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The boss of FTSE 100 mining group Rio Tinto has insisted a dispute with China over copper exports from Mongolia will be resolved shortly.

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Land of Genghis Khan to become global copper superpower after mega deal to build giant underground Oyu Tolgoi mine

Hacker group Anonymous have released a video and a statement via Twitter condemning the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people, including eight journalists, were murdered.

Tony Blair has added a new country to his portfolio of multi-million-pound business interests — the mineral-rich backwater of Mongolia.

A directive from China’s media regulator – the General Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television – said the move was intended to “strengthen management” and stop the “spread of harmful information.” “Without authorisation, no news media organisation is allowed to use news information products provided by foreign media or foreign websites,” read the [...]

It is one of the most shocking images from the Syrian war. An eight-year-old boy draws deeply on a cigarette, the small fingers of his other hand clutching a an AK-47 rifle that balances awkwardly against his chest.

Unfortunately, its state-owned rival Codelco agrees that the mine has great prospects – so great, in fact, it would like to wield its option to buy a 49pc stake in the unit which holds it. In a much more attractive deal, Anglo this month sold 24.5pc off to Japan’s Mitsubishi, which it said stopped Codelco [...]

Owen Paterson is on a diet. Carrying a few extra pounds doesn’t matter at Cabinet meetings, but the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland won’t be able to start the longest, most extreme horse race in the world unless his weight, including boots and clothes, is less than 85kg (just over 13st).

Pyongyang is thumbing its nose at international sanctions imposed by the United Nations in 2006 and 2009, after North Korea detonated two nuclear warheads, and increasing its imports of luxuries for its leadership, according to a South Korean government official.

Khurts Bat is wanted for the false imprisonment of a fellow national who was allegedly abducted from France, driven to Berlin, drugged and flown back to Mongolia. The kidnapped man, Enkhbat Damiran, was wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of the Mongolian Infrastructure Minister.

Chinese authorities have threatened to jail the wife and son of a Mongolian activist, according to human rights groups, in a sign that the net around dissenters is widening. Over the past few months scores of activists, Christians and human rights lawyers have been detained or threatened in an ugly spate of hardline repression by [...]

The two crew members on the F-15E fighter jet both ejected, suffering minor injuries. One was quickly picked up by a US military helicopter. The other is said to be “safe” after being rescused by Libyan rebels. The US miltary said their forces were in the process of having him recovered. The crashed plane was [...]

Richard Dunwoody, the former jockey, reveals he likes Ulan Bator for its culture, surprisingly good nightlife and access to the Mongolian Steppe. WHY ULAN BATOR? I love the way that modern life blends somewhat awkwardly with the traditional Mongolian lifestyle – this juxtaposition makes it a fascinating city. There is plenty of culture: the Winter [...]

After eight hours of off-road driving it is snowing again and we can’t see a thing. We’re lost and we’re in the Gobi Desert. Moments ago there was nothingness stretching into the distance. Now there’s nothingness blocking out the distance. The engine stalls. Again.

Mongolians have a word for it: zud. A zud is a winter so harsh that animals cannot feed through the frost and ice encrusting the steppe. In the winter of 2009-10 Mongolia suffered its worst zud for nobody knows how long – “for decades”, some say; or “in living memory”. Ten million head of livestock [...]

Analysts at RBS were clear on what they wanted Rio to do with all the money coming through the door. “Our preferred method of deploying cash would be through a material and sustainable increase in dividends,” they said. The analysts calculated that the group could find itself with cash balances in the order of $28bn [...]

Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaataryn Batbold cancelled his visit to the UK in November following Mr Khurts’ arrest.

Heard of rare earths? You could be forgiven for answering “no” – but they will soon be familiar to us all. Though the 17 rare earth metals are little known, modern life would not be possible without them: everyone uses them many times a day. However, our supplies are as vulnerable today as was our [...]

In the last three years, more than 300 Kazakhs have sent gene samples to be tested at a US lab and thousands of contenders lobbied to be included in last year’s book Chingizids, which detailed Genghis’s Kazakh heirs. Arman Ahmuhanov, a 39-year-old horse trader from Almaty, recently sent a sample to FamilytreeDNA, a company in [...]

China’s imports surged in August, up no less than 32pc on the same month last year. When I heard this news last week, via my mobile-phone, I was standing on a hilltop in Mongolia, watching as massive hydraulic excavators worked what is said to be the world’s largest surface-mine coal seam. Perhaps it was serendipity, [...]

China’s imports surged in August, up no less than 32pc on the same month last year. When I heard this news last week, via my mobile-phone, I was standing on a hilltop in Mongolia, watching as massive hydraulic excavators worked what is said to be the world’s largest surface-mine coal seam. Perhaps it was serendipity, [...]

Trading in the shares of Aluminium Corporation of China (Chalco) were suspended yesterday in both Shanghai and Hong Kong, ahead of a signing ceremony in Beijing later today where a joint venture with Rio Tinto is expected to be formalised.

Commodities were booming as the growth story in the East continued to plough ahead – and the uranium price was no different. Uranium soared to $136 a pound from less than $10 between 2000 and 2007. Then reality set in. The credit crunch caused an unwinding of the global economy and the uranium spot price [...]

While the wild Bactrian camel in China and Mongolia is much too timid and critically endangered to be milked, its domestic double-humped Bactrian cousin and the Dromedary camel (report, July 11) both provide milk that is much more than just palatable. Camel milk is known to arrest, though not cure, diabetes, and, by drinking a [...]

I am in a minibus travelling at heart-stopping speed along a two-lane road heading out of Ulaanbaatar. It is Naadam, the annual July festival that is the highlight of Mongolian life for locals and visitors alike. This is the only time when a country known for its remarkable emptiness (just 2.6 million people in over [...]

The compendium of ill thought out web addresses, largely from companies who naively slurred their innocent-sounding names into a single word without noticing the resulting double entendres, lists more than 150 “slurls”, or slur URLs. One example of what can go wrong when choosing web addresses is Big Al’s bowling alley in Vancouver, which presumably [...]

China is considering measures to force all its 400m internet users to register their real names before making comments on the country’s myriad chat-rooms and discussion forums, in a further sign of tightening controls on freedom of speech. The move comes less than a week after China announced a hardening of its State Secrets law, [...]

Известный экономист Нуриэль Рубини (Nouriel Roubini), предсказавший кризис до его наступления, утверждает, что причину глобальных потрясений стоит искать не в субстандартной ипотеке, а в «субстандартной» – ненадежной и неэффективной – финансовой системе. Британская The Daily Telegraph приводит выдержки из новой книги Нуриэля Рубини и Стивена Мима (Stephen Mihm).

Хакер, называющий себя Krillos, разместил в сети объявление о продаже 1,5 млн аккаунтов, украденных из социальной сети Facebook, сообщает The Daily Telegraph. Цена пароля от каждой странички варьируется от 1 до 20 долларов, выяснили эксперты компании Symantec, занимающейся обеспечением информационной безопасности в сети. В настоящее время распродано около 700 тысяч аккаунтов. Это значит, что каждая [...]