SALT LAKE CITY -- A team of medical volunteers, mostly from Utah, is preparing for a trek to one of the most remote countries in the world. It's an annual effort doing what many experts thought was a bad idea: teaching an advanced form of high-tech surgery in a primitive economy.
It's so off-the-beaten-track, a lot of people probably couldn't find Mongolia on a map. By
As they ponder ways to develop Mongolia’s abundant natural resources, political leaders in Ulaanbaatar are opting for more expensive infrastructure options in order to bolster the country’s sovereignty.
The leadership’s sovereignty concerns were evident in the recent announcement that a railroad spur leading from the country's largest coal mine would link into the country’s dome
SEOUL, Aug 24 (Bernama) -- South Korea plans to help Mongolia to build up maritime transportation capability in exchange for gaining access to the landlocked country's abundant natural resources, Yonhap news agency said Tuesday.
The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs said Seoul aims to train sailors, share commercial maritime management systems and allow
Seoul Metro, which operates subway Line One to Line Four in Seoul, has won a contract to conduct a feasibility study for a project to build a light rail transit system in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar.
The city plans to construct a 47-kilometer light rail system as part of a one-point-four trillion won transportation project.
An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale hit Zuunbayan County, Dornogobi Province, in eastern Mongolia Friday morning, the Mongolian Astronomical and Geophysical Research Institute said.
A researcher from the institute said the epicenter was initially determined at 44.5 degrees latitude and 109.6 degrees longitude, 30 km west of Zuunbayan County and 250 km from
Heat waves will continue to sweep across many parts of Mongolia until Aug. 25, Mongolia's meteorological authorities reported Saturday.
With temperatures at 36-39 degrees Celsius, the eastern part of the country and the areas along River Orhon and River Selenge in northern Mongolia will experience a sultry weather in the summer heat, reported Mongolia's Institute of Me
Marco Kesseler, Tom Jamieson, Jon Choksye and Edd Macey are driving to Mongolia in a 1953 Green Goddess fire engine. They have called it the Genghis Goddess and will join teams from around the world for the Mongol Rally challenge.
Ulaanbaatar, July 22, 2010 – Today representatives from the banking sector, private sector, academic community, media and the public attended a public lecture, presented by Arshad Sayed, titled ‘Mongolia's economic growth: what’s next?’.
Arshad, who has held the position of resident representative of the World Bank Mongolia office, shared fin
