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☆ Mongolians clash with police in protest against inflation and graft
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

ULAANBAATAR, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Mongolian protesters clashed with police as they tried to storm parliament after thousands gathered in freezing temperatures to demonstrate against soaring inflation and government corruption. Demonstrators clashed with police on Monday in front of the Government Palace where parliament sits. [1/5] Protesters take part in a demonstration against soaring inflation and government corruption on Sukhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia December 5, 2022. Rentsendorj 1 2 3 4 5Some later jostled violently with police as they tried to storm the building. Reporting by Bilguun Chadraabal and Josh Arslan; Writing by Dominique Patton; Editing by Nick MacfieOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ A new species of penguin-like diving dinosaur has been discovered
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Zoe Sottile | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A new study found evidence at least one species of dinosaur may have been an adept swimmer, diving into the water like a duck to hunt its prey. The study, published in Communications Biology on December 1, describes a newly-discovered species, Natovenator polydontus. Scientists from Seoul National University, the University of Alberta, and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences collaborated on the paper. The Natovenator specimen is very similar to Halszkaraptor, another dinosaur discovered in Mongolia, which scientists believe was likely semiaquatic. “There is a real question of, OK, you’ve got a swimming dinosaur in the desert, what’s it swimming in?” he said.

☆ A Penguin-Like Shape May Have Helped This Dinosaur Dive
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Kate Golembiewski | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

And then there are penguins, which plunge a quarter-mile deep into icy waters in search of food. It now seems that modern birds are not the only dinosaur group to embrace the plunge-and-prey lifestyle. A team of researchers say they have found the earliest example of an extinct dinosaur with a body that was streamlined for diving. They described the dinosaur discovery in the journal Communications Biology on Thursday. The new duck-size dinosaur was at first overlooked.

☆ Factbox: A chronology of dissent in China in recent decades
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( James Pomfret | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The following is a timeline of some other notable protests, and public dissent against China's ruling Communist Party. 2009 - Xinjiang - In the region's worst ethnic unrest in decades, ethnic Uighurs attacked majority Han Chinese in the capital Urumqi, after an incident involving Uighur workers in a factory in southern China. China later builds massive "facilities" to turn Xinjiang into what a United Nations panel described as a "massive internment camp shrouded in secrecy". China later imposes a powerful national security law, arresting scores of democrats and shutting down civil society groups and liberal media outlets, including the Apple Daily newspaper. 2022 - Henan bank protests - Public protests simmer as thousands lose access to their savings in a banking fraud scandal centred on rural lenders in Henan and Anhui provinces.

☆ Rio swaps wild goose chase for white-knuckle ride
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 18 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Rio Tinto’s (RIO.L) tortuous quest to buy out minorities in Turquoise Hill Resources (TRQ.TO) just got even worse. Now a side deal to remove Pentwater Capital Management and SailingStone Capital Partners from the deciding vote has fallen apart. Rio needs Turquoise Hill, which controls two-thirds of Mongolian mega-mine Oyu Tolgoi, to ensure a tighter grip on one of its key growth projects. But to win the vote it needs a simple majority of the minorities, and Pentwater and SailingStone have over 30% already. Hence the attempted side deal, which would have outsourced the valuation of the two minorities’ stakes to an arbitration process.

☆ How Sergei Shoigu went from Putin's wilderness bestie to the scapegoat for Russia's failures in Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Sophia Ankel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Shoigu was born in 1955 in the remote town of Chadan in Siberia. The Soviet Union was a world power and the Cold War just beginning. A man outside the former central temple for Buddhists of Tuva, near the settlement of Chadan, in Russia's Tuva region. Ilya Naymushin/ReutersThe town is close to the Mongolian border. Shoigu's mother was Russian but born in Ukraine, while his father was Tuvan — an ethnic group that is indigenous to Siberia.

The respective chief executives of $139 billion Philip Morris International (PM.N) and $95 billion Rio Tinto (RIO.L) are attempting takeovers that are central to their strategies. Olczak, who needs 90% of shareholders to accept in order to automatically de-list the company, initially faced opposition to his $16 billion offer. The mining giant asked for the postponement at the request of Quebec’s financial regulator, Turquoise Hill said. Two key investors in Turquoise Hill have agreed to withhold their votes on the bid, with their final deal dependent on Canadian arbitration. Turquoise Hill shares closed at C$41.6 on Nov. 4.

