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ADB investment programme to help grow green agribusiness in Mongolia www.fareasternagriculture.com

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved a US$448mn investment programme to support green and inclusive development of Mongolia’s Aimags (province) and Soums (sub province)
The ‘Aimags and Soums Green Regional Development Investment Programme’ will promote a transformative model for green territorial development and green urban-rural linkages. Secondary towns will become anchors of climate-smart agribusinesses that promote sustainable, resilient, and low-carbon rangeland management.
“The programme pilots an integrated solution to Mongolia’s multidimensional challenges by balancing its territorial development, reducing migration to Ulaanbaatar, and regenerating rangeland natural resources for carbon capture,” said ADB principal portfolio management specialist, Arnaud Heckmann. “The programme is designed for replicability within and outside of Mongolia.”
Mongolia’s rangelands cover 82% of the country and are under severe threat due to livestock pressure on pastureland and unsustainable rangeland management practices. Climate change has reduced the productivity of fragile rangelands and has increasingly exposed herders to climate-related natural hazards.
With an initial focus on western provinces, the programme will implement climate-resilient, high-carbon sequestration, and sustainable rangeland management to support herder groups and empower them with sustainable livestock and agricultural management practices. It will promote renewable energy and low-carbon solutions through urban services, to build liveable Province and sub province centres as anchors for a green agribusiness value chain.
To expand financial access for low carbon and climate-resilient agribusiness value chains, the project will establish a green and inclusive regional agribusiness fund to provide climate-smart financial mechanisms and institutions to overcome the financial bottlenecks of agribusiness small and medium-sized enterprises. This will generate green jobs and promote green economic recovery and diversification.
The total programme cost is US$735mn, with counterpart financing from the Government of Mongolia and the private sector, along with co-financing from the European Investment Bank, European Union, and the Green Climate Fund. A US$3mn grant is sourced from the Asian Development Fund (ADF). The ADF provides grants to ADB’s poorest and most vulnerable developing member countries. The project will be implemented in three stages (tranches) and is expected to be completed in 2033.
 
 
 
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1 killed, 2 missing in Mongolia due to snow and dust storms www.xinhuanet.com

At least one person was killed and two others missing after heavy blizzards and strong dust storms swept through large parts of Mongolia over the past two days, the country's National Emergency Management Agency said Wednesday.
Thirteen people who were missing in the snow and dust storms have been found alive, the emergency agency said.
Unfortunately, a 61-year-old woman was killed in the western province of Govi-Altai due to the storms, it said.
Search for the two missing people is underway in the northern province of Selenge and the eastern province of Dornod.
Mongolia has a harsh continental climate as strong winds and dust storms are common in spring.
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Today Marks 42nd Anniversary of Mongolia’s First Space Flight www.montsame.mn

Today marks the 42nd anniversary of the first space flight by a Mongolian.
On this day in 1981, Hero of the Mongolian People’s Republic, Hero of the USSR Jugderdemidiin Gurragchaa along with twice Hero of USSR, Hero of Mongolian People’s Republic, Soviet cosmonaut V.A.Dzhanibekov flew into space on the Soyuz 39 spacecraft, landing back on Earth at 7.42 pm on March 30.
With this event, Mongolia became the 10th country in the world to send off a cosmonaut into space, and Mongolian cosmonaut J. Gurragchaa became the 2nd person in Asia, and the 101st person in the world to fly into space.
While in orbit, 36 experiments and research were carried out in the fields of medical care and biology, physics and technology, and remote sensing, which laid out the foundations for the development of space science in Mongolia.
Incidentally, a MONTSAME team of seven, comprised of columnists, reporters, and photographers covered the events related to the flights between 1978 and 1981 and took over 60 percent of all photographs of the space flights in Mongolia, especially those in the archives.
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US Forest Service to OK land swap for Rio’s Tinto’s Arizona copper mine before July www.reuters.com

