As part of the Support to Animal Feed Plant Growing Project, 10 hectares (24.7 acres) of cultivatied land was created with alfalfa seeds and equipment brought from Turkey.

A statement said the rising air temperature in Mongolia due to global warming has been causing various problems such as drought and the subsequent insufficiency of animal feed in the summer, making the country’s economic infrastructure and lives of animal owners difficult. Due to the harsh winter climate in Mongolia and the presence of about 80 million animals, the livestock sector is a vitally important sector for the country’s economy.

The project of sharing Turkey’s experience in livestock feed and farming areas with Mongolia first started in 2017, and has continued with a three-year trial planting in different parts of the country in line with the feasibility report prepared by Turkish agricultural experts who examined the soil structure and climate conditions of Mongolia.

As part of the project, 10 hectares of hedged experimental area in the Altanbulag and Bornuur districts of the Tov Province in northern Mongolia have been provided with irrigation systems, motor pumps, feed plant pressing machines, and back pulverizers.

TIKA has also provided laboratory equipment to be used for scientific studies at the Mongolia Agricultural University Faculty of Animal Husbandry and Biotechnology.

According to the report, the Americas were the most affected region, with an estimated 18.3 percent drop in working hours, or 70 million full-time jobs.

The report said there were multiple factors causing this global decline such as, shorter working hours, temporary leave — or furlough — as well as unemployment and “inactivity.”

The United Nations’ labor agency, the ILO, has outlined three different scenarios for a labor market recovery in the second half of 2020.

In its baseline model the ILO projected a 4.9 percent decline in working hours, or 140 million job losses, compared to the fourth quarter of 2019. The scenario assumed a rebound in economic activity according to existing forecasts, the lifting of workplace lockdown restrictions, in addition to a recovery in consumption and investment.

A pessimistic scenario would see an estimated 11.9 percent fall in working hours, or 340 million job losses. That is based on an assumed second wave of coronavirus cases, prompting the return of lockdown restrictions, therefore meaning a “significantly slow recovery.”

The optimistic model would work out at an estimated 1.2 percent decrease in working hours, or 34 million job cuts. Such a best-case scenario would be the result of workers’ activities resuming quickly, “significantly boosting aggregate demand and job creation.”

The director-general of the ILO Guy Ryder said “The decisions we adopt now will echo in the years to come and beyond 2030,” adding that “we need to redouble our efforts if we want to come out of this crisis in a better shape than when it started.”

Among the passengers, there were 94 families with young children, 23 pregnant women, 65 elders and their caregivers, 28 people with medical reasons, and 53 people with reasonable excuses such as finances and visas.

The citizens arrived on the flight have been put into 21-day mandatory isolation at the National Center for Communicable Diseases, Central Military Hospital, and other isolation facilities.

Meanwhile, two more patients have recovered from the disease, bringing the total recoveries to 185, the NCCD said in statement.

All the 220 confirmed cases in the country were imported, mostly from Russia, according to the center.

A French national tested positive for the virus on March 10, becoming the first case in Mongolia. So far, no local transmissions or deaths have been reported in the country. Enditem

Lab tests confirmed that two unidentified individuals had contracted the “marmot plague” in the region of Khovd, Mongolia’s National Center for Zoonotic Disease (NCZD) said in a statement.

The NCZD said it moved to quarantine the provincial capital and one of the region’s districts about 500 kilometers south of the southern Siberian republics of Tyva and Altai.

Vehicles are temporarily banned from entering the region, the state-run TASS news agency cited Mongolian media as saying.

The NCZD said it has analyzed samples taken from 146 people who it said had contacts with the two infected persons and identified 504 second-contact individuals. Media reports suggested that the victims were a 27-year-old male and a young woman of an unknown age.

Mongolia closed a key border crossing with Russia in May 2019 on suspicion that it may have played a role in an outbreak of the plague, stranding several Russian tourists. A husband and wife had died after eating marmot meat in that incident.

Experts say the direct descendants of the same bubonic plague that killed 50 million people in the 14th century still exist today, killing around 2,000 people a year.

A sovereign loan of up to US$ 7 million will help the northern Mongolian town, located in the valley between the Selenga and Orkhon rivers, implement modern flood-protection measures and improve its water supply system.

It will help address the consequences of decades of underinvestment in the municipal water networks. This will improve the resilience of Erdenet’s water infrastructure to climate change and address public health challenges.

The investment is aiming to increase by 3,200 the number of households connected to the central water supply and to reduce the volume of annual water losses by 15 per cent or 0.8 million cubic metres.

The coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated the critical importance of the highest hygiene and sanitation standards, and water supply and treatment are among most serious longstanding challenges that the country is facsing.

In Mongolia the EBRD works to help build a diverse economy by developing the private sector and supporting infrastructure improvements. The Bank has invested more than €1.7 billion in 104 projects in the country since it started operations there in 2006.

The "Shireg Shireg" video is the newest teaser for THE HU's upcoming deluxe version of "The Gereg", out on July 10. Also on the album are fantastic collaborations with Jacoby Shaddix (PAPA ROACH), Danny Case (FROM ASHES TO NEW) and Lzzy Hale (HALESTORM). The original version has sold 130,000 copies globally thus far.

Last weekend saw THE HU play a homecoming show after a sold-out world tour, performing at White Rock Centre in Ulaanbaatar in aid of the Mongolian COVID-19 relief. The concert was aired on TV in Mongolia, raising 53 million MNT (approximately $19,000), and made available to a global audience through streaming on Facebook and YouTube, raising $5,000 and counting.

THE HU stands for the Mongolian root word for human being, inspiring the band's original style of music that it calls "Hunnu Rock." The group pulls inspiration from the Hunnu, an ancient Mongolian empire better known as The Huns in western culture. Their music is deeply embedded with their ancient culture, even integrating old Mongolian war cries and poetry into their lyrics.

The group was founded in 2016 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia by their producer Dashka, along with band members Gala, Jaya, Temka and Enkush. Together they create rock music with traditional Mongolian instrumentation such as the morin khuur (horsehead fiddle), tovshuur (Mongolian guitar), tumur khuur (jaw harp), guttural throat singing built around the pillars of heavy rock: distorted guitars, bombastic drums, and aggressive rhythms. All four members have earned Bachelor's or higher degrees in classical music and have gained several years of touring experience throughout Asia and the Pacific Rim.