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Mining the Legacy for Modern-Day Profit
For Mongolia, where income from tourism accounts for nearly 20 percent of gross domestic product, Genghis Khan is already a major draw, with tour operators aggressively promoting the opportunity to "follow in Genghis' footsteps." Finding his grave, boosters say, will only increase the country's appeal. Comment?
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Statement by IMF Resident Representative to Mongolia
Mr. Parmeshwar Ramlogan, the Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund in Mongolia, issued the following statement in Ulaanbaatar today: "An IMF mission, led by Mr. Comment?
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The daughter of a union boss is refuting claims that her dad is trying to hijack the election of Colorado's biggest union. Comment?
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Flu death rises to 12 in Mongolia
The death toll from the A/H1N1 flu rose to 12 in Mongolia while the number of infected people climbed to 955 with 737 in the capital Ulan Bator alone, the health ministry said Wednesday. Comment?
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Genghis Khan museum exhibit features local performers
Tickets: $20 for adults and $11 for children and seniors; Members pay $8 for adults and $5 for children and seniors More info: 303-322-7009 or http://dmns.org/gk/ Ariunbold Mijiddorj, famed for his mastery of the horse-head fiddle -- or morin khuur -- is reminded of the Altai Mountains of Mongolia whenever he looks at the Rocky Mountains in ... Comment?
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Via Xinhua: Flu death rises to 12 in Mongolia . Excerpt: The death toll from the A/H1N1 flu rose to 12 in Mongolia while the number of infected people climbed to 955 with 737 in the capital Ulan Bator alone, the health ministry said Wednesday. Comment?
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While grocery workers fret, their union bosses are busy fighting
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Kim Cordova and Cindy Lucero in front of the UFCW headquarters. Kim Cordova and Cindy Lucero, the president-elect and secretary-treasurer-elect of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, stood in front of the union's empty headquarters in Wheat Ridge this afternoon and, with an audience of a reporter and a single news camera, called the ... Comment?
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APPT Cebu: Bring on APPT Ulan Bator
It's no big secret that poker has caught the world by storm, but throughout the Great Poker Boom in the last few years, there's one country that hasn't popped in poker-related conversations too often: Mongolia. Comment?
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... campaign against Hitler was profoundly wasteful. My own first encounter with Soviet bloc communism in action was in Mongolia in 1971. I was, as I've written here before, a student on vacation, visiting my father, the British Ambassador in Ulan ... Comment?
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Luxury brands hunt for untapped markets
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... Bator -- respectively, the commercial capital of Kazakhstan, a major Chinese provincial center and the capital of Mongolia. "The desire for luxury is more and more universal, so the luxury sector has to reach its customers around the world", ... Comment?
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In Mongolia, Ambivalence Greets Efforts to Find the Great Khan's Tomb
... to keep the death a secret from the Mongols' enemies. So as the party accompanying his body made its way back to Mongolia, they killed every person they saw on the way - more than 20,000 - so news of the death wouldn't spread. Then, when they buried ... Comment?
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"Mongol" actress: from soldier dreams to Oscar buzz
... filmed mainly in northern China and the steppes of Kazakhstan -- a country the size of Western Europe which, like Mongolia, is populated by the descendants of nomadic tribes. "The film is about Mongolia, about Genghis Khan. And he is like God in ... Comment?
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Student delivers ambulance - to Mongolia
A STUDENT has driven an ambulance to Mongolia to donate it to a hospital. During the 8,500 mile trip, Juliet Waud spent six hours in a Kazakh jail over an immigration mix-up, broke down in Poland, and drove through a landscape so dry it is known as the Valley of Death. Comment?
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Children being treated for pneumonia at hospital in India
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... in CDC's Streptococcus laboratory, demonstrates pneumococcal serotyping techniques to laboratorians from the Mongolia Ministry of Health in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. About her collaborative work with the World Health Organization (WHO), the London ... Comment?
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Student delivers ambulance - to Mongolia
A STUDENT has driven an ambulance to Mongolia to donate it to a hospital. During the 8,500 mile trip, Juliet Waud spent six hours in a Kazakh jail over an immigration mix-up, broke down in Poland, and drove through a landscape so dry it is known as the Valley of Death. Comment?
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More than 900 A/H1N1 cases registered in Mongolia
The number of people infected with the A/H1N1 virus had risen to more than 900 by Friday morning, according to the Ministry of Health. Comment?
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Mongolia to import H1N1 vaccine from China
Vice Premier M. Enkhbold met with Yu Hongyao, China's ambassador to Mongolia, on Thursday, after the country decided to import H1N1 virus vaccines from China instead of those offered by the World Health Organization. Comment?
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Mongolia: Shamanism is Making a Comeback
When Degi, a 24-year-old web designer in Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar, hit a pedestrian in July 2008 with his Daewoo sedan, his luck took a turn for the worse. Comment?
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Mongolia's A/H1N1 flu death toll rises to six
Mongolia's death toll from the A/H1N1 flu virus had risen to six, its health authority said Wednesday. Comment?
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Tamiflu shipped to Mongolia to fight H1N1 outbreak
The World Health Organisation has shipped urgent supplies of the influenza drug Tamiflu to Mongolia, as the country's hospital system struggles to cope with a late but widespread outbreak of the H1N1 strain of flu. Comment?
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