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Indonesia, Mongolia explore presidential visits for 70-year ties
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Arrmanatha Christiawan Nasir has explored the possibility of arranging reciprocal visits between President Prabowo Subianto and his Mongolian counterpart next year. Nasir raised the...
China's Baotou advances onshore wind power equipment manufacturing business
A drone photo shows wind turbine blades at the Mingyang New Energy Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park in Baotou, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, July 29, 2025. Leveraging its abundant wind resources, the city of Baotou has...

Mongolia sees South Korea as a key partner in trade and tourism
Mongolian member of Parliament and head of the Standing Committee on Justice Tsogtbaatar Damdin received South Korean first vice-minister of Foreign Affairs Park Yoonjoo in Ulan Bataar on Thursday, 21st August. The meeting marked the 35th...

Mongolia-Singapore Cooperation to Advance
Ulaanbaatar, August 22, 2025 /MONTSAME/. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia, Battsetseg Batmunkh, received Senior Minister of State of Foreign and Home Affairs of the Republic of Singapore, Sim Ann, on August 21, 2025. Minister Battsetseg...

Mongolia and Singapore discuss issues of cooperation
AKIPRESS.COM - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia Battsetseg Batmunkh received Senior Minister of State of Foreign and Home Affairs of Singapore Sim Ann on August 21, Montsame reported. Minister Battsetseg Batmunkh commenced the meeting by...

Uzbekistan lags behind regional peers in wage growth – Central Bank.
According to the Central Bank, in the long term this trend may reduce purchasing power and weaken demand for domestic goods and services. In recent quarters, the growth of real wages in Uzbekistan has been relatively lower compared to neighboring...

The Mongolian startup defying Big Tech with its own LLM
Silicon Valley firms are rushing to train artificial intelligence models with tens of thousands of graphics processing units, and offering multimillion-dollar salaries to star researchers. Meanwhile, in Mongolia, Badral Sanlig is building a large...

The last Mongolian herders
Looking through the viewfinder, I try to focus Chimed in the centre of the photograph. She is wearing her blue silk deel, a traditional garment that covers her arms and hangs down to her yellow gumboots. She is milking her cows before the sun goes...
This is what it’s like to win the ‘world’s toughest horse race’ through Mongolia
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'I defied death after a fall – now I’m riding 1,000km across Mongolia for charity' says Kempston teen
From a near-fatal fall to the world’s toughest horse race – Imogen Bradbury has defied all odds to take on the challenge of a lifetime. Just three years ago, Imogen, from Box End Kempston, suffered a life-threatening fall that nearly ended both...

Locality in Inner Mongolia encourages smaller-scale, frugal weddings, funerals with trial advisory
A newly wedded couple poses for a picture at a marriage registration office in Wuhan, Central China’s Hubei Province, on May 20, 2025. Photo: VCG Tumd Left Banner in Hohhot, North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, has recently issued trial...

Lao Foreign Minister Pays Courtesy Call on Mongolian Prime Minister
KPL As part of his official visit to Mongolia and participation in the 10th Foreign Ministers’ Meeting of the Forum for East Asia–Latin America Cooperation (FEALAC) on August 21, Foreign Minister of the Lao PDR Thongsavanh Phomvihane and his...

Gobi CSG Project in Mongolia to Reach Peak Pilot Production This Month: TMK
TMK Energy Ltd. said Thursday all seven production wells in the pilot phase of the Gurvantes XXXV Coal Seam Gas (CSG) Project in the South Gobi basin of Mongolia are on course to reach optimum rates by the end of August. “[T]he LF-07 pilot...

Freezing winter and old power plants: A Mongolian reality
Mongolia faces harsh winters, outdated coal plants and limited domestic resources but could benefit from the White House’s push for fossil fuel funding abroad. March 11, 2023: The Thermal Power Plant No. 4, a combined heating and power facility...
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Foreign Ministers of Mongolia and Laos hold talks
AKIPRESS.COM - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia Battsetseg Batmunkh and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Laos Thongsavanh Phomvihane held official talks, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported on August 20. The Ministers reaffirmed their...

FEALAC: “Ulaanbaatar Declaration” Draft Finalized
Ulaanbaatar, August 22, 2025 /MONTSAME/. The “24th Senior Officials’ Meeting” of the “10th Foreign Ministers’ Meeting” of the “Forum for East Asia-Latin America Cooperation” (FEALAC) was held on August 21, 2025. During the Meeting, preparations...
John Stampfl: I have seen many positive changes in Mongolia since 1998
For the 'Mongolia through Foreign Eyes' column, we invited Mr. John Stampfl as our guest. He first came to Mongolia on a work assignment in 1998, and since 2001 he has been living permanently in Murun, Khuvsgul Province. Please introduce yourself....

Vice FM Park calls for greater East Asia-Latin America cooperation in trade, culture
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Yonhap) -- First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo has called for expanding trade and cultural cooperation between East Asia and Latin America amid global uncertainties and challenges to multilateralism, the foreign ministry said...

Foreign Ministers of Mongolia and Laos Hold Official Talks
Ulaanbaatar, August 21, 2025 /MONTSAME/. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia, Battsetseg Batmunkh, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Thongsavanh Phomvihane, held official talks in Ulaanbaatar on August...