Mongolia News

A resident walks with a bicycle in front of the national parliament building at Sukhbaatar square on Mongolia's annual Car-Free Day, in Ulan Bator March 31, 2013.

Customs officials at Manzhouli, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, discovered a haul of 213 wild bear paws that had been hidden in a vehicle by two Russian nationals, the biggest seizure of smuggled paws ever made by Chinese customs.

Professors are helping develop curriculum and designing classrooms at the new university, located in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator, KUAC reported .

Ulan Bator , Jun 16: In a daring act of fraud that has the potential of jeopardising his re-election in the Jun 26 presidential polls, Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj and his close associates ingeniously duped a South Korean investor into buying a license for a gold mine that, after due diligence, was discovered to have no gold value at ... (more)

The best thing author Tom Doig brought back from a trip was enough outlandish anecdotes to string together a travel book.

Around 70 performers will use music, song and dance to tell the story of the ruthless invader and military tactician, and his blood-soaked campaigns.

AS WE drive across the Mongolian steppes, the contrasts are striking. A nomadic horseman herds cattle among shadows cast by the nation's first wind farm, while a few hundred metres away, a train with more than 60 carriages ships coal from an enormous mine.

Film historian Ed Rampell details Hollywood's entangled relationship with the CIA and the Pentagon; HOUSES OF THE DEAD: Nancy Kurshan exposes the cruel human rights offenses taking place inside America's vast gulag of Control Unit Prisons; BROTHERHOOD OF SUMMER: David Macaray charts the history of the most powerful union in the US: the Baseball ... (more)

A group of University of Alaska, Fairbanks Professors will develop an engineering school in Mongolia over the next few years.

Mongolia's central bank plans to cut interest rates on mortgages by almost half to 8 percent from around 15 percent this month, following a new policy approved by the government to ease financial burdens on the middle class.

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An exhibition of fossils returned to Mongolia after being smuggled into the Unites States has gone on display in the capital of Ulan Bator, officials said.

By the time the Soviet Union first called for the liquidation of Mongolian monks and monastery sites in the 1920s, there were about 100.000 lamas in a population approximately of 700.000 people During the Soviet Great Purge under Stalin, between 1937 and 1939, Soviet and Mongolian authorities executed thousands of lamas and destroyed more than 1000 ... (more)

With a journey stretching nearly half way across the world ahead of them, a fearless team of three Royal Naval adventurers are putting the finishing touches to their preparations.

Hundreds of spectators and reporters gathered at the Sukhbaatar Square of Ulan Bator Saturday, waiting to have their first look at an exhibition of "Warriors Tyrannosaurus" fossils returned from the United States.

The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurs is displayed in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, June 8, 2013.

World Environment Day was held on June 5, 2013 and I was in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia for the official launch of the event.

The Thai Spring group is set to launch an anti-government Web page called Thai Spring Forum as a venue to hold regular online meetings, before calling on supporters to stage rallies when the time is right.

TWO Mongolian office clerks who each paid The Eurocollege Institute of Education a 6,500 before discovering they could not obtain visas to study in Ireland, have been awarded judgments against the college.

Major electrification package to help Tsagaan Suvarga copper and molybdenum plant achieve safe and energy efficient operation under very tough climatic conditions Baden, Switzerland ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order for a major electrical equipment package from Mongolyn Alt Corporation for its greenfield ... (more)