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A day after capturing his 15th career title, Mongolian grand champion Hakuho capped off a stellar performance with a superhuman feat against ozeki Baruto on Sunday, making him the only man in the history of sumo to win three consecutive meets with perfect 15-0 records.


Tokyo -- To the extent that Mongolia receives any attention in contemporary Japan, it is usually in the context of the minor scandals of former Yokozuna Asashoryu and the splendid recent performances of Yokozuna Hakuho.


It would be a mistake, however, to leave it at that, because Japan-Mongolia relations do seem to be picking up some momentum in recent months.



Heat Wave Sweeps across Mongolia

Posted by mongoliaonline 671 days ago (Editorial)

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

The Mongol Rally is 10,000 miles of mountains, deserts, and bad roads.


Yet the prospect of no such luxuries as motorways and service stations certainly appeals to the adventurers of Cornwall.


The latest explorers to take up the Mongol Rally are David Sawyer and Matt Hawkins.


The duo have spent hours training for the event, or have they? Matt says the in

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

Mongolia and Russia may speed up its previous talks to establish a joint venture Dornod Uranium and modernization of railway and mining cooperation, the 14th Mongolia-Russian inter-governmental commission meeting agreed in protocol, which concluded this week in Ulaanbaatar.


During the meeting, in which Russian side is represented by visiting Transportation Minister Igor Levitin, sides

Fluor Corp. said Thursday it will book $1 billion in the second quarter for work tied to a copper and gold mine in southern Mongolia.


The work of Fluor, an Irving, Texas-based engineering and construction firm, will include overall program management and engineering, procurement and construction management for construction of parts of the mining complex.


That encompasses constr

SYDNEY—The close relationship between global miner Rio Tinto Ltd. and Canadian company Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. appears to be unraveling just as their biggest joint project starts moving toward production.


At the center of the dispute lies a slow-motion tug-of-war over control of Mongolia's Oyu Tolgoi mine, the world's largest undeveloped deposit of copper and gold, du

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