ULAN BATOR (Reuters) - Snow and sub-zero temperatures were not enough to keep Mongolians indoors on Sunday, the first day of the Lunar New Year, when the first step out the door determines the path for the rest of the year.
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Mongolians brave sub-zero winter to welcome New Year
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Mongolian throat singers defend tradition against China
Posted by mongoliaonline 29 days ago (http://news.yahoo.com)ULAN BATOR (Reuters Life!) – Bitonal humming is not a common form of patriotic protest, but for traditional Mongolian singers, it was the best way to lay claim to an art form they say has been usurped by China.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, in November listed Mongolian throat singing as an art native to China, outraging Mongol
Austrian has Indiana Jones moment in Mongolia - Yahoo! News
Posted by administrator 222 days ago (http://news.yahoo.com)Digging for buried treasure in the Gobi Desert sounds like the opening scene of an Indiana Jones film. For Austrian-born Michael Eisenriegler, it was a real-life adventure.
The 40-year-old amateur archaeologist was in the Gobi over the weekend, helping to unearth Buddhist relics that had been buried for more than seven decades in a remote part of Mongolia.
Less than an hour of
US Embassy Supports Amarbayasgalant through Arts Council
Posted by hidodorj 289 days ago (http://www.montsame.mn)
Ulaanbaatar, /MONTSAME/ The U.S. Embassy has announced that it will contribute $86,200 to the Arts Council of Mongolia for preservation of the 18th Century Amarbaysgalant Monastery.
These funds are provided through the U.S. Ambassador?s Fund for Cultural Preservation, and will be used to help protect the monastery from the serious dangers of fire and theft. The Arts Council will
These funds are provided through the U.S. Ambassador?s Fund for Cultural Preservation, and will be used to help protect the monastery from the serious dangers of fire and theft. The Arts Council will
Statue embodies Mongolian culture - The Denver Post
Posted by Tamir 292 days ago (http://www.denverpost.com)
The unveiling of the sculpture at Ulaanbaatar Park is a moment of pride for immigrants living in Denver.
The heart of the Denver Mongolian community throbbed with traditional fervor Sunday as an emblematic sculpture was unveiled in Lowry.
Dancing, singing and a contortionist's show served as precursor to the ribbon-cutting and blessing of a 20-foot stainless steel tulga statue. The Mongolia
The heart of the Denver Mongolian community throbbed with traditional fervor Sunday as an emblematic sculpture was unveiled in Lowry.
Dancing, singing and a contortionist's show served as precursor to the ribbon-cutting and blessing of a 20-foot stainless steel tulga statue. The Mongolia
Native Indian roots? - to Mongolia and back
Posted by hidodorj 295 days ago (http://indiancountrynews.net)
Some anthropologists believe that Native Americans came to be here by way of Mongolia, across the Bering Strait. But for the past three years, it has been the other way around for some Navajo students and teachers.
Greyhills Academy High School English teachers Mary Frances Begaye and Reginald Begay have led two students a year half way across the world to visit Mongolia in a student exchange pr
Greyhills Academy High School English teachers Mary Frances Begaye and Reginald Begay have led two students a year half way across the world to visit Mongolia in a student exchange pr
Feeling the magic of felt - Columbian.com
Posted by guido 295 days ago (http://www.columbian.com)
She visited Mongolia in 2008 to get a sense of the felt yurt in its native land.
"Seventy percent of Mongols still live in yurts. When you get out of Ulan Bator" — the nation's capital — Arnold said, "It's a whole other world."
That's where Arnold got a first-hand look at the process she'd seen 20 years earlier in the National Geographic photograph: a Mongol herdsman on horseback making fel
"Seventy percent of Mongols still live in yurts. When you get out of Ulan Bator" — the nation's capital — Arnold said, "It's a whole other world."
That's where Arnold got a first-hand look at the process she'd seen 20 years earlier in the National Geographic photograph: a Mongol herdsman on horseback making fel
Hearty Food of Mongolian Winter - The Atlantic Food Channel
Posted by hidodorj 295 days ago (http://food.theatlantic.com)
An article about food in Mongolia - from a slightly different angle than the regular yadiyadi. And with a (short) comment from American Ambassador Mark Minton
In the Bradt travel guide on Mongolia, there's a section about food, and in that section there's a text box titled "In Defense of Mongolian Food." It's a very, very small box. And, as it turns out, it's not so much a defense of Mongolian
In the Bradt travel guide on Mongolia, there's a section about food, and in that section there's a text box titled "In Defense of Mongolian Food." It's a very, very small box. And, as it turns out, it's not so much a defense of Mongolian
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