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Teen wins award for Mongolian adventure

Tamir — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:34:55 -0400

When Angus Paradice was 11, he went to the Nadaam festival in Mongolia two years ago on a family holiday and watched the traditional horse racing for children, thinking: ''I could do that.''

Back at home in Scone, north-west of Newcastle, he trained for nine months, riding his horse 22 kilometres home from school if it was fine and jogging if it rained. He did 40 push-ups and sit-ups a day.

The following year he returned and became the first foreigner to compete in the cross-country races.

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Mongolia Formulate State Policy on Uranium Reserve

Tamir — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:12:02 -0400

Mongolia has formulated its state policy over exploration and exploitation of its uranium reserve, which is believed to shelter six percent of world’s total, S.Enkhbat, Chief of the Mongolian Nuclear Energy Authority, briefed at the 53rd IAEA General Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland on September 16.

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MONGOLIA: HERDERS MOVE WITH THE SEASONS

Tamir — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:05:24 -0400

At this time of year the summer pastures in the Altay Mountains in western Mongolia are strewn with belongings, and there’s a steady trickle of baggage-laden camels, yaks and horses down the slopes. Fall is fast approaching, and the Mongol and Kazakh herders who inhabit this land of craggy peaks, wide valleys and silver blue lakes are on the move, heading for lower pastures until winter sets in. Then they’ll be migrating again: these herders move four times a year, each season shifting to the places their nomadic forefathers have inhabited for generations.

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Mongolia stages 'world's longest horse race'

Tamir — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 02:17:50 -0400

The international group of riders pounded 860 kilometres (530 miles) across the Asian country's vast grasslands in the 10-day Mongol Derby, which organisers call the world's longest horse race.

The Adventurists, a Britain-based organisation that dreamed up the derby, designed the race as a way to promote Mongolian tradition and culture -- while raising money for charity.

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Zoo's quarters add up in helping Mongolia's snow leopards

Tamir — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:25:07 -0400

Funds raised one quarter at a time in Colorado Springs are helping to protect endangered snow leopards in distant Mongolia.

Under the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo's Quarters for Conservation program, which is in its second year, a quarter from each admission- or $2.50 from each family membership - goes to wildlife conservation. Visitors receive a token to vote for their favorite program among those represented in a display in the zoo's entry plaza, thus determining the percentage of funding each gets. The top vote-getter in the first year: the snow leopard, with more than $14,000 raised.

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Mongolian Dukha Reindeer Herders Face Threat to Existence - ABC News

Tamir — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:21:53 -0400

Deep in the Larch Forests of Northern Mongolia lives a tiny tribe of people known as the Dukha. For more than 3,000 years they have survived as nomads, moving camp 10 times a year across the mountains. Their existence is pinned on one animal: the reindeer. But their unique way of life now hangs in the balance.

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Riding high on Mongolian tradition

Tamir — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:17:42 -0400

A story about the horse training and preparations for the annual Naadam festival that appeared in the Washington Times, gives a glimpse at centuries-old tradition of nomadic Mongolians.

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Mercy Corps' Mongolian horse race draws opposition from equestrian groups

Tamir — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:51:38 -0400

The article sheds light on the controversy that surrounds the much hyped event of the year, so called "longest horse race in the world" and Mercy Corp's involvement in it.

Check the comments, especially the one that is posted by a reader signed in as Genk on 06/30/09 at 7:09AM

Again, didn't realise, how controversial the whole event was till I read the article.

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Charity rider saddled up for Mongolia's vast land

Tamir — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:09:04 -0400

Eastbourne rider Jeannine Williamson has completed her fourth overseas charity ride to raise money for the Brooke Hospital for Animals.

She was one of 27 riders from around the UK who followed in the hoof prints of Genghis Khan on the charity's 200km trek and camping trip across the vast plains and remote valleys of the Khangai Mountains in Mongolia.

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Mongolian Foreign Minister Batbold Sukhbaatar to Speak at Hudson Institute on Eve of Meeting with Secretary Clinton

Tamir — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:48:25 -0400

WASHINGTON, June 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Prior to Mongolian Foreign Minister Batbold Sukhbaatar's meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Hudson Institute will host a forum on June 8 for his presentation on Mongolia's evolving relations with China and Russia, and its "third neighbor" relations with the U.S. and Japan.

