Down and Almost Out in Mongolia
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The death knell for Mongolia's garment industry will ring on Jan. 1, when a decades-old global quota system is to end, bringing with it a harsh competitive order.
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It was a windy and rainy day at Jerez. It rained in the morning and part of the afternoon, which was far from ideal for the teams.
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With no heating and just three hours of electricity a day, Malokhat Atayeva is struggling to survive the coldest winter in three decades in her small town in western Tajikistan.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Refugees in Indonesia's  tsunami-devastated Aceh province woke up on New Year's Day to a  depressing rain, but there were signs that critically needed  aid was finally starting to reach them.
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LHASA, China  - It is 45 years since Tibet's  god-king, the Dalai Lama, fled his homeland on horseback as  Chinese shells rained down on his capital. Many Tibetans do not  expect to see him again, or not in his current incarnation.
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loods have ravaged African nations including Ghana and Togo in the west, along with Sudan, Uganda, Somalia and Kenya in the central and eastern regions. At least 200 people have died and hundreds of thousands are displaced
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China's authorities warn that more of the bad weather which has crippled the country is on its way.
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ZAMAAR, Mongolia -- Oyungerel crouches among the rocks and sand in the river bed, scouring for the means to send her children to college.
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ULAAN BAATAR, Mongolia -- While the world powers grapple with how to check North Korea's nuclear ambitions, Mongolia has quietly engaged the country and is pressing it to undertake reforms in a more direct manner.
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[World News]: Hohhot (China), Nov 21 : A total of 55 people, including two men on the ground, were killed when a commuter plane crashed into a frozen lake in China soon after take-off in Inner Mongolia Sunday, Xinhua reports.
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By Dick Harmon Deseret Morning News  Maybe this dusty, sandy, gateway to Zions really is on the verge of exploding.  Folks around here have heard all kinds of talk of more exotic golf courses, condos, big residential developments, parks and highways for years.
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There's a ray of sunshine in all that gloom and doom.
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Here's some help for those between a rock and a hard place.
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[World News]: Hohhot (China), Nov. 21 : A commuter plane crashed into a frozen lake in China soon after take-off in Inner Mongolia Sunday, killing all 54 passengers and crew, reports Xinhua.
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Some kibbutzes are on the verge of collapse as they cope with debt and attrition.
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Low temperatures complicate efforts to reach trapped miners after a blast kills at least 203 in China.
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By Dan Higgins, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Dec. 15--GILBOA -- The scaffolding is gone. The construction companies are down to skeleton crews. And following a tense year on the edge of unprecedented disaster, people who live in the shadow of the Gilboa Dam can relax.