A group of SOFA-sponsored runners from Okinawa spent last week competing in the Mongolia 100K and 42K ultra-marathon running races.
Highlighting the group’s feats, Anna Boom took first in the women’s division and placed fifth overall in the 100K race. Two high school-aged students, Avery and Corinne Lennard, each took part in the 42K race;
The fifth Women's Chess Grand Prix opened in Mongolia on Thursday.
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov said,"the tournament is the highest ranking in the history of women's chess championships and tournaments.
In the tournament, four former world champions will compete simultaneously.
Intrepid traveler, photographer and eater Uta Beyer has more on Mongolian cuisine following a recent visit to Mongolia. Here's what she writes about boortsog, the Mongolian national cookie:
"Well, over my years of travel, I have survived on bat in jungles of Borneo, nibbled on widgety grubs (giant Australian tree maggots) in the Australian outback, dined on cuy (guinea
The FINANCIAL -- The EBRD and Mongolia’s largest bank Khan Bank have signed a participation agreement for USD 10 million under the EBRD Medium-Sized Co-Financing Facility (MCFF).
"The MCFF is designed to provide co-financing by EBRD for up to 50 per cent of Khan Bank’s loans to selected customers. This will allow Khan Bank to expand its lending capacity pro
TOKYO, July 29 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Japan and Mongolia agreed Thursday to closely cooperate with each other in the development of mineral resources and energy in Mongolia through technology transfer and investment, Japanese officials said.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku met with visiting Mongolian Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Dashdorj Zorigt and brief
Aluminum Corporation of China (Chalco) has suspended its shares pending an announcement on an ''important discussion''.
Chalco's parent company, Chinalco, is in talks with Rio Tinto to buy a stake in the $US4.6 billion ($A5.09 billion) Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia or the British company's partner in the project, Ivanhoe Mines.
FUSO, Aichi -- The sumo ranking committee has promoted seven wrestlers to the second-highest juryo division for the autumn tournament, including one Mongolian grappler here who was caught up in the recent baseball gambling scandal that shook the sumo world to its foundations.
Twenty-six-year-old Shironoryu, who acquired Japanese citizenship last year, was allowed to pa
Competitors set off from the Goodwood Motor Circuit in Chichester on a 10,000-mile journey to Mongolia.
More than 400 teams are taking part in the event, which is limited to cars with an engine size of less than one litre. The teams, racing without emergency back-up vehicles, will travel through 15 countries to the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator for charity.
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