At 12 p.m. on Friday, August 24, the new Ambassador of the United States to
Mongolia, Piper Anne Wind Campbell, presented

Switzerland-based Manas Petroleum (CVE:MNP) (OTCBB:MNAP) said it has started
drilling in Mongolia. 

The company”s subsidiary, Gobi Energy Partners, spud its first well

Tsakhia
Elbegdorj, President of Mongolia yesterday received Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo who pay
visit to Mongolia on August 22-25.

In
the beginning

The Organizing Committee of “Discover Mongolia – 2012″
International Mining Investors” Forum (www.discovermongoliaforum.com)
is pleased to announce the key speakers for this

Motorvision
TV, part of Motorvision Group, will launch in Malaysia, Mongolia and Sri Lanka
beginning September.

The pay TV
platforms that will launch

Mongolia, which is sandwiched between Russia and China has
also begun investing in railway construction.

From the capital of Ulan Bator, a

North East manufacturer of equine supplements has branched
into the Mongolian market, with £10,000 order.

Four pallets of supplements from Newburn-based

Zhao Wenjun  came to Ulan Bator,
Mongolia three months ago from Erenhot, Inner Mongolia to be a chef at a
Chinese restaurant.

Erdene Resource Development Corp.
(“Erdene” or the “Company”) (TSX:ERD) is pleased to provide
an update on the 2012 project activities in Mongolia.

Highlights

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Photographer Davide Monteleone and I
may have had one of the only drivers in the Gobi—that forbidding expanse of
gravel and sand