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ULAN BATOR, Mongolia, April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mongolian National Lottery, owned by BizINVIN LLC and operated by Modern Capital Vest LLC, subsidiaries of Singapore-based Monvest Group Pte. Ltd., rolled-out a 4D lottery game in April. In addition, Monvest announced a landmark distribution deal with fast food chain Grab and Go to install 22 lottery terminals to push the number of MNL sales points to over 80. Ulan Bator Mongolian National Lottery (MNL), owned by BizINVIN LLC...
SHANGHAI, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- China lead and zinc ore market developed relatively stable in recent years. With recovering economy, increasing demand from downstream, improvement of industry concentration and the support from government policies, China lead and zinc ore industry is expected to be further developed in the future. Introduction of China Lead and Zinc Market Lead zinc ore is the ore rich in metal lead and zinc. In nature, leads are usually found together...
BAAR, Switzerland, April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Manas Petroleum Corp. ("Manas") (TSX-V: MNP; OTCBB: MNAP) has filed its annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011 on EDGAR and on SEDAR. (www.sedar.com or www.sec.gov). The following provides you with a review of some of the highlights: Highlights 2011 Completed seismic program in Mongolia to establish prospect portfolio as base for drilling campaign 2012Started seismic in Tajikistan with ratification of the PSA...
Year of exploration sets the stage for progress in 2012 Note: All figures are quoted in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted. CALGARY, March 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Ivanhoe Energy Inc. (TSX: IE; NASDAQ: IVAN) is reporting today its 2011 financial results and an update on the Tamarack and Ecuador projects. Ivanhoe Energy is a heavy oil exploration and development company with a portfolio of early-stage assets that have significant potential but require more investment...
Wildlife health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society have published evidence which supports the conclusion that Mongolian gazelles—one of the most populous large land mammals on the planet—are not a reservoir of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a highly contagious viral disease that threatens both wildlife and livestock in Asia. Outbreaks of FMD in Mongolia affect domestic sheep, goats, camels, and cattle as well as Mongolian gazelles. In a country where roughly one-third of the...
A tiny mountainous region in southern Siberia may have been the genetic source of the earliest Native Americans, according to new research by a University of Pennsylvania-led team of anthropologists. Lying at the intersection of what is today Russia, Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan, the region known as the Altai "is a key area because it's a place that people have been coming and going for thousands and thousands of years," said Theodore Schurr, an associate professor in Penn's Department...
BEIJING, Jan.17, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Shen Zhou Mining & Resources, Inc. ("China Shen Zhou", or the "Company") (NYSE Amex: SHZ), a company engaged in the exploration, development, mining and processing of fluorite, zinc, lead, copper, and other nonferrous metals in China, today announced that its subsidiary, Xiangzhen Mining Ltd. ("Xiangzhen"), located in Inner Mongolia, has signed an equity transfer and investment increase agreement with the shareholders of Wuchuan...
BEIJING, Jan. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Lotus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCBB: LTUS) ("Lotus" or the "Company"), a profitable developer, manufacturer and seller of medicine and drugs in the People's Republic of China ("PRC"), today announced it entered into an agreement to dispose its Inner Mongolia branch company, including land use right for the 1000 Mu (approximately 165 acre) land in Inner Mongolia, in order to focus its business on the Beijing wholesale market. Pursuant to...
Winters in the Gobi desert are usually long and very cold but the winter of 2009/2010 was particularly severe, a condition Mongolians refer to as “dzud”. Millions of livestock died in Mongolia and the re-introduced wild Przewalski’s horse population crashed dramatically. Petra Kaczensky and Chris Walzer from the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology (FIWI) of the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna have used spatially explicit loss statistics, ranger survey data and GPS telemetry...
FRANKFURT, Dec. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Monvest Inc. (Monvest), an entertainment, leisure and travel company that operates the National Lottery of Mongolia appointed Renell Wertpapierhandelsbank AG (Renell) as Listing Applicant Bank and market maker. Monvest is in line to become the first Mongolian Group to do a primary listing on the Deutsche Boerse's Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FWB). Renell joins Listing Partner Salans, a leading German law firm, to manage the Monvest listing on...
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The Mongolian-Manchurian grassland ecoregion, known also as the Mongolian-Manchurian Steppe, located in the temperate grassland Biome, is found in Mongolia, the Chinese Autonomous region of Inner Mongolia and northeastern China. The grassland covers an area of 342,600 square miles. This Palearctic temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion of the Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands Biome, creates a large crescent around the Gobi Desert, stretching across central...
The Asian badger or sand badger (Meles leucurus) is native to The Korean Peninsula, China, Kazakhstan, and Russia. Its range includes Mongolia and the Urals in the southeast portion of Russia. It prefers a habitat within open woodlands with deciduous vegetation next to pastures, but it will reside in steppe lands, scrublands, coniferous forests, and mixed woodlands. This badger species can be found at an elevation of up to 13,000 feet and is separated from the European badger by the Volga...
Symbol: THMO10 Group: Lichen Family: Thrombiaceae Growth Habit: Lichenous Native Status: NA N Classification: Kingdom Fungi – Fungi Division Ascomycota – Sac fungi Class Ascomycetes Family Thrombiaceae Genus Thrombium Wallr. – thrombium lichen Species Thrombium mongolicum H. Magn. – Mongolia thrombium lichen
Protoceratops, meaning “first horned face,” is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period (83 to 70 million years ago) in what is now Mongolia. The first specimen was discovered by photographer JB Shackelford in 1922 in the Gobi desert while working with an expedition looking for human ancestors. The photographer did not uncover any human remains but did find many specimens of fossilized Protoceratops, along with other dinosaurs of...
Tarchia, meaning "brainy one," is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Campanian-Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now Mongolia. It was taken from the Barun Goyot Formation (previously called the "˜Lower Nemegt Beds"˜). It is currently the geologically youngest known of all Asian ankylosaurid dinosaurs and is represented by at least five specimens. Tarchia currently includes only the type species, T. gigantea. Despite the rocks, in which the specimens...
