China Daily
Forest fire rages in Inner Mongolia
About 2,000 firefighters have been sent to put out a forest fire that broke out on Tuesday afternoon in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
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China Daily
Nestle to build dairy farm in Inner Mongolia
Swiss food and beverage giant Nestle has signed an agreement with a county government in north China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region to build a new dairy farm in the area.
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CNN
Mongolia tries to stop sale of rare dinosaur fossil
Mongolia's president aims to block a New York auction house's sale of a rare dinosaur fossil for $1 million.
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Wired
Stop the Tarbosaurus Auction!
A Tyrannosaur fossil suspected to have been smuggled from Mongolia is set to be auctioned May 20. Scientists want the fossil to be donated to science and say the sale would further fuel illegal looting of fossils.
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USA Today
Tyrannosaurus auction protested by Mongolia
Mongolian officials are protesting a Tyrannosaur skeleton headed for the auction block on Sunday, saying it was illegally exported.
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Reuters
SouthGobi posts profit, says Mongolia mines open
TORONTO, May 14 (Reuters) - SouthGobi Resources Ltd
, a coal miner with operations in Mongolia, reported a
first-quarter profit on Monday, as its sales nearly doubled and
its average selling price...
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WSJ
Ex-President of Mongolia Freed From Jail
Enkhbayar Nambar was ordered freed on bail just over a month after he was jailed on accusations of corruption.
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NEWS.au.com
DFAT wants diplomats in more nations
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade wants to open new diplomatic missions in Mongolia, Thailand, Kazakhstan and tiny Tuvalu.
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Daily Mail
So that's why they were so bad-tempered: Fleas were an INCH-long when dinosaurs roamed
Thankfully, the fleas - found in Inner Mongolia, and analysed by experts at Oregon State University - seem not to be an ancestor's flea, but instead a separate breed of monster that has since died out.
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FT
Corruption case looms over Mongolia poll
The charges against a former president threaten to overshadow the vote and highlights the turbulent politics of this young, mineral-rich democracy
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National Post
Canadian-born Miss Ireland stripped of title for being too old
The Canadian-born recipient of the Miss Ireland crown has been stripped of her title due to 11th hour revelations she is too old
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Mongolia eyes new foreign investment law
Law could slow foreign investments dramatically
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China Daily
Olympic medal journey at London show
From mines in the United States and Mongolia to the necks of the world's most elite athletes, a display at the British Museum investigates the journey of the 4,700 Olympic medals to be handed out in London this summer.
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Times of India
9 killed, 16 injured in China coal mine accident
Nine miners have been killed and 16 others injured in a coal mine accident in China's northern Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
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Daily Mail
British Museum show tracks gold medals
From mines in the United States and Mongolia to the necks of the world's most elite athletes, a display at the British Museum investigates the journey of the 4,700 Olympic medals to be handed out in London this summer.
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Reuters
Mine to medal: Olympic medal journey at London show
LONDON (Reuters) - From mines in the United States and Mongolia to the necks of the world's most elite athletes, a display at the British Museum investigates the journey of the 4,700 Olympic medals to be handed out in London this summer.
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ElPais
El presidente y las sorpresas
Como ciudadana que actualmente paga todos sus impuestos y en un futuro inmediato pagará más por cosas como los medicamentos (y lo que vendrá), me gustaría poder consultar la agenda del presidente del gobierno, Mariano Rajoy. Mucho me temo que si el presidente tiene previsto algún viaje próximo a países como China, Australia o Mongolia (por poner lugares muy lejanos), nos despertemos con anuncio...
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
In pictures: 'Ninja miners' and Mongolia's gold rush
Images from the mines of Mongolia
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Reuters
Mongolia's "ninja" miners help sate China lust for gold
BORNUUR, Mongolia (Reuters) - In a hot, concrete hut filled with acetylene fumes, an elderly Mongolian miner struggles to contain her excitement as she plucks a sizzling inch-long nugget of gold from a grubby cooling pot and raises it to the light.
