Mongolian Matters
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Mongolian Matters
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Financial crisis and Mongolian economy
Wanted to share David Dollar’s article on Mongolian economy in times of financial crisis. He is a US national, the World Bank’s Country Director for China and Mongolia in the East Asia and Pacific Region, based in Beijing.
For more : http://eapblog.worldbank.org/
“Mongolia’s steppes are especially beautiful in October. A light dusting of snow on the gentle rolling hills makes them [...]
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Crop Circles Without Mistery - Yin Yang in Selenge
Jeroen Nooter send us a picture of the project he has been working. He has been traveling a couple of times from western european clay towards the Mongolian steppes on vehicles that ran on nothing but vegeatable oil and a smile.
Now he succesfully completed a Crop Circle of his own. With farmer Chuluun he created [...]
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Pilgrimage in the Gobi Desert
Pimgrimage in the Gobi - Danzanravjaa’s Shambala Dornogobi
An interesting view at Danzanravjaa’s Shambala Pilgrimage in the East Gobi.
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Business Mongolia
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Daily stock news: 8 thousand shares were sold at MSE
8 thousand shares of 7 SHCs were sold at MSE totaling 1.9 million MNT trade. 100 Monfresh shares and 50 Remicon shares were traded at the primary market. 4.6 thousand shares of Genko tour bureau was sold and it was the most actively traded share at the stock market. In comparison to the previous day’s [...]
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Government to pay 100% of pre-school meals for kids
From January 2009 government will start to pay for school lunch for all kids who attend public nurseries and pre-school education. There are over 130 thousand kids under 6 who attend 696 public and 87 private nurseries. This means government will increase its expenditure on nurseries to 13 billion MNT from 6 billion MNT per [...]
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MIAT will not be privatized
There had been many cases of privatisation in recent years but year 2008 was busy with the State Great Khural election and the local self government election and privatisation of Mongolia telecom and MIAT were postponed. State property committee has announced that MIAT will not be privatised in year 2009 as they believe the largest [...]
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Asian Gipsy
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Asian Gypsy - All Things Mongolian
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| Commentary on current events, politics, culture and music of Mongolia |
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Hello 2009
I have to admit that I am mostly glad the NY celebrations are finally over. No more waking up at 8am with a hangover from the office / this'n'that NY party, dragging myself to work and spending the day half-asleep behind the computer unproductively and genuinely unwell.
The tradition here is to celebrate the countdown with your family at home, and if you are still up to it, you go out and get sloshed. I remember the very last time I celebrated the new year in Mongolia. It was Y2K. I was walking with my then gf, unable to...
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2008 Year in Review
2008 is nearly over and Montsame agency names the ten hightlights of 2008 in Mongolia. The list includes the May snowstorms, July riots, August olympic golds, mining agreements, Anod bank's near-bankruptcy. Item no.10 is something I didn't know:
10. According to the preliminary conclusion of the livestock census, the number of Mongolian livestock reached 42.2 million. This is the largest number ever in the history of Mongolia. Here's the entire list
And below is an entertaining review of 2008 by the funny folks at JibJab.
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Documentary on Ninja Mining in Mongolia
I recently came across this 2007 documentary by the British Channel 4- Unreported World: Mongolia - Ninja Nation. Interesting and at times hard to imagine this wild west gold rush craze happening right in our backyard. Ninja mining towns have become more or less self-sufficient, with their own economy, rules and social structure, nearly independent of the government thanks to the government choosing to ignore this section of society. Here's a Times Online article on ninja mining.
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