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Skies in Mongolia mysteriously turn blood-red. Pictures show eerie phenomena www.indiatoday.in

In an extraordinary celestial display, the skies over Mongolia turned deep, blood-red as the country experienced one of the rarest auroral events on Friday and early Saturday.
The intense colouration is attributed to the initial impact of a significant solar storm that collided with Earth, creating a spectacle that left onlookers in awe.
The phenomenon, known as an aurora, typically occurs closer to the poles and is often green in colour. However, the auroras seen in Mongolia were of a striking crimson hue, a rarity caused by the interaction of solar particles with oxygen at high altitudes — over 241 kilometres above the Earth's surface, where the atmosphere is much thinner.
This particular shade of red is considered the most uncommon colour of the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, and its appearance is closely linked to periods of intense solar activity.
The ongoing solar storm responsible for this event was the result of multiple coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the Sun, which occurred on November 27, 2023. These CMEs sent a barrage of high-energy particles hurtling towards Earth, with the first wave reaching our planet late on November 29.
The red auroras are a consequence of these solar particles colliding with oxygen molecules at higher altitudes. At such great heights, the density of oxygen is lower, and the collisions occur less frequently, resulting in the emission of red light rather than the more common green. This process is akin to the way neon lights operate, with excited gas atoms releasing photons of light when they return to their ground state.
Historically, red auroras have been documented during some of the most powerful geomagnetic storms, such as the Carrington Event of 1859, which remains the most intense solar storm on record. During that event, red auroras were reported as far south as the Caribbean and Mexico, with the skies so bright that birds began to sing, mistaking the illuminated night for morning.
The occurrence of the red aurora in Mongolia has provided scientists with a unique opportunity to study the effects of solar storms at lower latitudes. While the sight may be mesmerizing, it also serves as a reminder of the Sun's immense power and the potential impact of solar weather on our technologically dependent society.
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Beijing Daxing International Airport opens first direct flight to Mongolia www.chinadaily.com.cn

A direct flight between Beijing Daxing International Airport and Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, has opened, marking a new chapter in air travel between the two countries.
Flight MR801, operated by Hunnu Air, landed at Beijing Daxing International Airport on Sunday morning, inaugurating the route. The service will operate three times per week on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday.
The new flight is expected to boost political, economic, and cultural exchanges between China and Mongolia, while also facilitating travel for business, tourism, and educational purposes. Additionally, it expands the airport's overseas network, which now encompasses over 30 routes, including service to Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.
Beijing Daxing International Airport has attracted over 20 Chinese and international airlines, offering direct connections to popular destinations such as London, Amsterdam, Moscow, Doha, Riyadh, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul, Tokyo, Osaka, and the Maldives.
The airport is committed to welcoming more airlines in the future, including HK Express, to provide passengers with a wider range of international travel options.
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Google Launches Partnership with Mongolia www.montsame.mn

Mongolia and Google Partnership launching event took place today in Ulaanbaatar and Colin Marson, Director of Google for Education announced that Google will provide 1,500 scholarships for the Google Career Certificates, which equips people with job-ready skills for in-demand fields like Cybersecurity, IT Support, UX Design, Data Analytics, Project Management, and Digital Marketing with no degree or experience required.
Google and the Ministry of Education and Science of Mongolia will cooperate to provide secondary schools with an initial 20 thousand Chromebooks. Also, in cooperation with the Department of General Education and "Teach for Mongolia" NGO 10,000 teachers are to be involved in Google Certified Educator blended training of online and in-class learning to help them become proficient in technology.
Additionally, in collaboration with the Ministry of Digital Development and Communications of Mongolia, Google is working to explore opportunities to implement a combined online and classroom program designed to provide competitive skills in the job market, analysis of big data, project management, cybersecurity, UX design, e-commerce, marketing, and information technology along with adoption of Google Cloud and Google for Startups programs.
The Mongolian version of the Family Link system, a free parental control app that enables parents to monitor their kids' online activities, has been developed and just introduced to users.
During the visit of Mongolian Prime Minister L. Oyun-Erdene to the United States in August 2023, Google agreed to introduce the products services, and programs of Google in Mongolia and to invest in the digital transition, education, and youth development of Mongolia.
Google appreciated Mongolia's dynamic young population and efforts to e-transition and has launched a partnership to support it becoming a leading "e-nation" in the region.
In addition to opening up the opportunity for Android developers in Mongolia to receive payment through Playstore and for content developers to have a source of income from YouTube, Google will provide the capacity-building program and material base to promote e-development.
Minister of Digital Development and Communications of Mongolia N. Uchral, Minister of Education L. Enkh-Amgalan, and US Ambassador to Mongolia Richard L. Buangan were present at the event.
Minister of Digital Development and Communications of Mongolia N. Uchral, Minister of Education L. Enkh-Amgalan, and US Ambassador to Mongolia Richard L. Buangan were present at the meeting.
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Mongolia moves to redeem USD 600 million Khuraldai bond www.news.mn

