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News about Mongolia, from across the web

18/09/2008

Take A Look At This - WDEF News 12 [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 23:53
TWENTY-YEAR-OLD HE PINGPING IS FROM INNER MONGOLIA. HE STANDS ABOUT TWO-FEET, FIVE-AND-A-HALF INCHES. GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS SAYS HE'S THE SHORTEST MAN WHO ...
Complete story: http://wdef.com/news/take_a_look_at_this/09/2008_4

Senior Mining Industry Consultant Joins Uranium 308 Corp. - MarketWatch [09/18/08]

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... industry will significantly enhance the Company's ability to secure a strategic joint venture partner to co-develop its Janchivlan property in Mongolia. ...
Complete story: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/senior-mining-industry-consultant-joins/story.aspx?guid=%7BB08C0785-6CB1-4E32-BE7A-0B23A97A91E4%7D&dist=hppr

Denison Mines Corp. Announces New Discoveries at Mutanga Project … - StreetInsider.com [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 23:53
The Company also has a strong exploration and development portfolio with large land positions in the United States, Canada, Zambia and Mongolia. ...
Complete story: http://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/Denison+Mines+Corp.+Announces+New+Discoveries+at+Mutanga+Project,+Zambia/4000642.html

China Holdings Announces Consolidated Progress of its 5 Biomass … - MarketWatch [09/18/08]

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The Company plans to operate its Ontniute Biomass Power Plant/Project (50 MW (2 x 25 MW)), Inner Mongolia Province, PR China under its wholly-owned ...
Complete story: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/china-holdings-announces-consolidated-progress/story.aspx?guid=%7BD830660B-E98C-4393-9644-CFBAFDE24EA6%7D&dist=hppr

WRAPUP 1-China formula scare spreads to ice-cream, yoghurt - Reuters South Africa [09/18/08]

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The company, Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co Ltd was a Beijing Olympic Games sponsor and is one of 22 Chinese firms implicated in the scandal. ...
Complete story: http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnSP352723.html

(in Chinese) Department Chief Luo Chongmin inspects Inner Mongolia to educate - the People’s Daily [09/18/08]

Filed under: Chinese, Mongolia, News — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 23:53
Same day afternoon, in Department Chief Li Dongsheng and under the Inner Mongolian University Assistant Director king Wan Yi accompaniment, Luo Chongmin arrives Inner Mongolian University, after visited the library, the school regulations exhibition hall, the Mongolian museum, Luo Chongmin appreciates Inner Mongolian University to base the native place, faces...
Complete story: http://translate.google.com/translate?&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://yn.people.com.cn/GB/8072933.html

(in Chinese) “丑小鸭” came the Baotou - New China net [09/18/08]

Filed under: Chinese, Mongolia, News — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 23:53
... This story, and unfolds in national many cities has developed this plays. "丑小鸭" will perform the multi- fields in Baotou, the September 18 first performance also invites the partial children with disabilities, the agricultural labourer juniors and the Mongolian nationality child free watches. (Article/Zhang Jianfang)
Complete story: http://translate.google.com/translate?&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.nmg.xinhuanet.com/nmgwq/2008-09/18/content_14435276.htm

(in Chinese) The Shanghai elegant peaceful group potassium fertilizer project officially goes into production in and 布克 the Syre county - the Tianshan net [09/18/08]

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Autonomous region party committee assistant deputy secretary, autonomous region people's government routine Vice-President Yang Gang and Peng Jiarui, horse rather, Zhang Qizhou, Wang Jianxin, new student, local leader and Shanghai elegant peaceful group Chairman Chen Kang Fu and so on Hou Benzhi, and 布克 Syre Mongolia Autonomous County county party committee...
Complete story: http://translate.google.com/translate?&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.tianshannet.com/news/content/2008-09/18/content_3067494.htm

