A new traditional Mongolian word-level online handwriting dataset, MOLHW is introduced. The dataset consists of handwritten Mongolian words, including 164,631 samples written by 200 writers and covering 40,605 Mongolian common words. These words were selected from a large Mongolian corpus. The coordinate points of words were collected by volunteers, who wrote the corresponding words on the dedicated application for their mobile phones.

With the popularity of mobile phones and digital devices, more applications of handwriting recognition have emerged, such as the handwriting input method, signature recognition, and business card recognition. In the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China, about 4 million people speak and write the traditional Mongolian language. However, owing to the lack of datasets, the development of Mongolian online handwriting recognition has been slow.

In Mongolian online handwriting recognition, to our knowledge, MRG-OHMW is the first publicly available database for online handwritten Mongolian. The main shortcoming of this dataset is that the vocabulary only covers 946 Mongolian words, which is too small for Mongolian, and the handwriting trajectories were collected by an Anoto pen on paper, making them different from trajectories written with fingers on a touch screen.

The MOLHW dataset is now freely available to researchers for various Mongolian online text-related applications, such as Mongolian online text recognition, handwritten text generation, writer identification and verification, and signature recognition. The main contributions of this paper can thus be summarized as follows.

The creation of an open vocabulary benchmarking dataset of a Mongolian online handwritten dataset, MOHLW, which includes 164,631 samples written by 200 writers and covers 40,605 common Mongolian words.

The development of tools, techniques, and procedures for Mongolian online text collection, verification, and transliteration.

The development of a proposed benchmark model for recognition of online Mongolian handwritten words using the encoder–decoder model.

A comparison of the performance of different models on this dataset.

Like English, traditional Mongolian is a phonetic script, with 35 letters. Unlike letters in the Latin alphabet, Mongolian letters have different shapes depending on the position and context in a word.

Kamila Valieva, one of the current stars of Russian figure skating, is rumored to perform at the Steppe arena in Mongolia. According to specialist of the Steppe Arena Complex, “In April or May, Russian Olympic and world champion figure skaters led by Kamila Valieva are scheduled to perform in Mongolia.”

Kamila Valieva participated in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, where she claimed the title of the first woman to land a quadruple jump in the Olympic Games.

Separately, Mongolia will host the Asian Youth Hockey Championship on 11-18 March, and the World Hockey Championship on 23-26 March for first time. As you may already know, Steppe Arena is the newly built ice rink that is built per proposed standards from the International Olympic Committee. The arena proudly provides the opportunity to host both international and continental games.

The International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group, in cooperation with the Mongolian Bank Association, has been implementing a program to enhance the supply chain finance market, especially focusing on the increase of loans and financing secured by moveable assets. For Mongolia, the "Law on Pledge of Movable Property and Intangible Property" was enacted and has been in effect since 2015 becoming one of the most frequently discussed legal relations.

Understanding the legal regulations of such relations and application of the law are essential for the growth of loans and financing secured by movable assets. In particular, this law is an economically significant law that provides a mechanism for securing valuable movable property while maintaining the basic concept of ownership in the Civil Code of Mongolia, thereby providing a mechanism for small and medium-sized businesses to obtain the necessary financial needs. In this regard, the concepts and issues of secured transactions and movable property collateral are outlined herein.

The idax cryptocurrency exchange, which is open to users from any country in the world, opened a year ago and now has more than 160,000 users. More than 53,000 of them are foreign users.

The technology, safety and maintenance of products have been improved over this year.

Advantages of idax include multi-coin trading, competitive fees (idax charges a flat fee of 0.2% per trade), a web-based platform.

The "Mongolian Stock Exchange" (MSE) started its primary market trading on December 26 by offering 34 percent of its total of 119,157,598 shares to the public.

As a result, the MSE raised MNT 57.8 billion through 7.417 orders which exceeded its initial target of MNT 11.9 billion by 4.8 times.

The Financial Regulatory Commission will review the subscriptions according to the Regulation on Securities Registration and issue a final report.

