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China's devt to benefit world www.manilatimes.net

China's development will benefit its neighbors as well as the whole world, Mongolian Foreign Minister Batmunkh Battsetseg told Xinhua in a recent interview.
"Today, China is developing rapidly, the livelihood of its people is improving day by day," said Battsetseg. "As a neighboring country, Mongolia has always applauded the achievements of the Chinese people."
"I am confident that China's development will benefit its neighbors, regional countries and the world," she said.
The Chinese government has made a significant contribution to overcoming the most difficult time of the Covid-19 pandemic in Mongolia by providing much-needed vaccines, drugs and medical supplies, said Battsetseg.
"It is important that our two peoples sincerely support each other in this difficult time," she said. "The young people of the two countries have exchanged words of encouragement on social media, which is an important expression of mutual understanding between the two peoples."
The foreign minister also spoke highly of China's dynamic zero-Covid policy, which "has been a major factor in reducing the spread of the coronavirus around the world."
Praising the good organization of the Beijing Winter Olympics, she said that as a neighbor with a comprehensive strategic partnership, Mongolia has consistently supported any efforts by China to successfully host the Games.
Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrai Oyun-Erdene became one of the first foreign leaders to express willingness to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games in person, Battsetseg said, adding that the prime minister has clearly said that the Olympic Games — a symbol of the unity of humanity and peace — should not be politicized in any way.
The Chinese government — with the warm support of its people — has successfully hosted the Winter Olympics, giving hope and encouragement to the world as it fights the pandemic, Battsetseg said.
"I am impressed by the solution to provide solar and wind energy for the infrastructure of the Olympic Villages. The combination of renewable energy and green technology in the use of the latest scientific and technological advances is unique," she said.
During his visit to China to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene and Chinese leaders exchanged views on a wide range of issues, Battsetseg said.
She added that the two governments issued a joint statement to strengthen bilateral cooperation, including intensifying development projects and programs and strengthening cooperation in trade, investment, finance, energy, telecommunications, infrastructure and green development after the pandemic.
Oyun-Erdene's visit to China has been important in strengthening high-level mutual understanding on bilateral relations and cooperation, bringing cooperation to a new level, and advancing major trade and economic projects, the foreign minister noted.
The two countries should make full use of the mechanisms of bilateral cooperation and enhance their coordination between the relevant organizations in order to promptly implement the issues agreed during the visit and advance major joint projects and infrastructure construction.
Mongolia will establish a working group consisting of representatives of the parties involved to promote the coordination with China, said Battsetseg.
In order to normalize the operation of the border checkpoints, the Mongolian side also plans to improve its organizational work and anti-pandemic measures, she said.
Despite the difficult circumstances caused by the pandemic, Mongolia and China still worked closely together to promote bilateral trade and economic cooperation, said Battsetseg.
Meanwhile, in addition to strengthening bilateral cooperation in traditional sectors, such as trade, economy, culture and humanitarian ties, Mongolia and China need to work together to protect the environment, especially in the fight against desertification.
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues in the world and there is great potential to intensify bilateral cooperation in combating desertification and yellow dust storms, she said, adding that leaders of the two countries have paid special attention to this issue and regularly exchanged views during their talks.
Battsetseg expressed confidence that after the pandemic, the two sides will make joint efforts to intensify bilateral cooperation in all fields, focus on the implementation of the consensus of the two countries' leaders and support each other.
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China-Mongolia border port sees growth in freight transport www.xinhuanet.com

HOHHOT, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- Erenhot, the largest land port on the China-Mongolia border, has seen a significant rise in China-Europe freight trains so far this year, according to the local railway authorities.
Since Jan. 1, the port has handled a total of 503 China-Europe freight trains, up 27.9 percent from the same period last year.
The 500th China-Europe freight train this year passed through the port at 1 p.m. Monday, a milestone that took 18 fewer days to accomplish than last year.
The number of inbound trains totaled 232, up 33.3 percent, while the number outbound trains reached 271, a rise of 23.6 percent.
The port in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region now serves 54 China-Europe freight-train routes, connecting over 60 overseas destinations across more than 10 countries.
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Schools, firms in Japan preparing for eased entry restrictions on foreigners www.nhk.or.jp

