People who are very strict Mongolian traditionalists, let the special
person called “yaschin” (bone man) to enter first to fix the body of
the dead for burial. They prohibit to let others (outsiders or
strangers) enter into the room or place (could be morgue) where the
dead is placed.
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Archive for January, 2008
Mongolian practice of burial
Partnership for private sector development
Participants at the fourth bi-annual, technical. 'External Partners Technical Meeting on Private Sector Development.' in State House on January 28 to 29,discussed Mongolia's National Development Strategy targetting private sector development including: improv-ing labor productivity and technology:
Eagle Festival
{mosimage}AN Eagle festival, a popular event among Kazakhs, will be held in the Dundad zuun tourist camp in Terelj on February 2. For the last five years, the festival has been organized at Bugat, Bayan-Ulgii aimag, and this is the first time it is moving to a place near the capital city.
Laptops for 400 School Students
ON January 29, over 400 students of school #4 and #51 in Ulaanbaatar received a laptop computer each in the first stage of “One Laptop Per Child” program (OLPC).
Hakuho Wins Battle of Honor to Lift Cup
{mosimage}ON January 27 afternoon here, almost all Mongolians and all Japanese sumo fans watched the channel that showed sumo. After many years two yokozunas, both Mongolian as it happens, faced each other to decide who of them will have the honor to hold the Emperor’s Cup afterward.
Boxers for the Olympian right
{mosimage}The tournament, named after the Emperor of Thailand, is continuing in Bangkok. It launched last Friday and over 140 boxers from 28 countries of Asia are competing in it.
Livestock insurance service to be offered
{mosimage}Insurance representatives have been selected to sale livestock indexed insurance in Bayankhongor aimag. They are the "Mongol", "Tushig", "Bodi", and "Prime" insurance companies. In every soum of the province, 2-3 insurance underwriters will be deployed.
Calligraphy Awards Presented
{mosimage}Winners of the 11th state competition on Mongolian calligraphy received their awards from Prime Minister S.Bayar on January 18. The over 1,600 participants had earlier been divided into two categories – students and professionals, including teachers of calligraphy. Both categories were then split into four age groups.
“INDIA STUDY” MAGAZINE
{mosimage}A new issue of the "India study" magazine has been released dedicated to the anniversary of the declaration of the Republic of India to occur this Saturday. The presentation of the magazine, issued by the "India Study Center of Mongolia", was attended by Ch.Dambajav,
The President of Buryat Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn calls on
{mosimage}Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn, the President of Buryat of the Russian Federation, called on N.Enkhbayar, the President of Mongolia. At the beginning of the meeting, the President N.Enkhbayar expressed, he is satisfied that the relation between Mongolia-the RF has been developing successfully particularly, it is becoming active in locality.
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