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Making airag in khokhuur registered by UNESCO

The technique of making Airag in Khokhuur and its associated customs is the 15th element to be registered by Mongolia on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This new addition includes the traditional method of

Silver dragons discovered in Mongolia

A rare pair of silver dragons discovered in Mongolia has been added to a prestigious list of archeological discoveries. The two silver dragons, each 8 cm in length and with a gesture looking back to its vertical tail, is a

Miss World: Mongolia’ M.Tsevelmaa – beauty with a purpose

The 2019 Miss World pageant has been underway in London for three weeks, putting its over 100 contestants through a rigorous series of competitions and challenges on the way to naming the Top 40 quarterfinalists who will compete in the

Mongolian human right activists awarded by EU

The European Union has awarded several Mongolian human rights activists with the Human Rights Defenders’ Award. The Delegation of the European Union to Mongolia together with the Embassies of France and Italy has presented awards to nine Mongolians. Those honoured

Boosting cashmere demand in Russia

The Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry has signed a cooperation agreement with the Russian Federation during Prime Minister U.Khurelsukh’s visit in Moscow. In addition, the two sides signed an agreement to establish a ‘Business Market’ cooperation platform for

Mongolia to increase bilateral trade with Kyrgyzstan

Mongolian Foreign Minister D.Tsogtbaatar has agreed with his Kyrgyz counterpart Chingiz Aidarbekov to enrich bilateral relations and cooperation, and to expand bilateral trade and economic cooperation. The two sides met during the 26th meeting of the Ministerial Council of the

Nationwide livestock census starts in Mongolia

The annual nationwide livestock census has started in Mongolia. This not only records the number of animals, but also conducts a detailed study of the herder families across the country.

This time last year, there were 66.5 million animals, representing an

Global mental arithmetic showdown: success for Mongolia

Mongolian students achieved a virtually perfect success rate at an international mental arithmetic contest in Cambodia recently. Students from the Toya Development Academy won 38 champions, 36 golden trophies and six silver trophies from the 24th UCMAS Abacus and Mental

Replacing Mongolia’s not-so-smart civil ID cards!

Back in 2012, Mongolia replaced the country’s previous personal identification system with a new electronic ID cards. Currently, the country’s 2.5 million people have these e-ID cards. However, these have been proving quite problematic and have been creating bureaucratic nightmares

Gobi cashmere launched de.gobicashmere.com for the German speakers

Gobi cashmere has officially launched its online store (de.gobicashmere.com) for German speakers on 6th of December. It definitely brings Gobi cashmere much closer to the customers in the German speaking regions. Since they successfully entered the European market a while

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