As part of its New Revival Policy, the Government of Mongolia has made a decision to make 25 state-owned companies public by offering their shares. In accordance with the decision, the MSE became the first state-owned company to issue its IPO and convert into a public company.

The Minister of Finance, B. Javkhlan, emphasized that the IPO of MSE became the starting point for publicizing state-owned companies.

Aspire Mining Ltd (ASX:AKM) is busy developing metallurgical coal assets in Mongolia, where it is working on its wholly owned Ovoot Coking Coal Project (OCCP) in the country's north.

The company has now wrapped up onsite activities related to a small-scale infill drilling program on the Ovoot mining licence, as previously planned and announced for the December quarter.

Approved drilling activities

The drilling was done in accordance with the exploration plan approved by the Mineral Resources and Petroleum Authority of Mongolia (MRPAM), along with an environmental protection plan approved by soum (council) and aimag (province) authorities administered under the Ministry of Nature, Environment and Tourism (MNET).

Exploration boreholes were drilled at 11 locations within the mining licence, for a total of 1,569 metres drilled.

Of these, 1,284 metres were of HQ size (including 487.5 metres of PCD2 drilling and 836.2 metres of DD3 drilling) and 285 metres were of PQ size (including 152.6 metres PCD and 131.6m DD).

The company has now delivered the water, coal and rock samples it gathered from the field to accredited laboratories in Ulaanbaatar.

Initial laboratory results are expected to be available in early 2023 to facilitate the intended hydrological, geotechnical and washability analyses for input into revised geological modelling and mine design and scheduling.

The implementation of the exploration program provided multiple commercial opportunities for people and businesses in Tsetserleg soum.

Over a two-month period, more than 30 local people were employed, and more than MNT 165 million (around US $50,000) was spent directly and indirectly on locally procured goods and services, which the company says represents a significant contribution to the local economy.

About Aspire Mining

Aspire Mining wholly owns the world-class Ovoot Coking Coal Project and has a 90% stake in the Nuurstei Coking Coal Project – both in the Khuvsgul aimag province of northern Mongolia, near the border with Russia.

The company is focused upon permitting, engineering and financing the Ovoot Project.

The plan is to mine coking coal, truck this to a company-owned terminal facility in Erdenet and then deliver the product to customers in China and Russia via the existing Mongolian rail network.

The Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg handed over a donation of EUR 5 million for the Prevention and Reduction of Child Rheumatic Heart Disease in Mongolia to UNICEF Mongolia.

Rheumatism is the most commonly acquired heart disease globally in people under the age of 25. It starts as a sore throat from a bacterium called Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococcus) which can spread easily from one person to another. Every year, the disease claims 288,348 lives worldwide. The earlier it is detected; the earlier action is taken which leads to a better health outcome. According to 10-year morbidity data (2011-2021), children’s morbidity accounted for 29.1 percent of the total morbidity in Mongolia. The report, issued by the Center for Health Development in 2022, stated that respiratory tract infections had been the most common among children under 15.

“I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the Government of Luxembourg on behalf of UNICEF Mongolia for its generous contribution made in support of the health of the most vulnerable children in Mongolia. Investing in the Prevention and Reduction of Child Rheumatic Heart Disease is one of the most cost-effective interventions to ensure a reduction in Child congenital diseases” says Evariste Kouassi-Komlan, UNICEF Representative in Mongolia.

UNICEF Mongolia’s Rheumatic prevention program aims to screen girls and boys, including adolescents, at an early stage for Rheumatic Heart Disease and streptococcus pharyngitis with the help of medical workers who are capable of using existing equipment to diagnose child heart disease and other non-communicable diseases.

Additionally, the program will create an enabling environment for antenatal care and early infancy and adolescents’ health, as well as train doctors, nurses, and health workers for an improved capacity in diagnosing and using existing equipment for early screening of congenital heart disease (CHD) and other non-communicable diseases among infant children. Finally, the program will promote healthy lifestyles including good hygiene through targeted awareness-raising campaigns.