Once a nation as isolated as North Korea, today Mongolia has democracy, a market economy, and a rising international profile, in part thanks to an active third neighbor policy that seeks to broaden international ties to Western democracies.

In 2005, President George W. Bush became the first American president to visit Mongolia. Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin, just concluded a visit to Mongolia a country many Russians still view as a part of their sphere of influence to sign numerous trade, investment, and energy agreements.

When: Monday, June 8, 2009, 4:00 to 5:30 PM
Where: Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center
Hudson Institute
1015 15th Street, NW, 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

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Russia boosts Mongolia ties

Tamir — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:45:05 -0400

The Kremlin has reiterated its pledges to implement sizable infrastructure development projects in Mongolia in an attempt to boost bilateral economic ties. Last month, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited Mongolia, urging the country to create new major joint ventures and develop agricultural cooperation. He also stated that both countries will shortly conclude an agreement on joint uranium mining.

In response, Prime Minister Sanjaa Bayar said Mongolia also aimed to develop nuclear cooperation with Russia. He suggested that Russian agricultural loans to Mongolia might be extended on similar terms offered by international financial organizations. Bayar proposed speeding up the creation of a bilateral joint venture to mine uranium in Mongolia. He also said that Russian Chief of the General Staff Army-General Nikolai Makarov had recently traveled to the country to discuss military ties, including the modernization of the Mongolian army.

During Putin's visit, five agreements were signed on nuclear, transport and agricultural cooperation.

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Mongolian gold mine negotiations may set pace for mining labor contracts

Tamir — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:40:06 -0400

Work has ground to a halt at the Boroo gold mine in Mongolia as Centerra Gold and Mongolian labor unions battle over a labor issues which may prove a test case for labor negotiations for the Mongolian mining industry.

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Mongolian Mixtape Marathon

Tamir — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:35:31 -0400

On July 11th 2009 two drivers will depart on a 10,000 mile drive from London to Mongolia, crossing Europe, central Asia and culminating with a dash across the mighty Gobi Desert.

We are raising money for Save The Children, in association with the Mongolian Charity Rally. Our specially equipped off-road vehicle will be packed full of educational materials and clothing to donate to the Mongolian people. We will also be donating the vehicle on arrival.

We're asking DJs from all over the world, be they big names or bedroom DJs, to upload mixes for us to listen to all the way to Mongolia. We estimate we have 800+ hours driving time and we're intending to listen to dance music non-stop all the way there!

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Worthing mum and daughter preparing for Mongol Rally

Tamir — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:31:33 -0400

A mother and daughter from Worthing are appealing for help to make a charity challenge of a lifetime become a reality.
In July, the pair want to drive 10,000 miles to Mongolia through 15 different countries.

Davina Madden, 53, was diagnosed with breast cancer in June, 2006, and is now in remission. She and 21-year-old daughter Savanna are preparing to take part in the Mongol Rally 2009 to raise money for a charity which helped Davina with cancer treatment and support.

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Student's passion for fossils takes her to Mongolia

Tamir — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:43:00 -0400

In July, the Mount Union College student will leave for the Gobi Desert in southern Mongolia, where she will study its sedimentary history and collect paleontologic data.

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Mongolia awards Korean Air for environmental efforts

Tamir — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:23:20 -0400

The government of Mongolia awarded Korean Air with an "Environmental Excellence Medal" for volunteering to plant thousands of trees in Mongolia.

Trees have been planted in Baganor Desert by Korean Air employees and South Korean students as a part of the airline's Global Planting Project started in 2004.

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The horse and her boy

Tamir — Sat, 23 May 2009 10:17:14 -0400

To treat his son's autism, Rupert Isaacson sought a place that combined steeds and shamans. In Mongolia, an adventure became a breakthrough.

It starts with love, this story.

And ends with it, too. There wasn't a cure of the young autistic boy. But there was a healing, which helped save his parents' marriage.

Somewhere in the middle, high up on the border of Mongolia and Siberia, love came into play with the Reindeer People and a shaman known as Ghoste.

That will be explained.

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Ivanhoe says Mongolia project sold $3,5m of coal

Tamir — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:42:00 -0400

SouthGobi Energy Resources, Ivanhoe Mines subsidiary, sold $3,5-million of coal from its Ovoot Tolgoi project, in southern Mongolia, during the first quarter of the year.

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