Source: TradingMarkets.com                   Date: 16 September, 2010

Origo Partners (formerly Origo Sino-India), a China-based provider of private equity investment and consultancy services, has formed a joint venture with Monnis International, a Mongolian industrial holding company, to establish Resource Investment Capital, Ltd. The new joint venture company, headquartered in Ulaanbaatar, will provide corporate finance advisory services primarily to companies active in or seeking to enter the Mongolian natural resources sector.

Origo will own 35% of Resource Investment Capital, with the balance being held by Monnis, private investors, and the company's management.