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FT
SouthGobi plunges on licence threat
Move, which comes amid rising resource nationalism, could derail China’s biggest investment to date in Mongolia
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ElPais
El hombre de los mil hijos
Por muchos que sean los hijos del científico que fundó una clínica de fertilidad en Londres es difícil superar a Gengis Kan
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BBC
Mongolia ex-president 'detained'
Mongolia's former president, Nambar Enkhbayar, is detained in a police raid linked to a corruption investigation, reports say.
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Huffington Post
Nina Wegner: Last of the Nomads: How Mongolian Culture May Change Drastically Within a Generation
Two years later, while many in Mongolia continue to recover from the 2010 dzud, the trend of urbanization still continues, and at a rapid rate. Many herders now agree that pasture quality and the harshness of recent winters are so bad that herding has become untenable.
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AP
View from abroad: US facing woes, but still No. 1
NEW YORK (AP) -- Anyone worried about an erosion of America's global status might consider this modest fact: Facebook is the dominant social network in Mongolia....
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Scientific American
Reign Check: Abundant Rainfall May Have Spurred Expansion of Genghis Khan's Empire
The Mongol hordes led by Genghis Khan carved out the largest contiguous land empire history has ever witnessed, reaching at its apex from Asia's Pacific coast to eastern Europe and down into Persia and southeastern Asia. Although conventional wisdom suggests drought may have pushed them across the steppe to conquer more bountiful lands, ancient, long-dead trees discovered in a forbidding lava...
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Nikkei
Softbank To Set Up Research Firm For Renewable Energy Projects In Mongolia |
physorg
Preserved bone of Pterosaur found in stomach of Velociraptor
Scientists have discovered a bone from a pterosaur (giant flying reptile or 'pterodactyl') in the guts of the skeletal remains of a Velociraptor (small predatory theropod dinosaur) that lived in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia some 75 million years ago.
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Washington Post
N. Korea finds a purpose for small group of ‘friends’
TOKYO — As North Korea tells it, Kim Jong Il has grieving friends all across the world. There are mourners for the late leader in Mongolia and broken hearts in Bangladesh. The Ugandans laid wreaths before Kim’s portrait. The Brits sent flowers for Kim’s posthumous 70th birthday bash.
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Mail & Guardian
Jurassic fleas discovered in Mongolian lake
The remains of giant Jurassic fleas that sucked the blood of ancient animals more than 100-million years ago have been discovered in Mongolia.
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Foreign Policy
Mongolia vs. eBay
How countries stack up against global corporations.
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Hoy
«No pude ver entero 'Pekín Express', me dolía»
En Honduras, en Mongolia o en una casona de campo asturiana. Raquel Sánchez Silva se adapta como el camaleón. Ahora la han encerrado en 'El Cubo' (Cuatro, de lunes a jueves a las 21.30 horas). No se le caen los anillos por trabajar para una audiencia más modesta que la que sumaban ella y Jorge Javier. Es de las que creen que hay que dar el cien por cien «cuando las cosas vuelan y cuando se estr...
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Huffington Post
Colten McCormick: Racing For Ulaanbaatar
Your odds of getting something edible off a Tajikistani menu are worse than your odds of traveling all the way from England to Mongolia without getting a flat tire.
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Telegraph
Briton discovers new section of Great Wall of China
A British explorer has discovered a previously uncharted section of the Great Wall "marooned" in the deserts of Mongolia, the first part of the wall believed to have been found outside China.
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BoingBoing
Video: Drive Across Mongolia in 4 Minutes
[Video Link] Jeff Diehl made a great video of a his drive across the barren landscape of Mongolia, condensed to four minutes. It's a time-lapse with occasional real-time breaks and his comments. This is a nice way to present a travel video. Experience the roadlessness, the bandits, the breakdowns, the yaks, and the camels, without [...]
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Gizmodo
First Photos of China's 298-Million-Year-Old Buried Forest [Science]
These are the first photos of some of the countless treasures found in the extraordinary 298-million-year-old forest discovered under coal mine in Wuda, Inner Mongolia, China. More »
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Daily Mail
Kate Middleton's beloved label Issa London is full of Eastern promise as it unveils colourful catwalk show
Inspiration was drawn from as far and wide as Russia, Mongolia and China, with heavily printed fabrics, fur hats, and dresses over trousers marking this out as a collection that has traversed the globe.
