Top Asian News 2:46 a.m. GMT

Mongolians vote in parliamentary polls amid economic woes

ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia (AP) — Mongolians are voting in parliamentary elections at more than 2,000 polling places spread across the vast, lightly populated country between China and Russia. Economic concerns, corruption and public services dominate concerns among the country’s 3 million people, about half of whom live in the capital, Ulaanbaatar. Electricity and sewage treatment are in particularly short supply in the slum communities that surround the capital, mostly populated by former herders who have given up life on the steppe. Polling places opened at 7 a.m. and close at 10 p.m. with finals results not expected until Thursday. Some also voted at mobile polling stations on Tuesday.