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Mongolia Strengthens Independent Policy Despite Debt And Corruption - Analysis - Eurasia Review
By Mendee Jargalsaikhan and Enkhbayar Namjildorj Mongolia is successfully navigating great power geopolitical rivalry, the dynamics of electoral democracy and the challenges that face small, resource-based economies. But current political and economic trends, if not managed cautiously, could trigger more challenges for Mongolia ahead of its 2024 parliamentary election. Despite attempts by Beijing and Moscow to influence Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia continues to maintain an independent foreign policy.
Untold 24: Adults Don’t Want to Understand Epilepsy
By Mendee Jargalsaikhan “In today’s selfish society, most people don’t even look at a poor person lying on the ground”, our guest sighs, “some people would just walk over the person without paying any attention to whether that person is suffering from a seizure”. A seizure is a common symptom for people with epilepsy – as Ms. Batzaya describes the challenges of people with epilepsy in Mongolia.
Podcast | Mongolia Focus
Untold Blogpost 17: Vocational Education for Disabled People By Ganchuluun Turbat Our guest is Ms. Altmaa, Director of the School of Vocational Education and Skills at the Mongolian National Rehabilitation Vocational Training Center. She shared her views on vocational education of the people with disabilities. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Mongolia · … Continue reading → Posted in Education, People with Disabilities, Podcast, Vocational |
Untold Blogpost 15: Dreaming About Safe Roads to My Work
By Mendee Jargalsaikhan Bat-Erdene or Babu, as his friends call him, is a masseur, marathon runner, musician, and khoomii singer. After losing his eyesight at the age of 16, Bat-Erdene lost his hope and hid away from society for 4-5 years. During these years, he just listened to the radio and television, but gave his parents such a hard time, as he mentions with regret throughout the podcast.
Untold Blogpost 14: Do Not Need to Hide, Be Confident
By Mendee Jargalsaikhan Our next guest is from the art world. N. Ligden is a talented musician in the traditional musical band Jonon and in the sessional jazz band Grooving High. Inspired and grown up in a family with musical talents, Ligden is dedicating his life to the musical world despite the challenges of his vision impairment. This was another great podcast that opened up the world of a disabled musician for our listeners.
Untold Blogpost Episode 13: Education Means Competitiveness in Business
By Mendee Jargalsaikhan Oidov Vaanchig, (@OidovVaanchig) a disability activist, business entrepreneur, good husband, and father of three wonderful children. He has a diverse educational background: elementary school in Russia, secondary school in Umnugobi province, the National University of Mongolia, and business administration in Switzerland. Our guest shared his views on business, education, and challenges concerning the people with disabilities.
North Korea | Mongolia Focus
Changes in Northeast Asia – What Impact on Mongolia Posted on September 25, 2018 by Julian Dierkes New publication: Julian Dierkes and Mendee Jargalsaikhan. 2018. “Mongolia in an Emerging Northeast Asian Region“, Mongolian Journal of International Affairs, 20: 91-100.
Untold Blogpost Episode 10: Don’t Advise, Just Be a Friend
By Mendee Jargalsaikhan We asked Mr. A. Khash – a host at the MGLRadio – to tell his story of inspiring our first guest Mr. Battulga Ganbaatar when he lost hope. So, we asked what the magic was that unlocked Battulga’s perseverance and fight for life. One day, Mr. Khash decided to see someone at the hospital because he knew how difficult it is to be in hospital when there is no one who visits. So, he made lapsha – a noodle soup – and went to the Hospital for Injury and Trauma.
Untold Blogpost 8: Everyone Has the Right to Learn
Our guest today is Ms. Munkhzul.D, a principal of the 263rd public kindergarten in Songino Khairkhan district of the capital city, Ulaanbaatar. After graduating from the Mongolian State University of Education in 2011, this kind-hearted lady works passionately with the children. In this podcast, she shared her experience of welcoming a child with cerebral palsy – a group of disorders affecting a child’s ability to move and maintain the balance – into her kindergarten.