Mongolia announced debt regulation measures to refinance its USD 600 million Khuraldai bond.
Ulaanbaatar extended an offer to investors for a cash buyback of the 8.75 percent interest rate, with the Khuraldai bond set to mature in 2024. The move allows for the potential deferral of the payment period for a specific portion of the foreign debt.
Initially, the Mongolian government issued USD 650million in bonds with a term of five years, for both the Gerege and Khuraldai bonds, and an interest rate expectation of 11-12 percent. However, a total of USD 4 billion in orders were received from 138 investors. That led to a decrease in the interest rate to 8.75 percent.
The government of Mongolia has issued eight bonds since 2012, raising USD 5.8 billion, with the capital earmarked for debt refinancing, tackling the country’s budget deficit and funding major projects.
Fitch Ratings has assigned Mongolia’s proposed US dollar bonds a ‘B’ rating. That’s in line with Mongolia’s ‘B’ Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR).
The redeeming of the Khuraldai bond comes following Mongolia’s economic bounceback from impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The government says the country’s economy is projected to grow by 5.8 percent in 2023, up from 4.7 percent in 2022, and 6.2 percent in 2024, with the country’s deficit falling by 60 percent and exports rebounding strongly.
In a boost to growth, the Government announced the commencement of underground production at the giant Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in the Gobi Desert with Rio Tinto in March.
 
 
 
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All roads seem to lead to Mongolia www.news.mn

A report published by Rossiyskaya Gazeta cites a Russian deputy prime minister, Marat Khusnullin, as saying Moscow wants to extend the M-12 highway to China via Mongolia. Currently, the M-12 connects Russia to Kazakhstan. Expansion would facilitate growth in tourism and ground transport, Khusnullin said.
Meanwhile, Uzbekistan and Mongolia are in the process of updating an agreement on road and air transport, striving to simplify transit from/to China, the Mongolian National News Agency reports. Uzbek and Mongolian officials agreed in a memorandum of understanding to facilitate the transit of goods not only between China and Europe, but also to Iran, Pakistan and India.
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600 buses to be purchased from "Yutong Bus" by MNT 165 billion www.gogo.mn

On December 1, the Procurement Department of the Capital city provided information regarding the announcement of a bid for the purchase of public transport in Ulaanbaatar.
In relevance, P.Sainzorig, the first deputy governor: Five companies submitted proposals for the bid, and the process of disassembling the materials was done openly for the public. After examining the submitted materials, the Evaluation Committee found that the materials of four companies did not meet the requirements. Thus, the proposal of the Chinese bus manufacturer "Yutong Bus" to supply a total of 600 buses for MNT 165 billion (165,589,920,000₮) was selected.
There are 28 requirements set for these buses such as:
Manufactured in this year
Ergonomic parameters should meet standards
With left wheels
Capacity: 26-30+1 seats, 50 people standing space, or a total capacity of 80 passengers
10-11 meters long and 2.4-2.5 meters wide
Fuel tank to be more than 250 liters
Maximum speed is 70 km/h
Not freeze to -45 degrees Celsius
Have brakes on tires
Have two passenger doors and lighting
Floor should be made of non-slip material
Driver's cabin must be separated
Have at least six heating devices
Have parking announcing speakers
Have LED screens on three sides
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26 people under investigation in bus purchase case www.gogo.mn

