After more than a week of fear, families of the trapped miners being brought to the surface were relieved that their loved ones had avoided becoming another grisly statistic in the world’s deadliest coal mining industry
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Schools are beginning to open across Haiti’s capital for the first time since a devastating earthquake flattened buildings Jan. 12, crippling the education system.
Because of its history, its location and the nations which surround it, Mongolia would seem the last country in the world to host annual Pentagon-led military exercises and to be the third Asian country to offer NATO troops for the war in Afghanistan.
It is windy in the Mongolian steppe but inside the yurt, it’s nice and snug. Urna stokes the fire with wood and dried dung. She is baking flatbreads on the hot surface and stewing meat in a pot.
Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj (right) welcomes his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev in Ulan Bator in August 2009, one of the visits where Moscow pushed its interests at the Dornod uranium mine.
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia — Emergency food relief is needed for nomadic herders in Mongolia after the number of livestock killed there by blizzards and extreme cold doubled in recent weeks, the Red Cross said Monday.
The Ulaanbaatar Governor Office, the Ministry of Health and the Association of Cities and Towns in Mongolia organize a national forum “Healthy City” with a support from the World Health Organization this April 1-2, 2010
HONG KONG, March 31 (Reuters) - Mining firm Green Global Resources (0061.HK: Quote, Profile, Research) will start iron ore production in the second half of the year in Mongolia,
Two female suicide bombers killed at least 38 people in two separate attacks (8 a.m - Lubyanka station & 8:40 a.m - Park Kultury metro station) on packed Moscow metro trains on Monday,
The Chinese court handed down its verdict in the Rio Tinto case. Chinese nationals Wang Yong, Ge Minqiang and Liu Caikui were sentenced to 14, eight and seven years, respectively, with combined fines reaching 6.7 million yuan.
The second round of Talks on the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (TPCA) to be established between Mongolia and the European Union has run successfully in Brussels, Belgium.
Instead of expressing his anger at what appears to be a highly political trial against Rio Tinto, CEO Tom Albanese was reported to have made a speech outlining ways in which China and the global mining giant could work even more closely together.
Douze voyageurs racontent leur périple au festival - Caen
Demain, au centre Tandem, des voyageurs de tous horizons se retrouvent pour les 6 e Rencontres du bout du monde, créées en 2003. L’occasion de faire le plein d’idées pour les grandes vacances.
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Der ehemalige Traisner Tankstellenpдchter Horst Gruber, der mit Lebensgefдhrtin Helga Guggenberger auf Reisen geht, hat bis dato 139 Lдnder besucht. 2011 will er das 150
TORONTO (miningweekly.com) – The Kyzyl gold project in northeastern Kazakhstan could be in production by 2013, Ivanhoe Mines, which owns 50% of the asset, said on Monday.
The Taxation Section of the Administration of the city’s Bayanzurkh district and a training and research center have co-organized in relation with the year of