☆ China Southern cancels planned return of Boeing 737 MAX flights
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Oct 30 (Reuters) - China Southern Airlines Co Ltd (600029.SS) has cancelled plans for two Boeing Co (BA.N) 737 MAX flights on Sunday that would have represented the model's return to passenger flying in China after more than three years, according to the airline's website. China Southern had scheduled flights from its Guangzhou hub to Zhengzhou and Wuhan, Reuters reported on Thursday. The airline's website and flight tracking website FlightRadar24 showed the flights had been cancelled. China Southern did not respond immediately to a request for comment. Earlier this month, a 737 MAX flight by MIAT Mongolian Airlines landed in Guangzhou, marking the first commercial flight by the model in China since 2019.

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☆ Mongolian airline's Boeing 737 MAX flight in China the first since 2019 -FlightRadar24
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BEIJING/SYDNEY, Oct 10 (Reuters) - A Boeing 737 MAX flight by MIAT Mongolian Airlines that landed in Guangzhou on Monday morning was the first commercial flight by the model to China since the country grounded the plane in March 2019, flight tracking website FlightRadar24 said. Chinese airlines have not returned the 737 MAX to commercial service and Boeing last month said it would begin to remarket some of the planes meant for Chinese customers. The 737 MAX has returned to commercial service in almost every market globally, with the exceptions of China and Russia, which is now sanctioned over its invasion of Ukraine. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterFlight OM235 from Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar landed in Guangzhou on Monday morning, according to FlightRadar24 and VariFlight. Boeing declined to comment on the MIAT flight, saying it continued to work with global regulators and customers on the safe return of the MAX, which was grounded after two fatal crashes.

☆ Boeing 737 MAX Makes First Commercial Flight in Chinese Skies Since 2019
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Rachel Liang | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

SINGAPORE—A Boeing 737 MAX operated by MIAT Mongolian Airlines landed in China on Monday in what industry experts say is the jet’s first commercial flight in Chinese skies since Beijing grounded the plane in 2019. The 737 MAX jet flew to China’s southern city of Guangzhou from Ulaanbaatar, according to flight tracker Flightradar24. Chinese regulators gave MIAT permission to fly the 737 MAX into China in August, a spokesman for the Mongolian airline said in an email, adding that the jet had been leased out to another operator until now.

☆ Russian Borders Swamped as Putin’s Draft Order Sparks Exodus
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Drew Hinshaw | Kate Vtorygina | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

DARIALI, Georgia—On a narrow road high in the Caucasus Mountains, thousands of cars packed with young men have waited three days to inch through a six-mile traffic jam to the Russian frontier, their passengers running low on food and water. North of the Arctic Circle, a sleepy Norwegian border post has been swamped with five times its normal traffic, as potential Russian conscripts trek hundreds of miles to one of the last remaining entry points into Europe. Tens of thousands more cars wait snarled up at border posts along the Mongolian steppe.

☆ 'We are not afraid': Russians flee to Mongolia to evade Ukraine mobilisation
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Michael Kohn | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"My country has started partial mobilisation and I think it is negatively affecting society," said one. The guesthouse has filled up with Russians since Putin's mobilisation order, and Bat-Tur said he has already turned away dozens of requests for beds. One newly-arrived guest, who identified himself as Aleksey, said he crossed into Mongolia last weekend, leaving behind his wife and three children. "We are not afraid, but why do we have to fight in Ukraine, why?” he asked. Almost entirely dependent on Russian oil and gas, landlocked Mongolia also stands to gain from a gas pipeline that Russia plans to build across its territory to supply China.

☆ Complaints about Russia's chaotic mobilization grow
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Kevin Liffey | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register"It has been announced that privates can be recruited up to the age of 35. Reports have surfaced across Russia of men with no military experience or past draft age suddenly receiving call-up papers. "Some (recruiters) hand over the call-up papers at 2 a.m., as if they think we're all draft dodgers," he said. There has been a particular outcry among ethnic minorities in remote, economically deprived areas in Siberia, where Russia's professional armed forces have long recruited disproportionately. The interior ministry of the Russian region of North Ossetia advised people not to try to leave the country for Georgia at the Verkhny Lars frontier post, where it said 2,300 cars were waiting to cross.

