Topic: Oyu Tolgoi

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Focus Mongolia strikes it rich, but at what cost?

Vast mineral deposits are bringing wealth to this country of 3 million. Now Mongolia is in a race to stem the threat of corruption.
Mongolia's top election issue: how to spend new riches

Mongolians vote for a new parliament today that will have to decide how the landlocked, still poor country should spend the expected windfall from its mining boom.

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Scott Budnick works in the dining room as customers arrive for a free meal at the Mathewson Street Friendship Breakfast in Providence, R.I.

Scott Budnick serves breakfast – with a side order of respect – to the homeless

Sunday breakfast at a Providence, R.I., church is more than a free meal. Half the volunteers are homeless themselves: 'It's their [own] breakfast that they're putting on.'

Topic: Oyu Tolgoi

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Focus Mongolia strikes it rich, but at what cost?

Mongolia's top election issue: how to spend new riches

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