A working group established by The State General Prosecutor's Office of Mongolia, The Independent Authority Against Corruption of Mongolia, and the General Police Department, is investigating the case related to the purchase of public transport buses with the state budget.
The working group took witness statements from 141 people to clarify important circumstances in the case, and with the permission of the prosecutor, searched houses and other places of 11 citizens. Also, measures were taken to restrict the transfer of assets of the enterprise related to the case and to freeze its assets.
Currently, 26 people have been charged as defendants and investigated for using their power and position in organizing the purchase of 800 buses with the state budget in 2023.
In particular, one politically influential person, 18 officials from the Capital Governor's Office, Procurement Department, Public Transport Department, three management and executive officials of a private company, and four foreign nationals were charged.
Furthermore, one person was detained and 24 people were restrained from leaving the border of Mongolia.
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Mongolia urges Russia, other nations to return cultural artefacts www.news.mn

Mongolia on Monday called for more support from Russia, Britain, and other countries to repatriate hundreds of cultural artefacts, some dating back over two millennia.
Key artefacts include a letter from Mongolia’s first prime minister declaring independence from China’s Manchu dynasty, currently held at the British Library in London, the Mongolian government said in a statement.
Artefacts associated with the Persian statesman Rashid al-Din who worked in the courts of several Mongol rulers of Persia in the 13th and 14th centuries are being kept at the Museum of Edinburgh, it also said.
In recent decades, many countries, including former colonies of European empires, have requested the return of cultural and historical artefacts taken away years ago, many of which are housed in museums reluctant to surrender their collections.
Mongolia has made some headway in claiming back its cultural artefacts. Earlier this year, the United States returned dinosaur fossils taken out of Mongolia, including the skull of an alioramus, a smaller version of a tyrannosaurus rex that lived 70 million years ago.
At a forum in Russia last week, Mongolia’s Culture Minister Ch.Nomin also requested Moscow’s help with identifying and returning artefacts that were sent to Russia for research and restoration purposes one hundred years ago, including artefacts from the Hunnu dynasty 2,000 years ago excavated from the Noyon Uul burial site by Russian explorer Pyotr Kozlov in the 1920s.
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Mongolian coal shipments to China declined www.news.mn

Mongolian metallurgical coal shipments to China through the Gantsmod land port declined in the week to 12 November amid winter weighing on coal deliveries, but overall year-to-date shipments remained sharply higher on the year.
Daily coal haulage via the Gantsmod port reached 951 trucks, down 9.7 percent on the week, China-based consultancy Haitong International Securities said in a latest note. But despite this, the number of trucks carrying coal through Gantsmod during the January-November period reached 228,600, more than double year on year.
Back in 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic lowered coal truck hauls from Mongolia through the Gantsmod port. But since then, Mongolia has emerged as the largest met coal supplier to China, overtaking China’s traditionally large supplier Australia. In the near term, met coal shipments from Mongolia to China are expected to decline due to the winter season, as lower temperatures have been impacting loading and unloading, sources said.
The number of Mongolian trucks carrying coal to China may not breach the 1,000 mark in the near term, analysts at Haitong said.
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Mongolia Tops FIDE's New Gender Equality In Chess Index; Denmark Ranks Worst www.chess.com