China formula scare spreads to ice-cream, yogurt (Reuters via Yahoo! News) [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 23:33
^ Hong Kong orders recall after contamination
Complete story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080918/wl_nm/china_milk_dc_25

Denison Mines Corp. Announces New Discoveries at Mutanga Project, Zambia [09/18/08]

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Denison Mines Corp. Announces New Discoveries at Mutanga Project, Zambia Denison Mines Corp. announced the discovery of three new zones of mineralization at its Mutanga uranium project in Zambia. The new zones were discovered during the drilling of the first three targets of Denison’s 2008 exploration program. The most significant hole (DMD77600-03) included 12.5 metres of 1,204 ppm eU3O8 at a depth of only 74 [...] September 18th, 2008
Complete story: http://www.miningtopnews.com/denison-mines-corp-announces-new-discoveries-at-mutanga-project-zambia.html

Longest Legs, Shortest Man [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, blogs — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 23:32
What happens when the woman with the longest legs (Svetlana Pankratova from Russia) meets the shortest man in the world (Pingping from Inner Mongolia)? A huge photo op happens, that’s what. Pingping and Svetlana Pankratova posed at Trafalgar Square in London on Sept. 16. Pingping, born with primordial dwarfism, holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest man at 74.61 cms (2 feet and 5.37 inches) and Pankratova holds the Guinness World Record for the longest leg of any woman at 132
Complete story: http://oddculture.com/2008/09/18/longest-legs-shortest-man/

China Formula Scare Spreads to Ice Cream, Yoghurt - ABC News [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, blogs — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 23:06
Two researchers study on a new type of milk at the Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group in Hohhot,... Two researchers study on a new type of milk at the Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group in Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia ...
Complete story: http://www.sinolinx.com/frame/?url=http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=5829157

Khan Resources Announces Construction of Power Line and Sedimentation Pond at Dornod Uranium Project [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, blogs — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 22:31
Khan Resources Announces Construction of Power Line and Sedimentation Pond at Dornod Uranium Project Khan Resources Inc. announce that it has entered into contracts for the construction of a power line and sedimentation pond for the Dornod Uranium Project. The electric power line will be constructed from the Xin Xin Mine to the Dornod Uranium Property, a distance of about 26 kilometres and an electrical substation will be constructed at [...] September 18th, 2008
Complete story: http://www.miningtopnews.com/khan-resources-announces-construction-of-power-line-and-sedimentation-pond-at-dornod-uranium-project.html

Senior Mining Industry Consultant Joins Uranium 308 Corp. [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, blogs — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 22:18
LAS VEGAS, Sept 18, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — Uranium 308 Corp. (URCO) (The “Company”) is pleased to announce that Yuting Guan, a consultant with long experience in China’s mineral resources industry, has joined the Company as a consultant. Uranium 308 Corp. believes that Mr. Guan’s extensive network of contacts in the mining industry will significantly enhance the Company’s ability to secure a strategic joint venture partner to co-develop its Janchivlan property in Mongolia.
Complete story: http://www.business-mongolia.com/mongolia-business/senior-mining-industry-consultant-joins-uranium-308-corp/

Desert to Departure - Ulan Bator, Mongolia [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, blogs — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 22:08
Jump to the full entry & travel map Ulan Bator, Mongolia We're going to China today, and when we wake up we're in the middle of nowhere enjoying the Gobi. Then it's breakfast and we get a big bowl of mutton noodle soup and suddenly I'm excited about going. We get to UB early afternoon and are sad to say goodbye to Naroa, and sad to finish our tour (despite mutton, all food smelling like mutton, boke-inducing bogs and the distinct feeling of spinal discs being crushed). Leaving UB is sad
Complete story: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/clurross/1/1221487260.html

