“Спокойной ночи, приятных сновидений, и пусть клопы обходят стороной”, – много десятилетий мамы в англоязычных странах убаюкивают детей этой колыбельной. Но сегодня эксперты говорят о новом нашествии ночных кровососущих насекомых, и журналист Том де Кастелла задается вопросом, будет ли мирным наш сон, если так пойдет и дальше.

Вампиры – одно из любимых творений Голливуда. Но истинные кровопийцы, приходящие с сумерками, – вовсе не очаровательные в своем ужасе вариации графа Дракулы, а малюсенькие насекомые, живущие в матрасах, подушках и изголовьях. Да-да, клопы возвращаются, и специалисты говорят о возможности глобальной эпидемии.

Недавний опрос тысячи компаний, занимающихся дезинсекцией в самых разных странах мира, который провел университет американского штата Кентукки и Национальная ассоциация дезинсекции США, говорит о том, что клопы поднимают голову практически всюду.

“Результаты этого глобального исследования свидетельствуют: мы на пороге клоповой пандемии – не только в Соединенных Штатах, но по всему миру”, – говорит вице-президент американской ассоциации Мисси Хенриксен.

Korea will hold its first major business consultation event in Mongolia next week to help Korean investors find local partners for new business opportunities there, a local trade agency said yesterday. The South Korea-Mongolia Economic Cooperation Partnering event will be held in Ulan Bator on Monday and will involve 15 officials from 13 South Korean firms and some 100 local business representatives, according to the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency.

China and Taiwan signed a de facto free trade agreement, known as the Economic Cooperation Framework Accord (ECFA) this week. The two overcame political and ideological differences in order to achieve mutual economic prosperity. Now is the time to ponder the creation of a free trade area and ultimately a single market in Northeast Asia.

The ECFA could be and should be a baby step toward an FTA encompassing Northeast Asia. Korea, Japan and China could expand trade and stimulate economic vitality through FTAs with each other. This would create an FTA area in the world’s most dynamic region. It would ultimately lead to an EU-style Northeast Asian Community.

Russia, Taiwan and even Mongolia could be invited to participate. China should declare that it will not oppose Taiwan’s signing of FTAs with Korea, Japan and other countries, at least on a nongovernmental basis. It may be premature and untimely for North Korea to join in the process.

Japan’s Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada and Mongolian leaders on Monday agreed that the two countries will strengthen their links in the field of mineral resources.

Microfinance Focus, Sep 1, 2010: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing a two-year $750,000 grant from the ADB-administered Regional Cooperation and Integration Fund to examine market supply and demand for microinsurance in People’s Republic of China and Mongolia. The grant will address policy, regulatory and institutional barriers in the region’s Microinsurance sector.

Moxon Huddersfield is one of the oldest textile houses in England. When I say old, I don’t mean the American idea of old, I mean pre-colonial. The house was established in 1556, and has been producing the highest quality, most expensive textiles ever since. The cloth produced by Moxon is extraordinary in a number of ways. They have continued to use time-tested methods of handcrafting for the past several centuries. While it takes a mass production facility only a few hours to produce cloth, the Moxon method takes 8 days!

Mongolia, one day, hopes to export more than just coal to neighboring China. At a recent cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold outlined plans to ramp up the country’s investments in alternative energy and to export wind power to China — enough to equal 40 million tons of coal.

Woori Bank opened a lounge for migrant workers from Mongolia on Sunday under its recent commitment for an expatriate-friendly service. The lounge, designed as a sort of shelter for Mongolians, is at the bank’s Gwanghi-dong branch in downtown Seoul. It is equipped with about 300 books and a variety of CDs and DVDs in Mongolian. A bank spokesman said any Mongolian worker is allowed to use the facility free of charge. Free rental services are also available.

With financial support from Abu Dhabi, conservationists have started to build the first of 5,000 artificial nests in the Mongolian steppes in a bid to increase the number of breeding Saker Falcons. The Saker Falcon population has been declining rapidly due to capture for the falconry trade, loss of habitat and pollution. Work on the project is already under way and, by the end of October, the conservationists hope to have all the nests erected within a wilderness area of 25,000 square kilometres. The project, which is being conducted at a cost that was not disclosed, is a collaboration between the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) and Mongolia’s Ministry of Nature, Environment and Tourism. Work is to be carried out by the International Wildlife Consultants and its Mongolian partner, the Wildlife Science and Conservation Centre.

Монголия выразила желание купить у Казахстана 100 локомотивов, произведенных на совместном с «General Electric» предприятии.

Об этом в пятницу на I саммите руководителей группы АО «Фонд национального благосостояния «Самрук-Казына» сообщил президент АО «НК «Қазақстан темір жолы» Аскар Мамин.

North Asia Resources Holding Company has announced that it has signed a long-term cooperation agreement with Sinosteel Trading Co., Ltd, subsidiary of Sinosteel Group, to develop iron ore businesses in Mongolia.

ULAN BATOR, Mongolia — In the two decades since the Soviet Union dissolved and Mongolia became an independent democracy, the country has struggled to resuscitate cultural traditions lost during its many years as a Soviet satellite.

