Mineral-rich Mongolia is experiencing a mining boom, but its growth is creating distrust and conflict with herder communities.
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New research shows that the treatment of drug resistant-TB can be reduced from the current duration of 20 to 24 months to less than a year.
Mongolia’s important historical sites are under threat from climate change and looting - and one exacerbates the other.
While democracy is struggling globally and especially in Asia, Mongolians continue to vote and engage.
Studies of animal-human interactions in various settings could perhaps help prevent bird flu and the mass slaughter of animals it inevitably leads to.
India wants closer engagement with its neighbours as it aspires to become a global manufacturing hub. Narendra Modi’s visits to China, Mongolia and South Korea are all about promoting this agenda.
Plans to dam Lake Baikal’s most important tributary could kick off an international dispute.
This latest part of our series on Russia’s relations with its neighbours focuses on the huge empty land of Mongolia, Moscow’s original Soviet satellite state in the 1920s. These days it sits on the verge…
The Gobi Desert in East Asia conjures images of a remote landscape, with nomads riding across the steppe. In fact, today it is home to herders and farmers, the world’s fastest-growing economy, vast copper…
The movement of desert sands and dust in Northern China is controlled by one of the world’s largest rivers, new research…
AUSTRALIA IN THE ASIAN CENTURY – A series examining Australia’s role in the rapidly transforming Asian region. Delivered in partnership with the Australian government. Here, Dr Craig Mark - currently based…
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Researcher in Geography, University of Oxford
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