Mongolia's children choke in toxic pollution
As she watched her five-month-old son lying in intensive care, wires and tubes crisscrossing his tiny body, Uyanga cursed her ...
Eagle Hunter Cultural Center
In western Mongolia’s Bayan-Ulgii province, home to the annual Golden Eagle Festival, a centuries-old tradition is alive in ...
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Mongolia's circus performers fight to preserve their craft
Defying gravity in a building shaped like a traditional Mongolian ger, the performers practise acrobatics and trapeze, suspended on ropes lashed to the building's dilapidated rafters. One ...
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Mongolian ger kindergarten gets toilets thanks to kind-hearted Malaysians
BAGANUUR, MONGOLIA: For over 10 years, the ger (traditional Mongolian felt tent) kindergarten in the remote coal-mining town of Banganuur did not have toilets, sinks nor running water. Instead ...
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The Urban Clan of Genghis Khan
Across Mongolia some eight million animals—cows ... He and a partner rented a room at a local hotel and then marketed it to ger dwellers, who lack running water, as a place to take a shower ...
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Mongolia: Here's why tourists are flocking to the world's coldest capital for nomadic festival and loving it
People in traditional Mongolian costumes dance inside a Ger (Mongolian tent) during the Mongols Nomadic Winter Festival at National Park in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.(Photo by JADE GAO ...
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Mongolians warm up on culture at new winter festival
Though it was far warmer this week, a persistent wind whipped around glittering, metres-high ice sculptures as visitors ducked in and out of the round ger tents set up to showcase Mongolia's ...