“Stalin wanted to bring Russian culture to Mongolia and destroy Mongolia’s national ambition,” explained the poet G. Mend-Ooyo, speaking in the book- and calligraphy-filled office of the Mongolian Academy of Culture and Poetry, of which he is president and founder. “He couldn’t do it completely, but from 1940 to 1990 we were far from our culture. We used Russian script, we couldn’t mention the name ‘Chinggis Khaan’ [Genghis Khan], we didn’t know our own history.”

Stewart Group, the international inspection, analysis and assay group has expanded its operations in Mongolia, with a state-of-the-art expansion at its laboratory in the heart of the country.

A new fire assay laboratory has been added to the Stewart Mongolia LLC facility in Ulaanbaatar, which can now provide a significantly broader range of services to the key mining regions in the country. The expansion is the second major development at the Mongolia facility in 12 months, after it became the first internationally owned laboratory in the country to achieve ISO/IEC 17025:2009 accreditation.

As demand for geochemical and solid fuel analysis continues to rise in Mongolia and neighbouring countries, Stewart Group is now able to provide highly accurate analysis of a huge range of materials, including precious metals and solid fuels, within a minimal timeframe without the need to ship samples out of the country. Customers will benefit from reduced shipping costs and greatly increased sample turnaround times.

In addition to analysis of gold, silver and platinum group metals, the Mongolian site can conduct multi-elemental analysis, coal and solid fuel analysis, trace element analysis by ICPAES, and sample preparation of solid fuel and geochemical materials.

Девяносто лет назад – 26 августа 1920 года Казахстан ВПЕРВЫЕ стал государственным образованием. 26 августа 1920 год был принят Декрет ВЦИК и СНК РСФСР “Об образовании Киргизской (Казахской) Советской Автономной Социалистической Республики”. 22 сентября 1920 года новый декрет ВЦИК дополнительно ввел в состав Киргизской (Казахской) АССР Оренбургскую губернию, а город Оренбург стал столицей республики.

В ходе национально?государственного размежевания республик Средней Азии (1924 г.) определилась государственная граница КАССР и РСФСР, результате территория Казахстана увеличилась почти на 700 тысяч квадратных километров, то есть на одну треть, а население – на 1,468 миллиона человек.

Японская ассоциация борьбы сумо намерена закупить для борцов и тренеров 60 планшетов iPad, сообщает BBC News.

По задумке организации, устройства с сенсорными экранами станут прекрасной альтернативой традиционным кнопочным телефонам, которыми сумоистам трудно пользоваться из-за внушительных габаритов. Дело в том, что пальцы борцов слишком большие и толстые, из-за чего им трудно попадать по нужным кнопкам на клавиатуре телефона.

Regular exchanges between the Vietnamese and Mongolian parliaments have helped strengthen cooperative relations between the two countries, said Deputy Speaker of the Mongolian Parliament G.Batkhuu.

Ученые выяснили, почему пьяным мужчинам нравятся практически все женщины без исключения. Как сообщает Discovery News, оказалось, что под воздействием алкоголя мужчины теряют способность отличать симметричные, а значит, более симпатичные женские лица, от асимметричных, менее привлекательных, лиц. К такому выводу пришла группа лондонских ученых, проведшая исследования с участием трезвых и пьяных молодых людей.

Палеонтологи делят динозавров на травоядных и плотоядных – но совсем недавно археологи в пустыне Гоби нашли скелет динозавра, который, судя по всему, питался семенами или орехами. Динозавра назвали пситтакозавр (Psittacosaurus gobiensis), и строение его черепа, наличие клюва, плюс камни в мускульном желудке ясно указывают на тип его питания.

Outside the Trump Taj Mahal, some pushers, like 21-year-old Mujgee Enkhtaivan, said they’d been waiting for hours.

Enkhtaivan is a college student in his native Mongolia, studying human resources. This is his first visit to the United States, and he said he could take it or leave it.

“It’s all right,” he said. “I’m not making what I thought I would make.”

A training exercise hosted by Mongolia with the aim to improve UN peacekeeping operations has started in a military camp 65 km west of the Mongolian capital, officials said Monday.

About 204 military personnel from Mongolia and 125 others from Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India, the United States and Canada are participating in the drill known as Khaan Quest 2010.

The event, which runs through Aug. 21, includes UN military staff level courses, platoon level command-headquarters courses, mobile field medical group activities and humanitarian engineering operations, officials said.

Mongolia has been organizing Khaan Quest exercises since 2003 and in 2006 at the request of the U.S. Pacific Command, the exercise was turned into a multinational military one.

A total of some 4,500 military personnel from 30 countries have participated in Khaan Quest exercises since 2003, said Bayarmagnai, brigadier general and vice chairman of the Headquarters of Mongolian Armed forces.

This year’s military exercise is the largest training for the Mongolian military personnel before they serve as UN peacekeepers in Lebanon next year, said the general.

