By B.Byambadorj The following interview is with the Director of the Agency for Fair Competition and Consumer Rights (AFCCR), O.Magnai; translated from Unuudur Newspaper. His favorite saying is “After a long suffering, paradise does not come but instead comes another long suffering,” which he claims sharpens him every day. He has been a subject of [...]
By E.DARI Many proposals and requests regarding health, quality of life, and development projects such as to build of jogging and cycling trails, to decrease the rent of sports halls, to develop entertainment places for the youth, and to award the best alcohol-free city district and street were heard on the “New Morning Ideas” online [...]
By E.Dari The Board Meeting of member countries of the Community of Democracies (CD) was held in Geneva on February 26. The Foreign Affairs Minister of Mongolia, L.Bold, opened the high-level Board Meeting where he stressed that Mongolia is finding great importance in hosting the CD Ministerial Conference and expressed his enthusiasm that invited countries [...]
The GrUBe Welcome to The GrUBe! This column is dedicated to readers’ gripes (complaints) 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 [...]
The President of Mongolia, Ts.Elbegdorj, is ranked a49th out of 123 world leaders with 36,928 followers in Twitter. At the time when this list was generated, Elbegdorj’s Twitter account (@elbegdorj) followers were 36,928; whereas, recently, he has 49,266 of them. Digital activism is on the rise, but governments are also seeing the value of social media as [...]
By E.DARI The centres of provinces to be connected with paved asphalt with Ulaanbaatar The Minister of the Roads and Transportation, A.Gansukh, gathered the press to update them on current situation of and future projects in auto traffic, railway, sea and water transport, and other transportation modes in the upcoming years. This year, Dornod, Dornogibi, [...]
By B.Khash-Erdene The Third International Coal Investors Conference and Exhibition, Coal Mongolia 2013, opened yesterday at the SS Convention Center. Key government officials including Ministers of Mining, Economic Development, Nature and Green Development, along with domestic and foreign coal sector experts, presented speeches about Mongolia’s coal sector and its future prospects. The Ministry of Mining [...]
By E.Dari There is a “nightmare” that high ranking officials do not notice and don’t even care if they do. Ground pollution has become one of the most crucial issues in Mongolia. It has the possibility to be called as the third disaster of Ulaanbaatar. Residents criticize and talk about this hot topic. UB has [...]
Mongolians are nomadic people who were living scattered around the plains of Mongolia. They mostly ate dairy products and meat and, to supply their food, they had many domesticated animals at their disposal: sheep, goats, horses, cows and dogs. Thanks to our former Soviet friend (the USSR), Mongolia established for itself several urban cities where [...]
By B.BYAMBADORJ The following interview is with P. Sergelen, Secretary-General at the Mongolian Union of Race Horse Trainers. -What is your strategy on expanding your international cooperation at the Mongolian Union of Race Horse Trainers (MURHT)? -Yes, we are paying particular attention to this. We attended the 34th Asian Racing Conference last year in July. [...]
