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Low-cost laptop program loses key leader

Negroponte said Bender was burned out after helping to shape OLPC for two years, during which time it has sold more than 500,000 laptops for children in such countries as Haiti, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Peru, Uruguay and Mongolia. But Bender already has ...

World’s ultimate unplugged vacations

While cell phone companies service parts of Mongolia, the country is mostly without a signal, including at the Three Camel Lodge in the Gurvansaikhan National Park. The lodge serves as a base camp from which to explore the foothills of the Gobi-Altai ...

Report: China leads world in executions

In its report, Amnesty also "expressed deep concern" that many more people were killed secretly in countries such as Mongolia, Vietnam and Malaysia. It urged countries to heed a United Nations resolution in December 2007 calling for the open and ...

Rumsfeld stokes Mongolia peacekeeping hopes - Asia-Pacific - msnbc ...

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld stopped briefly in the former communist nation of Mongolia on Saturday to encourage its efforts to build a peacekeeping force with global reach

Experience magnificent Mongolia - Deals- msnbc.com

See the many faces of Mongolia: Visit the capital, Ulaanbaatar, where traditional Buddhist monasteries sit near modern high-rises; explore the sand dunes of Elsen Tasarkhai on ...