www.unuudur.com: The latest news of Mongolia in the World

Across the globe governments are monitoring and censoring access to the web. And if we’re not careful millions more people could find the internet fractured, fragmented and controlled by the state

One of Mongolia’s most senior politicians says he is considering resigning from office after being confronted with evidence of his offshore entity and secret Swiss bank account.

Once he bestrode his world, lending his name to more museums, streets, monuments and public institutions than any other 20th-century figure. But in the Mongolian capital, Ulan Bator, at least, it is goodbye Lenin, as a political dinosaur makes way for the real kind.

Growth in the Mongolian stock exhange driven by recent discovery of vast mineral deposits in the country’s hinterlands

The Gobi desert is soon to welcome Rio Tinto’s mega-mine, but coping with the sudden influx of investment may be problematic

Mongolia’s parliamentary elections are scheduled for Thursday, and its capital city is awash with politics. The faces of candidates fill the newspapers, peer out of TV sets and stare down from billboards.

Protecting the world’s oldest nature reserve from the planet’s most polluted capital was never going to be easy, but the Mongolian authorities and the World Bank aim to do just that in the coming days when they meet to discuss a plan to limit the sprawl of Ulan Bator. A major push to conserve the [...]

After a 16-hour drive under the piercing blue skies of Mongolia’s southern Gobi, the first view of the world’s newest mega-mine looks eerily like a desert aflame. Black clouds of dust billow up above the horizon from the pit at Tavan Tolgoi, where a swarm of bulldozers and mechanical diggers have clawed a 70-metre deep [...]

There’s something ironic about Britain’s current obsession with glamping. Tipis in Tamworth, sheds rebranded as “romantic shepherd’s huts”, safari tents where the closest you’ll get to big game is a squirrel. If a Mongolian nomad were transplanted to a Cotswolds field tomorrow he wouldn’t know which yurt to knock on first.

In October 1985, on the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham where the death of Cynthia Jarrett sparked riots that culminated in the brutal murder of PC Keith Blakelock, a community leader stood on his chair at a packed open-air meeting.

Outside the closed gates of the Xilingol Mongolian high school, Chinese police watch warily as hundreds of students perform calisthenics in a yard from where the previous day they left to march through the streets. A short drive away, another police unit monitors a middle school that has become a source of concern. On the [...]

It is a supreme irony in a country once known as the land without fences. Stretching north from the capital, Ulan Bator, an endless succession of dilapidated boundary markers criss-cross away into the distance. They demarcate a vast shantytown that sprawls for miles and is now estimated to be home to a quarter of the [...]

On 10 April 2006, a DC-9 jet landed in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, on the Gulf of Mexico, as the sun was setting. Mexican soldiers, waiting to intercept it, found 128 cases packed with 5.7 tons of cocaine, valued at $100m. But something else – more important and far-reaching – was discovered [...]

After spending several months in the epic clamor of industrializing China, I went to Mongolia looking for open spaces and unspoiled nature, for clean air, for hiking and horseback riding, and for nights still dark enough to terrify. In the countryside (and most of it remains countryside) the Eternal Sky held sacred by Mongolians since [...]

It is a pity that Tania Branigan overstates the influence of “Mongolian neo-Nazis” in her article (Mongolian neo-Nazis: Anti-Chinese sentiment fuels the rise of ultra-nationalism, 2 August). She says that “a new strain of Nazism has found an unlikely home” in Mongolia and that “ultra-nationalists are … becoming more sophisticated and, quietly, more powerful” here. [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Guardian Weekly reader M E Soos describes how Mongolians use conventional and traditional medicine to treat medical conditions, with some using shamanism to heal the sick

Человек предполагает, а Бог располагает. Редко мы оказываемся столь же уязвимыми, как в ситуации изолированности. Чудо полета спасает нас от ограничений гравитации, атмосферных, культурных и географических ограничений. Но природа вносит свои коррективы, и иногда остается принимать как факт реальность тысяч миль, разделяющих нас. Выясняется, что мы никуда не ушли от физического мира.

As Chinese around the globe celebrate the Year of the Tiger, many fear that the newly confident world power will try to thwart the west at every turn. But the leadership remains anxious about the true strength of its economy and society

Власти Китая отдали распоряжение государственным СМИ прекратить сотрудничество с британской телерадиовещательной сетью “Би-Би-Си”. Об этом стало известно газете The Guardian. Причиной запрета называется документальный фильм “Би-Би-Си” о жестоком подавлении акций протеста на пекинской площади Тяньаньмэнь в 1989 году.

It was an unashamed display of military force, involving tanks, fighter jets and more than 3,000 soldiers. Last week China and Russia held their biggest joint military exercises ever – their battalions streaking across the plateaus and shimmering plains of Shenyang province.

Британская газета The Guardian призвала своих читателей найти как можно более постыдные траты, совершенные членами парламента за казенный счет.

В будущем, хакеров, атакующих компьютеры коммерческих компаний или оборонных агентств в США и Великобритании, может ждать сюрприз: контратака, одобренная и проведенная полицией и оборонными агентствами. Целью подобной контратаки является помешать хакерам и даже закрыть им доступ в Интернет.

Harvard University has taken a step towards shrugging off its image as a fusty straight-laced academic institution by endowing America’s first named professorship of sexuality.

Свиной грипп, несомненно, нанесет урон и без того слабой мировой экономике. И хотя на данном этапе точные оценки невозможны, некоторые экономисты полагают, что полномасштабная пандемия может обойтись значительно дороже $3 триллионов, пишет 28 апреля Guardian.

Мы вступили в один из редких в истории периодов, который характеризуется переходом мировой гегемонии от одной великой державы к другой. В последний раз такой переход был с 1931 по 1945 годы. Он положил конец финансовому господству Британии, на смену которой пришли Соединенные Штаты Америки.