Archive for the 'Mongolia' Category
No signs of life detected in flooded Chinese coal mine with 31 trapped …
Mar 07, 2010 (BBC Monitoring via COMTEX) — [Xinhua: "No Signs of Life Detected in Flooded Chinese Coal Mine With 31 Trapped Miners "] WUHAI, Inner Mongolia, March 7 (Xinhua) – No signs of life was detected in a flooded coal mine where 31 miners have …
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1st Ld: Water level falls in flooded coal mine with 31 trapped miners
WUHAI, Inner Mongolia, Mar 07, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) — Water level continued to drop in a flooded coal mine where 31 miners have been trapped since March 1 in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Rescuers began looking for signs of …
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Globe-Trotting Gaultier Goes Global
It was a whirlwind world tour, with stops in such far-flung locales as Mongolia, Myanmar, Mexico, Ukraine and China that awaited the fashion glitteratti Saturday at Jean Paul Gaultier’s fall-winter 2010-11 ready-to-wear show. Each of the looks, which …
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ACCION Launches Microfinance Operations in Inner Mongolia
BOSTON, March 4 /PRNewswire/ — ACCION(R) International, a pioneer and leader in global microfinance, announced today that it has inaugurated ACCION Microcredit China (AMC) in Chifeng Prefecture, Inner Mongolia, to deliver financial services to the …
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A harsh winter and uncertain future for Mongolia’s pastoralists
NOT just North America and Europe are pulling out of harsh winters. Mongolia has had its bitterest winter in decades. Nearly 3m of the country’s livestock, something approaching a tenth of the total, are said to have died, and some Mongolians. Now …
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UN provides medical help for pregnant women amid Mongolia’s harsh …
Severe winter conditions in Mongolia are preventing expectant mothers from reaching health facilities 3 March 2010 ‘“ Severe winter conditions in Mongolia are preventing expectant mothers from reaching health facilities, requiring the United Nations …
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Shenua coal mine flood traps 31 people in northern China
… trapped underground by a flood early Monday in northern China … Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Monday evening The accident happened at 7:29 AM when 77 people were working in the pit of Luotuoshan Coal Mine in the city of Wuhai, 600 …
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DJ 42 Miners Trapped In Inner Mongolia Coal Mine; Accident -TV
SHANGHAI, Mar 01, 2010 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex) — Some 42 miners were trapped in a coal mine in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Monday morning after an accident, the state-controlled Central China television reported. The coal …
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The United States and Mongolia Held Annual Bilateral Consultations
The United States and Mongolia held Annual Bilateral Consultations yesterday in the State Department’s George C. Marshall conference facility. The ABC, which rotates annually between the two capitals, covers the broad range of activity between the …
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UN launches Mongolia $4m appeal to clear up livestock killed by big …
The international body will pay nomads to collect and bury dead livestock to ease the risks of disease, soil contamination and a worsening humanitarian disaster in a nation where one-third of the 2.7m population depends on animal husbandry. The …
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