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Mongolia confirms its 314th case of coronavirus on Oct 5 www.akipress.com

Mongolia confirms its 314th case of coronavirus on Oct 5, Director of the National Center for Communicable Diseases Dulmaa Nyamkhuu said.
1,823 people have undergone the laboratory tests for Covid-19 on October 2-4, and one tested positive.
A 19-year old woman who arrived from Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan tested positive.
As of today, the total number of COVID-19 cases in Mongolia has reached 314 (all imported) and total recoveries reached 307.
Seven patients are receiving the treatment.
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First agreement on construction of oil refinery established www.montsame.mn

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ “JMC Projects India” Company, which has been selected as a general contractor of “First engineering-procurement – construction (EPC-1) project” and “Mongol Refinery” state-owned company established virtually an agreement on the first phase of construction of an oil refinery on October 2.
Head of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Industrialization Policy G.Temuulen, member of the committee J.Bat-Erdene, Minister of Mining and Heavy Industry G.Yondon, Head of Heavy Industry and Petroleum Policy Coordination Department of the Ministry of Mining and Heavy Industry B.Ankhbayar, Executive Director of “Mongol Refinery” state owned company D.Altantsetseg and Ambassador of India to Mongolia M.P. Singh attended the signing ceremony. The oil refinery would become an industrial foundation for Mongolia’s oil and chemical sectors and a national construction based on new technologies. With establishment of the agreement, construction of the oil refinery officially launched.
The construction of oil refinery will be consisted of four parts - engineering, procurement, and construction. “JMC Projects India” Company has been selected as a general contractor in charge of the first phase of the oil refinery construction, specifically, development of the refinery’s non-technological facilities and construction site infrastructure. The company will construct administration building, warehouse, repair facility, fire safety and first aid units, laboratory and water supply system of the refinery.
"JMC Projects India" is an experienced company in areas of infrastructure, energy, industry and construction and it has successfully carried out over 50 construction projects in India and other countries.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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UK’s first new deep coal mine in 30 years approved www.mining.com

Plans to build the U.K.’s first new deep coal mine in three decades were approved on Friday, in a move that threatens to undermine the government’s pledge to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century.
West Cumbria Mining’s Woodhouse Colliery project, in north-west England, has faced steep opposition from environment groups urging the government to intervene and block it. They claim the new coal mine would emit 8 million tonnes of carbon annually.
The planned mine is expected to produce as much as 3.1 million tonnes of metallurgical coal a year, mainly from under the seabed. Processed coal would then be transferred by underground conveyor to trains using a new loading facility and sidings.
Woodhouse Colliery is scheduled to begin production in the second half of 2021, creating 500 jobs. It had originally been slated to run for 70 years, but West Cumbria Mining had to resubmit plans following a judicial review last year.
Under the approved plans, it will close in 2049, one year before the country must have net zero emissions.
“Net-zero” goal questioned
Most in the UK are skeptical about achieving the net zero target, according to a survey by the centre-right think tank Bright Blue published Friday.
The report found that 58% of the public believe that it is unlikely that the target will be achieved even by 2050.
The UK is set to host the COP26 round of UN global climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, in November 2021. The event is considered the most important climate negotiations since the Paris agreement in 2015.
England’s last operating deep coal mine, Kellingley, closed in 2015 and the country’s last coal mine stopped operating this year.
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Mongolia engineering JV shoots to international prominence www.miningmonthly.com

