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Heat Wave Sweeps across Mongolia

mongoliaonline — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:02:07 EDT

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

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Mongolia - Departing Country Manager Shares His Thoughts on Mongolia’s Economic Growth

mongoliaonline — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:30:09 EDT

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

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Driving the Genghis Goddess to Mongolia for charity

mongoliaonline — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:48:42 EDT

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.

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Mongolia to export up to 240 saker falcons this year

mongoliaonline — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:44:10 EDT

ULAN BATOR, Jun. 12, 2010 (Xinhua News Agency) -- Mongolia had set a quota of 240 saker falcons for export this year, Minister of Environment, Nature and Tourism L. Gansuh said Friday.

Speaking on a new hunting regulation at a press conference, the minister said foreigners would be allowed to hunt 240 of the most prized birds of prey, which cost 12,000 U.S. dollars each.

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IOM to Assess Needs of Rural Families Displaced by Extreme Winter

mongoliaonline — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:50:25 EDT

International Organization for Migration (IOM), in cooperation with UN partners including UNICEF, is to launch an Emergency Displacement Assessment to investigate the situation of thousands of rural Mongolian families forced to migrate from their homes to the capital Ulaanbaatar by one of the coldest winters on record.

The extreme winter conditions, known locally as a "Dzud," resulted

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Mongol herders reeling after harsh winter

mongoliaonline — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:02:26 EDT

SOUTH HANGAY PROVINCE, Mongolia - They call it the zud, a prolonged period of heavy snows and paralyzing cold that adds to the challenges of living on a treeless expanse nearly the size of Alaska. But this year's zud followed a punishing summer drought that stunted the grass and left Munkhbat Lkhagvasuren's herds emaciated and his family in debt after borrowing money for fodder.

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Mongolia counts carcasses after harsh winter

mongoliaonline — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:54:56 EDT

UYANGA, Mongolia-Before he can fully tend to his dwindling herd, Demberel has to bury the dead cows, goats and sheep in earth barely thawed from Mongolia's worst winter in decades.

Fetid and fly-ridden, the carcasses lie stacked by the hundreds around a burial pit dug by Demberel and a dozen fellow herders. A truck brings dozens more carcasses. Others lie in piles or strewn in n

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Support For Mongolia's Development

mongoliaonline — Sat, 15 May 2010 16:41:50 EDT

International experience can be helpful as Mongolia makes choices about its future.

"Mongolia will determine the choices it makes about its own future," said United States Ambassador to Mongolia Jonathan Addleton, "but international experience, both good and bad, can also be helpful and offer useful and important insights as Mongolia learns from both the successes and failures o

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UN seek $18 million to assist nearly 800,000 people in Mongolia after severe winter and summer drought

mongoliaonline — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:55:01 EDT

UNITED NATIONS (BNO NEWS) - United Nations (UN) agencies and partner humanitarian organizations on Wednesday requested more than $18 million to assist nearly 800,000 people in Mongolia who are suffering from a long and severe winter, and the proceeding summer drought.

The dzud - a complex, natural disaster in which a summer drought is followed by heavy snowfalls and unusually lo

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Mongolia declared disaster after fierce winter-UN

mongoliaonline — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:09:46 EDT

GENEVA, May 12 (Reuters) - Mineral-rich Mongolia is in the grips of a natural disaster after its worst winter for 50 years wiped out huge livestock populations vital to the country's herders, the U.N. said on Wednesday.

Rana Flowers, the United Nation's top representative in the landlocked Asian country, said a hot dry summer in 2009 followed first by fierce cold and h

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UN urges aid for Mongolia

mongoliaonline — Wed, 12 May 2010 04:48:00 EDT

GENEVA - THE UN warned on Wednesday that a drought which has devastated Mongolia during one of the worst winters for decades could continue for another year, as it appealed for US$ 18.1 million (S$30 million) in aid.

UN interim humanitarian coordinator Rana Flowers said the aid appeal presented to donors in Geneva would assist nearly 800,000 Mongolians, mainly herders

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Silent spring for Mongolians after winter kills herds

mongoliaonline — Wed, 12 May 2010 04:34:33 EDT

(Reuters) - The winter camps of southern Mongolia are quiet during this year's breeding season, after an unusually harsh winter wiped out herds and left nomadic families with little but debt to their name.

The bitter winter killed an estimated 8 million animals, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), leaving exhausted, poverty-stricken herders st

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INFLATION WORRIES LEAD CENTRAL BANK TO RAISE POLICY LOAN RATE BY 1%

mongoliaonline — Tue, 11 May 2010 14:33:43 EDT

The Central Bank raised on Monday its policy loan interest rate from 10% to 11% with effect from May 12, to counter inflation which now stands at 11.4% as against 8.4 percent in January.

