Mongolian Economy and Finance

Copper prices fell the most in two weeks in London, as investors’ worries over China’s deepening economic slowdown and collapsing oil prices dampened sentiment across commodities markets.

A Korea-based resources company, Freegood Mines' Undur Naran Copper and Gold Project is recognized 12.4 tons of gold reserves by government of Mongolia.

Kazakhstan’s Air Astana will launch its first flights to Mongolia and Iran this summer.

Air Pollution is all at all time high on the Asian Continent. China has reached record-breaking levels of air pollution that the monitoring equipment can no longer keep track.

By B.ICHINKHORLOO The Mongolian National Art Gallery’s 3rd floor was more crowded than usual with employers hoping to attract talented individuals looking for jobs.

By Enkhzul Altangerel In Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, children like Nandin-Erdene face air so dense with pollution that they cannot view the colour of traffic lights.

Being one of the biggest technology conferences in the world, you’d think those attending Mobile World Congress (MWC) would be pretty well-versed in the importance of digital security and keeping their private info out of the hands of tricksters.

Denison Mines Corp (NYSE:DNN) was upgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note issued on Monday, MarketBeat reports.

Board of Investment aims to push more Thai investment abroad

Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd (NYSE:TRQ) shares traded down 5.4% during mid-day trading on Tuesday , Market Beat.com reports.

Feb 24 Poland's central bank chief may apply for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) presidency this year, a Polish minister said on Wednesday, challenging a possible bid by Suma Chakrabarti for a second term.

Many low-income developing countries have joined the group of Eurobond issuers across the globe— in sub-Saharan Africa (for example, Senegal, Zambia, and Ghana), Asia (for example, Mongolia) and elsewhere, raising over US$21 billion cumulatively over the past decade.

The UW is one of several dozen other research institutions that produced the highest number of Fulbright students this past year.

Kiss once sang “God gave rock’n’roll to everyone,” and according to the director Lauren Knapp’s documentary “Live from UB,” even the Mongolians received the gift. In a UK Premiere screening set to take place 24 February as part of the 8th edition of the Asia House Film Festival ,

On February 23, 2016, Mongolian herders from western Southern (Inner) Mongolia’s Urad Middle Banner (“wu la te zhong qi” in Chinese) gathered in front of the local government building in Haliut Township (“hai liu tu zhen” in Chinese).

By Hler Gudjonsson, IFRC On the vast Mongolian grasslands, livestock are dying in the thousands due to an ever worsening winter ‘Dzud’.

Recently, one of my Emerging Trends Trader stocks outshined all others, figuratively and literally.

By Eileen Jenkins Your dog may be able to catch a Frisbee, but can it preserve an ageless culture in the wilds of Mongolia?

Three months away from parliamentary elections, Mongolia's leaders are making some bold and expensive promises to turn the Mongolian dream of home ownership into reality.

By Helen Wright It was soon clear that there was nowhere I could sit in the small gymnasium at School No. 34 where I would be safe from flying balls.

Officials are in China for talks on funding for the project Mongolia hopes for deal in next few weeks so work can start

Australian firm Frontier Capital Group Ltd . has dropped its lottery and possibly casino venture in Mongolia.

Demand for thermal coal is declining, a trend that appears to be “irreversible.”

This Creative Commons-licensed piece first appeared at Climate News Network .

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – Four Transylvania University seniors have been named semifinalists for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program for the 2016-2017 academic year.

This latest part of our series on Russia’s relations with its neighbours focuses on the huge empty land of Mongolia, Moscow’s original Soviet satellite state in the 1920s.

Gene-sequencing company leads advances in precision medicine

India ended the Asian Wrestling Championship in seventh place overall with both the men's and women's freestyle teams finishing fourth, while the Greco-Roman team took sixth position.

2.02.2016 18:20:24 - New Manufacturing market report from Global Research and Data Services: "Plastic Monofilament and Rod (Over 1 mm) Market in Mongolia to 2019 - Market Size, Development, and Forecasts"

Denison Mines Corp (NYSE:DNN) was upgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report issued on Monday, AnalystRatings.Net reports.

The International Investment Bank (IIB) wrapped up its “Year of Asia” with the 104th Council Meeting in Vietnam , completing the transition programme of the past two years to remake itself into a modern international financial institution (IFI) – with a trade finance twist.

Another great victory for Iran wrestlers, as the freestyle team have won the title at the 2016 Asian Wrestling Championships held in Bangkok Thailand.

On November 5, 2015, 27-year-old researcher, Lkhagvasumberel Tumursukh, known to most as “Sumbee,” left his home in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia a day prior to a trip planned to the South Gobi, to the Tost-Tosonbomba mountain range where he kept watch over about 20 snow leopards he was researching for the Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation and its partner, the Snow Leopard Trust.

Mongolia, a country of rugged, windswept expanses, is home to three million people and 50 million horses, camels, sheep and cattle.

Hungary has extended a $25mn credit line to Mongolia for the overhaul of a bioplant.

Former geography teacher Rob Lilwall recounts his 4,500-kilometre walk from the Gobi Desert to Hong Kong, the equivalent of hiking from Birmingham to Tehran

I was expecting an unusual concert and I wasn’t disappointed.

