Mongolia May Store Taiwanese and South Korean Spent Nuclear Fuel
Mongolia may store Taiwan’s and South Korea’s spent nuclear fuel, a senior U.S. diplomat said to the Global Security Newswire. According to Richard Stratford, who directs the State Department’s Nuclear...
View ArticleMongolia to Have First Nuclear Power Plant by 2020
Mongolia will have its first nuclear power plant by 2020 and planned to build nuclear fuel production capacity, Tsogtsaikhan Gombo, deputy chairman of state-owned MonAtom LLC has stated this week....
View ArticleArmenia’s Metsamor One of the Most Dangerous Nuclear Power Plants
Experts have called Armenia’s Metsamor nuclear power plant “among the most dangerous” nuclear plants still in operation. The Metsamor nuclear power plant is only 20 miles from Armenia’s capital and...
View ArticleMongolia to Reduce Dependence on the Chinese Market
Quadrupling Mongolia’s rail network will send coal, copper and rare earths to Japan and South Korea under a plan to reduce dependence on the Chinese market and boost economic development by lowering...
View ArticleMongolians in Korea Celebrate Naadam
Mongolians in South Korea will celebrate their traditional Naadam Festival on June 26 for the first time since the Mongolian diaspora had been formed in the country. The festival will be organized by...
View ArticleTurkmenistan Has First Open Trial Since Niyazov Cult Time
Turkmenistan’s Supreme Court has sentenced three central bank officials for bribery at the end of a Niyazov-style open trial, unprecedented under current president Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov. State...
View ArticleKazakhstan to Raise Export Duties on Oil Products
Kazakhstan’s government has raised export duties on petroleum products, the national press reports. The decree, signed by Prime Minister Karim Massimov on September 5, was published in the national...
View ArticleKyrgyz-Russian Firm to Supply U.S. Air Base in Kyrgyzstan
A Russian controlled Gazpromneft-Aero Kyrgyzstan says it will begin supplying 20 percent of aviation fuel required by a vital U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan from November. The fuel supply contract was...
View ArticleEBRD to Invest 100 Mln Euros in Kazakhstan’s Economy
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is considering financing renewable energy projects – wind farms in particular – in Kazakhstan in 2012, a bank official told reporters. “We...
View ArticleKazakhstan to Join WTO by End of 2012
Kazakhstan expects to enter the World Trade Organization (WTO) by December 2012, KazTAG reported Timur Sulejmenov, vice minister of economic development, as saying. Negotiations on the post-Soviet...
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