Colonel Yang Liwei, China's first taikonaut, orbited the Earth for barely a day before returning, slightly shaken, to a landing in Mongolia. |
Mongolia also has gold medal dreams in Gundegmaa Otryad, who is ranked number one in the world in the women's 10m air pistol and the 25m pistol. |
In southern Mongolia, the winters have been getting colder and the summers hotter, with barely a springtime buffer zone. |
They also showed scenes from some kind of fair in Mongolia with lots of people doing Mongolian wrestling and horse racing. |
These were abolished when the Chinese People's Republic was founded, and Inner Mongolia was redivided into autonomous Mongol administrations. |
For centuries the nomadic Tsaatan people have roamed the taiga of northern Mongolia, raising the reindeer that provide their livelihood. |