Rio Tinto plans to open an office in Mongolia’s capital and increase its workforce there, even as its Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold project has been hit with a new tax bill and has been blocked by protests from delivering to China.

Mongolia is to ban the burning of low-grade coal in households in the capital Ulaanbaatar from April 2019, MP D.Khayankhyarvaa, said, as the country tries to curb toxic air pollution.

A high-ranking delegation from the Mongolian parliament led by Speaker M.Enkhbold and his wife arrived in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, on 20 January for a three-day official visit.

This week has seen the “Buryat Investment Forum” take place in Ulaanbaatar. The aim has been to help facilitate trade on both sides of the border.

The adventurous camel journey of a Mongolian woman B.Baigalmaa is continuing successfully.

The head of the Russian Federation’s Republic of Buryatia, Alexey Sambuevich Tsydenov has been was awarded the Order of the Polar Star. The ceremony took place on 18 January in the State Palace in accordance with a decree by President of Mongolia Kh.Battulga.

Chinese and Mongolian archaeologists have unearthed rare artifacts in a joint excavation in Mongolia. The artifacts include iron belts inlaid with gold and silver and iron swords with wooden scabbards.

The U.S. would do well to heed China’s creeping coercion of its neighbors.
The Wall Street Journal on Jan 17 released an article titled as “U.S. Should Notice China Provoking Taiwan” by Brian Su of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York, which urges all sides concerned to notice mainland China’s increasing military threat to its neighbors.

On Friday (19 January), members of the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP) held a press conference and announced that MP O.Baasankhuu has been ousted from the party.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has invited Mongolia to submit a qualified nomination for the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature through a formal letter to the Mongolian Academy of Sciences earlier this month.