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Snowstorms leave 21 dead, 100 missing in Mongolia

Snowstorms leave 21 dead, 100 missing in Mongolia
Beijing - At least 21 people died and more than 100 were missing after snowstorms hit parts of Mongolia this week, Chinese state media reported Wednesday, citing the Mongolian government. The Mongolian disaster relief office said the snowstorms had a…

Oh man - Inner Mongolia is awful…
August 31 First full day in Huhhot and IT SUCKED. I acquired transportation and created a list of places I wanted to see in and around Huhhot. Huhhot is the technical capital of Inner Mongolia and they’ve destroyed all the culture here. …

No Diet Coke in Mongolia
The McDonalds of Mongolia: Berlin Burger. I think there must be 10 of these in UB. The supermarket sells very rich and expensive German candy. About half the store is candy. This one is out near my school, although I never went to this …

Olympic Gold No. 2!!
On the last day of the Olympics (24th August), Mongolia picked up their second gold medal of the games in the boxing (having won their first ever gold in the Judo just befor I arrived). (I have been told that gold medal tally was …

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India navy 'to go after pirates'
The Indian navy is given formal approval by the United Nations to go after pirate ships in Somali waters, the BBC learns.

RIGHTS-KYRGYZSTAN: Alarm After 'Lifers' Attempt Breakout
BISHKEK, Nov 21 (IPS) - The Kyrgyzstan parliament has ordered that the most dangerous of the country's life-term prisoners should be moved from their jails and put in isolation cells dispersed around the country following an attempted prison breakout which led to four deaths.

China has only identified 19,000 quake victims: official ..
AFP - Only 19,000 victims of the devastating earthquake that struck China's southwest six months ago have been identified, fewer than a quarter of the total dead or missing, a top official said Friday.

Afghan official: suicide bomb attack kills 3 (AP)
AP - A suicide bomber drove his car into the gate of an army base in southern Afghanistan on Friday and detonated his explosives, killing three civilians, a provincial official said.

Great game of hunting pirates
Under the rubric of the fight against sea piracy, an entirely different template of maritime activity is taking place by interventionist powers. The United States, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union have stepped out of the European theater and entered the Indian Ocean, as has India. Russia is seeking a reopening of its Soviet-era naval base in Aden. There is a strong suspicion a great game is unfolding. - M K Bhadrakumar (Nov 21,'08)

Faith in India's army shaken by blasts
Following investigations into recent bomb blasts in India, the hand of Hindu right-wing organizations in terrorist attacks has been laid bare. The probes also reveal the involvement of a handful of serving and retired army officers, indicating that the staunchly secular and apolitical military may be infected by the communal virus. - Sudha Ramachandran (Nov 21,'08)

The black hole in financial markets
Americans are beginning to understand how much of their economy depended on the housing bubble. The collapse of housing prices has led to a collapse of consumer spending, which leads to a rise in unemployment, which in turn erodes the value of commercial property - and so the destruction of wealth spreads. Barack Obama will take office as the most powerful peacetime president in US history - he will be the only man in town with a checkbook. - David P Goldman (Nov 21,'08)

COMMENT : Empty promises in Afghanistan
The exodus of Afghan refugees began 30 years ago when Soviet tanks rolled over their villages. More Afghans fled the proxy conflicts that consumed their homeland throughout the 1990s. Since the fall of the Taliban, more than 5 million Afghans have returned, only to find shortages of land, shelter, jobs and food. As Afghan diplomat and former refugee M Ashraf Haidari explains, many are at the breaking point. (Nov 21,'08)

India turns up energy diplomacy
Visits by senior Indian politicians to Moscow and Tehran underscore New Delhi's determination to improve access to fuel resources. In both cases, the discussions indicate more energy will have to be spent before sought-after deals are secured. - Siddharth Srivastava

China's party hardliners want the last word
In another sign of political tensions in the Chinese Communist Party, the Ministry of Culture has told the publisher of a prominent political magazine to quit after it praised Zhao Ziyang, a former party chief purged in 1989 for refusing to condone the Tiananmen Square incident. The ministry politely told Du Daozheng, 85, to go as he is "quite elderly, and quite tired", but he has vowed to never water down his editorial line. - Verna Yu (Nov 21,'08)

IT WORLD : Morro's another day for Microsoft
Microsoft is to introduce free security software for personal computers and discontinue its subscription-based anti-bug service. The switch to Morro is due next year - which is a little too late for the surge in virus attacks and spyware intrusions expected in the US in the next few days in the run-up to Thanksgiving. (Nov 21,'08) Martin J Young surveys the week's developments in computing, gaming and gizmos.