The rising inflation has been attributed to the distribution of MNT70,000 to every citizen, to the massive loss of livestock that has raised the price of meat by 64 percent, and to th

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Bridging the digital divide

mongoliaonline — Sun, 09 May 2010 02:15:38 EDT

Mongolia — an isolated country sandwiched between Siberia and China — has become a pioneer in using the Internet as a tool for development, through a lasting partnership with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) that continues today. Since the demise of the Soviet Union, Mongolia has made significant progress in democratic restructuring and creating a private-sector

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IMF says revised budget violates terms of agreement

mongoliaonline — Sat, 08 May 2010 17:20:45 EDT

IMF Country Representative .P. Ramlogan told Parliament Speaker D.Demberel on Monday that reported provisions in the revised budget for 2010 violated Mongolia’s agreement with the IMF, and that if these were not reviewed, the Fund “would find it difficult” to continue with the agreement.

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China arrests two Mongolians for smuggling snow leopard skins

mongoliaonline — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:38:54 EDT

Beijing - Chinese police arrested two Mongolian citizens after finding two snow leopard skins and a snow leopard skull hidden inside their jeep at a border checkpoint, state media said Tuesday.

Police in the remote Alxa League of north China's Inner Mongolia region spent 10 hours searching the vehicle that had more than 40 hidden compartments, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

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Mongolian dzud kills millions of domestic animals

mongoliaonline — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:16:52 EDT

By James Sawyer
Imagine trying to survive in temperatures below minus 50 degrees F (minus 47 degrees C) for more than a month.

It happened in Mongolia this winter--weather so cold that livestock and other animals were dying painfully at a rate of a quarter of a million deaths every week, resulting in the loss of millions of animals over the season.

Imagine

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Books being shipped to Mongolia

mongoliaonline — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:09:05 EDT

CHILDREN in Mongolia will benefit from 45,000 English reading books thanks to an international book collection scheme led in the UK by a Belbroughton-based photographer.

The Bookbridge initiative set out to collect unwanted children’s English books to equip school libraries in Mongolia so children in the country can learn English as a second l

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Mongolia, South Korea to build waste recycle plant in Ulan Bator

mongoliaonline — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:31:05 EDT

ULAN BATOR, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Mongolia and the Republic of Korea on Saturday signed a cooperation agreement to build a waste recycling plant in the Mongolian capital city.

The cooperating parties are the Ulan Bator municipal administration and the Korea International Cooperation Agency, according to the city's administrative office.

The waste recycling plant

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How conservation can help Mongolia's herders fight the dzud

mongoliaonline — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:45:55 EDT

Half of all Mongolia's livestock could be dead by spring -- victims of a drought-freeze punch known as a dzud. How could grassland conservation help herders cope with such climate-change intensified phenomena?

Evan Girvetz, Cool Green Science Blog describes the root causes for this particularly devastating dzud and suggests some ecosystem-based solutions to help make the livelihoo

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ADB Helps Mongolia Prepare for Urban Growth Ahead of Influx in Southeast Gobi

mongoliaonline — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:34:24 EDT

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing $15 million in grant to help Mongolia improve urban infrastructure and services in the booming mining and border towns in Southeast Gobi.

The grant, which was approved by ADB's Board of Directors, will directly benefit about 100,000 people in six towns of Omnogovi and Dornogovi provinces, where poverty incidence is around 31%.

Both

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Six million heads of livestock died in Mongolia

mongoliaonline — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:48:25 EDT

Ulaanbaatar Six million heads of livestock died due to extreme weather conditions in Mongolia. 14.3% of the 44 million heads counted in the beginning of 2010 have been lost.

These livestock are the primary source of income and food for nomadic families, and as a result thousands are struggling to survive.

The Mongolian government has declared a state of nationa

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Severe winter devastates Mongolian herder families

mongoliaonline — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:41:42 EDT

A particularly severe winter in Mongolia is having a devastating impact on more than 12,000 people from herding families, whose entire reserves of livestock have died in the harsh conditions.

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has released £65,000 from its Disaster Relief Emergency Fund and issued an emergency appeal seeking £645,000 to sup

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Mongolia Gets ADB Support for Herder Families Battling Natural Disaster

mongoliaonline — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:09:32 EDT

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Isolated nomadic herder families in Mongolia who are struggling to survive amidst an unfolding natural disaster are to receive support from the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Asia Pacific Disaster Response Fund.

A grant of $2.5 million from the Fund to the Government of Mongolia will help deliver food, fuel, and health and social services to herd

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Return to Khishig Undur: The Tale of Peter Rabbit

mongoliaonline — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:05:08 EDT

Over 10,000 people voted to give a book to children in the remote Mongolian village of Khishig Undur - the most participants yet!

The winning book is "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and Asia Foundation delivered it to Khishig Undur's 4th grade class on March 29th. We thought we'd give the children the opportunity to thank you themselves so please watch the video to the end!

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Extreme Weather | Mongolia

mongoliaonline — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:45:27 EDT

Dead sheep, goats, horses and cattle are strewn throughout a barren and snowy landscape on Mongolia's remote steppes.

For the nomadic herdsmen and women who inhabit this unforgiving land, the level of death and destruction is not normal.

Sheila Zhao spent nine days traveling with another photographer and a small entourage of local officials through two of Mongolia’s worst

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Mongolia's zud: Bitter toll

mongoliaonline — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:51:58 EDT

In a country where livestock outnumber people by an order of 16 to one, animal welfare is no small matter. In Mongolia this year the animals are not faring well at all, and the 2.8m human inhabitants are feeling their pain. Hundreds of thousands of Mongolians depend directly upon animals for their own livelihood.

