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Football for schools program to be implemented www.montsame.mn

The ‘Public or School Football’ program will be implemented by the Mongolian Football Federation, FIFA and the Ministry of Education and Science of Mongolia.
Within the program to be implemented until 2027, the parties will establish a memorandum of understanding and cooperate in training ‘C’ coaches of AFC in 21 aimags of Mongolia, training one physical education teacher to every school as a football teacher and coach, delivering online football lessons to teachers, and 2,100 balls to schools as well as organizing an annual football tournament.
To improve football environment at schools, the football pitches of 79th and 24th schools and Technical and Technological Institute were already renovated in accordance with international standards. In 2022, it is planned to renovate the football pitches of 52nd, 34th, 28th, 2nd and Oyun Undraa education complex schools.
On January 21, Minister of Education and Science L.Enkh-Amgalan expressed he would cooperate in the project.
The football for schools program is believed to reduce discrimination, increase human development and participation rather than prioritizing success, make the sport more accessible to children and ensure safety
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President meets members of First Runner Up at ABU Robocon 2021 www.montsame.mn

A team of Mongolian students won the First Runner Up at the ABU Robocon 2021 contest, virtually organized last December in China. By doing so, it further solidified Mongolia’s achievement at the international Robocon contest in 2019.
President U. Khurelsukh congratulated members of the team studying at the Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST) and the Mongolian National Defense University (MNDU), who represented the country in the contest.
The President said he hopes that the competition will surely develop children and youth’s engineering mindset, increase their desire to study in the field, and consequently, Mongolia will have the best engineers in the future.
21 teams from 11 countries including China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, and Indonesia competed at the 20th ABU Robocon. A team from Indonesia won the Grand Prix, followed by the Mongolian team from MUST led by Ts. Khurelbaatar, and a team from China, respectively.
The game for this year’s contest was based on the traditional Chinese game ‘pitch-pot’ or throwing arrows to a pot.
ABU Robocon 2019 was organized in Ulaanbaatar by Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union in collaboration with Mongolian National Broadcasting (MNB) under the auspices of Prime Minister U. Khurelsukh.
The MNB's ‘Young Inventor’ program, which has been suspended for some period of time, is planned to be aired again from this year under the auspices of the President of Mongolia.
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Serbia revokes Rio Tinto lithium mine permits following protests www.bbc.com

Serbia has withdrawn the exploration licences of Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto following weeks of protests over plans for a lithium mine.
"All permits were annulled... we put an end to Rio Tinto in Serbia," Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said on Thursday.
The decision comes just weeks ahead of Serbia's general election in April.
Relations between Belgrade and Canberra have also soured recently over Australia's treatment and deportation of Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic.
Djokovic, the world's number one men's tennis player who was unable to compete in the Australian Open, has supported the protests against the controversial mine.
In December, he posted images on social media of demonstrators and green landscapes along with comments written in Serbian such as "clean air and water are the keys to health" and "nature is our mother".
Thousands of demonstrators have been taking to the streets in recent months, blocking main roads in several cities, including the capital Belgrade and the country's second-largest city Novi Sad.
They say the development of a large mine near the town of Loznica in the western Jadar Valley could cause irreparable damage to the landscape and contaminate the region's water supplies.
Rio Tinto had previously said that any mining development in the country would meet both domestic and European Union environmental standards.
Speaking at a news conference in Belgrade on Thursday, Ms Brnabic - Serbia's first woman and first openly gay prime minister - said the decision to abandon the $2.4bn (£1.8bn; A$3.3bn) Jadar lithium mine was made in response to requests from environmental groups.
The project had been due to start production in 2027.
Rio Tinto's shares tumbled in Australia following the news, and were down more than 4% after markets opened in London.
It is undoubtedly tempting to look for a link between Australia's treatment of Novak Djokovic and Serbia's cancellation of Rio Tinto's mining project.
After all, it does have headquarters in Melbourne as well as London. And Serbia's prime minister, Ana Brnabic, announced the demise of the much-trumpeted lithium extraction operation just days after her counterpart in Australia cheered the deportation of Serbia's sporting icon.
The cancelled project is more likely a victim of Serbia's domestic politics, rather than a bizarre diplomatic tit-for-tat. Novak Djokovic is important to Serbia - but not as important as the $2.4bn which the mining giant had promised to invest.
In fact, pulling the plug is a reaction to months of protests. The movement has surprised Serbia's authorities with its organisation, unity and broad support going well beyond the usual coalition of opposition activists.
The government does not want to go into April's elections against a backdrop of blocked roads and accusations about favouring foreign investors over local interests.
But the environmentalists say they will continue protesting until the authorities issue a permanent ban on lithium mining.
In December, local authorities in western Serbia scrapped a plan to allocate land for a lithium mine in the region.
President Aleksandar Vucic had said that the opening of such a mine would require approval following an environmental study and a referendum.
In a statement to Reuters news agency, the Australian government said it regretted Serbia's decision: "We note the strong economic benefits of the significant investment by Rio Tinto in Serbia," it said.
Lithium is the main component of the batteries used in electric vehicles and demand for the element is increasing.
The World Bank estimates that globally the production of lithium will need to increase by 500% by 2050.
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World’s longest high-speed railway network to get longer still www.rt.com

