Mongolia-Australia Relation
Mongolia and Australia are marking the 40th anniversary of bilateral relations. In quite similar time frame with Canada, Australia, as another middle power, reached out Mongolia. Today bilateral...
View ArticleWhy Mongolia’s China Mining Strategy is NOT a Mistake!
In the recent blog of the Wall Street Journal, Drs. Erickson and Collins argued convincingly that resource nationalism and discriminative policies regarding Chinese investors in Mongolia will have a...
View ArticleBook: Change in Democratic Mongolia – Social Relations, Health, Mobile...
Change in Democratic Mongolia – Social Relations, Health, Mobile Pastoralism, and Mining Edited by Julian Dierkes Some 100 years ago, Mongolia gained independence from Qing China, and more than 20...
View ArticleBook Chapter Mongolia’s Mining Controversies and the Politics of Place
Mongolia’s Mining Controversies and the Politics of Place Sarah Combellick-Bidney in J. Dierkes, ed. Change in Democratic Mongolia – Social Relations, Health, Mobile Pastoralism, and Mining Leiden:...
View ArticleForeign Investment Considerations in Canada Resemble Mongolian Law
When the Mongolian parliament passed a foreign investment law somewhat hastily in May 2012, partly in response to the proposed purchase of a majority of coal miner South Gobi Resources by CHALCO, this...
View ArticleAsia Pacific Foundation of Canada: ‘Five Minutes With’ on Mongolia
Following a “Brown Bag” talk on “Mongolian Parliamentary Election” at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada on August 15, we had a chance to appear on their first “Five Minutes With” interview. With...
View ArticleGuest Post: Southern Gobi Water Shortage
Guest Post by Michelle Tolson Looking Past Oyu Tolgoi to the Southern Gobi’s Water Shortage Of late, Mongolian media has been obsessively focusing on the investment agreement between Oyu Tolgoi and the...
View ArticleMajor Revision of Mongolian Mining Regulations Is Underway
The first public debate on the proposed revisions of Mongolia’s mining regulations was conducted at the Citizen’s Hall of the Mongolian government on January 18, 2013. Although the revisions are long...
View ArticleBat-Erdene Election Platform
[This post was researched and co-written by Brian White at The Mongolist blog.] Bat-Erdene’s platform begins similarly to Udval’s by describing challenges facing the country. He does not go as far as...
View ArticlePresidential Q&A
The general view in Ulaanbaatar was that Bat-Erdene was trailing Elbegdorj significantly in voter support in some part because of his lack of political experience, and profile and the fact that he...
View ArticleIntroducing ‘Mongolia Research Hub’ at the University of Queensland
Today, more than ever before, research and informed discussion is required to successfully negotiate Mongolia’s rapid development in the face of interrelated political, economic, social and...
View ArticleReview of “Mongolia`s State Policy on the Minerals Sector (2013-2024)”
“State Policy on the Minerals Sector (2013-2024),” a document defining the policy framework for the Mongolian minerals sector in the next decade is expected to be discussed at the upcoming autumn...
View ArticlePolitics During the Current Economic Crisis
There is no political crisis in the sense of any conflict within parliament or between parliament and the president. Nor are there major scandals at the moment. However, there does appear to be a...
View ArticleSolutions to the Current Economic Crisis?
Previously, I have written about economic and political aspects of the challenges currently facing Mongolia. Right now, the economic situation seems a bit like a “wicked problem” or a quagmire, and I...
View ArticleIn Ulaanbaatar with EITI Project Graduate Students
Together with Dirk van Zyl, a colleague in UBC’s NBK Institute of Mining Engineering, I supervised an interdisciplinary group of graduate students in a project on the Extractive Industries Transparency...
View ArticleFM Baird to Visit Mongolia
According to Mongolian news sources ( 24 Tsag | infomongolia.com), Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird will be visiting Ulaanbaatar July 23-25. There’s no official Canadian announcement as of July 20,...
View ArticleWhy are American investors struggling in Mongolia?
Unlike the 1990s, Mongolia is now in the radar of US investors. Then, Mongolians were desperate for US investors, but few responded because of the unattractive market environment, uncertain political...
View ArticleProgress on Oyu Tolgoi?
The Mongolian government has been battling a homemade economic crisis for some two years now. It has been a largely self-inflicted crisis brought on by some hasty policy decisions regarding investments...
View ArticlePoll Results – Direct and Indirect
PM Saikhanbileg has announced the results of the mega-projects vs austerity SMS poll. This announcement is important because we learn about this particular direct democracy initiative, but also because...
View ArticleArbitration Award to Khan Resources
On Mar 2 2015 it was announced that erstwhile Canadian uranium miner Khan Resources was awarded US$100mio in arbitration proceedings administered by the Permanent Court of Arbitration based in The...
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