Japan Times (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
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...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
FUKUOKA (Kyodo) It wasn't sexy but yokozuna Asashoryu stayed on course in his bid for consecutive titles with a bread-and-butter win over Takekaze on the third day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament on Tuesday. The feisty yokozuna from Ulan Bator was pulled slightly off-balance by Takekaze after the faceoff and almost went tumbling before recovering quickly to charge the winless No. 1 maegashira over...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA (MARKET WIRE) John Macken, President and CEO of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (TSX: IVN)(NYSE: IVN)(NASDAQ: IVN), and Govind Friedland, President and CEO of GoviEx Gold Inc., announced today that the first comprehensive field test of the breakthrough Zeus(TM) geophysical exploration technology has significantly increased the potential for additional resources to be discovered at Ivanhoe's...
naijablog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Gers near UB city centre , originally uploaded by nobodaddy69 .
naijablog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Just arrived in Ulaanbaatar. Its -25 degrees here and 300 people have swine flu. More later..
People Daily (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The death toll from the A/H1N1 flu rose to 12 in Mongolia while the number of infected people climbed to 955 with 737 in the capital Ulan Bator alone, the health ministry said Wednesday. Sukhbaatar province registered its first flu case, increasing the number of infected provinces to 18, according to the Press and Information Service of the Ministry of Health. It meant that among the country's 21 provinces,...
H5N1 (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Via Xinhua: Flu death rises to 12 in Mongolia. Excerpt:The death toll from the A/H1N1 flu rose to 12 in Mongolia while the number of infected people climbed to 955 with 737 in the capital Ulan Bator alone, the health...
PokerStars.net Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
By Landon Blackhall It's no big secret that poker has caught the world by storm, but throughout the Great Poker Boom in the last few years, there's one country that hasn't popped in poker-related conversations too often: Mongolia. Landlocked...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
"Discover Mongolia-2009," the seventh international forum of mining investors, is set to open in Ulan Bator. Leading mining companies from Canada, France, Russia, China, South Korea, Japan and the United States were expected to participate in the Nov. 6-7 forum. The Tavan Tolgoi coking coal deposit, said to be the largest untapped coal field in the world, and uranium exploration were expected...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
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. The new names on the lips of luxury professionals are far less familiar -- Almaty, Shenzhen, Ulan Bator -- respectively, the commercial capital of Kazakhstan, a major Chinese provincial centre and the capital...
News from Mongolia (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Again the week has been a bit uneventful but I've enjoyed it. I've spent my time in the museums and cafes; the cafes I frequent are tourist cafes, foreigners just seem to gravitate towards them so they've been great for chance encounters, just chatting to strangers and swapping stories. I've picked up a lot of fantastic travel tips and I've now established good travel contacts mostly in Ulaanbaatar,...
News from Mongolia (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
The trip didn't happen! But hopefully it will in the coming week. It was a fairly quiet week, I was at the school Monday to Thursday when it was announced that the schools were all being closed because of the swine flu, so it will be closed for the next week and possible the week after as well. I meant to update earlier but the local internet cafes were closed, which made me panic a bit in case everywhere...
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Sukhbaatar Square in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, is so central that many of its million-plus inhabitants are bound to traverse it on a regular basis.
The Global Miss Contest (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Ulan Bator, or Ulaanbaatar: A beautiful 24 year old Battsetseg Batbaatar was crowned as Miss World Mongolia 2009 in a beauty pageant held on August 20th in Ulan Bator, the capital and largest city of Mongolia, by Desoft Media, national directors of Miss World Mongolia Pageant. Battsetseg Batbaatar stands 1.77m tall and can speak Mongolian, English & Russian languages. She will represent Mongolia...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Mongolia-Qatar joint military field exercises dubbed "Perfect decision" began near Ulan Bator on Tuesday. Some 180 Qatari soldiers and about 100 Mongolian servicemen are taking part in the exercises, which will last until Oct. 22, at the Mongolian Armed Forces Five Hills Training Center, about 60 km west of Ulan Bator. The majority of the Qatari servicemen are graduation cadets of the Military...
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