Mongolia News

Cuttack, Nov. 4: The course of action undertaken for the removal of fuel oil from the sunken ship, Black Rose, is now at the centre of a high court dispute over Paradip Port Trust's power to award oil salvage contract to an US-based agency.

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.

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.

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.

There was a festive mood in a village in Mongolia's Khovd District recently as family and friends gathered to celebrate the birth of a baby into an ethnic Kazakh family.

A chronology of key events: 1206-63 - Following unification of the Mongol tribes, Genghis Khan launches a campaign of conquest.

Following the money often gets you to the bottom of a story. Following the economic experience of women may offer more insights.

From left: Mongolia's ambassador to the United States, Khasbazar Bekhbat; exhibit producer Don Lessem; Jim Wagenlander, Colorado's honorary consul for Mongolia; and Sambuu Dawadash, second secretary at the Mongolian embassy in Washington.

Move to cash in on 'pockets of wealth' WITH spending on luxury goods down across the developed world in the economic crisis, luxury brands are increasingly looking far beyond the chic avenues of New York, London or Paris for revenue.

Inside a small office in Mongolia's capital Ulan Bator, Banzaragchaa Altan-Od fields calls from ship captains and ports around the globe -- an unusual job for someone in a landlocked nation.

Via The International News , a Pakistani news source: Mongolia warns of swine flu epidemic as first dies .

Mongolian Deputy Primer Minister Miyeegombo Enkhbold received Tuesday a delegation from Hohhot city in north China's Inner Mongolia region, which is here to celebrate Ulan Bator's 370th anniversary on Oct.

Mongolia's ruling party has nominated the current foreign minister and one of the country's wealthiest men to be the new prime minister of the impoverished but resource-rich nation.

Toronto-listed SouthGobi Energy Resources yesterday announced that China Investment Corporation has agreed to provide a $500 million loan to finance the expansion of the company's mining and exploration operations in the south of Mongolia.

ULAN BATOR, Oct. 28. -- The Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party's Leading Council on Wednesday nominated Sukhbaataryn Batbold, the current foreign minister of Mongolia, as the new prime minister.

With one major mining deal in the bag, and more expected to follow, Mongolia is about to enter a phase of astronomic growth.

As far back as she knew -- five generations or more -- Khurtsaa's family had lived in Mongolia's central Khentii Province, raising sheep, goats and horses.

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A retired veterinarian who now calls Canmore home has headed far a field to Mongolia, to assist aspiring veterinarians in that country as a veterinary instructor.