Mongolia

8 May 2013

Mongolia's plan to develop the untapped western block of its massive Tavan Tolgoi coal mine will help raise cash from new customers to offset an exclusive but loss-making supply deal with China's...

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Mongolia seeks bids to mine part of Tavan Tolgoi

3 May 2013

Mongolia’s Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi has launched a tender for a one-year contract to mine the western Tsankhi block of the giant Tavan Tolgoi coal field, a top executive of the state-owned company...

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Japan's Shinzo Abe seeks Mongolia's backing over East China Sea islands

1 Apr 2013

Shinzo Abe arrived in the Mongolian capital on Saturday seeking closer trade and diplomatic ties with the mineral-rich nation, a potentially important strategic partner due to its location on...

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Rio Tinto may halt work at mine in protest at Mongolian demands

1 Feb 2013

Rio Tinto Group, based in London and the second-biggest mining company in the world, is discussing the suspension of building to protest at Mongolia's demands for a bigger stake in the project and...

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Mongolia says goodbye to Lenin and hello to dinosaurs

29 Jan 2013

Once he bestrode his world, lending his name to more museums, streets, monuments and public institutions than any other 20th-century figure. But in the Mongolian capital, Ulan Bator at least, it...

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US media brings glitz to Mongolian readers

16 Jan 2013

Every time a new Mongolian-language edition of Cosmopolitan magazine is released, Tselmeg Erdenkhuu sits down with a friend to explore a monthly dose of Hollywood gossip, glitzy fashion and...

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

3:33AM

Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

3:35AM

Mongolia's Midas touch loses some of its shine

Mongolia's red-hot economy - one of the world's fastest-growing - has the chills due to a decline in investment interest from foreign investors.

The decline was brought on by a weak global...

4:27AM

Mongolia still open to foreign investors

Mongolia is still open to foreign investment despite a hastily enacted law that subjects foreign investments to government approval and recent calls by some nationalist politicians to renegotiate...

3:14AM

Battle to meet energy needs for residents and industry in Mongolia

T. Nasan-Ish, 50, has just returned from a community meeting in Khanbogd in Mongolia's south Gobi desert. "We have exciting news", he says. "We're expecting to get unlimited electricity in the...

2:42AM

RESULTS

Coal miner SouthGobi to cut staff after posting US$55m net loss

SouthGobi Resources swung to a net loss of US$54.56 million in the third quarter from a net profit of US$55.92 million in the period last year, while the mining firm's revenue plunged 94.5 per...

3:18AM

MINING

Giant copper mine offers Mongolia a cash bonanza

Deep in the heart of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia amid a landscape of sand dunes and ice canyons, one of the world’s biggest copper mines is about to come on stream.

5:02PM

CRIME

Mining firm won't say why lawyer questioned in Mongolia

The Hong Kong arm of a major Australian mining company based in Mongolia has yet to comment on why its senior lawyer is still being questioned by anti-corruption authorities and banned from...

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