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S.Bayartsogt talked about current activities of the Ministry in fighting against crimes, detection of crimes and ensuring the public order, and then said Mongolia wanted to cooperate with the UEA in strengthening the collaboration between the Ministries, sharing experiences in law enforcement and training the human resource and providing them with mid-career training.

The Minister said that the two countries started their cooperation in the law enforcement sector and made an agreement to collaborate in empowering the law enforcement and police bodies and exchanging experience during his participation in an international forum of the Interpol held in Abu Dhabi and official meeting with Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior.

At the meeting, the Mongolian side put forward a proposal to establish a cooperation memorandum between the Ministries and presented to the UAE a draft of the memorandum.

By the visiting program, the UAE Interior Ministry delegation will hold a meeting at the General Authority for Implementing Court Decisions and will get acquainted with activities of the General Police Department, the National Institute of Forensic Science as well a prison.

Sources familiar with the situation said that the banks sent a notification to the North's embassy in Beijing and its consulate general in Shenyang.

They said it demanded the bank accounts of all North Koreans, including diplomats, be emptied by the end of August.

Since then, financial transactions involving North Koreans are said to have almost ceased.

The sources added that North Koreans in principle aren't allowed to open new accounts.
It is rare for the Chinese banks to take such strict measures on North Korean diplomats, as even under UN sanctions each is allowed to open one account.

In June, the US government unilaterally punished a bank in Dandong, Liaoning Province, for allegedly facilitating the transfer of money for companies involved in the North's missile development.

The latest move is seen as China's attempt to show that it's taking a tougher line on the North.

However, it remains to be seen how much impact the measures would have on Pyongyang.

Many North Korean merchants in China are said to be doing business in cash or using the accounts of Chinese trading partners.

A dry port (sometimes inland port) is an inland intermodal terminal directly connected by road or rail to a seaport and operating as a center for the transshipment of sea cargoes.

Located at Ordos Xinjuyuan Industry Chemical Company and co-built by China's large seaborne Tangshan port, the inland port can speed up customs clearance and reduce container handlings for coal cargoes from Inner Mongolia to the Bohai Rim port.

It's expected that Inner Mongolian coal cargoes can save three days to Tangshan port through the original route, and freight cost can be lowered by about 8 yuan/t.

Ordos Xinjuyuan Industry Chemical Company, invested by Inner Mongolia Tiexin Coal Chemical Group Co., Ltd. under Hohhot Railway Administration, is the largest coal transport company along Baoxi railway (Baotou-Xi'an), owing the biggest enclosed coal warehouse in Northwestern China, which can pile up 700,000 tonnes at most.

The milestone was technically hit Friday, with the Treasury Department settling its accounts at the end of the day with $20,162,176,797,904 of debt outstanding. Of that debt, the Treasury said $14,622,661,213,046 is held by the public, while $5,539,515,584,857 is held by various parts of the government, also known as Intragovernmental Holdings. 

The amount of debt held by the federal government had been stagnant since March due to the debt ceiling, or the statutory limit of debt the Treasury is allowed to hold at any one time.

Since the limit was reimposed in March, the Treasury used so-called "extraordinary measures" to keep the amount of debt at the roughly $19.84 trillion cap.

On Friday, President Donald Trump signed into law a bill that, among other things, suspended the debt ceiling until December 8. That means the Treasury can borrow freely until that date, when the outstanding amount becomes the new debt ceiling and extraordinary measures must begin again unless new legislation is passed.

That led to the roughly $317 billion jump in the amount of debt outstanding, likely to refill the Treasury's ability to use those extraordinary measures in three months if needed.

Given the jump in funding, the Treasury could hold out until at least sometime in early March on the extraordinary measures. If all falls right with corporate and individual income tax receipts, that could be extended through the summer of 2018, analysts say.