The US Forest Service plans to re-publish an environmental report before July that will set in motion a land swap between the US government and Rio Tinto, allowing the mining giant to develop the controversial Resolution Copper project in Arizona.
The move would be the latest blow to Native Americans who have long opposed the mine project, which would destroy a site of religious importance but supply more than a quarter of US copper demand for the green energy transition.
The complex case centers around a land swap approved by Congress in 2014 that required an environmental report to be published, something the Trump administration did shortly before leaving office. President Joe Biden then unpublished that report in March 2021 to give his administration time to review the Apache’s concerns, though he was not able to permanently block the mine.
Meanwhile, Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit group comprised of members of the San Carlos Apache tribe and others, sued to prevent the transfer of the federally owned Oak Flat Campground, which sits atop a reserve of more than 40 billion pounds of copper, a crucial component of electric vehicles. Several courts have ruled against the group.
Joan Pepin, an attorney for the Forest Service, told an en banc hearing of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday that “the prediction for that (new environmental report) is to be ready this spring.”
The Forest Service is not waiting for the court’s ruling to publish the new report, Pepin said, adding that the agency does not believe an 1852 treaty between the US government and Apaches gives Native Americans the right to the land containing the copper.
“This particular treaty is just a peace treaty. It doesn’t settle any rights to land and it doesn’t create any land rights,” Pepin told the court.
The Apache Stronghold held a ceremony outside the Pasadena, California, courthouse on Tuesday to protest Rio’s plans for the copper mine.
Reuters images showed some protesters drumming while others displayed placards with the words “Save Oak Flat” and “What will we do when the last mine is mined?” in the rain.
The 11 judges at the hearing peppered all sides about the legal concept of substantial burden and whether the government can do what it want with federal land, even if it prevents some citizens from fully exercising their religious beliefs. A full ruling is expected in the near future.
A Rio Tinto spokesperson said the company is closely following the case and respects the legal process, but believes “that settled precedent supports” the rejection of Apache Stronghold’s claims by a lower court. Rio has said it will smelt copper from the project inside the United States.
Representatives for Apache Stronghold and the San Carlos Apache tribe were not immediately available to comment, nor were representatives for BHP, which is helping Rio develop the mine.
“It is my hope that … the government will correct a troubling double standard in the law that has disenfranchised Native American practitioners and continued a history of callous disregard of their sacred sites by the government,” said Stephanie Barclay of Becket Law, a conservative legal group dedicated to religious rights that opposes the land swap.
(By Ernest Scheyder; Editing by Aurora Ellis, Chris Reese and Aurora Ellis)
 
 
 
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5,076 apartments to be put into use through the redevelopment of ger area in 2023 www.gogo.mn

A regular meeting of the capital city authorities was held on March 20. At the beginning of the meeting, the Mayor clarified about the progress of the road, bikeway, sidewalk, and bridge construction.
In 2022, 11 works were launched within the framework of traffic congestion reduction measures. In 2022-2023, there are 36 measures are being implemented with state and capital budget funds. 24 measures have been completed and 12 measures are under implementation. The Mayor reminded that the minimum width of the sidewalk should be 2.7 meters or more.
More than 2,000 people registered to volunteer at the "Ulaanbaatar 2023" East Asian Youth Games
"Ulaanbaatar 2023" East Asian Youth Games will be held in Ulaanbaatar on August 16-23 with 11 sports. Within the framework of the EAYG, more than 30 training courses involving about 1,500 people will be organized and human resources and volunteers of the EAYG will be trained. More than 1,950 people from Mongolia and 120 people from abroad registered to volunteer. The competition will be held in about 10 buildings, the opening is planned to be held at the Central Stadium, and the closing is planned to be held at Sukhbaatar Square. More than 1,500 athletes will participate in the EAYG, and a total of about 2,700 people are expected to come to the competition.
5,076 apartments to be put into use through the redevelopment of ger area in 2023
In 2023, 26 contractors will put 5,076 apartments into use in 10 locations in six districts of the capital city. Last year, 5,900 apartments were put into use as part of redevelopment, which is the highest performance. The Mayor highlighted the need for construction based on sub-centers and the need to increase the housing policy.
Children's playgrounds to be monitored
At the end of the regular meeting, Governor of the capital city and Mayor of Ulaanbaatar D.Sumiyabazar gave the following tasks.
To organize investment implementation and financing activities transparently and promptly in accordance with the Law on Budget, the Austerity Law and related laws and regulations, to improve the coordination of work, and to intensify the monitoring of all stages of the execution of investment work;
To intensify the work of enforcement and implementation of city standards, to promote it to enterprises, organizations and public, to provide the training methods, and to monitor the implementation;
To carry out surveillance studies on the use of residential buildings and the engineering networks, to intensify the passporting of buildings, and to monitor implementation;
To organize monitoring of leisure and children's playgrounds that do not meet the standards in each district, to provide recommendations and notice to owner about the ensuring of standards, and to monitor implementation;
To meet the standards of trade and service centers and external addresses and billboards, and to intensify the work of removing torn, unsightly addresses and billboards placed without permission on public streets and squares.
MEDIA AND PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT OF THE GOVERNOR’S OFFICE OF THE CAPITAL CITY
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Foreign trade turnover reached USD 4.8 billion increasing by 56.3% www.gogo.mn