China plans to extend the length of its high-speed railway network to 50,000 kilometers (31,070 miles) by 2025, according to a new five-year transport plan issued this week by the State Council. The network will be 12,000km longer than at the end of 2020.
The expansion is so vast, it exceeds the combined length of high-speed rail networks in Spain, Japan, France, Germany, and Finland. The total length of those nations’ networks was 11,954km last year, according to data from the International Union of Railways.
Analysts say Beijing is speeding up its investment in infrastructure to curb China’s economic slowdown. Its high-speed railway extended to 38,000km at the end of last year, which was 8,000km longer than the target set by Beijing in 2017.
However, the State Council’s document said the transport system was still “unbalanced” and insufficiently developed. “There are obvious shortcomings in intercity and urban railways in key city clusters and metropolitan areas,” it said.
Last Friday, a project worth 238 billion yuan ($37.5 billion) was approved to construct two new high-speed rail lines with a combined length of 826.8km.
The rail expansion initiative is part of Beijing’s push to increase its national railway network from 146,000km in 2020 to 165,000km by 2025.
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Why a gas pipeline in Russia could affect your phone bill www.bbc.com

When you see your mobile bill rise this year, you probably won't blame Russia for deploying 100,000 troops at its border with Ukraine.
But the two events are linked by Germany's refusal to approve a new Russian gas pipeline.
And we had proof of the impact on Wednesday. The Office for National Statistics revealed that UK inflation hit 5.4% in the 12 months to December, a sign that these huge geopolitical events are starting to affect our personal finances at home.
And their impact emerges in an unexpected location: at the mouth of the River Medway in Kent.
In the 17th century, a chain stretched across the river to defend the region against invading ships from Europe - although the county's history, as the last place in the UK to have been occupied by a foreign army, perhaps suggests the defence was not all that effective.
Today, it is on the frontline of a very different type of invasion from overseas: high prices.
It is the most visible entry point for a wave of inflation that has now reached a 30-year high. What does that inflation look like? Huge tankers, each carrying enough liquid natural gas to meet a third of the UK's needs for a day.
This valuable cargo will be unloaded at London Thamesport and delivered to energy companies which have paid record prices for the gas, much of which was fracked in the US. In fact, one of these ships was on its way across the Pacific to China, having passed through the Panama Canal, when it was rediverted to the UK where buyers were willing to pay 25% more for its cargo.
And that premium will be passed on to us, energy customers; if not now, then in April when the energy price cap is increased.
So what has this got to do with the build up of Russian troops on its border with Ukraine - and how will it affect your phone bill?
Well, while the UK actually sources very little of its gas from Russia, that is not the case for the EU, which gets about half of its gas from the country. Most of the rest comes from Norway and Algeria.
But that gives Russia control of the market, which means it can effectively set the price that the rest of us have to pay. A new pipeline, Nord Stream 2, has been built to increase the amount of gas Russia can send to Europe. But even though construction has been completed, gas has not started to flow because that would require regulatory clearance from Germany and the EU.
However, Germany has warned that it could block that approval if Russia re-invaded Ukraine, an invasion many in the international community fear Vladimir Putin may be preparing for - although Moscow denies it.
