The Gobi Desert, 1.3 million square kilometers (500,000 square miles) of rugged plains crossing Mongolia and northeastern China, extends roughly from the Great Khingan Mountains (Da Hinggan Ling) in the east to the Tian Shan in the west and from the...

The Gobi (Chinese: 戈壁(沙漠) Gēbì (Shāmò); Mongolian: Говь, Govi or Gov', meaning, gravel-covered plain) is the largest desert region in Asia. It covers area in China and southern Mongolia. The desert basins of the Gobi are bounded by the...

John Man. Yale Univ., $24.95 (232p) ISBN 0-300-07609-6 British reporter Man has been obsessed with Mongolia's Gobi Desert since his boyhood, when he read of the exploits of American explorer/scientist Roy Chapman Andrews, who in 1922-1924 made one of the century's great...

THE BRIDGE over the Yellow River modelled on the one spanning the Tyne might bring back a faint glimmer of the past but the young Paul Gascoigne could never have imagined his career would come to rest in the world's most polluted city on...

China is planning to build a new satellite launch site _ the country's fourth _ to boost its burgeoning space program, state media reported Sunday.The facility will be located in Wenchang on the southern island province of Hainan, about 38 miles away from the provincial...

Somebody should have looked at a map.The State Department with great fanfare on Tuesday signed an agreement with landlocked Mongolia that will allow Mongolian ships to be boarded and searched if they are suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction.This despite the fact that Mongolia...