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Mongolia is rich in raw materials and is thought to have huge oil reserves: resources that its neighbour China - with which it shares a rocky relationship - needs. The dust-bowl capital, Ulan Bator, is already flourishing but Mongolia needs to overcome its poverty and corruption.
Writer: David Fullbrook Photographer: Andrew Rowat
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