Junior agriculture and uranium players may soon see signs of life as China tries to buy out a small TSX uranium player in Mongolia and BHP and Vale expand their hunt for potash and phosphates. Uranium Monday morning it was announced that a subsidiary of China National Nuclear was ...

The United Nations warned Monday that extreme winter weather that has killed more than 1 million livestock in Mongolia is likely to harm the country's food supply and worsen poverty. Meanwhile, a blizzard and brutal temperatures in neighboring China's northwestern Xinjiang region has claimed 13 lives, state ...

Closed roads and delayed flights left thousands of travelers stranded Tuesday following blizzards and extreme cold that killed four people and affected 1.6 million others in northwestern China, a government spokesman said. Snowstorms delayed 122 flights in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang region, on Monday, leaving more than 4 ...

UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Friday hailed a move by Mongolia's president to introduce a moratorium on the death penalty, saying that it sets a "leadership example in Asia." President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj on Thursday told lawmakers that all death sentences -- carried out by gunshot -- would be commuted to 30-year prison terms, as he could not bring himself ...