Mongolia is now seeking a bigger role in UN peacekeeping missions around the world. Better pay for UN peacekeepers draws many Mongolian soldiers to serve as international blue helmets.

“A lifetime of experience, years of training and a sleepless night of preparation – yet Tsedendamba’s stallion, in the fifth and prime year of its racing career, trailed across the finish line in 12th place. ’Last year it came in second. This time we had the dzud, bitter winter conditions, and that’s why I didn’t push it harder in training. The horse is too thin’, said the 61-year-old herder. Mongolia‘s national festival of Naadam, which saw contests in the ‘manly sports’ of archery, racing and wrestling across the country, dates from before Genghis Khan’s time and celebrates the country’s fabled nomadic spirit. Almost a third of the population are herders. But the catastrophic winter killed millions of animals and left thousands of rural families struggling to survive. It has also exacerbated the country’s financial woes, increasing the pressure to exploit its vast but largely untapped mineral resources. Two decades after the collapse of communism, Mongolia may be at another turning point”

The creeping reality that banning pornography will be no easy task for the government became even more evident on Monday, when at least two public computer screens in the House of Representatives suddenly began broadcasting pornographic images.

The two touch-screen public information terminals, located near the media room in Nusantara III, were seemingly hacked to redirect to a porn Web site. It was reportedly discovered just after lunch by a journalist who tried to access the House schedule for the day.

But for the next 15 minutes, what was displayed on the screen were extremely hard-core photographs and advertisements — including one for “young teens” — from an adult Web site that is banned in neighboring Singapore and Malaysia. Security personnel had to switch off the terminals to stop the offensive broadcast.

Пока Россия страдает от засухи и снижает прогнозы по урожаю, неблагоприятная погода в других станах и континентах уже спровоцировала ценовое ралли на продовольственные товары. По росту цен некоторые виды продуктов могут превзойти даже золото.

Their right hands rise to black-clad chests and flash out in salute to their nation: “Sieg heil!” They praise Hitler’s devotion to ethnic purity.

But with their high cheekbones, dark eyes and brown skin, they are hardly the Third Reich’s Aryan ideal. A new strain of Nazism has found an unlikely home: Mongolia.

Once again, ultra-nationalists have emerged from an impoverished economy and turned upon outsiders. This time the main targets come from China, the rising power to the south.

Groups such as Tsagaan Khass, or White Swastika, portray themselves as patriots standing up for ordinary citizens in the face of foreign crime, rampant inequality, political indifference and corruption.

But critics say they scapegoat and attack the innocent. The US state department has warned travellers of increased assaults on inter-racial couples in recent years – including organised violence by ultra-nationalist groups.

Mongolian police have been accused of “deliberately obstructing” investigations into the death of a Bath man shot in the country 13 years ago.

An inquest was held yesterday into the death of Tim Jarman, who was killed in his apartment while working in the Mongolian capital of Ulaan Bator in June 1997.

But the mystery of how and why he came to receive a single gunshot wound to the head has never been solved, and the Mongolian investigation into the incident was closed in 1999.

An inquest was finally held after Avon coroner’s office received enough paperwork for a hearing to take place.

Успешное развитие экономики Евросоюза зависит от импорта полезных ископаемых. Это не только нефть и газ, но и, например, металлы. В Брюсселе уже сейчас думают, что будет, когда их начнет не хватать.

Большую часть сырья странам Европейского Союза приходится импортировать. От доступа к ресурсам зависят целые сферы экономики, например строительная, химическая или аэрокосмическая промышленность. По данным Еврокомиссии, в отраслях, зависящих от поставок сырья, заняты около 30 миллионов человек.

Bactrian camel, Mongolia

The camel has long had a special place in the imagination of the West, from the Greek historian Herodotus telling a story about Indians using fast-running camels to defeat dog-sized, man-eating ants that guarded gold, through the Three Magi journeying to Christ’s birth, Lawrence of Arabia and the desert chic of Camel cigarettes.

At school you probably learned that the dromedary (shaped like a D) has one hump, and the bactrian (shaped like a B) has two (all very orderly). But perhaps you don’t know that in the first week of their foetal life, all baby camels have two humps. Or that the world’s camel cultures are in crisis. Some camels are threatened with extinction. Others are being slaughtered as pests. Modernity, urbanination and motorisation are slowly destroying a way of life that has survived for thousands of years.

Questions concerning negotiations with Mongolia on natural resources development and an Economic Partnership Agreement

A man who was found dead in Mongolia 13 years ago died of a gunshot wound to the head, an inquest heard. But the coroner said there was not enough proof to record a verdict that Tim Jarman, 50, from Bath, was unlawfully killed. Instead, Maria Voisin, the acting coroner for Avon, recorded an open verdict on agricultural consultant Mr Jarman. After the hearing, his widow Sally said she was satisfied with the verdict.

Джидинским районным судом Республики Бурятия вынесен обвинительный приговор в отношении гражданки Монголии Баасанхуу Монхнасан Аавынх. Об этом ИА REGNUM Новости сообщили в пресс-службе республиканской прокуратуры.