French school adds a ger classroom to their campus
A village in northern France is using a Mongolian ger to accommodate extracurricular activities for its students, The UB Post reports. The Three Keys School in Boëseghem, French Flanders, has seen its student body grow from 90 to 150 in ten years and needed a cost-effective solution when they discovered the school needed a new […]
Chinese Outcome List of the Meeting Between The Chinese and U.S. Presidents in Hangzhou
People’s Daily – On September 3, 2016, President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China held meetings with President Barack Obama of the United States of America during the G20 Hangzhou Summit. The two sides had in-depth, candid and constructive talks on China-U.S. relations and major regional and global issues of common interest, and […]
Great Wall to be repaired through crowdfunding
The 2016 Great Wall Public Offering project, initiated by the China Foundation for Cultural Heritage Conservation, officially opened its Tencent donation platform on Sept. 1. This is China’s first cultural preservation fundraising activity to utilize the Internet in such a direct, major way. At a press conference about the project, Dong Yaohui, Executive Vice President […]
World Chess Olympiad started in Baku
The 42nd World Chess Competition started in Baku on September 1, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. The opening ceremony will last about an hour at the National gymnastics arena and the competitions will be held at the Sports and Concert Complex Baku Crystal Hall that was built four years ago. The opening ceremony of 42nd World Chess […]
Tourism in Mongolia: Quality or quantity?
Gantemur Damba is president of the Mongolian Tourism Association and heads a large group of influential organizations important to the development of this country. He has worked as a consultant and project director for major international organizations. Until recently, he was General Director of the Culture and Art Policy Coordination Department of the Ministry of […]
Finding home in the ger district
Alexander McNab – The UB Post Ulaanbaatar is a city known as a cemetery of nomadism, a place where wandering people have gone to settle down inside four cement walls in towering apartment blocks, but for Froit van der Harst, the entrance into U.B. was only a continuation of over a decade of placeless-ness. After […]
Putin to open Russian school in Kyrgyzstan
Russian school will be opened in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, in September, the head of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Leonid Slutsky said, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. “Russian Peace Foundation almost completed construction of Russian school in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, we will open it during the visit of Vladimir Putin to Kyrgyzstan […]
Sonnet Mondal to lead the Indian cultural delegation at Slovakia
Sonnet Mondal, one of the younger generation poets from India will be leading the Indian cultural delegation to one of the most celebrated poetry festivals of Europe- Ars Poetica in its 14th year. Ars Poetica Festival which hosts internationally acclaimed poets from all over the world has announced India as its theme country this year. […]
The language of Azerbaijan: Turkish or Azerbaijani?
Written by: Altay Göyüşov – This article was originally published by the BBC Azerbaijani Service. The AsiaN cites from Meydan.tv. *** The language issue in Azerbaijan has long been more of a political question than a scientific one. In June of 1918, the government of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic enacted a law declaring Turkish the state language. […]
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