The immediate cause of everyone's distress is an untoward sequence

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Mongolia: UN provides more funds as severe winter continues to bite

mongoliaonline — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:04:14 EDT

29 March 2010 - The United Nations has allocated $3.7 million in emergency funding to support UN agencies in Mongolia as they try to assist more than half a million people suffering from the combined effects of a long, severe winter and a preceding harsh summer drought.

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Struggling to survive Mongolia's freezing winter

mongoliaonline — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 04:10:47 EDT

In Mongolia, what aid agencies are calling a slowly unfolding disaster is underway as extreme cold continues to devastate nomadic herder communities. As the BBC's Chris Hogg reports, about 10% of the country's livestock has perished and thousands of families have lost everything.

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Arctic winter threatens Mongolian way of life

mongoliaonline — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:43:41 EDT

Thousands of nomadic Mongolian herders are facing impoverishment after the onslaught of a bitter cold winter which has decimated their livestock.

An estimated 4.5 million animals have perished on the freezing Mongolian steppes depriving families of their only source of income.

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Mongolian herders need food aid after hard winter

mongoliaonline — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:35:32 EDT

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia -- Emergency food relief is needed for nomadic herders in Mongolia after the number of livestock killed there by blizzards and extreme cold doubled in recent weeks, the Red Cross said Monday.

International funds of 1 million Swiss francs ($935,000) were needed to provide food and other emergency relief for herders in the poor, landlocked country, the Interna

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Red Cross launches appeal to help Mongolia herders

mongoliaonline — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:29:03 EDT

BEIJING (AFP) - The Red Cross launched an emergency appeal Monday for nearly one million dollars to assist thousands of herders in Mongolia who have lost their livestock to one of the worst winters in decades.

The impoverished landlocked nation is currently grappling with a severe winter after a dry summer, a combination known locally as "dzud" that has led to extreme cold and f

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BBC News - In pictures: Mongolia's severe winter

mongoliaonline — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:24:30 EDT

BBC News published a series of photographs depicting the gruesome truth of the severe winter in Mongolia.

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Huge horse and livestock losses in Mongolian winter

mongoliaonline — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:37:46 EDT

Mongolian herders have lost massive numbers of horses, goats, sheep, camels, cows and yaks in a harsh winter, the United Nationals Development Programme reports.

It estimates that 2.7 million livestock have perished nationwide during a winter of extreme cold and snow - known locally as a dzud - with another three million at risk of death by the end of the cold season in June. Th

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World Bank: Energy Project scale-up to improve delivery of electricity in Mongolia

mongoliaonline — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:17:43 EDT

The FINANCIAL -- The World Bank ’s Board of Executive Directors on March 25 approved a US$ 12 million scale up of a successful Mongolian energy project.

"The Energy Project, which was first introduced in 2001, was instrumental in improving the financial sustainability of the energy sector by reducing losses and improving revenue collection in Ulaanbaatar and 9 ai

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RP Donates US$20,000 to Mongolia for “Zud” Disaster Rehabilitation

mongoliaonline — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:45:37 EDT

24 March 2010 - The Philippine Embassy in Beijing reported to the Department of Foreign Affairs that Philippine Ambassador to China Francisco L. Benedicto handed over a check of US$20,000 to Mongolian Ambassador to China Tsedenjav Sukhbaatar on March 16 at the Mongolian Embassy in Beijing.

The amount represented the Philippine government's donation to the rehabilitatio

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Why Mongolia matters to Michigan

mongoliaonline — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:24:16 EDT

Robert Reid, born in Detroit and raised in Southfield, is the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Resident Country Director, assigned to work in Mongolia to implement the MCC grant. He explains how Mongolia’s $285 million MCC grant is helping to reduce poverty and why it matters to his fellow Americans in the U.S.

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Death stalks the frozen land of Genghis Khan

mongoliaonline — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:12:13 EDT

By Peter Foster in Uliastai. Published: 8:00AM GMT 21 Mar 2010

Mongolia is experiencing the worst famine in a generation, as Peter Foster found when he spent time with nomads in the one of the most inhospitable terrains on earth.

The looming catastrophe is so serious that the United Nations has issued an urgent appeal for assistance for this remote co

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In Mongolia, Choose a Book, Change a Life

mongoliaonline — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:41:59 EDT

Vote Now to Send Your Favorite Storybook to Students at Khishig-Undur School, Mongolia

The first-year English students at Khishig-Undur School are motivated and smart but they lack one thing we often take for granted: books. So Books for Asia delivered what was needed, and helped Mongolia's next generation prepare for the future.

Books for Asia has been changin

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IMF Executive Board Completes Fourth Review Under Stand-By Arrangement and Approves US$23.4 Million Disbursement

mongoliaonline — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:26:24 EDT

Press Release No. 10/99 March 19, 2010

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the fourth review of Mongolia's economic performance under a program supported by an 18-month Stand-By Arrangement (SBA). The completion of the review enables the immediate disbursement of an amount equivalent to SDR 15.33 million (about US$23.4 million),

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