Genghis Khan has been making news again, not as the bloody conqueror of Asia but as the possible missing link to modern maleness. In some scientific and pop culture circles, Khan has gone from Mongolian pariah to the guy every guy wants to be related to: Good Old Uncle Khan, whose genes can cure
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police detained an ethnic Mongolian dissident at Beijing airport as he arrived from Mongolia, a country of which he is now a citizen, according to a report from an exiled human rights group.
While traveling in Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Nokia researcher Jan Chipchase happened upon a group of monks playing soccer. The young monks quickly invited him in from the cold, but not only out of kindness.
Hundreds of thousands of Mongolians have in recent years abandoned their nomadic herding lives for an urban existenceâ€increasingly driven by climate change.
In a cultural reversal, interest from the West has led to calls to bring back acupuncture. But there has been little progress, largely due to opposition from Western and Oriental doctors
Prague, Feb 12 (CTK) - The Czech Republic opened a centre for social work learning in Mongolia's capital of Ulan Bator last week, the Labour and Social Affairs Ministry and Czech Charity told journalists Tuesday.
The die was cast long ago when football fans became subservient to the financial needs of the game's elite, and to bleat about the latest proposals is frankly rather ridiculous, says John Inverdale.
At the Umeda Osaka Hankyu train station in Japan, there is a giant TV screen by the famous bookstore Kinokuniya. This place is a great landmark and popular with people as a meeting point in central Osaka.
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