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

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

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.

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

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

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

Coal Mongolia will be holding a conference of international investors in the coal sector in Ulaanbaatar on February 24-25, 2011, to focus on the huge potential of Mongolian coal, its diverse qualities, size of deposits, accessibility and what is required

In his address to the 9th UN Forum on Forests in New York, Deputy Minister for Nature, Environment and Tourism  Ch.Jargalsaikhan said that Mongolia has 7 hectares of forest per citizen while the world average is 0.6 hectares. The main

The Gray Earth by Galsan Tschinag is the second novel by this Mongolian writer, who is also a Tuvan singer and shaman, to be translated into English from the original in German. The firsr, The Blue Sky, was narrated by

Statistics Korea said 33,300 South Koreans tied the knot with foreigners in 2009, accounting for 10.8 percent of all marriages in the country. It marks a big increase from 4,710, or 1.2 percent, in 1990 but a decline from 42,356,