Massive ore handling chutes produced for the Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia's South Gobi region have opened a new expansion window for Murray Mining Services in the country. Previously, it was believed that these huge chutes could not be manufactured locally in Mongolia.
"About 50-60% of the equipment and other products used in large mines such as Oyu Tolgoi is made abroad and imported into Mongolia," says MMS CEO, Batkhuu Dorj. "However, we have become a leader in Mongolia's steel fabrication sector because we have produced the world's largest and most heavy-duty underground ore unloading chutes. Inspection and evaluations by international third-party companies have confirmed the chutes meet world standards and requirements."
The four 60-70-tonne chutes have been delivered to Oyu Tolgoi in record time.
Batkhuu told a Mongolian newspaper the project was creating new opportunities for skilled local workers. Nearly all of MMS' eighty personnel are Mongolian. The company's 2,700sq.m Ulaanbaatar facility hosts modern, automated equipment such as high-capacity steel cutters, rollers and drills, and can produce 100,000kg of fabricated product a month.
"We mainly engage in steel fabrication, repair, maintenance, lifting devices and steel mining structures," Batkhuu told Today News Mongolia.
"To produce high-quality products that meet international standards, we have been in contact with similar foreign and domestic companies since 2016, and have partnered with Murray Engineering to ensure we meet or exceed these standards."
Batkhuu advised that training and upskilling young Mongolian workers as high-grade welders and manufacturers, and building local industry support capacity, has strategic advantages for the country's economy and mining sector. "Adding value through skilled labour and production at home boosts Mongolia's foreign exchange balance."
Local customers also benefit from cost savings and more timely delivery and support.
Murray forms one-half of the MMS joint venture, and is a leading Australia wide mechanical, electrical engineering and manufacturing company, which was established 15 years ago. Murray saw an opportunity to work with South Gobi Development Corp to manufacture international-standard products and services on the doorstep of Mongolia's South Gobi mega-mines, and other emerging projects in the resource-rich country. MMS now follows in Murray's footsteps, offering world-class, fully certified manufacturing to the mining and energy industries.
MMS has also had the capacity to hire and train more local people as demand for the company's services grows.
They include women such as welder T. Zoljargal, who said the company was providing new opportunities in Mongolia and she wanted to "show that women can work in any field with no less skill than men".
As well as the long-life, complex chutes used in high-wearing applications deep underground at Oyu Tolgoi, MMS is producing 5-6m tall insulation and ventilation doors for the mine - replacing Chinese imports - and has manufactured and supplied anchors, excavator buckets and sledges, and assembled 30 trays for Komatsu 930E surface dump trucks each with carrying capacity of 300 tons.
Under the guidance of Murray Engineering, the company follows the strict Australian/New Zealand 1554.1 international steel fabrication standard to manufacture and supply high-quality "Mongolian Made" products to the world, with Manufacturers Data Records kept to ensure traceability through the manufacturing process.
Senior QA inspector S. Munkhjargal said standardisation of process and multi-level skilling of workers allowed MMS to guarantee that its products meet international standards and would stand the test of time even in the harshest mining conditions.
"Each day we perform visual inspections on all ongoing projects in the workshop and after the product has passed all visual inspections and hold points we employ a third party non-destructive testing company to test to the appropriate method and standard."
The local newspaper quoted an Oyu Tolgoi quality inspector saying that it was very encouraging "to see such high-quality performance work made in Mongolia".
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Mongolia receives 160 more nationals from Kazakhstan amid pandemic www.xinhuanet.com

A passenger plane chartered by the Mongolian government to return its nationals from Kazakhstan arrived here on Sunday, according to Mongolia's State Emergency Commission (SEC).
The chartered flight from Nur-Sultan to Ulan Bator landed at the Buyant-Ukhaa International Airport on Sunday morning, with 160 passengers onboard, the SEC said in a statement.
The returnees include children, pregnant women, the elderly, and those with health and other problems, the commission said, adding that they will be isolated at designated facilities for 21 days.
Following the suspension of international commercial flights, more than 23,000 Mongolian nationals came back on chartered flights, trains or buses from different parts of the world, according to the commission.
The Asian country planned to send at least 11 chartered flights this month to bring back more stranded nationals from abroad.
Mongolia has reported a total of 313 COVID-19 cases, all of which were imported.
No local transmissions or deaths have been reported in the country so far. Enditem
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Mike Pompeo shortens Asia trip after Donald Trump falls ill with Covid-19 www.scmp.com

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will depart for Japan on Sunday but will not go to Mongolia and South Korea as originally planned, the State Department said on Saturday, after President Donald Trump was diagnosed and hospitalised due to the coronavirus.
Initially, Pompeo planned to visit all three countries between October 4 and October 8. He is still set to leave for Tokyo on Sunday but will be returning to Washington on October 6 after consultations with his Japanese counterparts and attending a wider meeting with foreign ministers of India and Australia.
Trump announced his illness in the early hours of Friday and was flown from the White House to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center near Washington. In a video from the hospital on Saturday, he said he felt “much better” but the next few days will be “the real test” of his treatment for Covid-19.
World leaders wish Trump and Melania speedy recovery from Covid-19
In a speech delivered virtually earlier to the Florida Family Policy Council, Pompeo said he was in good health but that he cancelled his in-person appearance at the event “out of an abundance of caution”. He said he still planned to go to Asia.
‘Unreliable’ personality-driven US foreign policy risks chaos
4 Oct 2020
“You should know that I’m feeling fine, I’m doing great. I’ve been tested twice in two days. I’m as healthy as I’ve been. And I intend still – I have a trip that I’m planning to take to Asia tomorrow,” he said.
In a statement, the State Department said Pompeo was expecting to travel to Asia again in October and will work to reschedule the visits in his original itinerary.
Pompeo’s visit to East Asia, his first to the region in over a year, comes at a time when US ties with Beijing are at their worst in decades.
Pompeo is meeting with the foreign ministers of Japan, Australia and India - so called the Quad group that is seen as a counter to China’s influence in the region. Beijing has made clear its opposition to the US “Indo-Pacific strategy”, which was conceived to elevate India as a potential regional counterweight to China.
Pompeo urges US states to beware of China’s ‘sinister’ attempts at engagement
24 Sep 2020
The meeting is also one of the highest-profile diplomatic gatherings for the Trump administration before the US presidential election, where policy toward Beijing has become a major campaign issue. It also comes as China and India try to defuse tensions on their disputed Himalayan border, after a military standoff led to gunshots being fired over the frontier for the first time since 1975.
The Quad gathering will “focus on pressing issues of the Indo-Pacific region,” State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said.
The US president’s campaign launched “Operation MAGA” to send out surrogates who would attest to his vitality and keep his voter base motivated until Trump recovers enough to resume campaigning in person.
Both Pompeo and his wife have tested negative for the virus.
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‘Greening the China-Mongolia-Russia economic corridor: A visual synthesis’ report launched www.montsame.mn

