National teams of Malaysia, Mongolia, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Macau and Oman are competing in the two groups. Mongolian team, which is in Group A with Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines, beat Malaysian team in the first group match 9-5. On March 4, our team won the second match, beating Singapore national team 13-3. The last group match will be held with Philippines on March 6.

Last year, Mongolian national hockey team turned a new page in the national hockey history, becoming the champion of 2018 IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia.

The planned visit, the second of such level following the December visit by the Mongolian foreign minister, indicates the depth of the bilateral relations “and constitutes the basis for cooperation in all spheres”.

Dubbing the mission as an opportunity to raise the level of economic and investment cooperation between the two countries, the ministry said the Mongolian finance minister would look, along with the Kuwaiti officials, into economic issues of common concern.

Kuwait and Mongolia are partners in China’s strategic “silk road” initiative, which shares much with Kuwait Vision 2035.

The Mongolian prime minister is scheduled to visit Kuwait later this year. Moreover, the two countries are scheduled to hold the first round of political consultations in April, in addition to convening the second session of the joint economic and technical cooperation commission in the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar.

In the third quarter that ended Sept. 30, the country’s gold output totalled 81 tonnes, making it the third consecutive quarter where it exceeded 80 tonnes, they say in their latest report.

The country's gold production hit an all-time high of 317 tonnes in 2018, breaking the previous record of 314.5 tonnes, which stood for 21 years.
“Overall, production is remarkably stable, despite the ups and downs at individual operations,” Surbiton director Sandra Close said. “If gold output is maintained at current levels in the December quarter, output for the full calendar year 2018 will remain at a near-record level.”

Australia continues to solidify its position as the No. 2 gold-producing nation in the world, just behind China, the consultancy says.

The top five largest producers shifted over the course of the year, Surbiton notes.

Newcrest Mining's Cadia operation in New South Wales was 2018's top producing mine, dethroning Newmont Mining's Boddington operation in WA.

Cadia yielded just over 750,000 ounces while Boddington produced 710,000 ounces.

Newmont and Barrick Gold's Super Pit dropped to third last year.

Newmont's Tanami in the Northern Territory was fourth with 496,000 ounces of gold, while AngloGold Ashanti and Independence Group's Tropicana mine in WA was fifth with 477,908 ounces.

This year, Surbiton says, the country will benefit from additional production coming from Gold Fields and Gold Road Resources' new 300,000 ounces a year Gruyere mine in Western Australia. It will be also boosted by Kirkland Lake Gold's Fosterville mine in Victoria, which is expected to yield a record of about 600,000 ounces.