Full Coverage: Mongolia

23.04.2008 Pictures from Ulaanbaatar, the Mongolian capital, and rural communities suggest "reality is less idyllic" than the vast steppe and nomadic way of life popularly associated with the least populated country in the world.

05.04.2007 A new microcredit fund is helping Mongolian sellers of honey, carpets, herbs, spices, and embroidery.

09.06.2006 The World Bank’s Board (International Development Association) has approved an investment grant of US$ 8 million for the Information and Communications Infrastructure Development Project (ICIDP).

10.05.2006 For Mercy Corps, the core principles of civil society are participation, accountability, and peaceful change.

13.02.2006 Each village or soum in Mongolian is usually surrounded by baghs. A bagh is a remote ‘homestead’ usually defined by its portable Ger (traditional felt and wood home). Some soum and bagh communities are semi-nomadic and require a portable telecom solution.

17.11.2005 Public TV and radio have existed for years in Mongolia, but new changes are bringing hope that national broadcasting could become truly public service media for the first time; good news for Mongolia's dispersed population, though concerns remain about how to finance and manage the service.

19.09.2005 The Totem Peoples Preservation Project is dedicated to supporting the sustainability of indigenous nomadic cultures, their livestock, and their ecological habitats in Eastern Siberia and Mongolia. With Cultural Survival's support, nomadic Dukha reindeer herders brought their concerns to Mongolian government officials for the first time in 2003.

07.01.2005 Some 10,000 Mongolian children who spend their days herding animals will soon be learning general literacy, animal husbandry, and business skills through videos, radio programs, and inserts in a monthly rural magazine.

22.11.2004 Mongolia’s National Radio and Television Service struggles as it emerges out of 70 years of government control to become an independent public service broadcasting set-up. The network is being helped in the transition by Unesco and the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development.

27.10.2004 Mongolia’s progress in the development of an information society, as envisaged in the Target 16 of the Millennium Development Goals, has been remarkable. Despite the progress, the country needs to go far ahead in creating an enabling environment for acheiving the MDGs, points out the report.

26.07.2004 Life in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, where temperatures range from 40 degrees Celsius (about 102 degrees Fahrenheit) in the summer to –40 degrees Celsius in the winter, is impossible without the sturdy Bactrian camel. But as more herdsmen in search of sustainable livelihoods move to urban areas , the number of camels has dwindled drastically in the past fifty years. But now the Gobi Regional Economic Growth Initiative, a program run by U.S.-based development agencies, is helping diversify and strengthen business opportunities in the Gobi region so that more local herdsmen will choose to stay.

14.07.2004 The Asian Development Bank will be supporting an ICT project in Mongolia to bring information resources within the reach of rural schools. The ICT for Innovating Rural Education project, which is also being backed by the Japan Fund for Information and Communication Technology, aims to boost creativity in classrooms, build an efficient school management system and create non-formal learning opportunities. About 10,000 students in 36 schools are going to benefit from the initiative.

02.09.2003 Agricultural policies and water privatization are destroying the livelihoods of small farmers around the world, environmentalists told 20 heads of state and over 100 ministers at a UN meeting on desertification Monday. The situation has become dire in East Asia, as the desert encroaches on Beijing and affects farmlands as far away as Korea and Japan.

23.06.2003 Though a developing country, the literacy rate in Mongolia is equal to that of the developed world's. But the government is making a significant transition from the communist pattern of education to one which is modern. But change is not always easy.

04.04.2003 Mongolia posts an unprecedented success story as more girls go to school as compared to boys. The reason is that boys dropout of school to herd animals. Right now, nearly 80 per cent of all the country's college graduates are women.

01.04.2003 Children of disadvantaged communities in Mongolia have access to primary education, under an initiative of the global non-governmental organisation, Voluntary Services Overseas. VSO has opened up kindergarten and primary schools in Ulaanbaatar. The organisation is also training kindergarten teachers in child-centred methods and have designed curriculum to suit the needs of Mongolian children.

29.01.2003 The Human Development Resource Centre in India and UNDP's Asia-Pacific Information Development Programme have jointly launched a multinational study that aims to assess the ways in which ICTs can be harnessed to best address the key critical concerns and sectors of human development. China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam will participate in the study.

25.11.2002 Opposition politicians and non-governmental organisations assert that the Mongolian government is stifling dissent and manipulating mass media: officials counter that they are merely upholding the law. Oyungerel Tsedevdamba reports.

18.11.2002 Human rights activists are worried that the Mongolian government, dominated by former communists, is determined to curtail individual liberties, says Susan Lazorchick.

14.11.2002 More than 50 participants in a land reform demonstration were arrested in the Mongolian capital, Ulan Bator, yesterday.