Ulaanbaatar, February 1, 2016 — Today, The Asia Foundation’s Books for Asia program; Mongolia’s Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science; and Library For All kick off Let’s Read!

ISTANBUL – The One Belt, One Road initiative to rejuvenate the old Silk Road, and efforts to convert the former Soviet republics of Central Asia into a bridge between China and Europe, were the main points discussed Thursday at a regional investment forum in Istanbul.

ASTANA – A total of 963,540 people received Kazakhstan citizenship from 1992-2015, with the vast majority (858,661) being ethnic Kazakhs wishing to immigrate back to Kazakhstan (known in Kazakh as oralmandar or “returnees”).

The stock of Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd (TSE:TRQ) is a huge mover today!

Mongolia as a neutral state. I have long pondered this issue, exchanging views, carrying out studies and drawing conclusions. Now the time has come to discuss it publicly.

Denison Mines Corp (NYSE:DNN) was upgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report released on Tuesday, AnalystRatings.Net reports.

Centerra Gold Inc. (TSE:CG) has received a consensus rating of “Hold” from the six ratings firms that are covering the firm, MarketBeat Ratings reports .

The 4th Thermal Power Plant, Ulaanbaatar

Ulaanbaatar, February 18, 2016 — On the morning of February 18th, The Asia Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the office of the Mayor of Ulaanbaatar to establish Ulaanbaatar’s first Women’s Business Center and Incubator to empower female entrepreneurs.

By Helen Wright Dulamsuren Ganbaatar tucks her red hair behind her ear and thinks before answering my question: should criminals who smuggle fossils and dinosaur bones out of Mongolia receive tougher punishments?

Efforts to end domestic violence brought a delegation from Mongolia to Nome Monday.

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)Hillary Clinton once drank warm horse milk in Mongolia -- and it tasted "sort of like yogurt that you would leave out for a week."

What’s it like to live among Mongolian nomads when you’ve spent most of your life in New York City?

INCREASED Chinese mineral production is just as much a cause for the slide in prices as the aggressive expansions by western mining companies, says Investec’s global mining strategist Jeremy Wrathall.

Anglo American has signaled its intent to exit from coal production as the company aims to slim down to just 16 assets focused on its De Beers diamond, platinum group metals (PGMs) and copper businesses.

Deep in a desolate, rocky canyon, about 10 miles from the nearest paved road and even farther from any power line, Altai Davaa and her brother, Tsagaana, eke out a simple life.

The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT) is Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art’s (QAGOMA) flagship international contemporary art event, and the only major exhibition series in the world to focus exclusively on the contemporary art of Asia, the Pacific, and Australia.

Since the end of the socialist regime in the early 1990s, urban migration in Mongolia has continued to play an outsized role in the country’s evolving economic and social identity.

Russia has written off the vast majority of Mongolia’s debt owed to Moscow, estimated at around $172 million according to documents uploaded on the Russian state legal archive site .

In this episode of Generation Anthropocene, urbanization and environmental decline put a sacred ritual for the dead at risk

Toronto, Ontario (FSCwire) - Mongolia Growth Group Ltd. (the “Company”) (YAK – TSXV and MNGGF – USA), announced today that TSX Venture Exchange (the “Exchange”) has accepted a Notice of Intention to make a normal course issuer bid (the “Bid”) to purchase up to 2,950,000 common shares (representing up to approximately 8.3 % of the 35,512,829 common shares of the Company currently issued and outstanding, or approximately 9.9% of the 29,825,579 common shares constituting the Company’s current Public Float (as that term is defined in the policies of the Exchange)) from time to time during the next 12 months. In accordance with the Policies of the Exchange, the maximum number of common shares that may be purchased under the Bid in any 30-day period may not exceed 2% of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company when aggregated with all other common shares purchased under the Bid in the preceding 30 days.

Two small pieces of sporting history were made at the Hamar Olympic Hall Viking Ship: Speed skaters contested for the first time at any Olympic level a mixed NOC team sprint, and Mongolia won its debut medal at a Winter Games.

Canadian miner Centerra Gold (TSX:CG) can finally proceed with plans for developing its 1.6-million ounce Gatsuurt gold deposit near its Boroo Mine, Mongolia's parliament ruled Thursday .

An Edinburgh doctor has become the first man to win a gruelling marathon in Outer Mongolia.

On the vast, remote steppe of central Mongolia, an unlikely adventure camp has been created by an equally improbable visionary. Welcome to Mongke Tengri.

No, that’s not a typo. It’s a rather dramatic weather event.

Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing WPR series on the impact of falling oil and commodities prices on resource-exporting countries.

World Bank Report Calls for Sound Economic Management

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA--(Marketwired - Feb 16, 2016) - Note to editors: There are four maps associated with this press release.

Key Takeaway: Coal Prices

According to the Ulan Bator Post (UB Post), the leading English-language Mongolian news site, Parliament’s addressed 2016 mining goals and the development of the Gatsuurt gold open-pit mine.

In order to know the way forward, it helps to review the past.

If Mongolia proceeds with its first dollar sale since 2012, it will have to pay almost double what it initially bargained for.