Schools and firms in Japan are preparing to receive people from abroad before the country eases its coronavirus entry restrictions on Tuesday.
Japan has banned the new entry of foreigners in principle to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant.
The government plans to raise the daily limit of people allowed to enter the country to 5,000 from the current 3,500.
Japanese authorities on Friday started accepting online applications from colleges, firms and other entities for entry visas for foreigners they plan to accept.
Staff at a Japanese language school in Tokyo tried to follow the online procedures, but had difficulty registering the necessary data at one point because the website was overloaded.
The school says 731 of its foreign students have been unable to come to Japan, and the longest wait is about two years. It says the students have been forced to attend classes online and some of them have to do so late at night due to time differences.
A 23-year-old Chinese student who has been waiting for six months to enter Japan says she wants to come to the country as soon as possible because she feels less motivated to study when she stays at home by herself.
An official of the school says it's important to experience culture and mingle with people to learn languages. He says his school wants to welcome students with careful preparations.
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Mongolia’s first electric car presented to National Olympic Committee www.montsame.mn

A ceremony to introduce Mongolian-made electric and solar-powered cars was held last Saturday, February 26.
Three years ago, Bars Motors first introduced its project of ‘MOZO’ car, which has been successfully tested in the harsh weather conditions of Mongolia. This time, the company has introduced a new electric car called ‘HERO’.
As part of its social responsibility, Bars Motors presented a key of the first electric car with the identification number ‘0001’ to the Mongolian National Olympic Committee.
Flag-bearer of the national team at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, skier B.Achbadrakh drove the Mongolian-made car onto the stage, introducing it to the public.
The ‘four-seater’ electric car can attain a speed of 100 km/h, and go up to 300 km on a single charge. In addition, it takes 8-9 hours to fully charge using a 220V plug at home.
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Activities of Dairy Asia to be expanded www.montsame.mn

The Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry has announced that it is expanding the activities of the Dairy Asia Secretariat Office, which was established in Ulaanbaatar in 2020 in cooperation with the Government of Mongolia and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
At its meeting dated February 23, the Cabinet approved a resolution to expand the activities of the Secretariat Office. With the approval of the resolution, it is considered that the conditions and opportunities have been created to invite other Asian countries for cooperation, increase membership, strengthen the Secretariat, support its activities and develop it sustainably based on Mongolia’s multilateral foreign policy.
Dairy Asia is a multi-stakeholder partnership committed to building a socially and environmentally responsible Asian dairy sector that enhances rural livelihoods, improves nutrition, and contributes to economic prosperity in the region. It was founded by FAO in 2014 and currently has 13 member countries including Mongolia, Thailand, China, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Philippines, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Vietnam.
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Wind-power giant Orsted stops buying coal, biomass from Russia www.bloomberg.com

Orsted AS, a company better known for producing electricity from wind, stopped buying Russian coal and biomass for its power stations after President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.
The world’s top offshore wind developer will also ensure that Russian companies aren’t direct suppliers to the construction of its renewable energy projects, according to a statement on its website on Sunday. The Danish company is also not signing any new contracts with Russian firms.
Orsted’s announcement follows a similar move by Swedish energy giant Vattenfall AB, which last week said it had suspended orders of Russian uranium and nuclear fuel. While some companies have started to halt purchases of a few commodities in a largely symbolic move, energy firms continue to buy Russian natural gas, and if anything orders have increased after the conflict started.
“Shortfalls in gas supplies will, as opposed to stopping the supply of other types of products, have severe human and societal consequences and therefore need to be coordinated at EU and national levels rather than decided by individual companies,” said Orsted Chief Executive Officer Mads Nipper. “Therefore, the dependency on Russian gas and any ban on import of gas from Russia need to be decided and enforced by clear political sanctions.”
Western nations agreed to impose new sanctions to further isolate Russia’s economy and financial system after initial penalties failed to persuade Putin to withdraw his forces from Ukraine. But the decision to penalize Russia’s central bank and exclude some lenders from the SWIFT messaging system, used for trillions of dollars worth of transactions around the world, excludes energy.
Orsted has nine power and heat plants in Denmark, some of which still use gas and coal as either main or backup fuels. The company also purchases wood chips, and wood pellets to feed some facilities, and it runs a waste-to-energy plant in the U.K. that recycles metals and plastics.
“All potential EU or national sanctions impacting the gas supply will be fully supported and immediately executed,” Nipper said.
(By Elena Mazneva)
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Elixir Energy kicks off 2022 with 24-well drilling program in Mongolia www.proactiveinvestors.com.au

