In early August, a senior Obama administration official told Greenwire earlier this month that the U.S. has begun preliminary negotiations for commercial nuclear fuel leasing arrangements with several countries, including Mongolia, Japan and the United Arab Emirates.

FORBES: U.S. Looks to Export Nuclear Waste; Uranium 'Leasing'

The scheme is being extended to a further 22 countries, including Cambodia, Mongolia and Eritrea.

BBC: Ban on underwriting arms sales

Polish forces completed 10 rotations in Iraq, which ended October 1, and commanded 10 national contingents, including Armenia, Latvia, Mongolia, Romania, Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

CNN: U.S. military says al Qaeda in Iraq mastermind dead

Ivanhoe's early days in Mongolia saw setbacks, including a local protest in which an effigy of Mr. Friedland in a top hat was burnt in the capital Ulaanbaatar.

WSJ: A Battle for Mongolia's Copper Lode

Mining companies say there are many largely unexploited regions of the globe, including Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Mongolia and the entire seafloor.

WSJ: Exhausting the Earth's Resources? Not So Fast

China had several competitive advantages over the U.S. First, it has some of the best concentrations of rare earths in the world, including the huge Bayan Obo mine in Inner Mongolia.

FORBES: The Politics of Rare Earth

Asia Pacific brews some of the most popular beers in fast-growing South-East Asia, including Anchor and Tiger, and recently expanded its business in Mongolia.

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