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NOMADS' DAY FESTIVAL
September 17 - September 18
Festival
Gun-Galuut Nature Reserve of Mongolia... 130 km to from Ulaanbaatar..competitions include loading gers on yak cart, assembling ger in shortest time, race to place serve milk tea to visitors, guys grabbing lasso from the ground while galloping at full speed on horseback, catching horses and taming them, kids competing with their mental capacities playing nomadic games
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Visit to Buddhist center strengthens writer’s Christianity
Jul 19, 2010 - patriotledger.com - The laws of cause and effect are underpinnings of Buddhist teachings, so said Arjia Rinpoche who heads The Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Southern Indiana.
Ex-Sumo champ to face probe
Jul 16, 2010 - straits times - JAPANESE police on Monday said they have asked prosecutors to investigate allegations that former sumo grand champion Asashoryu punched a man in a drunken nightclub rampage.
Joint Exhibition Opens at UMA Art Gallery
Jul 16, 2010 - ubpost - The Polish folk ensemble Istebna performed at the Cultural Central Palace in UB on July 13 and 14, 2010. Then, they organized a free concert in the main square of UB.
Genghis Khan Rules Mongolia Again, in a P.R. Campaign
Aug 03, 2009 - Jesus Christ looms over Rio de Janeiro, a quartet of American presidents gazes from the face of Mount Rushmore and Lenin keeps watch over St. Petersburg. But if there were a global contest to honor larger-than-life men on a colossal scale, Mongolia might just vanquish them all - again.
Mongolia sitting on a gold mine
Aug 03, 2009 - washingtontimes - Bundled in an inadequate cloth coat, Khavdal Khurman stoops behind a makeshift mine piling with a small sack, sifting through the detritus for a few lumps of coal to heat his tent against the unseasonal chill. Around him lies a coal-blackened Mad Max landscape of abandoned mining equipment and derelict buildings, the windows long since stripped of glass.
Mongolia opposition wins election
May 25, 2009 - Mongolia's opposition party candidate has won the presidential election.
The leader of the Democratic Party and two-time former prime minister, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, had campaigned on an anti-corruption ticket.
Cash-strapped Mongolia buys time with loans
Apr 24, 2009 - yahoo.com - Nearly $1 billion in foreign loans and grants that are tiding Mongolia through a collapse in mineral prices have eased budgetary pressure and given the government breathing space to negotiate huge mining contacts.
Get into China via the back door
Apr 24, 2009 - But Mongolia isn't on the edge of the world. Think about it for a second and you will quickly see that it's at the very heart of the new global economic order. The country is right on China's doorstep. No country is better-positioned to supply China's enormous appetite for raw commodities. In fact, China already swallows-up 70% of Mongolia's exports.
Mongolia, here we come!
Apr 24, 2009 - Cram two big guys into a small car headed a third of the way around the world -- from London to Mongolia -- with a limited stash of emergency rations, spare tires and camping gear. Toss in an old-fashioned compass ...
Pieces of art show Aleutians’ big picture
Apr 24, 2009 - thedutchharborfisherman - An immigrant artist from Mongolia who recently made Unalaska his home, Enkhee Purevsuren shares his culture with us. In fascinating and skillful relief woodcarvings, his piece “Mongolian Shaman” tells a story of traditional culture — a dancing figure with horse hoof and drum, while his “Mongolian Steppe Stallion” piece is diminutive yet strong and spirited.
The New Hippie Kitchen
Apr 23, 2009 - chow.com - Here are 13 forward-thinking kitchens we feel best exemplify the hippie builder aesthetic: Their construction and function are in harmony with the Earth, they use few or no! nonrenewable resources, they’re built from reclaimed materials, and they don’t conform to mainstream ideas about kitchens. Plus, they look awesome.
The Global Downturn Lands With a Zud on Mongolia's Nomads
Apr 20, 2009 - TSOGT, Mongolia -- Waves from the global economic downturn hit Sodnomdarjaa Khaltarkhuu when bank officials showed up at his tent on the edge of the Gobi desert and threatened to foreclose on his goats, sheep and camels.
Raja Petra Kamarudin's letter to the Mongolian government
Apr 17, 2009 - If so, then I would like to submit my application for the post of first Mongolian Ambassador to Malaysia. It has come to my attention that Malaysia
does not ...
Desert Dream, a Film about Life on the Isolated Mongolian Steppes, has a Weeklong Run at MoMA
Apr 03, 2009 - artdaily - the film focuses on Hungai, who lives with his family on the isolated Mongolian steppes and is obsessively devoted to the reforestation of the barren land that surrounds him. When his wife and daughter leave on a trip to the city, Hungai finds himself hosting a pair of North Korean refugees
Genghis Khan’s Treasures
Apr 03, 2009 - smithsonianmag - As the empire continued to expand, though, the Khans realized the need for a permanent administrative center. “They had to stop rampaging and start ruling,” says Morris Rossabi, who teaches Asian history at Columbia University. So in 1235, Genghis’s son, Ogodei, began building a city near the Orkhon River, on the wide-open plains.
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Visit to Buddhist center strengthens writer’s Christianity

Jul 19, 2010 - patriotledger.com - The laws of cause and effect are underpinnings of Buddhist teachings, so said Ar...
Ex-Sumo champ to face probe

Jul 16, 2010 - straits times - JAPANESE police on Monday said they have asked prosecutors to investigate allegation...
Mongolia sitting on a gold mine

Aug 03, 2009 - washingtontimes - Bundled in an inadequate cloth coat, Khavdal Khurman stoops behind a makeshift min...
Genghis Khan Rules Mongolia Again, in a P.R. Campaign

Aug 03, 2009 - Jesus Christ looms over Rio de Janeiro, a quartet of American presidents gazes from the face of Moun...
Get into China via the back door

Apr 24, 2009 - But Mongolia isn't on the edge of the world. Think about it for a second and you will quickly see th...
The Global Downturn Lands With a Zud on Mongolia's Nomads

Apr 20, 2009 - TSOGT, Mongolia -- Waves from the global economic downturn hit Sodnomdarjaa Khaltarkhuu when bank of...
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Mongolia Marks 25 Years Since Space Flight
An Artist Examines the Space Around Him
Nov 23, 2007 - ubpost.mongolnews.mn - THE almost-30 works of M.Tuvshinbayar shown at Xanadu Art Gallery are all called Space Seen, with a serial number next the words. Since artists are not expected to just “see” things, as you and I do, I guess these are meant to be creative visions.
First Mongolian female in U.S to show art
May 20, 2007 - denver.yourhub.com - The legacy of the mighty Genghis Khan has been reborn in Denver Colorado as one Mongolian 16-year-old has conquered her mark in U.S history.
Singing with the larynx
Oct 20, 2006 - gauntlet.ucalgary.ca - Anyone who wants to get into the field of Tuvan throat singing, though, would need some bizzare wonder-twin power to make themselves a human didgeridoo, or maybe some other musical instrument that's hard to pronounce. Even the Mongolian-derived word for throat-singing, khöömeior khoomii, is a throat-full.
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