Argun, Shilka and Amur river ecosystems- are all threatened by water infrastructure planned or already built by China. China still refuses to discuss with Russia agreement on environmental flow on Argun River, that may soften impacts of Hailaer-Dalai massive water diversion. State-owned Yangtze Power Co. together with En+Company propose to dam Shilka […]
After the 14 th North America-Mongolia Business Council Conference D.Ganbold, President of the Mongolian National Mining Association, discussed with journalists the Government of Mongolia have budget to compensate over 1000 mining exploration companies?Q: Your presentation at the North America-Mongolia Business Council conference was interesting and in the presentation, you made analysis on the amendments in […]
China has aroused international alarm by using its virtual monopoly of rare earths as a trade instrument and by stalling multilateral efforts to resolve disputes in the South China Sea. Among its neighbours, there is deep concern at the way it is seeking to make water a political weapon.
At the hub of Asia, […]
The China Daily recently published a very controversial piece on Hulunbeier Grasslands highlighting well familiar problems.
China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region beckons travelers with its fabled undulating fields of grass, fascinating Mongol customs and a scenic Russian border area that teems with trade. Yao Minji pays a visit.
We have a small forest, the […]
South China Morning Post published Eric Ng’s new article “Russian to relaunch HK debut next year” on attempts of Eurosibenergo to raise money for hydropower development in Russia and its claims about “highest environmental standards”.
EuroSibEnergo (ESE), the power unit of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s energy and resources conglomerate EN+ Group, plans to relaunch its shelved […]
Given huge stake that Canadian capitalists already have in Mongolian mines an article “Mongolia faces resource ‘curse’” in Vancouver Sun presenting views on Mongolian mining and environmental activists is especially interesting to us.RwB
No one missed the symbolism when the Mongolian government this month announced which companies are getting the rights to […]
“In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold.”
So Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote of his years of hard labor in 19th century Siberia, after a jittery Tsar Nicholas I banished the famed writer to the lonely Far East. For centuries, the massive swath of land east of Moscow and north of China has been a […]
Temperatures and tensions are rising as miners - and tourists - move in to one of China’s most remote and ecologically fragile regions
Chinese riot police were reportedly dragging off protesting herders while I was blithely listening to karaoke on the Inner Mongolian grasslands this week.
I was unaware of the trouble, though I was […]
By Michael Kohn | AFP – Wed, Jul 6, 2011
Mongolia herder on mission to tackle mining firms
The destruction of Mongolia’s grasslands to access a wealth of mineral riches has sparked an anti-mining movement led by a nomadic herder who says force can be used to bring polluting firms to heel.
Tsetsegee Munkhbayar is the head of Fire Nation, […]
In June The Guardian published an article “Driven from the land” by Kit Gillet attepmting to explain how come that the capital already holds from 55 to 70% of national population.
As desertification and bitter winters increasingly destroy the livelihoods of Mongolia’s herders, hundreds of thousands are moving into Ulan Bator’s shantytowns from […]