Meanwhile, energy prices are continuing to rise, pushing inflation well above the Bank of England's 2% target. And by April, when the energy price cap increases, it is likely to be more than three-times higher than that target.
And that will impact your phone bill.
Buried in the small print of your contract is a clause that allows the network provider to increase prices in line with the old retail price index, which is already at 7.5%.
And the price increases can be felt elsewhere too. Kati Ramsden runs Bare Bazaar independent food store in Ashford, 40 miles away from the mouth of the River Medway, where those cargo vessels are unloading. She has been forced to relabel a lot of the products she sells to account for the price rises from her suppliers.
"This morning I had to put up demerara sugar from 25p to 38p [per 100g] just to suck up the price increase," she said.
Meanwhile, the cost of a bag of pasta had increased from £1.50 to nearly £2.00, she said.
"It could make a difference to a customer because their wages aren't going up," she said.
So while these vast global currents cause sea changes abroad, the ripples are being felt much closer to home.
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Cooperation to be expanded with Russia in light industry www.montsame.mn

Deputy Minister of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry G. Batsuuri held a meeting with Russian delegates headed by Director for Commerce at Russkaya Kozha JSC Dmitry Kruglov.
The group of companies ‘Russkaya Kozha’ comprises seven industrial companies and is one of the largest leather suppliers in the world. Headquartered in the city of Ryazan, the company has tannery plants in Zarinsk, Russia and Lorca, Spain and branches in China and Portugal.
The delegates of Russkaya Kozha JSC arrived in Mongolia to expand their cooperation within the framework of the Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2019 with the Mongolian Agricultural Exchange LLC on cooperation in production and supply of leather raw materials.
During the meeting, the delegates noted that during their visit, they found out Mongolia’s great potential for the development of the light industry, including processing of raw hides and skins, and production of value-added end products. They expressed Russkaya Kozha’s full capability to cooperate in sharing experiences and training personnel and internships at its factories.
Deputy Minister G. Batsuuri said, “In December 2021, 67.3 million head of livestock were counted in Mongolia, and an average of 15-17 million pieces of sheepskin, goatskins and bovine hides are processed annually. The local tanneries are developing to a certain extent, but their capacity is insufficient. Thus, the Government of Mongolia is paying much attention to the establishment of industrial and technology parks in Khovd and Darkhan-Uul aimags as stated in its Action Plan for 2020-2024, and has resolved the required financing.”
Last October, representatives of the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry visited the Russkaya Kozha Altai plant in Zarinsk to get acquainted with the plant's operations and learn experiences.
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Sh.Enkhiin-Od named as one of top 100 college basketball players in USA www.montsame.mn

Enkhiin-Od, the son of renowned basketball player, State Honored Athlete Ts.Sharavjamts, is now one step closer to his dream of playing in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Sh.Enkhiin-Od has been included in the list of top 100 college basketball players in the USA, announced by ‘Slam’ magazine, which delivers information on American college basketball. On December 15, Enkhiin-Od, also known as Mongolian Mike, announced on his social media account that he chose to play for Dayton Flyers /University of Dayton/ in Division I of the NCAA men’s basketball, becoming the first Mongolian athlete who played in the NCAA by invitation.
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Revenue from all types of transport increases by 2.2 percent www.montsame.mn

