Mongolia

Romania's two teams that have left the country to embark on the Mongol Rally adventure - Dracula Khan and Mamaliga (Polenta) Warriors- on Tuesday evening reunited in Klenova, the Czech Republic, at a party extended before the second start in the world's largest charity rally.

Dracula Khan, one of the two Romanian teams participating in the Mongol Rally, is looking for a passenger for the Bucharest-Prague round trip, the team announced on its Facebook official page.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday allegations that a German man worked as a double agent for U.S. intelligence were serious and, if true, were a clear contradiction of what cooperation between partners is supposed to be about.
   

"We miss being able to fix the cars with chewing gum and a baked bean can", and "If you're not lost you need to try harder" are just some of the statements that best embody the Mongol Rally, a road adventure created in 2004 that provides competitors with a start point and a finish line and no other indication.

Three adventure seekers will set off for Mongolia in a city car, running in the marathon Mongol Rally, and another set of three friends will drive the little vehicle back from Ulan Bator to Bucharest, where it will roll with all the competition signs on it all the rest of its life.

Some left because they wanted to travel upon a bike named Doyle and stories to tell, others because they wanted to live the adventure and fish on the road there, while others to enjoy a seven-week break from work, and some blaming mid-life crisis.

Petronela Sterea, Cristian Cotan and Razvan Marcu are three young friends gathered together under the Raliotii, rally people, name for a new challenge: taking part in a 15,000-km humanitarian rally to Ulan Bator.

Bulgaria is to open new trade offices in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, in northern Iraq  at Erbil, Algiers, Tunisia, Ghana, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Pakistan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Mongolia, in the US in Chicago, Hungary and in Cyprus.

Bulgaria will open trade missions in 20 countries by end-2014, according to a media statement of the government.

The new trade representations are to be opened in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iran, northern Iraq (Erbil), Algiers, Tunisia, Ghana, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Pakistan, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Mongolia, US (Chicago), Hungary and Cyprus.