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The launch of a new report ‘Greening the China–Mongolia–Russia economic corridor - A visual synthesis’ took place in both virtual and face-to-face format on October 1 at the International Environment House in Geneva, Switzerland. The report, illustrating the Belt and Road developments in Mongolia, was prepared by Zoï Environment Network, with the support of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment and the Permanent Mission of Mongolia to the United Nations in Geneva.
The report launch event was attended by L.Purevsuren, Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva, Martine Rohn, Deputy Head, International Affairs Division, Federal Office for the Environment, Switzerland, Otto Simonett, Director, Zoï Environment Network, Rowan Palmer, Programme Specialist, Sustainable Infrastructure Partnership, representatives of Geneva-based international environmental organizations and Swiss private sector and Chamber of Commerce and Industry and some researchers..
Ambassador L.Purevsuren noted that major infrastructure projects of railroads and roads to be implemented as part of the Trilateral Corridor Program will not only connect Russia and China, but also create the shortest corridor between Europe and Asia. He stressed that these projects are open to third-party involvement and investment and that the Mongolian side is committed to using the most advanced environmentally friendly technologies in the projects implementation in compliance with international standards.
“Mongolia launched an initiative aimed at ensuring environmental sustainability in infrastructure projects in 2017 and had a resolution adopted at the UN Environment Assembly in 2019. The initiative has been widely appreciated at the global level,” said United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) representative Rowan Palmer, adding that Mongolia was the first country to join UNEP's Partnership for Action on Green Economy.
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BoM purchases 2.3 tons of precious metal in September www.montsame.mn

Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/. In September 2020, the Bank of Mongolia purchased 2.3 tons of precious metal, raising the BoM’s total precious metal purchase of 2020 to 17.1 tons, of which 15.4 tons were gold and 1.7 tons were silver. It means the amount of precious metal purchase increased by 6.0 tons compared with the same period of previous year.
In September, the BoM branches in Darkhan-Uul and Bayankhongor aimags bought 123.9 kg and 154.5 kg of precious metals respectively. The average price of BoM’s purchase of 1 gram of gold was MNT 176,494.48 in September.
 
 
 
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Japanese Foreign Minister to visit Mongolia www.news.mn

Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi plans to visit Mongolia next week to seek cooperation in resolving the issue of North Korea’s abductions of Japanese nationals. Mr Motegi is expected to meet with Prime Minister U.Khurelsukh and Foreign Minister N.Enkhtaivan during the visit.
Mongolia has close ties with North Korea and Japan has often looked to Mongolia to act as a mediator.
Yoshihide Suga, Japan’s new prime minister, has said he will make every effort to resolve the abduction issue and is ready to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un without any preconditions, a position inherited from his predecessor Shinzo Abe.
Mr Motegi is also expected to discuss ways to ease travel restrictions between Japan and Mongolia that have been imposed to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
It will be the first trip to Mongolia by a Japanese foreign minister since Taro Kono visited the country in June last year.
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‘E-Mongolia’ electronic platform launched to provide 181 government services www.montsame.mn

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. E-Mongolia electronic platform, which is intended to serve as a one-stop shop for various government services, launched officially yesterday, October 01. The Communications and Information Technology Authority, the developer of the E-Mongolia system, today organized a presentation on the system.
The system, which compiles and integrates government services to provide easy and smooth round-the-clock access, now allows citizens to obtain 181 government services through mobile application (iOS and Android) and online website, such as references, submission of request to government services, tracking of application processes without limitation of geography, locations, and time and so on. Furthermore, users are able to submit their requests and petitions to the government agencies, and get address location, office hour, and service conditions of the government agencies.
Other government service systems, such as E-barimt (VAT promotion system under the Ministry of Finance) and E-halamj (social welfare services under the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection) have also been integrated into the E-Mongolia platform. Another 492 government services will become available on the system within the next year, according to the developer. E-Mongolia app users will not be charged for data used while accessing the app until the end of 2020 in agreement with mobile service providers, such as Mobicom, Unitel and Skytel as part of their social responsibility.
During the presentation of E-Mongolia platform, Chair of the Cabinet Secretariat L.Oyun-Erdene underlined that the system has been developed and introduced within the framework of the government’s long-term development policy ‘Vision – 2050’ and the government’s action plan for until 2024 with a view to reduce red tape and bureaucracy for citizens of the country and develop single-window service concept.
“As five to seven years are estimated to be required for Mongolia to make a complete digital transition, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Innovation and Digital Policy is developing several bills to ensure digital transition, such as bills on information security, data protection, etc. At minimum, MNT 10 billion could be cut on annual expenses related to paper-based document flings and postal services with the help of the full digitization of government services” said Oyun-Erdene.
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