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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

According to the Ministry of Health, as of 10am, November 6th, there were 715 confirmed cases of people infected with A/H1N1 virus registered in Ulaanbaatar and 195 in the 17 provinces.

There were 51 patients being treated at the National Center for Infectious Diseases, from which 24 were still waiting for lab test results.

By Friday, the death toll of the virus had risen