Trending on X, 2 AM: home-cooked meal business, smog and coal subsidies, Mongolia-Belarus agreements, Uvs search, Mongolians abroad, Anthropic IPO

These are the topics Mongolian users discussed most on X between 22:13 on October 26 and 02:31 on October 27, ranked by engagement. Overnight activity was relatively low, and six topics were confirmed against news sites. Topics from earlier roundups appear only when there is a new development. Posts with unverified claims or unsupported accusations against named people were left out. Post metrics are as of 02:30.

1. A neighbour selling home-cooked meals in her apartment complex strikes a chord

The night's most-engaged post was not political news but a slice of everyday life. User @AriuntuyaLaw wrote about a woman in her building who cooks at home and sells the meals to neighbours in the complex. She said she had doubted anyone would buy home cooking, but many residents come home tired from work with no time to cook, so the meals sell out quickly and people now order in advance. Her conclusion, that a business does not have to start with big capital or a big office, was widely shared.

2. Smog and coal subsidies: the heating-season debate returns

With the heating season under way and air pollution rising in the capital, users returned to the smog issue. @nganbaa, who describes himself as Mongolia's first passive-house designer, proposed turning the coal subsidy into a payment based on the number of days a household does not burn coal, arguing that families would then insulate their homes. The post also argued that smog is not falling because some interests profit from coal burning; this is a personal view. @mathematicianBZ joked that snowfall at least brings some of the fine particles and pollutants down to the ground.

According to VOV.mn, Tavantolgoi Tulsh plans to supply 427,000 tonnes of briquette fuel to households in Ulaanbaatar's ger districts this heating season, including 307,000 tonnes of semi-coke fuel. Washed coal briquettes are on sale until November 1, and semi-coke fuel goes on sale from November 1 through the Khotula app.

3. Mongolia and Belarus sign nine documents as their friendship treaty enters into force (new development)

During President U. Khurelsukh's state visit to Belarus, the two countries signed nine documents on October 26. According to the Office of the President, the presidents exchanged instruments of ratification of the Treaty on Friendly Relations and Cooperation, which they had signed on June 3, 2024, bringing the treaty into force.

The documents include a 2027-2029 cooperation roadmap, a sports agreement, an agriculture roadmap, a memorandum with the Bellegprom light-industry concern, a customs agreement on mutual recognition of authorized economic operator programmes, an accreditation memorandum, regional agreements between Bayankhongor and Gomel and between Khentii and Mogilev, and a cooperation agreement between Mongolian public broadcaster MNB and Belteleradiocompany. The Belarusian presidential website quoted Alexander Lukashenko as saying the two sides agreed to start with "three good, concrete projects". The leaders' talks were covered in an earlier roundup; the signed documents and the treaty's entry into force are new.

4. Husband of the woman missing in Uvs speaks out (new development)

The search continues for a 26-year-old woman who went missing while looking for livestock in Burgastai bag, Tarialan soum, Uvs province. MNB and local media reported that on October 26 the search entered its 12th day, with more than 100 people from the emergency agency, police, specialist units and local residents using search dogs and drones. The terrain is mountainous and rocky, with 40-50 cm of snow in places.

UBN, citing Uvs TV, published remarks by her husband, Ts. Bumbayar. He said he had met his wife while searching for livestock but they called out to each other from a distance and went separate ways, that they have been married for three years, and that there were no problems in their relationship. Users offered various speculations about the interview, but authorities have released no further information on the circumstances, so we have not included unverified speculation.

5. Number of Mongolians living abroad up 64.6% in five years, again in discussion

TenGer TV posted a segment on young workers leaving the country, and users shared views on living conditions, wages and opportunities. According to the National Statistics Office's 2025 interim population and housing census, 201,350 Mongolian citizens live abroad, up 64.6% from 122,301 in 2020. Some 59.5% of them are aged 15 to 39. The largest numbers live in South Korea (51,201), the United States (31,807), Japan (19,055), Australia (14,493) and the Czech Republic (10,472). Study accounted for 30.2% of departures and family reasons for 20.1%. The figures were first released in September and are now being discussed again.

6. Anthropic files for a Nasdaq IPO

AI company Anthropic filed a Form S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on October 26, saying it intends to list its Class A shares on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol "ANT". The filing shows revenue of $16.3 billion for the first half of 2026 and a net loss of $80.7 billion, most of it from changes in the fair value of convertible notes and similar instruments. Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are lead underwriters.

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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.