By Graham Earnshaw, Reuters ULAN BATOR, May 17, Reuter - The isolated central Asian country of Mongolia is beginning to peer out cautiously towards the West, but it is also…
By Graham Earnshaw, Reuters PARTISAN STATE FARM, Mongolia, May 17, Reuter - Six or seven times a year, Mongolian herdsman Choidorj packs up his portable home and travels off over…
By Graham Earnshaw, Reuters ULAN BATOR, May 19, Reuter - Western-style toilets piled outside a row of traditional Mongol felt tents tell the story plainly, the central Asian country of…
By Graham Earnshaw, Reuters ULAN BATOR, May 22, Reuter - Mongolia's efforts to develop a modern economy are being severely hampered by its isolation and low productivity levels, but progress…
By Graham Earnshaw, Reuters ULAN BATOR, May 25, Reuter - Ask trade officials in most countries how much business they do with the United States and they will reply with…
By Graham Earnshaw MAJURO, Marshall Islands, Aug 19, Reuter - Politicians in this remote part of the northern Pacific are debating whether to offer one of their radiation-contaminated islands as…
By Graham Earnshaw POHNPEI, Micronesia, Aug 21, Reuter - Even connoisseurs agree that sakau has the consistency of phlegm and the taste of mud pies. But its narcotic qualities have…
By Graham Earnshaw MAJURO, Micronesia, Aug 22, Reuter - If paradise means tiny palm-fringed desert islands set in a turquoise coral sea, then Micronesia in the northern Pacific might be…
By Graham Earnshaw POHNPEI, Micronesia, Aug 23, Reuter - As you approach by boat, the ruins of the mystery city of Nan Madol peek out of the mangrove swamps, conjuring…
By Graham Earnshaw KWAJALEIN ATOLL, Marshall Islands, Aug 26, Reuter - On a lonely atoll in the northern Pacific Ocean, it is literally always yesterday, by order of the United…