☆ Explainer: Does China need more Russian gas via the Power-of-Siberia 2 pipeline?
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Negotiations will be complex, however, not least because China is not expected to need additional gas supply until after 2030, industry experts said. The proposed pipeline would bring gas from the huge Yamal peninsula reserves in west Siberia - the main source of gas supply to Europe - to China, the world's top energy consumer and growing gas consumer. The idea gained impetus when the first pipes of the currently operational Power of Siberia pipeline were laid in Russia's eastern Yakutia region in 2014. DOES CHINA NEED MORE RUSSIAN GAS? Russia's Gazprom already supplies gas to China through the first Power of Siberia pipeline under a 30-year, $400 billion deal, which was launched at the end of 2019.

LONDON, Sept 13 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Rio Tinto’s (RIO.L), (RIO.AX) increasingly epic minority buyout saga may have a bit further to run. Rio only needs a simple majority of Turquoise’s minorities to simplify its Mongolian operations by controlling Turquoise outright. Rio can point to recessionary fears that have dampened the copper price to $3.7 a pound of late, and the project’s ongoing and significant investment requirements. Copper price graphicFollow @karenkkwok on Twitter(The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. This is a “fraction” of the free cash flow Pentwater expects Turquoise Hill to generate over the next 10 years.

☆ Electronic Arts won’t be a multiplayer M&A game
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

NEW YORK, Aug 26 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Electronic Arts (EA.O) is a tempting target but finding the right players might be harder to master. On Friday, CNBC reported that Amazon.com (AMZN.O) is not expected to make a bid for the video-game maker read more , knocking down an earlier report about a potential deal. Still, it’s not hard to see why the publisher behind the FIFA franchise could be in play. Microsoft’s $69 billion move for Activision Blizzard (ATVI.O) bodes well for EA read more . On the same multiple applying estimated EBITDA for the fiscal year ending March, it would imply that EA is worth over $50 billion.

☆ Amazon’s green drive clips venture capital coupons
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Nine million of those are already well in the money, helped by the 5% jump in Plug Power’s share price. Plug Power, meanwhile, can scale production and potentially attract others. Plug Power’s stock is up 10-fold since then. Yet Plug Power’s revenue from Amazon equalled negative $310 million in 2020 read more , due to the way it accounts for the accompanying warrants. Besides, analysts expect Plug Power to burn over $1 billion of cash this year, according to Refinitiv.

☆ Peloton investors gear up for a volatile ride
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

TORONTO, Aug 25 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Investors in Peloton Interactive (PTON.O) hardly ever know what kind of workout they’ve signed up for. Shares in the exercise-bike maker sank over 18% on Thursday morning after it posted a $1.2 billion net loss for the three months to June, about four times the deficit for the same period of 2021. The slide wiped out an equivalent percentage gain a day earlier after Peloton said it would begin selling its bikes and other accessories on Amazon.com (AMZN.O) in the United States. McCarthy isn’t sitting idle — roughly a third of the company’s quarterly loss was due to restructuring charges. Thursday’s slide shrinks Peloton’s enterprise value to just over $3 billion, after deducting roughly $500 million in net cash.

☆ These animals went extinct in the wild. Scientists brought them back
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-16 | by ( Rebecca Cairns | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

All of them went extinct in the wild – and all of them came back, thanks to reintroduction programs. One of the most iconic reintroduction success stories, Przewalski's horse went extinct in the wild in the 1960s, but were returned to the Mongolian steppe in 1992. “The less time that has passed, the more likely that environment is the same as when the species went extinct,” she says. “But you still need to address the reason why it went extinct in that environment to begin with.”Read more: This palm tree nearly went extinct. Without these projects, species such as Przewalski’s horse and the Guam rail would almost certainly be extinct in the wild.

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☆ Korean food: 39 best dishes we can't live without
▼ + stars: | 2017-07-12 | by ( Violet Kim | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +21 min

courtesy Korean Tourism OrganizationSamgyeopsal is the Korean word for pork belly, and it’s a staple at what many Westerners know simply as Korean BBQ restaurants. Kimchi Stew (김치찌개)A lesser-known fact about kimchi is its versatility as an ingredient in a whole slew of derivative dishes, which comprise a category of their own. And with its traditional companion of Korean rice wine, makgeolli, pajeon makes the perfect meal for a rainy day. courtesy Korean Tourism OrganizationAs is frequently the case with many South Korean meat dishes, Bossam at its core is simple: steamed pork. courtesy Korean Tourism OrganizationIn South Korea we wait for summer just so we can start eating naengmyeon every week.

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