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Ambulance to come all the way from London to Ulaanbaatar

Two Aberdeen graduates are preparing to embark on a 16,000-km charity rally – in an ambulance. Calum Hill and Mark Hadfield will buy an ambulance, drive it from London to Ulaanbaatar, and hand it over for use in the country’s

Stanford festival explores varied facets of music in Mongolia

The 7th Annual Stanford Pan-Asian Music Festival is primarily devoted to Mongolian music, according to its director, China-born Jindong Cai. While growing up in Beijing, Cai remembers hearing exotic music from the distant northern provinces, haunting sounds that stayed in

No first prize for conservation work

The Ministry of Nature, Environment and Tourism has failed to identify any clear winner in the Nymphean Hosts contest for conservation work. Reviewing 80 applications with the help of six basic indicators, it found none was substantially better than others

B.Munguntuul wins silver medal in Moscow

Russian players  dominated the week-long 7th International Chess Festival Moscow Open Young Grandmaster Tournament,  that ended on February 6. The biggest success for Mongolian contestants came when Grandmaster B. Munguntuul won the silver medal in the women’s section, after a

N.Tugstsogt wins his second victory in WSB

Honored Athlete N.Tugstsogt, a World Championship silver medal winner, won his second fight in the World Series boxing tournament on February 5 in Baku, where he represents the Baku Fires team. He defeated Mirjan Rahimjanov of Kazakhstan, of the Astana

Love songs on Valentine’s Day

The Jazz Sound band of the State Philharmonic and  Bayan Mongol Ensemble will present love songs in a performance on Valentine’s Day in Philharmonic Concert Hall on February 14. A ticket costs MNT8000 and will be sold from February 9.

Legal sanction for gender equality likely soon

The head of the Standing Committee on Social Policy, Education, Culture and Science, D.Ochirbat, and Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister, B.Dolgor, recently told journalists that the draft law on Gender Equality has been waiting for 16 years to be

Professor emeritus shows yak wool products in USA

Dr. Jim O’Rourke, professor emeritus at Chadron State College in Nebraska, USA, recently displayed materials that people may be hard-pressed to find in most shopping venues. These were mostly  products made from yak wool. The materials created from the long-haired

Mongolian woman injured in the US may come home soon

Ochir Enkhtsetseg, Mongolia”s permanent ambassador to the United Nations, recently called on Uranjargal Dovdonpurev, critically injured by a drug-impaired driver while she walked along Route 9 in Queensbury on July 3, who has not recovered enough to return home to

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