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News about Mongolia, from across the web

30/06/2008

How to See 93 Million Miles: Travel to a Total Solar Eclipse [07/01/08]

Filed under: Uncategorized — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 22:33
A total solar eclipse will cut a swath of shadow through Greenland, the Arctic, Russia, Mongolia and China on August 1. And thousands of people will travel to remote locations just to stand in the dark for three minutes -- and maybe perceive the vast size of the solar system.

‘Mongol’ is why they made movies in the first place [06/30/08]

Filed under: Uncategorized — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 00:25
Mongol is a stunning film that takes movie goers to the steppes of Mongolia, a land most Americans have never seen or heard of before. Back when movies were first made, it gave Americans their first look at life in Japan, China, and other distant lands. This is probably one of your last chances to experience something like that again. See 'Mongol'

29/06/2008

Mongolia votes in key elections [06/29/08]

Filed under: Uncategorized — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 15:49
Polls close in Mongolia, for a parliamentary election where the country's mineral wealth is at stake.

Polls close in Mongolia as mining deals eyed [06/29/08]

Filed under: Uncategorized — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 10:40
By Lindsay Beck ULAN BATOR (Reuters) - Mongolians turned out in droves on Sunday to vote in a tight race that will see the election of a government charged with fighting inflation and tapping into the windswept country's huge mineral wealth. Polls...

Wutai Mountain [06/29/08]

Filed under: Uncategorized — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 08:02
Wutai Mountain (Five Terrace Mountain), located between Beijing and Inner Mongolia in Shanxi Province, is one of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains, along with E'mei Mountain, Jiuhua Mountain and Putuo Mountain.

26/06/2008

Help students in rural Mongolia get books and teachers! [06/26/08]

Filed under: Uncategorized — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 15:30
This is a fundraiser for EduRelief to establish a GPS system in rural Mongolia. This will help connect the otherwise isolated villages and gain them access to books, school supplies, and teachers coming from the major cities.We only need $200 to make a huge difference!

25/06/2008

Two Chinese Air Force Jets Crash After Mid-Air Collision [06/26/08]

Filed under: Uncategorized — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 20:54
Two Chinese air force fighter jets collided Wednesday over the northern Inner Mongolia region and crashed into an inhabited area, state media reported.

Chinese jets collide and crash into inhabited area [06/25/08]

Filed under: Uncategorized — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 09:02
Two Chinese air force fighter jets collided today over the northern Inner Mongolia region and crashed into an inhabited area, state media reported.The J-8 fighters collided near the regional capital, Hohhot, on a training mission, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

Datong Travel Guide [06/25/08]

Filed under: Uncategorized — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 07:59
As the second largest city in Shanxi Province, Datong is situated in the far north, near the border with Inner Mongolia, a 6 hours train ride or 5 hours drive from Beijing. Visit Yungang Grottoes, Yingxian Wooden Pagoda and more.

Fighter jets crash in north China [06/25/08]

Filed under: Uncategorized — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 05:17
Two military jets have collided above an urban area of Inner Mongolia, reports China's state news agency.

24/06/2008

REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE: New record deal and preliminary Sout [06/24/08]

Filed under: Uncategorized — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 09:44
TIMO TOLKKI (REVOLUTION RENAISSANCE, ex-Stratovarius) has issued a following update on his officiel Myspace blog:"Revolution Renaissance has signed a 4 album deal with JVC Victor in Japan for the territories of Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, India, Mongolia, Indonesia, East Timor, Thailand, Malaysia, The Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Sri Lank

22/06/2008

Beating an Investor Path to the New Mongolia [06/22/08]

Filed under: Uncategorized — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 15:59
Everyone is beating a path to Mongolia: the resources-hungry neighbours and former colonisers to the north and south, Russia and China, and the greatest global mining houses. There is uranium, gold, silver and especially copper and coal in vast quantities.

Clean Coal Technologies, Inc. Signs Additional Memorandum of [06/22/08]

Filed under: Uncategorized — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 07:10
Clean Coal Technologies, Inc. Signs Additional Memorandum of Understanding in Inner-Mongolia

16/06/2008

How much punishment can a Canon DSLR take? [06/16/08]

Filed under: Uncategorized — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 12:26
From -32C in Mongolia, to -20C in Russia, to 45C in Vietnam - my Canon EOS 350D survived exposure to the harshest extremes. But then a freak wave washed over it in Thailand - and it still survived. Albeit, with a little help from the Canon repair centre in Kuala Lumpur.

08/06/2008

‘Mongol’ - Los Angeles Times [06/08/08]

Filed under: Uncategorized — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 05:27
Full of stunning views of China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan and showing an unexpected side of Genghis Kahn, 'Mongol' feels like an old-fashioned epic.

07/06/2008

Top 10 Emerging Environmental Technologies [06/07/08]

Filed under: Uncategorized — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 12:21
Just because you're concerned about climate change doesn't mean you have to live in a yurt in outer Mongolia. You can be passionate about the Environment, without strapping yourself to a whaling ship or using yourself as a human shield against bulldozers that mow down old-growth trees.
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