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Inquest to be held into shooting of Bath man in Mongolia 13 years ago

mongoliaonline — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:48:14 EDT

An inquest will finally be held next week into the shooting 13 years ago of an agricultural consultant from Bath in Mongolia.

A police investigation into the death of Tim Jarman in the Asian country was closed in 1999 but the Avon coroner’s office says it is only now that it has the right paperwork for a hearing to take place.

The inquest into the 50-year

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Mongolia’s president dives to Baikal’s bed

mongoliaonline — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:17:43 EDT

[Video] Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj is going diving in Lake Baikal, using the Mir-1 submersible.

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Mongolian leader becomes first president to dive to bottom of Lake Baikal

mongoliaonline — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:52:45 EDT

Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj became the first president to dive the bottom of the world's deepest lake, Baikal, in the Mir-1 mini-submarine, a representative for the Fund for the Protection of Lake Baikal said.

"Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj and a representative of the Fund for the Protection of Lake Baikal's advisory board, Mikhail Slepenchuk, explored the depths

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Family: man charged for not reporting missing man

mongoliaonline — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:03:14 EDT

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) -- The father of a southeast Missouri man who died while hiking in Mongolia said another American faces charges for waiting too long to report the man missing.

Colin McLain, of Cape Girardeau, was working in Mongolia as a temporary legal adviser to the country's leaders when he was found dead in a national park in early July.

McLain's f

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In Mongolia, sex tourism by S. Korean males leads to anti-Korean sentiment

mongoliaonline — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:52:03 EDT

With Korean men contributing to growth of industry, the damage to Korea’s image has increased

South Koreans’ sex tourism to Mongolia remains widespread. According to an investigative report by The Hankyoreh, Mongolians accused South Korean tourists of spawning a culture of buying sex in their country. In 2002, a South Kor

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Family of man who died in Mongolia still awaiting autopsy results

mongoliaonline — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:31:15 EDT

The family of a local man who died on a hiking trip in Mongolia is still waiting on autopsy results through the U.S. Embassy there, the man's father said Wednesday.

Colin McLain, a 2003 graduate of Central High School, left for Mongolia in May to begin an eight-week "externship" for the legal adviser to the country's leader. He was found dead in Bogdkhan National Park after he was repo

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Border Railways To End Bottleneck On China-Mongolia Trade

mongoliaonline — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:36:26 EDT

HOHHOT, June 2 (Bernama) -- At least two railways will cross north China's East Ujimqin Plain in Inner Mongolia to break a bottleneck on trade across the China-Mongolia border in the next two years, Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday

"The railways, totalling more than 1,300 km in length, will start from Fuxin, of Liaoning Province, and Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, and

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Mongolian is first naturalized poll winner

mongoliaonline — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:15:27 EDT

Lee Ra became the nation’s first foreign-born citizen elected as a proportional representative of the Grand National Party for Gyeonggi on Wednesday.

Lee, 33, became a Korean citizen in 2008 after following her Korean husband to the country from Mongolia in 2003. She is a well-known advocate for the welfare of multicultural families in Korea.

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Now Invading Downtown San Jose

mongoliaonline — Sun, 30 May 2010 21:16:32 EDT

"Genghis Khan: The Exhibition" opens at The Tech Museum in San Jose

What do the postal system, international law, the cannon, national parks; even skis, baklava and "hooray!" have in common? The answer: Genghis Khan, the great civilizer whose empire brought each of these innovations to the West.

To many, Genghis Khan is remembered as a terrifying leader, known for decima

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Kidnapping Mongolian Women

mongoliaonline — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:19:46 EDT

Ulan Bator - An international gang of human traffickers is in the process of kidnapping someone I know in Ulaanbaatar along with seven other Mongolians. They presumably will be engaged in forced labor and exploited in the sex industry.

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StreetLife: Ulan Bator — Genghis Khan returns

mongoliaonline — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:28:36 EDT

Genghis Khan, the ferocious warlord who conquered most of the known world, helped unify Mongolia back in the 13th century.

Now Khan is 'back' in Mongolia, however this time to unify a young democracy getting over decades of communism and overshadowed by two powerful neighbors.

GlobalPost has a report that shows Khan is being used to help bolster Mongolia's fragile national iden

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Mongolia on verge of mineral boom

mongoliaonline — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:39:37 EDT

Mongolia is about to experience an unprecedented boom. By 2013, the mining of some of the world's largest unexploited mineral deposits will begin to herald a transformation of the economy.

In 2008, the GDP of this former Soviet satellite state was $5.3bn. In the next decade, that could triple.

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Zul tells of plot to implicate PM and wife in murder of Mongolian woman

mongoliaonline — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:16:23 EDT

PETALING JAYA: Independent MP Zulkifli Noordin dropped a bombshell in the Dewan Rakyat yesterday when he revealed that he was once ordered to implicate Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor in the murder of Altantuya Shaaribu.

Amidst gasps of disbelief from MPs, the Kulim-Bandar Baharu lawmaker claimed that he was asked to get sworn statements that th

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Mongolian Army Day Ceremony held in Kabul

mongoliaonline — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:57:09 EDT

KABUL, Afghanistan--Hundreds of NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan forces turned out to witness a unique lunchtime display of hand to hand combat, close - order drill and formation marching with the Mongolian Task Force One-Afghanistan in celebration of Mongolian Army Day at Camp Eggers.

The modern Mongolian Army won their first major battle against the Chinese Army in

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Mongolia faces climate-driven humanitarian crisis

mongoliaonline — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:31:50 EDT

In one of the most sparsely populated regions of the world, the hardy inhabitants are fighting for survival.

Mongolia’s three million people and forty million animals are now being tested by a brutal winter that followed a drought last summer. Tony Birtley of Al Jazeera English reports how grazing, the backbone of the country’s economy, is under threat.

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Key resources moves by Mongolia since 1990

mongoliaonline — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:02:00 EDT

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.

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Mongolia's harsh winter of discontent

mongoliaonline — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:05:19 EDT

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

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Some Mormon missionaries leave Mongolia

mongoliaonline — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:53:06 EST

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 Scott Trotter said Wednesday. "No new foreign missiona

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Mongolia gets offers of long-term power supply contracts from Russia

mongoliaonline — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:19:13 EST

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.

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MONGOLIA: HARSH WINTER WEATHER WIPING OUT LIVESTOCK

mongoliaonline — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:13:10 EST

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

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Former Chinese spy seeks asylum in Toronto church

mongoliaonline — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:20:54 EST

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

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Skeleton Of Western Man Found In Ancient Mongolian Tomb

mongoliaonline — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:34:34 EST

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.

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Stalin's letter to Mongolian 'comrade' to be auctioned in New York

mongoliaonline — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:51:51 EST

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

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More than 900 A/H1N1 cases registered in Mongolia

administrator — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:57:09 EST

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

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