ASIA HAND : Judicial coup murmurs in Thailand
If Thailand's Constitution Court rules next week to disband the ruling party, a perceived loophole in the constitution could then be exploited to deepen the "judicialization" of Thai politics. This could allow conservative forces to gain power without resorting to an unpopular military putsch. - Shawn Crispin (Nov 21,'08)

THE MOGAMBO GURU : Corporate earnings go cliff-diving
Almost everything in the US economy is falling off a cliff, from retail sales to electric power to factory shipments, or going up in smoke, from jobs to companies. And now earnings of surviving corporations are down to almost half of what they were a year ago. Which all proves the insanity of investing in stocks for the long term!!

DISPATCHES FROM AMERICA : Stuff happens in Iraq
The United States military has the ultimate argument against a reasonable withdrawal from Iraq. Its strength lies in that it has nothing to do with the vicissitudes of Iraqi politics, the relative power of Shi'ites or Sunnis, the influence of Iran, or even the riptides of war. It is the simple fact that logistically there is so much "stuff" in Iraq that withdrawal would take at least three years. - Tom Engelhardt (Nov 21,'08)

BOOK REVIEW : Political whores go biblical
Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl by Tracy Quan This saucy diary rises like a French bedroom souffle, baked at a high heat, Provence style. But it is often more perspicacious than sexy, using a galaxy of well-drawn characters to passionately tease out the real human emotions and politics of sex work. It also juxtaposes these realities with biblical introspection on Mary Magdalene, the patron saint of all call girls, even ones with $2,500 handbags and Manhattan banker husbands. - Muhammad Cohen (No..

UPDATE 2-Statoil shuts Asia product trade arm, no jobs cut -..
SINGAPORE, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Norway's StatoilHydro ASA said on Friday it was scaling down third-party oil product trading and would close its Singapore products department, confirming a Reuters report a day earlier. The worst financial crisis since ...

Callbox Sales & Marketing Solutions to Hold New Seminar in A..
NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Encino, CA, United States, 11/21/2008 - Callbox Sales and Marketing Solutions will hold in January their invitation-by-request Callbox Global Marketing Seminar '09 entitled, "Global Marketing Strategies for the IT ...

Pakistan army practices shooting drone aircraft (Reuter..
Reuters - Pakistani soldiers practiced shooting at pilotless "drone" aircraft Friday, the military said a day after the government lodged a protest with the U.S. ambassador over drone missile strikes in Pakistani territory.

Textile cos may cut 500,000 more jobs - secy (Reuters)
Reuters - India's textile sector could shed 500,000 jobs in the next five months, federal Trade Secretary G.K. Pillai said on Friday, quoting textile ministry estimates.

Asia’s Banking CEOs – The Future of Finance in Asia - Ne..
NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Singapore, Singapore, 11/21/2008 - The series of penetrating interviews with the CEOs of Asia's largest banks offers a fascinating insight into the future of Asia's most important industry . With developing economies ...

Burma comic jailed for 45 years
Popular Burmese comedian and activist Zarganar is sentenced to 45 years in jail in the latest of a string of imprisonments.

Japan begins manhunt after stabbing deaths
The grisly knifing deaths of a former Japanese Health Ministry official and his wife have thrown the normally low-crime nation into an uproar.

China raises quake's student toll
The figure of 19,000 is double the previous estimates for the number of children who perished when their classrooms collapsed.

Blast kills mourners at funeral in Pakistan
A blast killed at least eight mourners and wounded 28 others Friday at the funeral of a Shiite cleric in northwestern Pakistan who had been gunned down hours earlier, the police said.

Ex-Thai coup leader expects peaceful protests
BANGKOK - The Thai general who led a 2006 coup against former premier Thaksin Shinawatra said Friday he expected anti-government protests planned for the weekend to pass off without violence.

Chinese journalist sentenced to 3 years (AP)
AP - A Chinese writer and journalist who was arrested after protesting against a power plant in southwest China was sentenced Friday to three years in prison on charges of subverting state power, his lawyer said.

'Hindu terrorism'
The phrase provoking strong emotions in India

Dell to keep investing in Asia - Globe and Mail
MUMBAI — — Dell Inc. plans to keep investing in Asia even as its sales growth in China slows, the computer maker's regional president said Friday. “We will continue to invest” in Asia, said Steve Felice, president of Dell Asia Pacific and ...

HK stocks rise on talk of China rate cut (AP)
AP - Hong Kong stocks advanced Friday, breaking a four-day losing streak, on bargain-hunting and speculation that China will cut interest rates over the weekend.

Monk, comedian handed lengthy Myanmar prison terms (AP)..
AP - Courts in military-ruled Myanmar have handed long prison sentences to a prominent monk and a popular comedian active in the country's pro-democracy movement.