The total turnover of foreign trade reached USD 4.8 billion, an increase of 56.3% or USD 1.7 billion from the same period last year. Of this, exports increased by USD 1.5 billion and imports by USD 0.2 billion.
During this period, Mongolia traded with 107 countries, exported goods to 39 countries, and imported goods from 105 countries.
As for the export, exports have reached USD 3.2 billion since the beginning of 2023, increased by USD 1.5 billion 96.3% from the same period last year. Mining products such as iron ore, coal, copper concentrate, zinc concentrate, fluorspar, molybdenum concentrate, crude oil, and silver ore account for 98.4% of the export of mineral products and 84% of the total export.
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Cryptoverse: Bitcoin passes the bank stress test www.reuters.com

As crisis stalks the traditional world of stocks and bonds, bitcoin is suddenly looking like a safe haven.
The infamously volatile cryptocurrency seems positively hale and hearty, just as a banking meltdown drives markets into the arms of a recession.
Bitcoin has risen 21% this month, while a choppy S&P 500 has lost 1.4% and gold has gained 8%.
"If you were going to describe an environment where there were successive bank runs because central banks are trying to fight inflation with fast rate increases, that is pretty close to as spot-on a thesis for owning bitcoin as you've ever heard," said Stéphane Ouellette, CEO at digital asset investment platform FRNT Financial (FRNT.V).
The cryptocurrency has, for now, severed its ties with stocks and bonds and tagged on to a rally in gold, fulfilling at least one part of creator Satoshi Nakamoto's dream - that bitcoin can serve as a refuge for suffering investors.
Bitcoin's 30-day correlation with the S&P 500 (.SPX) has slid to negative 0.12 over the past week, where a measure of 1 indicates the two assets are moving in lock step.
A selloff in banks has wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars in market value and forced U.S. regulators to launch emergency measures. The past couple of weeks has seen Silicon Valley Bank and crypto lender Silvergate go under, while Credit Suisse has teetered on the brink.
Let's not carried away, though. This is bitcoin.
"The bearish argument would be that these dynamics are temporary, and ultimately this rally is not going to sustain," said Ouellette.
It remains to be seen if bitcoin's bullishness will endure as attention shifts to the Federal Reserve's policy meeting this week where the U.S. central bank must walk a fine line as it fights inflation and bank stresses.
Furthermore, the cryptocurrency's allure hasn't all been about safety.
The rapid price rise has forced some short-sellers to cut their bets and buy coin back. Data from Coinglass shows traders liquidated $300 million worth of crypto positions on Monday, with most of that total - $178.5 million - short positions.
Nonetheless, bitcoin is resurgent.
It now commands nearly 43% of the total crypto market, its highest share since last June, according to CoinMarketCap data, while the total cryptocurrency market's capitalization has jumped 23% to $1.1 billion since March 10.
"We're seeing a return to bitcoin's core ethos, that of a financial asset independent from the opacity and meddling of the centralized financial system," said Henry Elder, head of decentralized finance (DeFi) at digital asset investment manager Wave Digital Assets.
The mainstream bank crisis has also fueled some interest in DeFi, with the total value of tokens linked to such platforms rising to $49 billion from $43 billion over the past week, according to DappRadar.
BITCOIN IN A BANK CRISIS
Not all areas of the digital world have been immune to the banking fallout, though. The no. 2 stablecoin Circle USD or USDC lost its 1:1 peg to the dollar after disclosing its reserves were parked at the shuttered Silicon Valley Bank.
As worries spread over USDC's ability to maintain its peg, its market cap slid to $36.8 billion last Friday from $43.8 billion a week earlier, even as leading stablecoin Tether gained around $4 billion.
Market participants said some USDC withdrawals were likely reinvested in bitcoin as well, helping fuel the rally.
"It's too soon to say that bitcoin has proven the narrative that it's an alternative in a banking crisis," cautioned Ed Hindi, Chief Investment Officer at Tyr Capital in Geneva.
But he added: "The rally we are currently witnessing in bitcoin will be looked back at as the point in time where its main property as a decentralized non-sovereign asset was stress tested."
Reporting by Medha Singh and Lisa Mattackal in Bengaluru; Editing by Vidya Ranganathan and Pravin Char
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Mongolia observes International Day of Forests www.xinhuanet.com