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Daily Mail
Emerging holiday destinations: Anyone for Sudan, Greenland or Iran?
Readers of a travel magazine have named the top ten places they think will be topping our wishlists including Pakistan, Mongolia and Tajikistan.
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Reuters
Rio clear to take over Mongolia project after Ivanhoe relents
TORONTO/LONDON (Reuters) - Global miner Rio Tinto is clear to take over Mongolia's coveted Oyu Tolgoi project, which promises to be one of the world's largest copper-gold mines, after project owner...
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Amnesty International
Mongolia takes ‘vital step forward’ in abolishing the death penalty
Headline Title:
Mongolia takes step forward to abolishing death penalty
05 January 2012
The Mongolian parliament's approval of a bill that aims to scrap the death penalty is a vital step towards full abolition of the death penalty in Mongolia, Amnesty International said toda...
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Science Daily
Helping wild horses and livestock survive extreme weather in Gobi desert
Winters in the Gobi desert are usually long and very cold but the winter of 2009/2010 was particularly severe, a condition Mongolians refer to as “dzud”. Millions of livestock died in Mongolia and the re-introduced wild Przewalski’s horse population crashed dramatically. Researchers have used spatially explicit loss statistics, ranger survey data and GPS telemetry to provide insights into the e...
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Los Angeles Times
Kim Jong Il: Leader's death may be a turning point
Badral Ulziitogtokh, a 23-year-old originally from Mongolia, said the Long Beach church he attends has been praying for the death of the North Korean leader.
“I feel like God is starting to finally change the world for the better,” he said. “But I worry about what will happen in the immediate future.”
Ulziitogtokh said that North and South Korea have been divided for long and with a distrust th...
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American Scientist
Smithsonian's Scan Man in High Demand
Oh, the things Bruno Frohlich can scan. Ancient whale skulls. Smashed human ones. Stradivarius violins. Violas. Cellos. Guitars. Stringed instruments from Mongolia. Apollo spacesuits. Eagle feathers. Mummified birds from Egypt oddly missing their heads... from the Washington Post (Registration Required)
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National Geographic
Mongolia Bids to Keep City Cool With "Ice Shield" Experiment
Mongolia hopes to beat global warming by boosting river ice to lower temperatures—but some experts are skeptical.
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Daily Mail
Camels show they're pretty nippy at winter Naadam festival in Hulun Buir
These incredible pictures show scenes from the winter Naadam festival in Hulun Buir, in north China's Inner Mongolia region.
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Daily Mail
Ships of the desert? Camels show they're pretty nippy traversing the tundra, too
These incredible pictures show scenes from the winter Naadam festival in Hulun Buir, in north China's Inner Mongolia region.
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el universal
Unesco agrega 8 tradiciones al Patrimonio Inmaterial
A la lista de la organización se sumaron rituales de Brasil, Indonesia, Mongolia o Irán
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UN
UN-backed committee adds eight items to list of intangible heritage in peril
Eight traditional items, from boatbuilding skills in Iran to Malian rites of wisdom to circular breathing techniques in Mongolia, were today placed on the United Nations List of Intangible Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding.
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Slashdot
Mongolia Wants To Use Artificial Glaciers To Cool Capital
phaedrus5001 wrote in with a story about an unusual plan to regulate the temperature of Ulan Bator, the capital city of Mongolia. The article reads: "The city of Ulan Bator will attempt to capture some of the cool winter temperatures in huge ice blocks that will slowly melt over the summer and cool down the city. The aim is to build artificial ice shields — or 'naleds' — that occur naturally in...
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Reuters
REFILE-UPDATE 1-Trafigura, Origo form coal/iron Mongolia JV
* JV aims to "circumvent existing China/Mongolia traders"
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BBC
Country profile: Mongolia
Key facts, figures and dates
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New York Times
Special Report: Business of Green: Pastoralism Unraveling in Mongolia
These are hard times for Mongolia’s cashmere industry, caught in a vicious circle of expanding goat herds, falling wool prices and environmental destruction.
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