For miles, tall grass ripples in the breeze, bending towards hazy mountains beneath a boundless sky. On the horizon, a dot of colour appears: a solitary figure astride a horse, cloaked in a brightly ...

From the passenger seat of an old Toyota van, Mongolia’s scenery seems to change with the breeze: Rocky lunar landscapes give way to rolling grasslands, while purple mountains crumble into flaming red ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like many Mongolians, Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir has been visiting shamans from an early age, consulting the spirits for guidance ...

Last year, Mongolia celebrated its 110th anniversary as an independent country. Along with that, modern Mongolia has notched 110 years of national diplomacy. Amid the task of foreign policymaking, the ...

Mongolia was the first Asian country to adopt communism and the first to abandon it. Rossabi devotes the bulk of his book to the problems reformers have had since communism's collapse there. With the ...

Roll over George Washington, and tell Tom Jefferson the news: Genghis Khan is the new father of democracy. Well, not quite. While it's true that the notorious conqueror's (1162-1227) reputation is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CHIFENG, CHINA — It’s no longer about the armed warriors, Genghis Khan and the robed nomads prancing through lush greenery on horseback. In China’s barely ...

HANGZHOU, ChinaHANGZHOU, China — There’s a minor sports revolution going on in Mongolia, the giant landlocked Asian country most associated with Genghis Khan and famous for its “three manly sports” of ...