Travelblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hi all. I was going to upload the latest blog today as well as pictures but the internet is crap tonight and it is taking hours to load anything. Will do so when we get to Aalan Baator in Mongolia on Monday. We are both well though tired from all the tourism. Need to get a train at 6am tomorrow so off to bed now.Take careJohn Sylvia.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Nick Hewer Sir Alan Sugar's sidekick on The Apprentice drove 9000 miles over 50 days through 14 countries to get from London to Ulan Bator. Here he reflects on lessons learned along the way.
China Environmental Law (Free subscription) | yesterday
Think it’s bad where you are? It could be worse. The following Chinese cities have been singled out for disapprobation by the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) regarding their environmental records: Bad Air: Bayannur and Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia Baiyin, Gansu Urumqi, Xinjiang Huanggang, Hubei Bad Water: Hengshui and Cangzhou, Hebei Linfen, Shanxi Fuyang, Anhui Tongchuan, Shaanxi Wuwei, Gansu...
International - Home (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Bulgaria and Mongolia sign bilateral agreements
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The idea behind the Big Brother House, designed by Julien De Smedt Architects for the Ordos 100 Project in Inner Mongolia in China, is that it's "a place where one can watch and be watched."...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA (MARKET WIRE) Gene Wusaty, Chief Operating Officer, Coal Division of SouthGobi Energy Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: SGQ), announced today that the company has discovered a new coal formation 10 kilometres southeast of the company's producing Ovoot Tolgoi coal mine. The new coal discovery is approximately 33 kilometres (approximately 20 miles) north of the China-Mongolia border...
10,000 Birds (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
The beautiful Ortolan Bunting Emberiza hortulana is a fairly scarce summer visitor to southern Europe (parts of the Iberian Peninsula, southern France, and the Balkans), north into Scandinavia and Germany, and east as far as Mongolia. As much as 50% of the global population is found in Europe, and the entire population apparently winters south [...]
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
My arrival in Mongolia was marred by the realisation that I had no idea what I was to do here for my 30day visa here is a tale of what I didhellipI feel it is a little unconcise unconnected and so on due to writing it in different points of time and space but Irsquom done with it now and so time to bite a bullet and upload as it ishellipSo from Ulan Ude Russia I made a border adv
MOLDY CHUM (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Dan Bailey, Guide from Fish Mongolia, showcases another SOTM monster from the Delger Muron.
dezeen (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Here’s another building for the Ordos 100 project in Inner Mongolia in China, this time designed by Julien De Smedt Architects.
Democracy Resource Center Blog (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
URL: http://www.eurasianet.org . This website focuses on educational, social, and legal reform in the countries of Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Individual countries have pages with links ranging from history, arts, and culture to current news and human rights. Also includes photo essays, recaps of expert meetings...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Japan, the world's third-biggest uranium consumer, will hold talks this week with Mongolia on jointly developing ore reserves as part of efforts to secure additional supplies of the nuclear fuel. Hiroyuki Ishige, vice minister for trade, will lead a delegation of more than 50 government and company officials, a ministry official said on condition of anonymity because the trip hasn't been announced...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Yokozuna Asashoryu left Japan for Mongolia on Monday to receive treatment for his injured elbow and may not return to the ring until the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament, possibly putting his career on the line. Asashoryu, who pulled out midway through the autumn meet last month, presented the Japan Sumo Association earlier in the day with a medical certificate saying he would need a four-week rest because...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Mongolian Prime Minister Sanj Bayar and Parliament Speaker Damdin Demberel respectively met with visiting Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Hayati Yazici on Monday, vowing to boost bilateral ties in various fields. Cooperation in politics, economy and culture between the two countries had developed successfully in recent years, Bayar said. Mongolia would support Turkey's candidacy for a non-permanent seat...
elizabeth wong (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Hope everyone’s Raya was grand. Save a day trip to Janda Baik and Bentong, mine was delightfully domestic, doing stuff that I once enjoyed like cooking, going to the supermarket, buying books (not withstanding the latest edition of the Environment Quality Act), doing the laundry, sleeping and reading Now for another nifty petition for the release [...]