Mutual visit issues under concern [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, blogs — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 22:06
Mr. Yu Myung-hwan, Minister of Korean foreign affairs trade visited Mongolia at the invitation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs S.Oyun during 12th and 13th of September. This is the first MFA visit to Mongolia since 1998. At the beginning of his visit, he visited the President of Mongolia N.Enkhbayar. Noting the bilateral amiable relations and cooperation of the two have been extended in all sectors via “Good neighborhood friendship and cooperation partnership” principles, the President menti
Complete story: http://www.business-mongolia.com/mongolia-economy/mutual-visit-issues-under-concern-2/

Dutton Associates Featured Company: General Steel Holdings, Inc. (GSI) [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, blogs — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 22:03
General Steel Holdings, Inc. operates a diverse portfolio of Chinese steel companies. With 4.8 million tons aggregate production capacity, their companies serve various industries and produce a variety of steel products including rebar, hot-rolled carbon and silicon sheets, spiral-weld pipe and high-speed wire. The company is headquartered in China, and has steel operations located throughout all of China in Shaanxi province, the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, the Tianjin municipality, and G
Complete story: http://Blog.QualityStocks.net/?p=12437

Missionaries convert thousands while Buddhists fear losing traditional culture [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, blogs — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 21:51
From SF Gate by Michael Kohn Mitch Tillman is an unlikely savior. Six years ago, the Baptist missionary languished in an Alabama jail, facing a prison sentence on drug charges. Today he builds hospitals, feeds street children and saves souls in Mongolia. For Christian missionaries like Tillman, Mongolia is the new El Dorado. Since communist rule ended in 1990, some 60,000 Mongolians have turned to Christianity, according to records kept by Mormons, Seventh-day Adventists, other Protestant c
Complete story: http://preciousmetal.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/missionaries-convert-thousands-while-buddhists-fear-losing-traditional-culture/

China formula scare spreads to ice cream, yoghurt (Reuters via Yahoo! News) [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 21:38
Hong Kong has ordered the recall of a Chinese company's products after milk, ice cream and yoghurt were found to be contaminated with melamine, the compound responsible for killing four children in a China health scandal.
Complete story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080918/wl_nm/china_milk_dc_24

Freedom Celebration: Tibet Fest supports endangered tradition [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, blogs — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 21:36
From City Beat By Gregory Flannery Kuten Lama, who teaches at the Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Colerain Township, hosts Tibet Fest this weekend in Clifton. When the Dalai Lama fled persecution, he found refuge in India. But where do people persecuted by the Dalai Lama go? Cincinnati. This weekend the monks of Gaden Samdrupling (GSL) Buddhist Monastery will serve Tibetan cuisine, exhibit elaborate hand-painted silks (thangkas) and talk about peace at Tibet Fest, a two-day celebration at th
Complete story: http://preciousmetal.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/freedom-celebration-tibet-fest-supports-endangered-tradition/

Moonlight Shadow - Erdenedalai, Mongolia [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, blogs — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 21:23
Jump to the full entry & travel map Erdenedalai, Mongolia Straight out on the road again, this time to the Gobi desert for 6 days. It's just me, scott and our driver from the last trip Narowa. Today was pretty much admin (shopping and internet) and guess what, driving. 300km in 7 hours. the road hasn't been too bad compared to the last trip. Stopped only for some "fried food", you guessed it, mutton chow mein, lots of fat. On the way we initially saw lots of herds plus little desert rats
Complete story: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/clurross/1/1221052440.html

World’s Smallest Man Meets Longest Legs Woman [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, blogs — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 21:07
He Ping Ping from Inner Mongolia, China’s autonomous region, the world’s smallest man, sits underneath Svetlana Pankratova from Russia, the queen of longest legs, as they pose at Trafalgar Square in London, Tuesday, September 16th, 2008. Ping Ping born with primordial dwarfism, holds the Guinness World Record for the smallest man at 74.61 centimeters (2 feet and 5.37 inches) and Pankratova holds the Guinness World Record for the longest leg of any woman at 132 centimeters (4 feet and 4 inch
Complete story: http://www.myinterestingfiles.com/2008/09/worlds-smallest-man-meets-longest-legs-woman.html

