Mongolia News

A monk at a temple in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. As we dumped our backpacks on the platform at Beijing West Railway Station and looked at the train, my friend remarked: "It looks so romantic." The dark-green train was gently lit by a dim autumn light and smartly dressed guards standing next to the carriages gave it a sophisticated edge.

Also convicted was Bernard Boursicot, a French diplomat and Shi's lover who had passed on some 30 French secret documents to Bejing from 1977 to 1979while working at the French embassy in Ulan Bator, Mongolia.

Garrison International Ltd. announces that an Early Warning Report with respect to its securities has been filed to comply with regulatory requirements under National Instrument 62-103 and Canadian securities laws.

Batman, Moron, Brest, Old Crow, Mafia, and Asbestos Hill are some of the names that have been included in a list of the world's funniest, rudest and weirdest airport names.

A senior leader of the Communist Party of China says China-Mongolia ties have reached an all-time high with no unsettled major issues remaining.

A Scotland-based Web site has published a list of the world's "weirdest" airport names, including the Mafia, Moron and Pickle Lake Airports.

A former shopkeeper has just days to prepare for one of the world's biggest charity challenges.

Known as the "greatest adventure in the world", it begins in Goodwood, West Sussex, and ends after an "extremely risky" voyage to Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia.

THE petrol heads at Top Gear couldn't come up with a more bonkers challenge. Take a car with an engine no bigger than 1.2 litres and drive 10,000 miles to Mongolia.

ASTANA. June 17. KAZINFORM /Narymbek Ismagulov/ Two-day seminar on state-private partnership has been opened in Astana.

Mongolian President-elect Tsakhia Elbegdorj receives the presidential seal from the outgoing President Nambaryn Enkhbayar during the inauguration ceremony in Ulan Bator, capital of Mongolia, on June 18, 2009.

Mongolian President-elect Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj wants to change a proposed gold and copper mining deal with Rio Tinto Group and Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.

FOR many centuries Mongolia was a geopolitical object, widely seen as a buffer between Russia and China.

Moody's Investors Service has taken multiple rating actions on three Mongolian financial institutions to reflect stresses arising from the current crisis and the increasing convergence between the government's ability to support the banks and its own debt capacity.

World Bank Managing Director reiterates support for Mongolia as it takes positive steps to weather the global crisis Mongolia may have been hit hard by the global financial crisis but World Bank Managing Director Dr Juan Jose Daboub believes that if the Government can maintain momentum on the ambitious reform agenda it has put in place, Mongolia ...

Mongolia has offered to mediate between the United States and North Korea because of its good ties with both countries, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has expressed interest, Mongolian Foreign Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold said.

The Government plans to spend Tg137 million for the inauguration ceremony of the President-elect of Mongolia Ts.Elbegdorj to be held on June 18, said Minister of Finance S.Bayartsogt. High profile government delegates from 16 countries were invited for the ceremony.

Mongolian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade S.Batbold met with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in Washington, DC on June 9, 2009.

Minerals Resources Authority of Mongolia on June 12 suspended main operating license 198-A of Boroo gold mine, developed by Canadian Centerra Gold since 2004, for a period of up to three months.

Mongolian President-elect Tsakhia Elbegdorj wants to change a proposed gold and copper mining agreement with Rio Tinto Group and Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.