Mongolia has marked the International Day of Forests under the theme of "Healthy Forests -- Healthy People" to enhance public awareness about the importance of forests and trees, the country's Ministry of Environment and Tourism said Tuesday.
Under the auspices of the country's President Ukhnaa Khurelsukh, a national conference to discuss the pressing issues in the forestry sector was held here Monday on the occasion of the International Day of Forests, the ministry said in a statement.
"Environmental problems are all interconnected. If we lose trees, we will lose water, air, soil and even life," Minister of Environment and Tourism Bat-Ulzii Bat-Erdene said, urging the country's forestry authorities and citizens to contribute to planting more trees and protecting the environment.
Mongolia has a total land area of 1,564,116 square km, only around 8 percent of which is covered by forests.
About 77 percent of the country's total territory has been affected by desertification and land degradation, according to official data.
Therefore, the Asian country launched a nationwide tree-planting campaign "Billion Trees" initiated by the president in October 2021, which aims to plant at least a billion trees by 2030 to combat desertification.
The country has planted more than 10 million trees across the country since the launch of the tree-planting campaign, according to the ministry.
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Around 6,500 British nationals visit Mongolia annually www.news.mn

Mongolia has welcomed a total of 76,068 foreign tourists so far this year, with Russia, China and South Korea being the biggest sources of its tourist arrivals. Around 6,500 British nationals visit Mongolia annually.
The Mongolian government has been taking measures to revive the pandemic-hit tourism sector. Particularly, it has exempted citizens of 34 countries from visa requirements for up to 30 days until the end of 2025.
The country has also classified 2023, 2024 and 2025 as “Years to Visit Mongolia,” and is expected to organize more than 90 events in 2023 to promote tourism. Mongolia has set a goal of welcoming at least 1 million foreign tourists and earning USD 1 billion from tourism in the coming years.
The country received a total of 290,400 foreign tourists in 2022, earning 350 million dollars from the tourism sector.
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Mongolia’s tourism stakeholders call for more government support www.news.mn

More government support, in terms of marketing the country’s many draws and creation of more flight connections around the world, is needed to help grow Mongolia’s tourism industry, say tourism players interviewed at ITB Berlin.
“Not many people know about Mongolia. We do not have an organisation that helps us to market the country, such as what the Maldives – which has a marketing and PR agency – is doing. I think the government should invest in (creating) a marketing department for tourism,” opined Zundui Odbaya, CEO of Mongolian Tourism Company.
He added: “I also want to invite younger travellers to visit Mongolia and see what life is like here. One reason why we are exhibiting (as a standalone booth) is because we are advertising more extreme activities such as motorbike tours, horseback riding tours, and ATVs. We want to bring down the average age of travellers choosing Mongolia for their trips.”
For Mongolian Tourism Company, 80 per cent of their clients come from Asia, a result of working with DMCs and travel agents in their respective countries. Interestingly, Vietnamese travellers are one of their top inbound markets, the result of five-times-weekly chartered flights to Vietnam.
Similarly, Buyanzaya Eldevdorj, sales manager, Juulchin World Tours, agreed that “more can be done” by the government for the tourism industry. For instance, the connectivity to Mongolia can be improved. She said: “Without flights, we cannot welcome tourists from other countries, so more airlines flying to Mongolia would be good.”
When asked what was Mongolia’s main draw, Eldevdorj shared: “My country offers untouched nature, vast landscapes, and traditional festivals that you’ll only experience here, like the Naadam Festival.”
Held throughout the country during midsummer, Naadam is where locals take part in games such as Mongolian wrestling, horse racing, and archery. Some of Juulchin World Tours’ itineraries are built around this festival to allow tourists a chance to peek into the local’s nomadic lifestyle.
Traditionally, the company hosts more European tourists from countries like Germany, Italy, Finland and Norway, although there are groups from South Korea, Japan, and Singapore visiting as well.
Batsuuri Zolboo, international affairs manager, Mongolian Tourism Company, also highlighted the country’s vastness as one of its unique selling points.
“Mongolia has 1.6 million square kilometres, but we only have 3.4 million people. There’s plenty of space for tourists to explore” he said.
When asked why there weren’t many chartered flights to Singapore, considering that Singaporeans travel a lot and are constantly on the lookout for new destinations, Odbayar shared: “We are looking for partners with big pockets in Singapore, as starting charter flights is a costly and risky venture. But with direct flights, we can definitely make it easier for Singaporean travellers to visit.”
(source: ttgasia )
 
 
 
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