Don’t you hate the cutbacks to street sweeping? [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, blogs — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 21:07
(AP Photo/Sang Tan)
Complete story: http://www.mockpaperscissors.com/?p=9289

China tainted milk scare spreads to ice cream and yoghurt - guardian.co.uk [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 20:57
Hong Kong authorities immediately ordered the withdrawal of the latest goods, produced by the Chinese firm Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group. ...
Complete story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/18/china2

Khan Resources Announces Construction of Power Line and … - MarketWatch [09/18/08]

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Its current activities are focused on the Dornod area in north eastern Mongolia, the site of a former Russian open-pit uranium mine. ...
Complete story: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/khan-resources-announces-construction-power/story.aspx?guid=%7B8EE6327E-216C-4832-BDA7-163B411BF7F4%7D&dist=hppr

Chinese dairy contamination scandal grows - New Scientist [09/18/08]

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Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co Ltd is one of 22 Chinese firms implicated in China's growing milk-powder contamination scandal. ...
Complete story: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14754-chinese-dairy-contamination-scandal-grows.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=env1_head_Chinese%20dairy%20contamination%20scandal%20grows

Hong Kong recall expands China food-safety fears - MarketWatch [09/18/08]

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Yili -- an Inner Mongolia-based company that serves as one of China's largest dairy producers -- responded with a recall of all of its milk, yogurt, ...
Complete story: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/hong-kong-recall-expands-china/story.aspx?guid=%7B2F84FFF3-605D-4094-9FC1-4C7EB0B5FE8B%7D&dist=msr_1

Baby Death Toll Rises To Four In China’s Tainted Milk Scandal - Bernama [09/18/08]

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The 22, includes big names like Inner Mongolia-based Yili and Mengniu and also, two other dairy producers who are recalling products exported to Bangladesh, ...
Complete story: http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=359999

Ripples continue to spread in China formula scandal - International Herald Tribune [09/18/08]

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On Thursday, Hong Kong ordered the recall of the dairy products of Yili Industrial Group, based in Inner Mongolia, after tests found melamine in eight of ...
Complete story: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/18/asia/milk.php

At the shelter - State Gazette [09/18/08]

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The breed came to Japan from Mongolia in the 1900s and was first used as a companion dog. In 1906, the first Samoyed came to America, originally a gift of ...
Complete story: http://www.stategazette.com/story/1462387.html

China milk scandal spreads - ITN [09/18/08]

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Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co Ltd is one of several Chinese firms implicated in the growing milk powder contamination case. ...
Complete story: http://itn.co.uk/news/982bd38790a3e5a6d115df8c7266e653.html

Chinese shares close 1.72 pc lower after rollercoaster day - Economic Times [09/18/08]

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Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group fell by the maximum daily limit of 10 per cent for a second consecutive day to 10.88 yuan, although the company said ...
Complete story: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Global_Markets/Chinese_shares_close_172_pc_lower_after_rollercoaster_day/articleshow/3498904.cms

China may release coal chemical development plan by year’s end … - Interfax China [09/18/08]

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... chemical industry by the end of this year, a government official said on Sept.18 at an industry forum in Ordos, in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. ...
Complete story: http://www.interfax.cn/news/5671/

(in Chinese) Union newspaper: Is ready to be set off at a touch - the Chinese news net from Japan to the peaceful horse political crisis [09/18/08]

Filed under: Chinese, Mongolia, News — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 20:57
It is said is killed with a Mongolian 妙龄 model in Malaysia concerns. The divining an auspicious wedding day denial knew this model, called this is opposed the camp frames by planting stolen goods on plot. But 无可讳言, this kind of rumor tows for a long time, is more disadvantageous to the divining an auspicious wedding day, therefore earlier obtains the imperial throne or...
Complete story: http://translate.google.com/translate?&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.chinanews.com.cn/hb/news/2008/09-18/1386747.shtml

