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East Asia
UNFPA approves Mongolia Country Program
Mongolia’s Country Program document to be implemented between 2017 and 2021 was approved on September 6, at the second regular session of the Executive Board of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), The UB Post reports. The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations,…
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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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West Asia
At least 38% of citizens not to trust any Azerbaijani bank
Business Insight Company has conducted the survey that has affected the attitude of Baku citizens to the banks. According to the survey, in August 37.6% of citizens did not trust any banks, and 8.8% of citizens neither agree nor disagree. For comparison, in January the indexes amounted to 33.1% and…
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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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East Asia
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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
China and US ratify Paris climate pact
Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama handed over their countries’ instruments of joining the Paris Agreement on Climate Change to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon successively on Saturday, a day before the start of the G20 Summit in Hangzhou. The simultaneous ratification of China and the US, as…
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