Trending on X, 10 PM: N. Manduul, Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi, meat prices, Clinton, Zelensky, Western water source, bears

Below are the ten topics Mongolian users discussed most on X between 18:00 and 22:20 on November 2. On Monday evening, a farewell note from outgoing Chingeltei district governor N. Manduul, Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi's ten-month results, rising meat prices, and remarks by Bill Clinton and Volodymyr Zelensky drew the most attention. Evening activity on X was relatively light, so engagement figures are lower than in earlier roundups. Engagement figures were taken at 22:30.

1. N. Manduul hands over the Chingeltei district governor's office (new development)

The 6 PM roundup noted that Z. Tömörtömöö had been backed as the new Chingeltei district governor. In the evening, outgoing governor N. Manduul announced on X that he had handed over his duties. He wrote that over the past two years his team tackled smog by first cutting household heat loss and introducing alternatives to coal, and worked to improve education, infrastructure, public spaces and waste management. "Public office rotates, but state policy and its results must carry on," he wrote. The post drew the highest engagement of any Mongolian post in this window. Many users thanked him, while some criticised the appointment decision.

2. Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi: ten-month sales near $2 billion, up 68.1%

Erdenes Tavan Tolgoi JSC's sales revenue for the first ten months of the year approached $2 billion, up 68.1% from a year earlier, and net profit reached 1.5 trillion tögrög, Eguur.mn and Record.mn reported. Chief executive B. Chagnaadorj said the company will pay 480.3 billion tögrög in dividends to the National Wealth Fund and 1 trillion tögrög to the state budget this year. Users shared the news as a rare piece of good news, while some asked how the dividends will be spent. Read the full story.

3. Meat prices and the cost of living

As the season for buying winter meat begins, rising meat prices became a talking point. One user who sells meat wrote that whole carcasses of beef have become so expensive that more buyers are splitting them. According to National Statistics Office data from mid-October, mutton on the bone cost 26,000 tögrög per kilogram nationwide and beef 34,500, about 50% higher than a year earlier, the newspaper Önöödör reported. A post by Graph.mn saying canteen meals and taxi fares had jumped within a few months also spread widely; those figures are users' own observations, not official statistics.

4. Bill Clinton: I warned Trump about tariffs over golf

Former US President Bill Clinton told a campaign rally in Tupelo, Mississippi, on October 30 that he and Donald Trump had discussed tariffs over golf 24 years ago, and that he warned Trump Americans end up paying them, but Trump "didn't hear what he didn't want to hear," Clash Report said. A video of his remarks with Mongolian subtitles, and another clip in which he mocks Trump's planned triumphal arch, circulated widely on X. The comments came days before the US midterm elections.

5. Zelensky: give us Patriots and we will pause refinery strikes for a month

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview that Ukraine was ready to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries for a month if the United States supplied Patriot air defence missiles, RFE/RL reported. His line that "America cannot help Russia" was also shared by Mongolian users.

6. Mongolia–South Korea intergovernmental joint committee meets in Seoul

The 10th session of the Mongolia–South Korea intergovernmental joint committee was held in Seoul on October 30, chaired by Cabinet Secretariat head B. Enkhbayar and South Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Jin-a. According to MNB and Gogo.mn, the Mongolian side asked Korea to simplify visa applications, end double fees and move applications online, and the two sides agreed to draw up a roadmap for easier travel between the two countries. On X, B. Enkhbayar wrote that the sides agreed to work toward $1 billion in bilateral trade by 2030, open an embassy branch office in Incheon and pilot group tourist visas. The option to take the Korean driving theory test in Mongolian was covered in the 2 PM roundup.

7. Selenge signs deal for a 150 MW thermal power plant

Selenge province governor N. Lkhagvadorj signed a public-private partnership agreement to build a 150 MW thermal power plant in Mandal soum, 24tsag.mn and News.mn reported. The deal comes two days before a 70 MW plant opens in the provincial centre, Sükhbaatar, and will give the province its second major power source.

8. Ulaanbaatar's Western water source connected to the city network

The Western water source, built under the second compact between Mongolia and the US Millennium Challenge Corporation, was connected to Ulaanbaatar's central water network on the morning of November 2 and began supplying 14,000 cubic metres a day in its first phase, MNB reported. The source can supply 130,000–144,000 cubic metres a day, and USUG head Ts. Törkhüü said the capital should face no water shortage until 2050–2055. Read the full story.

9. Bears raid herders' pens in Bayan-Ölgii and Uvs (new cases)

In Bayan-Ölgii's Bugat soum, a bear broke into a herder's pen on the evening of October 30 and killed 63 animals, 19 sheep and 44 goats. Kh. Amirtai, head of the provincial governor's office, told Eguur.mn that the family's children first raised the alarm, officers shot the bear while it was still in the pen, no one was hurt, and the household had herder insurance. In Uvs province's Sagil soum, a task force also put down a bear that had killed a family's livestock at a place called Khagiin Nar, iSee.mn reported. Earlier roundups covered bears entering settlements; these are new cases.

10. Serbia: two years since the Novi Sad station canopy collapse

Thousands of students and residents marked the second anniversary of the Novi Sad railway station canopy collapse, which killed 16 people, with a memorial walk and 16 minutes of silence on November 1. Al Jazeera noted that the student protests sparked by the disaster grew into a broad political movement that brought the Student List movement to power last week. Mongolian users shared the story in the context of public procurement and corruption.

Methodology: We ranked posts from about 200 major news and influential accounts found through X search, plus more than 50 keyword searches, by an engagement score (likes + 2× reposts + views/100), and checked the facts against news sites. Posts that could not be verified or that carried a risk of defamation were left out. Views expressed by individuals on X do not represent the position of egov.mn.