Mongolia is the nation ranking highest for promoting gender equality in chess but—perhaps surprisingly—the Nordic countries occupy three of the four worst spots, a new study has revealed.
Research commissioned by the World Chess Federation's (FIDE) Women in Chess Commission and published jointly with the University of Queensland ranked 105 of the world's national chess federations to create a new Gender Equality in Chess Index (GECI).
The study used three key indicators, "Participation," "Performance," and "Progress," to compare gender equality within the international chess community. Data was taken from the FIDE ratings list and the proportions of participants taking part in recent World Youth, World Cadet and selected Continental Youth Championships.
Top of the table was Mongolia with the highest GECI score of 86.53. According to the report, almost 40% of Mongolia’s active players on the September 2023 FIDE rating list are women.
The Mongolian federation’s president, Gurvanbaatar Erdenebaatar, said in the report: “Mongolians have been playing and developing chess since ancient times and nowadays people are paying a lot of attention in teaching chess to their kids because of the successful achievements of our youth and professional women players.”
Mr Gurvanbaatar highlighted two policies that have driven success: “Mongolian Chess Federation maintains a policy of equal prize money for men and women chess players at national level tournaments.
"In addition, consistent with the call of FIDE when announcing the year of women’s chess in 2022, we try to involve our women chess players in decision-making at the management level.”
IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag, Mongolia’s highest-rated female player, told FIDE she has received significant support to help her career progress.
"We have a government bonus when we become a grandmaster. Also since 2012 with a break for four years we have a national team that receives a salary from the state. Now there is a tendency to increase the support of the national team, and, for example, the national championships have the same prize fund for both women and men."
Mongolia was followed by Sri Lanka, Uganda, Vietnam, and Namibia. Smaller federations dominate the top places and it is not until Georgia (12) and Azerbaijan (15) that major chess nations crop up. India and Russia—traditionally two of the strongest nations at the elite level of women's chess—are placed 24th and 25th respectively.
The Nordic nations fare badly, with Denmark bottom of the table with a GECI score of 34.34, Iceland second-worst in 104th, Sweden ranked 102nd, Finland in 99th, and Norway 94th.
This is despite the organizers of Norway Chess announcing earlier this year their ground-breaking vision to host an all-female super tournament in 2024 with conditions equal to their annual top-level competition.
Chess.com has contacted the Danish Chess Federation for a response, but hasn't received one yet. On the platform X, GM Peter Heine Nielsen said the key question was why:
Leading the research was Australian GM David Smerdon, a senior lecturer at the University of Queensland and author of several popular chess books. He was joined from FIDE's Commission for Women's Chess by Carol B. Meyer, WGM Dana Reizniece-Ozola, WFM Maria Rodrigo-Yanguas and, WIM Anastasia Sorokina.
FIDE has 199 countries as affiliate members, in the form of National Chess Federations, of which 76 were excluded due to missing data. One of the nations missing was China which currently dominates women's chess and has held the women's world title since 2016.
As China's top juniors were unable to travel to world and continental age championships during the COVID-19 pandemic the authors said there was not enough data for a Progress score at the time of publication.
When Ding Liren won the world championship for China this year he was following in the footsteps of the likes of Hou Yifan and Ju Wenjun. Photos: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com.
The authors recognised the analysis was "imperfect", but said they hope the report "can foster positive and constructive discussions within federations and across the broader chess community."
They added: "It allows members of federations and other organisations to set quantifiable targets for women and girls’ chess within each country, and to track progress over time. It is our goal that the GECI might serve as a useful tool towards gender equality in the world of chess, fostering a more inclusive and equitable environment for everyone in the game."
FIDE has faced criticism in recent years for its failure to tackle the gender gap in chess. In 2022, GM Tan Zhongyi, the 2022 Women's Rapid Champion and finalist of the Women's Candidates, was the only female chess player to earn over $100,000 in prize money compared to 19 male competitors―11 of whom earned over $200,000.
In October, the Women In Chess Foundation—an organization outside FIDE—launched with the goal of increasing the participation rates of girls and women in the game at all levels while creating safer environments and helping improve the quality of women's chess events.
It follows a series of scandals that have rocked women's chess this year. Stories of sexual harassment have emerged, such as The Wall Street Journal's story of how eight women claimed GM Alejandro Ramirez used his status to make repeated unwanted sexual advances toward them.
Ellen Carlsen, the sister of the former world champion, is another to speak out. She said that Shahade's initial allegations had led her to report an incident of harassment to the Norwegian Chess Federation.
Another female chess player who has made headlines with recent allegations was the English WIM Sabrina Chevannes, who gave an emotional interview to Times Radio and detailed her harrowing experiences of sexual harassment and misogyny on the platform X. Chevannes said they caused her to quit playing the game professionally.
Also this year, 14 of France's most notable female players signed an open letter entitled “Nous, Joueuse d'échecs,” which denounced what they said was repeated sexist behavior and acts of violence in the chess world.
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