Happy Tsagaan Sar or Welcome to the Year of Wooden Horse-from the staff of Moninfo news service

As today is eve of the Mongolian Lunar New Year-Tsagaan Sar, we, staff of Moninfo news service would like to wish Happy Tsagaan Sar to all our readers who reads what we we produce and publish. We are saying Goodbye to passing year of Snake and welcoming...

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Kazakhstan ambassador to Mongolia: Kazakhstan plans to become one of the 30 developed countries

On January 22, the occasion of the 22th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Mongolia and the Republic of Kazakhstan. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan Mr.Kakybek Koblanding and First Secretary of Embassy J.Kalibyekov met with Mongolian journalists at " Information Center" of Montsame agency. The...

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New Website Brings Public Services Closer to Mongolia’s Ger Residents

By Enkhtungalag Chuluunbaatar, Ariunaa Norovsambuu, and Tirza Theunissen On Jan. 22, 2014, the City Municipality of Ulaanbaatar and The Asia Foundationlaunched the first-ever interactive website where Mongolian citizens and city officials...

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Ulaanbaatar prepares for Tsagaan Sar-Lunar New Year

Ger areas illuminated New lights are being set in ger areas in accordance with an Ulaanbaatar mayor's resolution on measures to be taken in preparation for the national holiday-Tsagaan Sar. Streets and road lighting in ger areas were checked thoroughly and locations where new lights were needed were defined beforehand. Some ten locations in the Bayanzurkh,...

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Mongolian and Lithuanian Ministers of foreign affairs discussed economic relations

On 28 January in Vilnius, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevicius met with the Mongolian Foreign Minister Luvsanvandan Bold to discuss political cooperation, the development of economic relations, transport links between the two countries...

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Mongolia to build heavy industrial park

ULAN BATOR, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Mongolian government said Wednesday the research phase of Sainshand heavy industrial park would be completed by June, and development contracts would be signed this year. Ganbold Dogsom, head of the heavy industrial policy department under the Ministry of Industry and Agriculture, said the development of the park...

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Influenza A type flu outbreak in Western Mongolia

Local media reports today four person is infected with swine flu or H1N1 virus in remote western province of Mongolia.According to the report, 9 people with suspected symptoms of the flu were discovered by the central hospital of the Bayan-Ulgii province in most western tip of Mongolia and the test conducted by the National center for infectious diseases confirmed...

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Mongolian astrologists' forecast for the 'Year of Horse'

The Year of Horse will be abundant, peaceful and fruitful in terms of business according to the general Mongolian astrology. But, coming year of horse will be adverse for top-ranking authorities and pleasant for low and mid class officers and ordinary people. In his interview with the press, Khurelninj, an astrologist of the Gandantegchinlen Monastery...

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Everything you didn’t know about Tsagaan Sar

Tsagaan Sar, literally translated to ‘White Moon/Month’ is Mongolia’s Lunar New Year Celebration. Every year, Mongolians celebrate the ‘Tsagaan Sar’ that falls on different dates each year between winter and spring (the exact date depends on the lunar calendar)...

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Little evidence found of equine flu infecting people in Mongolia

By Horsetalk.co.nz on Jan 29, 2014 in Research Little evidence has been found of avian or equine influenza infecting humans, in a study carried out in Mongolia. Avian and equine influenza virus have been repeatedly shown to circulate among...

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Debunking Food Myths: What Is Mongolian Food Really Like?

As Western New York’s culinary options expand to include a bigger and better roster of Asian restaurants, we are still limited in our knowledge of and access to real Mongolian food. Since Buffalo Eats is on a much-deserved hiatus, I thought I’d take the opportunity...

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Parmelia Resources encounters gold, zinc, copper in Mongolia

Parmelia Resources (ASX: PML) has hit the heights at the Darvii Naruu Copper Gold project in Govi Altai province, western Mongolia with drilling results encountering encouraging mineralisation and potential for the presence of a porphyry hosted mineral system.The company was previously known as Sentosa Mining and the change of its ASX ticker...

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Mongolian police arrested an American citizen charged of human trafficking

Mongolian media reported today that joint working group of the Criminal police authority and State Investigation Authority  of Mongolia arrested a man named  Patrick Earl Maanao, a US citizen that resides in Mongolia from his home last Friday. According to the story, Maanao was living in Mongolia since 2008  and was attempting to...

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Eco-warrior or eco-terrorist? Mongolia jails environmentalist for 21 years

By Michelle Tolson Jan 28, 2014 11:29AM UTC Share: Share Tsetsegee Munkhbayar in Mongolia. Pic: Goldman Environmental Prize. One week ago, the courts of Mongolia sentenced environmental activist and former herder Tsetsegee...

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Exclusive: Abu Dhabi investor seeks to exit Mongolia bank after governance row

Cars drive past a branch of Golomt Bank in Ulan Bator January 16, 2014. CREDIT: REUTERS/MAREIKE GUENSCHE (Reuters) - A foreign investor has moved to sever ties with Mongolia's largest private lender, Golomt Bank,...

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