Elixir Energy Ltd (ASX:EXR) has released an update on its coal-bed methane (CBM) exploration and appraisal program underway across its fully-owned Nomgon IX Coal CBM production sharing contract in Mongolia.
The company started 2022 with the spudding of the Tim-1S exploration well over the weekend.
First well spudded
The well is south of the Tavan Tolgoi coal mining area in a location where the company has mapped a potential coal-bearing depocentre.
This well targets Jurassic and Permian coals and has a planned total depth of around 700 metres.
Tim-1S will be the first well in a planned 24-well program for the year, for which Elixir will engage three drilling companies.
The usual mandatory annual regulatory processes have been undertaken in the middle of the region’s winter period and are now close to completion.
Extended pilot production program
A key focus for 2022 is the two-well extended pilot production program scheduled to commence drilling in the middle of the year, with an up-to-six-month fluid pumping program thereafter.
Preparations for this are on track and various long lead items are making their way to Mongolia.
A successful pilot will affirm commercial gas flows and facilitate the company’s planned gas-fired generation project in the Nomgon area.
“This year, we are conducting the largest program we have ever undertaken in Mongolia and we look forward to continued success on both the exploration and pilot fronts,” managing director Neil Young said.
"Notwithstanding international events in Eastern Europe, we pleased to see that its business as usual in Mongolia.”
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Australian mining billionaire to invest $2.2bn in renewable energy project www.reuters.com

Australian iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest, who’s been betting big on a global green revolution, said on Sunday he was investing A$3 billion ($2.2 billion) in renewable energy in central Queensland.
Forrest, Australia’s richest man, said his company Squadron Energy has acquired the two-stage Clarke Creek project – a wind, solar and battery farm development – with contracts already issued for the immediate start of construction.
“We are investing in Clarke Creek not only to harness the renewable power of the wind and sun to energise our homes, our factories and our cities, but as a critical step towards breaking our reliance on fossil fuels,” Forrest said in a statement.
Forrest has said he wants to turn Fortescue Metals Group Ltd, of which he is chairman, into the world’s biggest green energy group.
Stage one of the Clarke Wind project is anticipated to be fully operational in 2024. Stage two could come online in 2026, Forrest said.
When completed, the project could produce enough wind, solar and battery energy to power more than 660,000 homes, or 40% of Queensland households, Forrest said in the statement.
($1 = 1.3827 Australian dollars)
(By Sonali Paul and Lidia Kelly; Editing by Tom Hogue)
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BP to offload stake in Rosneft amid Ukraine conflict www.bbc.com

