12/01/2008
Seedling Sales from Inner Mongolia (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance)
Maple Leaf Reforestation Inc. is pleased to announce the following updates from its Inner Mongolia greenhouse operations:
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12/01/2008
POLITICAL ECONOMY (Mineweb)
Mongolia’s windfall profits tax cut-off on gold will be increased by $300/oz under draft resolutions submitted to the nation’s parliament.
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11/30/2008
Poachers find thriving market for fossils (UPI)
CLEVELAND, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- A dinosaur skeleton that vanished from Mongolia likely was sold on the black market, says a fossil hunter from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
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12/01/2008
Oroqen, Ewenki people worship their forest deity (China Economic Net)
A totem of the mountain deity Bainaqia is escorted during a ceremony in Yakeshi, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Nov. 28, 2008. Ethical people from Oroqen and Ewenki nationalities on Friday worshiped their forest deity of Bainaqia, praying for safty and auspiciousness.
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11/30/2008
Poachers find thriving market for fossils (Moldova.org)
A dinosaur skeleton that vanished from Mongolia likely was sold on the black market, says a fossil hunter from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.The broken skeleton, found in the Gobi desert, was to be reassembled as a centerpiece for the Museum, said Michael Ryan, the Museum's head of vertebrate paleontology.It would have been the most significant chunk of Tarbosaurus in North America. ...
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11/30/2008
Money-saving tips can rescue a trip during tough times (The Columbus Dispatch)
When the world went to financial hell in a handbasket during the Great Depression, people went to the movies. Today, they go to Montana or maybe even Mongolia.
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12/01/2008
Can cleantech China teach the West how to be green? (CNN)
For Dr. Xingyi Xu, the grass used to be greener on the other side.
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12/01/2008
China Accelerates Highways, Hospital Spending to Boost Economy (Bloomberg)
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- China approved the construction of 550 kilometers (311 miles) of new expressways and brought forward 15 more infrastructure projects as part of a 4 trillion yuan ($584 billion) fiscal stimulus to bolster its flagging economy.
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11/26/2008
Mongolia insures savings against financial jitters (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Jittery over small bank runs and falling commodity prices, Mongolia's government is guaranteeing all bank deposits, as the remote country tries to ward off the global financial crisis.
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11/30/2008
Breadwinners blighted by legacy of decades-old war in Laos (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Ta Duangchom was out fetching food in southern Laos with his two young sons when a cluster bomb exploded in front of him and left him with no arms and just one eye.
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