(in Chinese) 肃北 county discovery large-scale copper nickel ore deposit - New China net Gansu frequency channel [09/18/08]

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Recently, "the Gansu Province Subei Mongolian Autonomous County Heishan copper nickel ore geology sifted reported" smoothly through by the Jinchuan group company science and technology department, the plan development department, the project management department, the mine branch and so on the expert group's appraisal which was composed. ...
Complete story: http://translate.google.com/translate?&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.gs.xinhuanet.com/dfpd/2008-09/18/content_14435364.htm

(in Chinese) Huhhot: Masculine city - People’s Daily [09/18/08]

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Huhhot, Mongolian "the green city", now had a more resounding given name -- "the Chinese breast all". Huhhot has 400 years history. This age city, if in the Americas, is considered as on opens up virgin soil the cultural birthplace, like Canada's Quebec...
Complete story: http://translate.google.com/translate?&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://unn.people.com.cn/GB/14748/8072486.html

(in Chinese) Russia: The Volga River has flowed is bright [ chart ] - center the peaceful net [09/18/08]

Filed under: Chinese, Mongolia, News — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 20:57
West the land neighboring country northern side has Norway, Finland, west side has Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belorussia, west south side is Ukraine, south side has Georgia, Azerbaijan, 哈萨克斯坦, east south side has China, Mongolia and North Korea...
Complete story: http://translate.google.com/translate?&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://travel.anhuinews.com/system/2008/09/18/002120608.shtml

(in Chinese) Jingning rug - Ali anxiously [09/18/08]

Filed under: Chinese, Mongolia, News — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 20:57
If the Silk Road Jingning rug as a result of the water and soil relations, the line dyeing, weaves with three latitudes, quite is close; The Beijing rug then is antique, two latitudes weave, the blue color is in the majority; The Mongolian rug design is lifelike, vividly has dynamics; Turkish rug...
Complete story: http://translate.google.com/translate?&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://info.china.alibaba.com/news/detail/v9-d1002957197.html

(in Russian) The melamine, by which in C.P.R. - CHINESE PEOPLES’ REPUBLIC poisoned more than 6 thousand children, was discovered in the products of Chinese companies, which work in RF - NEWSru.com [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, Russian — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 20:57
In particular, dangerous for the health is acknowledged the production of another large Chinese dairy corporation "Mennyu&.tsuot;, which rests in the autonomous region internal Mongolia. On Thursday were stopped the tradings by the actions of this company on The gonkongskoy stock exchange. Without entrusting more to domestic producers, thousands of worried mothers from the south China city Of shen'chzhen' were fixed to adjacent Hong Kong, purchasing here the high-quality milk mixtures of foreign production. According to the information of newspaper, authority of that been...
Complete story: http://translate.google.com/translate?&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.newsru.com/world/18sep2008/milk_poison.html

(in Russian) TAKES PLACE 11- E THE SESSION OF JOINT COMMITTEE - MONTSAME (SUBSCRIPTION) [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, Russian — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 20:57
The session of joint committee Mongolia - European Union, organized in the Department of Foreign Policy of the Mongolia on 22 September, will pass under the management of the head of Mongolian part, Vice- premier m.Enkhbold. On it besides the consideration of the sums of the session of subcommittee on the trade, investments, and to tourism takes place the mutual exchange of infomatsiyami about the political situation of Mongolia, about its social and economic development and foreign policy, and also about political, economic position and foreign policy of the European Union. It is expected...
Complete story: http://translate.google.com/translate?&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.montsame.mn/index.php?option=com_news&task=news_detail&tab=200809&ne=1543

