Mongolia

Dinosaur heads home to Mongolia after odyssey ends in Queens

2013-05-06 15:31:00

� NEW YORK -- It's bad enough to go from roaming the earth as a fearsome predator to being uprooted and dragged across three continents, but to end up in a basement in Queens? No wonder the Tyrannosaurus bataar was broken up. Literally. But not for...

'Mongolian Bling' rappers swing to their own beat

2013-03-02 09:00:00

BEIJING — Mongolia's hip-hop scene caught Benj Binks off guard. The young Australian expected the descendants of Genghis Khan to be mostly nomads and herders, cantering over wild, bleak plains. Instead, when he arrived in the country's capital of...

Rose Parade 2013: Siberian throat singer can't be heard — again

2013-01-01 11:13:50

Clinton comments on human rights blocked in China, group says

2012-07-11 21:41:59

Shanghai Film Fest: Q&A with director Jean-Jacques Annaud

2012-06-15 16:39:38

Rock climber injured in 50-foot fall at Joshua Tree National Park

2012-02-15 21:36:43

Traveling abroad? For information, check with the country's tourist office

2011-02-27 00:00:00

For tourist information about foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. Several no longer list phone numbers, so information is through their website only. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-...

Discoveries

2010-12-12 00:00:00

The Gray Earth Galsan Tschinag, translated from the German by Katharina Rout Milkweed: 303 pp., $24 Galsan Tschinag was born in the 1940s in Mongolia and educated in Germany. After university, he returned to Mongolia to lead what was left of his...

Ill-prepared?

2010-02-14 00:00:00

Question: As a 49-year-old single man, I often travel alone, mostly domestically. I would love to travel abroad, but I am hesitant because of growing concerns about hospital care in case of a medical emergency. I feel perfectly healthy now, but you...

For the 'funemployed,' unemployment is welcome

2009-06-04 00:00:00

Michael Van Gorkom was laid off by Yahoo in late April. He didn't panic. He didn't rush off to a therapist. Instead, the 33-year-old Santa Monica resident discovered that being jobless "kind of settled nicely." Week one: "I thought, 'OK . . . I need to...

Please Don't Go

2008-06-01 00:00:00

Here's a discouraging metric: Google the phrase "endangered places" and you'll get more than 30,000 results. The Natural Resources Defense Council wants to preserve the white water of Patagonia's Futaleufu River; the World Wildlife Fund urges saving the...

In China, Echoes of the Past

2005-11-14 00:00:00

XILINHOT, China — Video recorder in hand, Wang Hong sat inside a small stone-and-brick house with one of China's aging musical masters — a Mongolian vocalist named Hajab who once sang his region's ancestral melodies for Chairman Mao Tse-tung....

Khar Sarnai (Black Rose), Mongolia's first rap techno band.

2013-02-28 10:45:05

Latvia's Anastasija Grigorjeva, right, wrestles with Mongolia's Battsetseg Soronzonbold in their Women's 63kg Freestyle 1/8 final match at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

2012-08-08 00:00:00

Mongolia's Tuvshinbayar Naidan celebrates after winning his men's -100kg judo contest semi-final match of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the ExCel arena in London.

2012-08-02 00:00:00