As Bolor Minjin, Robert Painter, and the rest of the Mongolia contingent watched, elated, from behind a chain-link fence, Homeland Security Investigations agents loaded four large crates onto the truck.
Despite progress in enrolling children in school in countries like the Mongolia, the Report shows that few are on track to meet the six Education for All goals set in 2000, and some, such as Albania, are lagging behind.
On June 5, 2012, at the request of the President of Mongolia, several paleontologists specializing in Tyrannosaurus Bataars examined Lenny and concluded that he was unearthed from the western Gobi Desert in Mongolia between 1995 and 2005.
The "nearly complete" skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus bataar -- also known as a Tarbousaurus bataar -- was turned over to representatives of the government of Mongolia by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. attorney's office in a New York City repatriation ceremony.
"After a year-long legal adventure and the worldwide publicity, the Tarbousaurus bataar indeed became a hero dinosaur at home in Mongolia, " said Tsagaan Puntsag from the office of the president of Mongolia.
Next she's taking the Earthwatch trip to Mongolia with the communal brick bed.
Mining companies say there are many largely unexploited regions of the globe, including Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Mongolia and the entire seafloor.
"The skeletal remains of this dinosaur are of tremendous cultural and historic significance to the people of Mongolia and provide a connection to the country's prehistoric past, " said Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
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Other ventures from the Western Sahara to Mongolia hint at the industry's potential.
This three-year project aims to improve the capacities to combat the illicit trafficking of cultural property in Mongolia through the enhancement of operational capacity-building actions and awareness-raising activities.
Of the top 10 fastest rising economies -- Nigeria, India, Iraq, Bangladesh, Vietnam, the Philippines, Mongolia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Egypt, respectively -- all but three are in the region.
It also sponsors the Olympic program of Mongolia, where Rio Tinto operates the Oyu Tolgoi copper mine.
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Nathan Myhrvold and Jack Horner had branched out from Montana, and at the end of the summer were going to Mongolia, to hunt in the Gobi desert.
Even the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is about to welcome Mongolia into the fold although Ulan Bator is twice as close to the Pacific as it is to the North Sea.
China has enough capacity to process not just its own cashmere production, but also the whole of Mongolia's.
In June, US officials seized the bones after Mongolia said they were stolen.
The organization recently learned that a Mongolian livestock farmer has hosted over 100 CouchSurfers in his yurt in the capital of Mongolia.
Two weeks later, in downtown Manhattan, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York sued for custody of the specimen, on behalf of the nation of Mongolia.
Prior to the auction sale, the Government of Mongolia sought, and was granted, by a Texas State Civil District Judge, a Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the auctioning, sale, release or transfer of Lenny.
It's the most sparsely populated country on the planet, with the exception of Mongolia, accents and cultural differences can make responses difficult to decipher, and everything's going to be on the corner of Sam Nujoma and Sam Nujoma anyway.
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For the geographically-challenged, Erdos sits in the southwestern part of Inner Mongolia near where Shaanxi province meets the autonomous region known as Ningxia.
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According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Mongolia will be the largest beneficiary - with the country receiving up to 71% of the income from the mine.
Jigjidiyn Unenbat, the central bank's governor, argues that Mongolia is over the worst of its banking crisis.
But the pipeline would have to go through Mongolia to be outside the lake's watershed.
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In 2013, I'm tackling Antarctica, the Inca Trail Marathon (labeled the "toughest marathon in the world"), Mongolia and New Zealand and will finish on the original course of Pheidippides in Athens in November.
Today the assets include 56% of the National Investment Bank of Mongolia, which he started in 2006 after buying the license of an old Russian bank, and brokerage firm National Securities.
In the third quarter of 2011 Mongolia's economy grew by 21% compared with the same period in 2010.
In 2006-09 the region's GDP (excluding Inner Mongolia, which extends into the north-east, but is not part of its industrial heartland) grew faster than that of the country's other three main economic regions, in the east, centre and west.
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