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East Asia
Muslims celebrate feast all around the world
Muslims worldwide are celebrating Eid al-Adha, or “Feast of Sacrifice,” that commemorates the willingness of the Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son before God stayed his hand. During the holiday, Muslims slaughter livestock and distribute part of the meat to the poor.
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Central Asia
Moscow City Day
Moscow, the Russian capital celebrated its 869th-anniversary last weekend. Russian people enjoyed celebrations marking the Day of the City in Moscow on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016.
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Central Asia
Russian Parents Name Baby ‘Stalin’
A couple in Russia’s southern city of Voronezh has named their newborn child Stalin, city authorities have confirmed, The Moscow Times reports. The newborn is not the only child in Russia to sport an unusual name. In August, the BBC reported that a Tajik family living in Russia had renamed…
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Central Asia
Making Mongolia HOME
ELISE HONNINGDALSNES – The UB Post Five years ago, Jeanett Melboe decided to leave her home country and go back to the last place where she felt happy. Today she lives with her husband and two kids in Terelj National Park outside of Ulaanbaatar and runs a popular ger-camp. A few days before…
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West Asia
Skype – parents of the South Caucasus: labor migrants and their families back home
Summer time. Time for vacation, for breaks, for trips and meetings and get-togethers. A time for family. In parks and cafés, you can see parents strolling about with their children. From the outside, they might appear to be models of familial felicity — however, for many of them, this might…
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Central Asia
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…
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East Asia
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…
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East Asia
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,…
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