By Paul Sullivan, Georgetown University I recently got a question the other day about Pakistan. It is having a serious electricity crisis. One of the solutions proposed to me was that a pipeline be built from a neighboring country, Iran, which has a lot of natural gas in order to fuel the power stations of [...]
By M.ZOLJARGAL The Employment Service Center (ESC), operating under the Ministry of Labor, the Representative Agency of Korean Industry and Human Resources Secretariat, and the Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Mongolia (KCCIM) held a “Let’s live and work in our mother country” event on the first floor of the Employment Service Center [...]
The Erdenet copper deposit in Orkhon aimag will be depleted in 25 years. When that time comes, will we have worked out what will happen to the town, the third largest in our country and the home of 100,000 residents? The sooner we come up with a good answer to this question, the lower the [...]
By B.Khash-Erdene If you want to find a bus stop in Ulaanbaatar, look for a shelter with old benches – shop booths optional – and people idly standing, looking at the road. Very few bus stops in Ulaanbaatar have signs identifying them and even fewer have information about which buses make stops there. It’s no [...]
By B.Khash-Erdene Last week, I participated in a forum conducted by the Ministry of Population Development and Social Protection where ministry representatives asked young Mongolians to voice their opinions on various social issues. The survey took place on Saturday at the Flourishing Futures Community Center in the 16th khoroo of Bayanzurkh District. The Population Development [...]
Mongolians group the aimags (provinces) of this country in many ways, including by orientation, such as eastern or western, and by natural zones such as forest or desert. Governments divide aimags and merge or split soums (districts) for various reasons. Every time that happens, soums can get bigger, smaller, or even disappear. Recently, discussions were [...]
By JERICK AGUILAR The world is getting smaller and smaller. Countries are not only accessible by reading books or watching television, but also by actually traveling to them. There are the usual tourists who visit another city, for example, and there are those who stay in a new country to work or to study. I [...]
The GrUBe Welcome to The GrUBe! This column is dedicated to readers’ gripes about aspects of life in Mongolia, particularly in UB, hence the name “GrUBe.” Readers are invited to submit their grUBes or ideas to this email address: weekly.grube@gmail.com. Submissions should be less than 900 words. The editorial staff at the UB Post reserve [...]
By JERICK AGUILAR I cannot say that I am an economist by profession since I have not been formally practicing it since I left America for my PhD (in Social Policy) in the UK 12 years ago. But I have always been intrigued by statistics and trends of various countries – particularly of the ones [...]
Published Monday April 29, 2013 By D.Jargalsaikhan When deciding which country to invest in, those who are from investment banks in London perhaps take a ride on the giant ferris wheel located at the north end of Lambeth Bridge that crosses the River Thames. They look beyond the city to seek investment opportunities. While this [...]