BP is to offload its 19.75% stake in Russian state-owned oil firm Rosneft after Russia's "act of aggression in Ukraine".
The oil giant had come under pressure from the UK government to make the move since Thursday's invasion.
It has held the shareholding in the Russian company since 2013.
Meanwhile, Norwegian energy giant Equinor says it will start the process of divesting from its joint ventures in Russia.
BP chief executive Bernard Looney has resigned "with immediate effect" from the Rosneft board, as has fellow BP-nominated director Bob Dudley.
Rosneft said thirty years of successful cooperation had been ruined and blamed BP's decision on "unprecedented political pressure", according to reports from Russian news agencies.
Mr Looney had been on the Rosneft board since 2020, alongside its chairman Igor Sechin, who is a close friend and ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The PA News agency reported Mr Looney was in Russia as recently as October, when he appeared on a panel with Mr Putin, which he later described as a "privilege".
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng spoke to the BP boss on Friday and left him in "no doubt about the seriousness of government concerns about BP's overexposure to Russian interests" according to an official.
BP chairman Helge Lund said that, while BP had operated in Russia for more than 30 years and had "brilliant Russian colleagues", Russia's attack on Ukraine was "having tragic consequences across the region" and represented a fundamental change.
"It has led the BP board to conclude, after a thorough process, that our involvement with Rosneft, a state-owned enterprise, simply cannot continue."
BP's share in Russian state oil giant Rosneft has long felt uncomfortable; this week under heavy political pressure it became untenable.
The chairman of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, is a close ally of President Putin. Rosneft supplies fuel to the Russian army.
Immediately offloading the stake to a potentially inappropriate buyer was not an option.
The company has decided to "divest" - meaning it will sever its financial ties with Rosneft, stop taking a dividend and step back from its two seats on the board.
Company officials say it is too soon to say exactly how this stake will be disposed of.
It could potentially be seized, or sold.
It will mean a significant financial hit, but a price BP had little choice but to pay.
Mr Looney said that he had been "deeply shocked and saddened" by the situation in Ukraine and it had caused BP to fundamentally rethink its position with Rosneft.
"I am convinced that the decisions we have taken as a board are not only the right thing to do, but are also in the long-term interests of BP," he said.
Mr Kwarteng welcomed the move, saying: "Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine must be a wake-up call for British businesses with commercial interests in Putin's Russia."
BP's latest annual results, published two weeks ago, revealed Rosneft accounted for $2.7bn (£2bn) of its profits, about a fifth of its total.
The multinational, which has its headquarters in London, admitted last year that sanctions on Russia could be problematic for its business and the relinquishing of the Rosneft stake comes after western countries imposed a series of economic sanctions on Russia - including several banks being excluded from the Swift international payment system.
BP said it is too early to say how or to whom its stake in Rosneft will be offloaded. The firm will pay a $11bn charge when it writes off foreign exchange losses that have accumulated over the last few years and another charge relating to the value of its stake.
Rosneft has been under sanctions from the US and EU since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
On Monday, Norwegian energy group Equinor became the second major European oil and gas producer to announce its exit from Russia, as it said it would begin the process of divesting from its joint ventures in the country.
"In the current situation, we regard our position as untenable," Equinor's chief executive Anders Opedal said in a statement.
It came after Norway's $1.3 trillion (£970bn) sovereign wealth fund, which is the world's largest, also announced on Sunday that it would freeze and divest its Russian assets.
"We have decided to freeze the fund's investments and have begun a process of selling out," Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said.
The fund's Russian assets were worth $2.83bn (£2.11bn) at the end of 2021. It is the fourth largest shareholder in Russian bank Sberbank and has stakes in Russian energy firms Gazprom and Lukoil.
Oil prices surged past $100 (£74) a barrel to hit their highest level for more than seven years after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.
The shipping firms FedEx and UPS have also suspended all their services in and out of Russia. United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) said that packages in transit to Ukraine and Russia will be returned to their senders for no additional cost where possible.
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COVID-19: 166 cases reported www.montsame.mn

The Ministry of Health reported today that 166 СOVID-19 cases were recorded in the last 24 hours nationwide. In detail, 111 cases were reported in Ulaanbaatar city, with 55 cases in 21 provinces.
Currently, there are 2,587 people are receiving hospital treatment for COVID-19 whilst 8,430 people with mild symptoms are being treated at home. Of the total patients currently undergoing treatment at hospitals, there are 217 patients in critical and 36 in very critical conditions.
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