At the end of 2021, 49.2 million tons of freight were carried in total by all types of transport. Compared to the same period of the previous year, the carried freight was decreased by 11.1 million tons (18.5 percent). This decrease was mainly due to the 12.5 million tons (41.0 percent) decline in road transport freight.
At the end of 2021, 107.2 million passengers (in repeated counting) were carried in total by all types of transport. The number of carried passengers dropped by 19.4 million (15.3 percent) compared to the same period of previous year. This decrease was mainly due to 17.6 million passengers (14.2 percent) decline in road transport.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, the carried freight by all types of transport decreased by 764.1 thousand (6.9 percent), while the number of passengers increased by 18.6 million (60.6 percent) compared to the previous quarter.
At the end of 2021, revenue from all types of transport reached MNT 1.4 trillion, showing a decrease of MNT 112.5 billion (7.5 percent) compared to the same period of previous year, which was mainly due to MNT 150.5 billion (26.7 percent) decrease in revenue of the road transport. In the fourth quarter of 2021, revenue from all types of transport reached MNT 358.4 billion, increased by MNT 7.2 billion (2.1 percent) compared to the previous quarter.
Source: National Statistics Office
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Mongolia’s covid-19 daily cases exceed 3,000 www.news.mn

Mongolia recorded 3119 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, exceeding the 3,000 mark for the first time since September 2021, bringing the national tally to 417,557.
The latest confirmed cases were all locally transmitted, and more than half of them were detected in the national capital Ulaanbaatar, the hardest-hit area by the virus and home to over half of the country’s population of 3.4 million.
Meanwhile, three more related deaths were reported in the past day, and the country’s COVID-19 death toll remains at 2,092.
Since the beginning of this year, daily COVID-19 infections have significantly increased across the country due to New Year celebrations and the Omicron variant.
The Omicron cases currently account for at least 70 percent of new daily infections in the country, said Ts.Bilegtsaikhan, director of the National Center for Communicable Diseases, urging the public to follow all relevant health guidelines.
So far, 75 percent of the total population has received two COVID-19 vaccine doses, while over million people aged over 18 have received a third dose.
In addition, 50 thousand Mongolians have received a fourth dose, which the country started to administer from 7 January on a voluntary basis.
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Iron ore price back above $130 as China pledges support www.mining.com

Iron ore led gains among industrial metals Wednesday as China vows to use more monetary policy tools to spur the economy, brightening the outlook for raw materials demand.
Futures in Singapore climbed over 3% to more than $130 a tonne. Dalian iron ore jumped nearly 5%, while benchmark 62% Fe fines imported into Northern China were changing hands for $131.23 a tonne during morning trading, up 2.8% compared to Tuesday’s closing, according to Fastmarkets MB.
“Expectations of easing from the People’s Bank of China while bracing for tighter US monetary policy will spur traders to punt on rates-sensitive assets such as commodities and bonds,” Hong Hao, head of research at BOCOM International, wrote in a research note.
China, the world’s biggest buyer of metals, has been mired in a property market slump, credit stress and repeated virus outbreaks. In response, the central bank this week cut its policy interest rate for the first time in almost two years, signaling the beginning of an easing cycle.
“There’s a trend of strengthening the macro policies to stabilize the economy amid downward pressure on the real-estate market,” Huatai Futures said in a note.
Singapore iron ore price
Top steel-producing region Tangshan announced plans for winter curbs on Tuesday, Mysteel reported, citing local government documents.
According to Mysteel’s own survey, the capacity utilization rate for blast furnaces in the city will be lowered to 63% from 78% when 16 more furnaces shut from January 30 to February 20 and from March 3-13, affecting capacity of about 60,000 tonnes a day.
“The resumption of production at steel mills may have to wait until after the Lunar New Year holidays, which could have an impact on the supply of steel,” Huatai said.
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