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East Asia
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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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West Asia
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…
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Central Asia
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…
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West Asia
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East Asia
Promotion of Borjomi Begins in South Korea
As a result of the promotion by the Embassy of Georgia of a mineral water – Borjomi, it has now started to be exported to the Republic of Korea. According to the supply agreement between IDS Borjomi Georgia and commercial firm ANK Service Co, the first shipment of Borjomi was…
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Central Asia
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…
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