Gobi Desert
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 Hingga...
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Chinese scientists announced Thursday they have discovered
fossils of a huge, ''bird-like'' dinosaur the size of a Tyrannosaurus
rex in the Gobi Desert of northern China.
The scientists sa...
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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 so...
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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 th...
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Millions of dollars earmarked by the U.S. government to help North Koreans fleeing their impoverished homeland are still tied up by red tape three years after the money was authorized, a U.S. offic...
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese Premier Wen
Jiabao are expected to confirm their countries' collaboration in
fighting global warming after the current climate change pact expir...
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Prosecutors raid home, office of ex-intelligence chief over Chongryon
TOKYO - Prosecutors on Wednesday searched the home and office of
a former Public Security Intelligence Agenc...
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Campaigning begins for critical House of Councillors election
TOKYO - Official campaigning for the July 29 upper house
election got under way on Thursday, opening the highlight o...
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Pollution has tainted even the most remote areas of Glacier National Park, and some fish in backcountry waters are so contaminated they could endanger the wildlife eating them, a federal scientist ...
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ULAN BATOR, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The man tipped to become
Mongolia's new prime minister has promised to reform the
once-communist ruling Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
(MPRP) and to eradicate...
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese Premier Wen
Jiabao are expected to confirm their countries' collaboration in
figh...
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Gobi Desert
Scientists discover tyrannosaur-sized, bird-like dinosaur
