Snow leopards waiting for a visit Published 11/20/2009 in Commentary : Columns This is a great time of the year to visit the zoo. As the weather starts to cool down, many of our animals become more active. I'm sure we have all experienced the overwhelming heat of summer when the only thing that sounds good is relaxing in a shady pool of water. At the zoo, we make sure to provide many opportunities...
World Vision International has announced it will implement a 500,000 U.S. dollar preventive project to combat the spread of A/H1N1 virus in Mongolia. Alex Snary, World Vision country director for Mongolia, made the announcement during a meeting with Miyeegombyn Enkhbold, the Deputy Premier of Mongolia. A decision on realizing the goal of the project was made by the organization after conducting research...
Urban Photos has an interesting post on an unsettling indication (for Australian raw material suppliers anyway) that China's infrastructure building boom may be a house of cards - Inner Mongolia's Empty City . In August, I came across an intriguing photo in Tokyo’s Mori Museum — a group of what appeared to be a group of urban sophisticates wandering, seemingly lost, in a desert landscape....
In Shanghaiist's Philanthropist feature, we highlight individuals and groups doing interesting things to make the world a little bit of a better place. This week we talk to one of the organizers of the third annual Rock for Roots & Shoots concert. Rock for Roots & Shoots is a charity concert benefitting the Million Dollar Tree Project. Where: Yuyintang, 1731 Yanan Xi Lu, near Kaixuan Lu. 延安西路1731号(凯旋路)...
Anyone who’s been trawling through the China-related web this week will surely have stumbled across the ‘Nine Nations of China’ map that surfaced on Atlantic Monthly . Patrick Chovanec , from Tsinghua University, posted his map amidst the inescapable excitement of Obama’s visit to China, reminding the US President that China is "a mosaic of several distinct regions, each...
Last year’s series of X Factor was far from depressing for fans of well-sung pop. If you were posted to Outer Mongolia last Christmas, here is a quick catch-up: Alexandra ‘Leona II’ Burke received the highest number of audience votes, pipping non-ugly boyband JLS into second. Both acts signed with the same management team and [...]
The Energy Report submits: James Passin, co-founder and manager of Firebird Global Fund and Firebird Global Fund II, recently spoke with The Energy Report 's Karen Roche , discussing beryllium and its energy, military and industrial applications, as well as a burgeoning beryllium-uranium mix oxide fuel technology with the "potential to revolutionize nuclear power by creating a safer and more...
BEIJING--( BUSINESS WIRE )--First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) today announced a Cooperation Framework Agreement with the Chinese government that takes another critical step towards the realization of the world’s largest solar power plant in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia, China. First Solar President Bruce Sohn and Mayor Yun Guangzhong of the Ordos City Government signed the Cooperation...
Dr. Duru submits: In early September, First Solar ( FSLR ) signed a deal with Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China for a major solar farm project whose 4 phases will run until 2019. This week, FSLR and Ordos City signed a “Cooperation Framework Agreement” which… …spells out additional project details and local support that advance the development of the 2 gigawatt (GW) solar...
The Mongolian flag is now my favourite flag. The colours are not the issue; its rather the insignia on the left hand red column that sparkles the attention. It was apparently designed in the seventeenth century by Zanabazar , the Mongolian version of Michelangelo. My translator explains it thus: the fire on top is the symbol of eternity, then there is the sun below, cradled by the moon. Both of these...
UB bling , originally uploaded by nobodaddy69 . Hummers, Armani, Louis Vuitton.... could the resource curse be coming to Mongolia at the speed of a tsunami, or will the vast mineral wealth of the country benefit all 2.7 million citizens?
Mongolia is faraway, barren and mostly unknown territory for us Westerners. Most of us know very little about it, except maybe a little trivia about Genghis Kahn. Rowan Lee Hartsuiker took the time to visit the place and document his findings, granting us a quick peek into a culture most of us didn't even know existed. The 30-minute documentary Chandiman Sum is the result. I'm not much of a documentary...
Related Programs Other Related Programs: A 21st Century Economic Strategy for America Globalization Initiative The Idea-Based Economy Newsweek just released a poll of American and Chinese attitudes toward innovation and their respective economies. The write-up leads with this telling anecdote: Only a slight breeze blew across the plains of Inner Mongolia on a recent afternoon, but the giant turbines...
How good is that name? Ulaan Book Tour? Ulaan Baatar? Geddit? After our first meeting with the rally guys on Saturday, we were encouraged to start getting our message out to people asap. All well and good, except that we hadn't even got a team name at that point. Lucy teaches English as a foreign language (or whatever it's referred to these days) and a large number of her students of late have hailed...
FUKUOKA (Kyodo) Mongolian yokozuna Asashoryu won ugly against Tokitenku to preserve his unbeaten record at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament on Wednesday. Asashoryu landed an early blow to Tokitenku's (1-3) face and after putting the second-ranked maegashira on the back foot and bumping him over the straw ridge, the "Bully from Ulan Bator" showed his mean streak by following through with an...
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