DUNDGOBI, Mongolia - The winter camps of southern Mongolia are quiet during this year’s breeding season, after an unusually harsh winter wiped out herds and left nomadic families with little but debt to their name.
Prophecy Resource Corp. (TSX.V: PCY OTC: PCYRF Frankfurt: 1P2) announced today that it has entered into a Mine Services Agreement with Leighton Asia Limited for the infrastructure establishment, equipment leasing, and mining operation at the Ulaan Ovoo coal deposit in northern Mongolia.
Ivanhoe forecast the mine’s average annual production at 1.2 billion pounds of copper (544,000 tonnes) and 650,000 ounces of gold in its first 10 years, with operations set to begin in 2013.
Thomas Balmes is a French documentary filmmaker who has made a few little-seen works of cultural anthropology – the conversion of Papua New Guinea natives to Christianity, Finns seeing how their outsourced cellphones are manufactured in China.
Mongolia on Wednesday voiced its strong belief that ”every country could and should make its contribution to promoting the goals of nuclear non-proliferation.”
When the new film by French filmmaker Thomas Balmиs had its Bay Area benefit premiere in San Francisco on April 14, the one local star was a no-show. She wasn’t being a diva it was simply past her bedtime.
BEIJING (Reuters) - An ethnic Mongolian activist has vanished after Chinese authorities prevented him from attending a United Nations forum on indigenous peoples in New York earlier this month, according to a rights group.
BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Strong winds and chilly temperatures will hit north China as a cold front sweeps the region over the next two days, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said Monday.
While there have been only nine reported human deaths, the massive livestock losses will mean many herders will lose their livelihoods, meaning a large increase in unemployment.
A dzud, an extreme winter phenomenon with temperatures as low as -52.6 degrees F, has caused significant suffering and death to approximately 3.4 million livestock in Mongolia, to date.
Sisi Mijiddorj was such a judicious student she’d often disregard her mother’s requests for help around the house hoping to ensure one more point on an assignment.
Bishop Paul Meng Qinglu, a priest for 21 years, was ordained at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Hohot with the approval of the Chinese authorities.