World’s smallest man meets world’s leggiest woman [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, blogs — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 20:10
World’s smallest man meets world’s leggiest woman He Pingping, the world’s smallest man, met long-legged Svetlana Pankratova in London’s Trafalger Square, posing for a photograph showing him standing up comfortably between her legs. Pingping, 20, from Inner Mongolia, is just 74.61 centimetres tall - a result of his being born with a condition known as primordial dwarfism. Pankratova, 36, an estate agent from Volvograd, Russia, is 1.96 metres tall. Her legs alone measure 132 centimetres.
Complete story: http://www.shwedarling.com/blog/2008/09/18/worlds-smallest-man-meets-worlds-leggiest-woman/

Svetlana Pankratova photos [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, blogs — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 19:43
Photos, pics, picture of Svetlana Pankratova and Pingping Longest Leg and Shortest Man. The world’s shortest man - He Pingping, of China - met the woman with the longest legs, Russia-native Svetlana Pankratova? Pingping, 20, from Inner Mongolia, is just 74.61 centimetres tall, a result of his being born with a condition known as primordial [...]
Complete story: http://kissfendi.com/2008/09/18/svetlana-pankratova-photos/

milk is modern [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, blogs — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 19:25
News of the Sanlu baby milk scandal is dribbling westwards. In China it’s assuming the proportions of an epic, spreading to the whole dairy industry, involving government complicity and alleged attempts to bribe China’s major search engine company to suppress news of the event amid general public fury (along with attempts to place the blame on nursing mothers). The Economist quotes an unnamed peasant who says that this wouldn’t have happened in Mao’s day and then says something about harmony y
Complete story: http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/2008/09/milk-is-modern.html

16 - The Tusks [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, blogs — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 19:15
…“I’m hoping you can help me. I have a little problem. I’d like you to have a look at this,” he says walking back to his Landrover. I follow, wondering what it is he wants to show me. He opens the back and I look in. There is a green tarp covering something. He pulls back the tarp, and lying there are two huge elephant tusks… But what to do with those tusks? Malcolm Bertoni continues his extraordinary story of working for a diamond mining company in Namibia. To read earlier chapters please
Complete story: http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2008/09/16_the_tusks_1.php

Lijiang - Lijiang, Yunnan, China [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News, blogs — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 18:57
Jump to the full entry & travel map Lijiang, Yunnan, China We spent another few days in Shanghai with Colin and Yanni.During the day we would walk around the local streets with Yanni, and in the evening make use of the free pool in the bars with Colin. We really enjoyed our time with these guys, but we  had to move on! So on the  10th of September we flew to Kunming, in the Yunnan province of China. We stayed at a hotel alled Camilla Hotel which was an ok hotel with a brilliant
Complete story: http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/hwhiteland/1/1221733680.html

Record set as 140 wedding held in Ulaanbaatar on Wednesday - Mongolia Web News [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 18:55
Wedding House was opened 30 years to provide wedding facilities to Mongolian couples. Since then, some 40000 wedding were held at Wedding House.
Complete story: http://www.mongolia-web.com/content/view/1993/2/

Two ministries restructured in new government - Mongolia Web News [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 18:55
In the June 29 national elections, the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) won 44 seats and the Democratic Party won 26 seats in the 76-member ...
Complete story: http://www.mongolia-web.com/content/view/1992/2/

China tries to calm jitters about milk exports - Independent [09/18/08]

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Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co Ltd (600887.SS) is one of several Chinese firms implicated in China's growing milk powder contamination scandal. ...
Complete story: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-tries-to-calm-jitters-about-milk-exports-934642.html

MAP: Human Vulnerability (Global) - Reuters AlertNet [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 18:55
There are smaller concentrations of high vulnerability in parts of East Asia, including Mongolia and northern and western China; and parts of South America, ...
Complete story: http://www.alertnet.org/thefacts/satelliteimages/122173098324.htm

China health scandal spreads to ice-cream, yoghurt - Reuters South Africa [09/18/08]

Filed under: Mongolia, News — Mongolia Monitor - English News @ 18:55
Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co Ltd <600887.SS> is one of several Chinese firms implicated in China's growing milk powder contamination scandal. ...
Complete story: http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnHKG104199.html
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