Less than a week after opening its first natural gas pipeline to China, Russia has mounted a new push for a second route through Mongolia to replace earlier plans for a line through Xinjiang.On Dec. 5, Russia and Mongolia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on a joint assessment for a feasibility study to pipe Russian gas through Mongolia to...
Malaysia’s Najib Ordered Killing of Mongolian Model, Says Former Bodyguard
KUALA LUMPUR—A Malaysian police officer on death row for the 2006 slaying of a Mongolian model, has accused former prime minister Najib Razak of ordering him to kill the woman, according to media reports and the policeman’s lawyer.
Azilah Hadri and another police officer, who were serving on Najib’s security detail at the time of the murder,...
Is it true that Trump Jr, President Trump's son, hunted wild sheep without a permit in Mongolia?
Hunting is an important part of our culture. It is difficult to imagine Mongols without hunting. So for us hunting is normal.
Mongolia has been issuing hunting permits since 1960s for argali, bighorn sheep and for yangir, ibex, when my country was still socialist. Brave western souls would come to Mongolia for the ultimate big...
Mongolia, Vietnam eye 100-mln-dollar trade turnover
ULAN BATOR, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia and Vietnam have set a goal to increase their bilateral trade turnover to 100 million U.S. dollars in the coming years, the Mongolian Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry said Wednesday.
"An agreement on this was reached during the 17th meeting of the Mongolia-Vietnam intergovernmental commission...
Rio Tinto Notes Mongolian Parliament Resolution on Oyu Tolgoi
Rio Tinto notes the unanimous approval by the Mongolian Parliament of a Resolution that instructs the government to look for ways to improve the implementation of the Investment Agreement of 2009, the Amended & Restated Shareholder Agreement of 2011 and to improve the Underground Mine Development & Financing Plan of 2015.
The passing of this...
Why Mongolian Democracy Is Worth Defending
ELLEN BORK
America’s allies in Asia will draw lessons from how nations like Mongolia fare in the new era of U.S.-China competition.
China’s challenge to the United States has, at last, led American officials to change the way they view the PRC. Addressing the Hudson Institute at its New York gala in October, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rejected...
Chinese, Mongolian FMs hold phone conversation over bilateral ties
BEIJING, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday held a phone conversation with Mongolian Foreign Minister Damdin Tsogtbaatar over ties between the two countries.
Wang said this year marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Mongolia, adding that the two countries...
Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei to fight for Mongolia
Ulaanbaatar - Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei has made the surprising decision to fight for Mongolia at the Qingdao Masters 2019.
The competition will be held in Chinese city Qingdao from Dec. 12 to 14 with 476 judokas from 70 countries.
President of Mongolia...
Deputy PM of Vietnam: Mongolia is important partner
NDO/VNA – Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has said Vietnam considers Mongolia an important partner in the region and wants the bilateral traditional friendship to keep growing in the near future.
During a reception in Hanoi on November 28...
Government of Mongolia v Southern District of New York
Milbank LLP has secured a significant victory in the District Court for the Southern District of New York (“SDNY”) on behalf of the Government of Mongolia. On November 19, 2019, Judge Ramos dismissed the petition brought by Chinese state-owned entities seeking to set aside an arbitral award that had been rendered in favor of Mongolia in 2017.
In...
Rio Tinto’s Mongolia mine will expand: minister
Mongolian mining minister says expanded copper mine in Gobi Desert ‘would not be stopped’ despite protests
Anglo-Australian firm Rio Tinto’s plan to expand a copper mine in Mongolia will go ahead, the country’s mining minister said, according to the Financial Times newspaper on Tuesday.
The project has been disrupted by protests from locals worried...
281 people living with HIV/AIDS in Mongolia
ULAN BATOR, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- A total of 281 HIV carriers and AIDS patients are now living in Mongolia, the country's National Center for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) said Sunday.
"However, it is estimated that more than 600 people may be infected with HIV in the country," Dulmaa Nyamkhuu, head of the NCCD, told a press conference on the occasion...