1 - week CBBs
1-week CBB plays an important role in managing the reserves of banks and is the core monetary policy instrument of the Bank of Mongolia. The interest rate on CBB will be the policy rate of the BOM and will serve as a guide interest rate on the interbank market. It was first introduced in July 2007, with fixed rate and unlimited bidding, and traded on a regular basis every Wednesday at the interbank market. This had attracted the banks’ interests providing the possibility for the banks to place their excess reserve in short term asset. Since the introduction of this instrument, there has been a substantial change in the way banks manage their reserves. For the favorable adjustment of CBB rate and loan principle along with the well balance of togrog and foreign exchange, 1 - week CBB auction has been held in the form of competitive interest rate since May 2010. In doing so, the upper and lower limits of the bank bids are to set +/- 2 per cent of the policy rate.

Samsung is banking on the device to protect its market dominance as it competes with Apple Inc’s latest iPhones due to be unveiled later on Tuesday. Note 8 sales begin in the United States, South Korea and elsewhere on Friday.

Pre-orders reached about 650,000 Note 8 handsets over five days from about 40 countries, making the initial response “very encouraging,” DJ Koh, president of Samsung Electronics’ mobile communications business, said at a media event.

The device succeeds the short-lived Note 7, whose battery fires resulted in Samsung pulling the device from the market after just a couple of months at a cost of billions of dollars.

Its reputation tarnished, the world’s biggest smartphone maker by market share nevertheless decided to retain the Note brand after a survey showed 85 percent of 5,000 Galaxy Note users expressed brand loyalty, Koh said.

The Note 8’s U.S. price of $930 to $960, including dialling and data plans, begins an era of premium-priced handsets which analysts expect to be joined by $1,000-plus iPhones.

Apple is widely expected to unveil a special edition iPhone commemorating 10 years of the handset, equipped with edge-to-edge screen and augmented reality, that will compete with the Note 8 for pre-holiday season sales in Western markets.

In China, the Note 8 is tasked with reviving fortunes in the world’s biggest smartphone market where local handset makers such as Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL], Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi Inc [XTC.UL] reduced Samsung’s market share to 3 percent in April-June, showed data from Counterpoint Research.

Koh said it will take time to recover in China but expects changes this year such as appointing a new mobile chief, restructuring and focusing on key buyers to be effective.

Koh also said Samsung hopes to showcase a foldable handset next year but that technological hurdles must be overcome before a decision can be made.

“We are digging thoroughly into several issues we must overcome, as we don’t want to just make a few, sell a few and be done. We want to hear that Samsung made a very good product.”

The settlement agreement would end mutual lawsuits, drop all environmental claims , halt court proceedings and allow Toronto-based Centerra to transfer funds from the country that had been frozen by the central Asian nation.

Shares in Centerra climbed as much as 3% in morning trade in Toronto Monday. Gains for the stock since news of a deal first leaked last Wednesday now total more than 20% affording the company a market value of over C$2.6 billion on the TSX.

Centerra said that is in the process of transferring the cash held by its local subsidiary, Kumtor Gold Company (KGC) – nearly $300m by some estimates – that is over and above KGC's working capital requirements. All restrictions on the movement of Centerra employees have also been lifted.

Under the agreement Centerra will pay US$50m to a so-called Nature Development Fund and make annual contributions to the fund to $2.7m. A cancer care fund set up by the government will receive a further $10m from the company.

Centerra will also invest $6m annually in a Kumtor reclamation fund based inside the country to a minimum of $69m. That figure broadly matches the company's own estimate of the site's total rehabilitation costs.

The Kyrgyz government owns just under a third of Kumtor and the mine contributes nearly 10% of the country's GDP. The miner, the largest Western-based gold producer in Central Asia, successfully sought international arbitration in May last year, following the Kyrgyz Republic’s string of penalties, fines, accusations of environmental damage and violation of business deals.

Last year a Kyrgyz court ordered KGC to pay about $98m in fines related to mine waste while another government body filed a $230m lawsuit against the firm.

Kumtor, which lies near the Chinese border at an altitude of 4,000 metres, has produced around 11m ounces since inception and remaining reserves are pegged at 5.6m ounces. In November Centerra said it was increasing its gold output guidance for the mine to 525,000 to 555,000 ounces and lowering all-in sustaining cost forecast to $751 – $795 per ounce.

Centerra has been shopping for assets in other jurisdictions and last year acquired US-based Thompson Creek Metals (TSX:TCM), picking up the Mount Milligan copper-gold mine in British Columbia, Canada, in a $1.1 billion deal.