Mongolia plans to sell as much as $1.2 billion of bonds overseas later this year, its first sale of dollar-denominated debt, to fund infrastructure supporting its mining industry, Finance Minister Sangajav Bayartsogt said.

Mongolia, the Asian nation with some of the world's largest untapped mineral resources, is considering setting up separate companies owning the country's gold, copper and coal reserves and using investment banks to sell shares to global investors, the prime minister said.

Sumo grand champion Asashoryu today announced his retirement, weeks after he allegedly assaulted a man outside a nightclub in the latest scandal to hit the troubled sport.

People in Ulan Bator on Feb. 5, 2010, read newspapers' front-page stories reporting former... Several Mongolian newspapers on Friday featured articles on their front pages, reporting that a conspiracy was behind former grand champion Asashoryu's decision to quit sumo over his alleged assault of a man in downtown Tokyo.

The Rezidor Hotel Group, one of the fastest growing hotel companies worldwide, announces a new hotel in a new country: The Radisson Blu Hotel, Ulaanbaatar with 175 guest rooms is scheduled to open in Q1 2011.

Gankhuyag Bumuutseren, a Mongolian citizen recruited to spy on Chinese dissidents, rests in the basement of St.

A herder milks yaks in Must, Khovd Province, Mongolia 2 February 2010 &#150 More than 20,000 families are at the risk of going hungry, as temperatures reaching as low as -50 degrees centrigrade have killed nearly two million head of livestock in Mongolia, the United Nations agriculture agency reported today.

A special train of Russian Railways with humanitarian aid for Mongolia's residents who suffered as a result of frosts arrived in Ulan Bator.

Mongolia is rich in metals such as gold and copper, and minerals such as coal and fluorspar .

Multinational whisky and beer companies are expanding their share of the local liquor market, as local liquor manufacturers are consumed by an ambition to take domestic products abroad.

A Photo taken on Jan. 28, 2010 shows a yurt covered by snow in a county of Dundgovi Province, Mongolia.

Excavations several years ago at an ancient cemetery in Mongolia uncovered a man's skeleton, including this skull, that has yielded genetic evidence of Indo-Europeans reaching eastern Asia at least 2,000 years ago.

Blizzards and freezing temperatures that have killed more than a million livestock in Mongolia could force thousands of herders to migrate to shantytowns near the capital of Ulan Bator, an international aid group said Thursday.

Heather Daveno and a friend found a pair of boots in a military antiques shop in Seattle and recognized them as traditional Mongolian footwear.

Monday, January 25, 2010 at 1:29 a.m. ULAN BATOR, Mongolia - The United Nations warned Monday that extreme winter weather that has killed more than 1 million livestock in Mongolia is likely to harm the country's food supply and worsen poverty.

A young Mongolian girl, dressed in a short white dress, climbs all the way to the top of a rope and swings her body to and fro.

Eating local during the summer is easy. Anyone can go to the farmers' market, or choose a salad made with local greens off a restaurant menu.

Mongolia is only about 3 million and Ulaanbaatar is around 1 million, so isn't going to have a big impact on RIM's sales, but nonetheless RIM and Alcatel-Lucent have launched the BlackBerry solution in Mongolia.

Rescue workers evacuated thousands of rural residents from parts of northwestern China after extreme cold and blizzard conditions killed four people and left half a million snowed under, meteorologists said Monday.

The daughter of a Mongolian singing star, has stepped out of her family's shadow and released her own self-titled album.