolia since the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), it was as if entire aspects of Mongolian life were “reset” in 1990: the Soviet Union rapidly dissolved, and formerly communist Mongolia came to uncertain grips with its new political...
Mongolia says China remains its top export destination
ULAN BATOR, Feb.8 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia said China remained its top export destination, accounting for 66 percent of its total exports last year.
Mongolia's exports to China grew by 811.2 million dollars, or 13.1 percent year on year, while imports increased by 1.5 billion U.S. dollars, or 35.5 percent, according to data released by Mongolian Customs...
For children and babies, the pollution in Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar can prove fatal
There is a famous poem which almost every Mongolian knows by heart. It goes:
Dung smoke pouring forthI was born in a herder’s homeOn the wilderness steppeI think of my native land
But the days that Mongolians were born in a herder’s home with the smell of dung smoke have long since passed. Nowadays, most Mongolians are born with the acrid...
