ULAN BATOR, March 17 (Reuters) - Mongolia is moving gingerly to tap its huge mineral wealth, seeking to dispel fears of resource overdependence and dominance by powerful foreign miners, but its moves are not scaring off investors.
David Stanway presents a timeline of key investment decisions by Mongolia.
Erdenechimeg, one of hundreds of thousands of Mongolians who lead nomadic lives and depend entirely on livestock for a living, is grappling with the country's second straight dzud -- a severe winter after a dry summer.
The rare double-barreled weather phenomenon -- one of the worst on record in Mongolia -- often leads to food shortages for the livestock that generations in the landlock
Due to recent changes in Mongolia's visa laws, some Mormon missionaries from the United States who were called to that Asian country and 10 others already serving there have been reassigned, at least temporarily. Effective next week, the LDS Church still will have 26 full-time foreign missionaries serving in Mongolia, LDS spokesman Sc
Moscow, 3 March: Russia's energy export and import monopoly Inter RAO UES says it is ready to switch to long-term contracts on power supplies with Mongolia.
On Tuesday, Moscow hosted the talks that brought together representatives of Inter RAO UES, Mongolia's state-run power companies and Ministry of Mineral Resource and Energy.
While international attention has been focused on earthquake-ravaged Haiti, a quiet, prolonged catastrophe is playing out in Mongolia.
Known locally as a "dzud," the unfolding disaster stems from naturally occurring factors that are combining to wipe out livestock. The summer of 2009 was particularly dry, hampering the ability of many herders to gather sufficient supplies of fodder and
TORONTO -- A man who spied on Chinese dissidents in the United States has been living in a Toronto church since this past August to avoid deportation, the National Post has learned.
Hours before the Canada Border Services Agency was scheduled to deport Gankhuyag Bumuutseren for espionage, he sought sanctuary in St. James Anglican church in Etobicoke.
The 41-year-old Mongolian citize
Excavations several years ago at an ancient cemetery in Mongolia uncovered a man's skeleton, including this skull, that has yielded genetic evidence of Indo-Europeans reaching eastern Asia at least 2,000 years ago.
A letter addressed by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to the Communist leader of the Mongolian People's Republic has been put up for auction at Sotheby's, the auction house said on its website.
The typed letter, described by the New York auction house as "the utmost rarity", is countersigned by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav
