The e-commerce giant is bringing in extra people to work in its warehouses and customer service centers, and to work with some of its Prime service offerings, including Prime Pantry, which delivers everyday packaged goods to consumers. As we can see in this chart from Statista, the number of seasonal employees Amazon hires has grown considerably since 2012 as e-commerce has taken off.

Amazon seasonal workers have an entire culture of their own and include a group of traveling workers nicknamed "CamperForce." Primarily made up of retirees, the group lives in recreational vehicles and works 3 to 4 months in the fall and winter in preparation for the holidays. 

This year's seasonal hires will be in addition to the massive number of people Amazon has already added to its workforce. The company's employee base swelled by 159,500 people in just three months between the end of June and the end of September this year.

In specific, Law on Legal Status of Foreign nationals states that foreign nationals who are staying in Mongolia for business or personal reasons are obliged to carry their passport and residence permit provided by the authority at all times. If a foreigner is not carrying passport or identification equaling to that, he shall be fined with MNT 100 thousand.

On the secondary market for government bonds, 1,764 bonds with a value of MNT175.9 million were traded.

The MSE ALL Index increased by 1.13 percent to stand at 1,192.19 points. The MSE market cap stands at MNT 2,326,077,401,850.

President Kh.Battulga, Parliament Speaker M.Enkhbold and Prime Minister U.Khurelsukh paid respect to the Statue of Chinggis Khaan and the Nine White Banners during this ceremony.

The Nine White Banners were brought from to the State Palace to the central square by cavalcade of nine honor guards, who circled the State Palace clockwise. Tribute was paid to the Nine White Banners by mounted honor guards riding chestnut horses and the wind ensemble. After this, the Nine White Banners were carried back to the Ceremonial Hall of the State Palace.

As part of an alliance with Auchan Retail S.A. [AUCH.UL] and Ruentex Group, Alibaba would buy the stake from Ruentex while Auchan Retail would boost its stake, the three companies said in a joint statement.

The alliance would target opportunities in China’s $500 billion food retail sector, as Alibaba races to build big-data capabilities in the offline retail market where roughly 85 percent of sales are made.

“Physical stores serve an indispensable role during the consumer journey, and should be enhanced through data-driven technology and personalized services in the digital economy,” Alibaba Chief Executive Officer Daniel Zhang said in the statement.

Shares of Hong Kong-listed Sun Art, which were suspended on Nov. 13, resumed on Monday and were down 5.3 percent in morning trade, while the benchmark index .HSI was flat.

The deal would give French retailer Groupe Auchan SA, China’s Alibaba Group and Taiwanese conglomerate Ruentex 36.18 percent, 36.16 percent and 4.67 percent stakes respectively in Sun Art. Alibaba would replace Ruentex as the second-largest shareholder.

Alibaba has invested upwards of $9.3 billion in brick-and-mortar stores since 2015. It has launched many un-staffed concept shops in the past year, including grocery and coffee stores.

The $474 billion firm is taking more risks to secure offline, rural and overseas buyers as China’s urban e-commerce market shows signs of saturating, including purchasing extensive infrastructure which it had previously avoided.

“They’re getting into a territory that’s not their core strength ... for example securing a property, the licenses to sell certain products, paying tax, more labor and so on,” said Bain & Company analyst Weiwen Han.

“On one hand they really need to do it, but on the other hand they are facing a lot of challenges that they have never experienced before.”

Sun Art is China’s grocery store leader with about 8.2 percent of the market, according to data from Kantar Worldpanel.

It operates about 450 hypermarkets across China under the RT-Mart and Auchan banners. It also operates unmanned stores under the Auchan Minute brand.

It has been slow to go online, with its platform Feiniu lagging bigger players like China Resources and Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N).

In a separate statement, Sun Art said Alibaba’s Taobao China Holding Ltd would make a general offer for the company at HK$6.50 apiece.

On Sunday, Toshiba announced the decision, which was made by its board.

The firm says the funds raised will help the company improve its financial situation and avoid being delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Toshiba has already decided to sell its semiconductor subsidiary in order to settle the company's debts by next March and avoid the delisting.

The board came up with the new share-selling plan because there are concerns that the anti-trust assessment of the chip sale, which is now underway in the relevant countries, may not be completed in time to allow the firm to meet the March deadline.

The sales are expected to increase the volume of the company's shares by 50 percent. This could effectively undermine the current shareholders.

Regarding such concerns, Toshiba says the primary purpose of the investment is not to influence Toshiba's business operations, but rather to make a net profit.

But analysts say they will watch what the investors do with the shares they've acquired.

Toshiba's largest shareholder is Singapore-based Effissimo Capital Management, which was established by former colleagues of Japan's most famous activist investor Yoshiaki Murakami.

Officials with the Japan Sumo Association questioned Harumafuji at the Ryogoku sumo arena in Tokyo on Sunday.

Harumafuji is accused of inflicting violence against Takanoiwa when they were dining out during a regional sumo tour last month. They are both from Mongolia.

Police have also questioned Harumafuji and are investigating the situation leading up to the assault.

Sources say Harumafuji admitted hitting Takanoiwa with his hands, but denied using a beer bottle.

The officials reportedly asked Harumafuji what happened before he hit Takanoiwa and how he reported the incident to his stablemaster.

Kagamiyama, a board member of the sumo association, spoke to reporters after the 2-hour session.

He declined to give details, only saying that Harumafuji had admitted assaulting the junior wrestler. He said the association will continue its investigation.

Kagamiyama also said he will interview the people who were drinking with the 2 wrestlers.

SouthGobi's board has formed a special committee to investigate the charges against Aminbuhe, it said.

Earlier this week, the company said Aminbuhe was on leave and appointed Bing Wang as interim CEO.

A person who answered the phone at the Rizhao detention center when Reuters called on Saturday would not comment on Aminbuhe's detention.

Aminbuhe joined SouthGobi as non-executive director in August 2015 and became the CEO a month later.

Before joining SouthGobi, Aminbuhe was a director at National United Resources Holding Ltd.

Vancouver-based SouthGobi, whose primary market is China, operates its flagship coal mine in Mongolia.

Meanwhile, the import of diesel fuel increased by 90.7 percent compared to the same period in 2016, amounting to 347.9 million dollars.

As experts noted, the increase in volume of imported fuel demonstrates the activation of Mongolia's economy.

Meanwhile, the import of kerosene for the first 10 months of this year grew by 24 percent, compared to the same period last year. As a result, the total amount of imported aviation fuel was 24,800 tons.

It should be noted here that the Mongolian Parliament has increased the excise tax on imported fuel since July of this year in frames of the continuation of the implementation of IMF's Expanded Fund Facility Program in Mongolia.

According to the agreement reached with the IMF, the Parliament of Mongolia in October 2017 had to raise the excise tax on gasoline, but the Ministry of Mining and Heavy Industry of Mongolia proposed to postpone the consideration of the above-mentioned issue for uncertain term.

According to the National Statistics Committee, Mongolia imported about 94 percent of the fuel from the Russian Federation in 2016, in particular, from the Rosneft oil company.

In 2017, more than 96 percent of imported fuel was imported from Russia, and the rest from China.