By: Liezel Hill
TORONTO (miningweekly.com) - China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) has launched its offer to buy TSX-listed uranium junior Khan Resources, the Canadian firm announced on Friday.
CNNC is offering C$0,96 a share for Khan, which has recommended that shareholders accept the offer.
Khan's flagship asset is a stake in the Dornod uranium...
U.S.-Mongolia Annual Bilateral Consultations
Washington, DC
February 26, 2010
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The United States and Mongolia held Annual Bilateral Consultations on February 26, 2010 in the State Department’s George C. Marshall conference facility. The ABC, which rotates annually between the two capitals, covers the broad range of...
Mongolian historic photos around 1900s
Manlai Baatar Damdinsuren with two of his adjutants. Damdinsuren was Mongolian patriot and nationalist who took part in revival of Mongolian statehood after fall of Ching dynasty in 1911. He was one of commanders who liberated Khovd, capital of western Mongolia...
Sumo’s Asashoryu Holds Wall St. Meeting, Chunichi Sports Says
By Adam Le
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Asashoryu, a sumo grand champion in Japan, visited New York’s Wall Street for business meetings three weeks after his retirement from the sport, Chunichi Sports newspaper reported.
The 29-year-old Mongolian visited the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 22 dressed in a dark business suit and was in the city “for business...
Matthew Davis Talks About Mongolia and His Book When Things Get Dark
By Aimee Levitt
In the summer of 2000 Matthew Davis, a recent graduate of the University of Missouri, moved to Tsetserleg, a small town in the Mongolian countryside, to begin a two-year hitch in the Peace Corps. Now, nearly ten years later, he's written a book about his experiences there, When Things Get Dark: A Mongolian Winter's Tale, that he'll...
World Bank approves Livestock Insurance Project to help Mongolian herders
WASHINGTON, Feb 23, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The World Bank Tuesday approved a 10 million U.S. dollars scale up of the highly innovative Index Based Livestock Insurance Project (IBLIP) to help Mongolian herders.
IBLIP, which was first introduced in 2006, provides herders with insurance through partnering with local private insurance companies....
Energy Resources Mulls London IPO, Shareholder Says
By John Duce and Bei Hu
Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Energy Resources LLC, a closely held coking coal producer in Mongolia, is considering an initial public offering in Hong Kong or London, the majority shareholder said.
“It’s just an idea at the moment, but we are looking to raise funds and an overseas listing is a good way to raise the profile of the...
EBRD loan to Leighton to help promote contract mining for Mongolia
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is making a $35 million loan available to the Mongolian arm of Australian Contractor, Leighton, to help finance the company's ability to offer contract mining services there.
Author: John Chadwick
Posted: Monday , 22 Feb 2010
LONDON -
A loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction...
Mongolia’s Future Wealth Tied to Mining, Budget Reform
Feb. 21 – Mongolia, a country landlocked between the giants of China and Russia, is seeing its fortunes change as a burgeoning mining sector is putting the country in the driver’s seat of its own development.
Realizing this opportunity, the government of Mongolia, in partnership with the private sector, recently held its first large economic discussion,...
Long forgotten religious war between Mongolians in 17th century
I assumed many people knew about history of Tsogt Taiji, Mongolian noble lord who fought with Guush Khan Turbaikh of Khoshuud Mongol tribe in 17th century. Renowned Mongolian historian and novelist Rinchin Byambaa Yonshoobuu wrote novel “Tsogt Taij” and in 1944 a movie was produced based on the novel.
Until recently, I did not know that Tibetan,...
Mongolian Asylum seeker's plea rejected by US
DSERENOCHIR v. HOLDER
BAYASGALAN DSERENOCHIR; DOLGIO NATSAGDORJ; SUVDANCHIMEG BAYASGALAN; MUNGUNCHIMEG BAYASGALAN, Petitioners,
v.
ERIC H. HOLDER, Jr., Attorney General, Respondent.
No. 05-75127.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted February 11, 2010[ 1 ] San Francisco, California.
Filed February 16, 2010.
Before: THOMPSON...
SouthGobi Energy Resources Named "Local Job Creator of the Year" by Mongolia's National Chamber of Commerce and Industry
HONG KONG, CHINA, Feb 17, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- SouthGobi Energy Resources Ltd. /quotes/comstock/11t!sgq (CA:SGQ 17.20, -0.10, -0.58%) (SEHK: 1878) is pleased to announce that on February 10, 2010 the Mongolian National Chamber Of Commerce and Industry selected Southgobi sands LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SouthGobi Energy Resources,...
Entree Gold Ready to Explore Shivee West
VANCOUVER, February 17, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Entree Gold Inc. (TSX:ETG; NYSE AMEX:EGI; Frankfurt:EKA - "Entree" or the "Company") announces 2010 exploration budgets for initial work programs in Mongolia, the USA and Canada totaling approximately US$7 million. The Company treasury currently stands at over US$38 million.
Entree also reached...
Mongolian Harvard Elites Aim for Wealth Without ‘Dutch Disease’
By Michael Forsythe
Feb. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Mongolia’s billions of dollars worth of copper, gold, uranium and coal reserves promise the greatest influx of wealth for the country since Genghis Khan conquered much of the known world in the 13th century.
They also may spawn a crisis. Sudden prosperity can overwhelm an economy, exposing it to commodity-price...
From Chinggis Khan to Prayer Wheels, Mongolians Reclaim What’s Theirs
By Daisy Sindelar
TSONJIN BOLDOG, Mongolia -- There are ordinary equestrian statues. And then there's Chinggis Khan, the monument so tall that visitors need to ride an elevator and climb several flights of stairs just to reach his waistline.
Located on a windswept plateau an hour's drive from the Mongolian capital, Ulan Bator, the massive stainless-steel...
20 Million Mongolian Cattle Could Be Dead by Spring Due to Dzud (UPDATED)
What's dzud you ask? Well, it's the Mongolian word for the sort of weather they are now experiencing. Roughly translated by Shambala Sun, it's an unusually dry summer where there isn't enough grass growth to allow herd animals to grow strong, followed by an unusually cold winter (we're talking -55°F at times) with higher than normal snow. It causes...
UNICEF: Severe winter ‘dzud’ pushes most of Mongolia to disaster status
UNICEF intensifies efforts to reach children in the hardest hit rural areas
ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA 12 February 2010 – In response to weeks of freezing temperatures and heavy snows have left more than half of Mongolia’s 21 provinces in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, UNICEF has mobilized to help children and families, addressing their most urgent...
