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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.

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.

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

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

Mongolian grand champion Hakuho defeated compatriot Harumafuji to win his 13th Emperor’s Cup at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament.

Hakuho sent ozeki Harumafuji sprawling to the dirt surface at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium on Sunday with an arm throw to finish the spring tournament with a flawless 15-0 record.

Hakuho is the sole grand champion competing

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

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

BEIJING -(Dow Jones)- Aluminum Corp. of China, or Chinalco, is unlikely to get involved in Rio Tinto PLC's massive copper-gold Oyu Tolgoi mining project in Mongolia as a direct partner, since it may trigger political resistance from the Mongolian government, a top banker with Mongolia's largest lender said Thursday.

"That would be a real stick in the eye for the Mo