Untold Blogpost 7: Create Your Own Future
By Mendee Jargalsaikhan Our guest Sambuudanzan Ganzorig lives in Arkhangai Aimag, approximately 430 kilometers away from the capital city, Ulaanbaatar. He is the President of the Federation of Associations of People with Disabilities in Arkhangai Aimag.
Untold Blogpost 6: Do Not Stop at ‘CANNOT’, Focus on the ‘HOW’
By Mendee Jargalsaikhan Before the pandemic, Ms. Kimiko used to travel to the ger district in a crowded bus to teach her students – who were all not in one place like kindergarten or school, but they waited for a kind-hearted Japanese teacher at their home. She doesn’t mind walking through impassible summer mud and the icy, slippery winter streets, nor the choking smog of burning coals and woods in the ger district.
Untold Blogpost 4: “Introducing A New Idea: Independent Livelihood”
By Mendee Jargalsaikhan Our guest is Undrakhbayar, the founder and director of Tugeemel Hugjil (Universal Progress MILC), the first-ever Center for Independent Living for people with disabilities in Mongolia. As a result of a doctor’s failure to perform a spinal tab (extraction of spinal fluid), he lost his ability to walk. It turned his life upside down. He was shocked, depressed, frustrated, and even thought of suicide.
Untold Podcast Episode 2: “We are different, but we respect each other”
By Mendee Jargalsaikhan Our second guest of our UNTOLD podcast is Altangerel, CEO of the Autism Association of Mongolia. Over 800 parents were registered in the association and many of them joined from abroad. But they all share the same dream of an inclusive, equal society for their children, and they exchange their knowledge and experience with many other parents who are helping their children to overcome the challenges that the effects of autism bring along.
Chinese Cultural Policies in Tibet: A Perspective from India
Previous Post Next Post post navi Prev Next List Indians have at least two vantage points from which to view what is happening in Tibet. Large parts of Himalayan India border Tibet, and the perspective from these regions is often different from the capital in New Delhi. Lay and monastic populations of Himalayan India, Bhutan, and Tibet have been closely knit in networks of kinship, religious patronage, pilgrimage, and trade for centuries.
2020 Local Elections
By Mendee Jargalsaikhan and Julian Dierkes The local elections usually do not get much attention from international journalists, Mongolia-watchers, and even in-country diplomats.
Mongolia’s Effective ‘Analogue’ Approach to COVID-19 Containment
Mongolia is particularly vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19, not only because of its weak health-care system, but also because of its close connections to China and South Korea. Both neighbouring countries serve as primary gateways for Mongolian travellers abroad and host thousands of Mongolian students (5,500 in South Korea and 10,000 in China).
Foreign Policy | Mongolia Focus
The Likelihood of Political Renewal Posted on April 22, 2019 by Julian Dierkes By Julian Dierkes Why I am generally optimistic about Mongolian developments, Mongolian politics presents a lot of challenges and the current state of affairs causes more despair than it has in the previous 12+ years that I’ve been paying attention.
Small- and Medium-Sized Outrage Building Over Corruption in Mongolia
Political frustration has been building in democratic Mongolia for several years now as allegations of corruption have become a drag on policy decisions. Last week, another corruption scandal broke and is now engulfing nearly all of the political leadership. Could this be the scandal that brings Mongolians onto the streets to bring about a major shift in political culture?
Political dispute threatens Mongolian intelligence neutrality
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In Discussing North Korea, Recall Mongolia’s Peaceful Revolution and End to One-Party Rule
Since the Winter Olympic Games, developments involving North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong-un, have been surprising, rapid, and seemingly accelerating. It remains entirely unclear where the North Korean regime may think that it is heading. For now everyone is largely reacting to North Korean overtures and decisions.
Location, Location, Location: Ulanbaatar Still in the Running to Host Trump-Kim Summit
Roughly a month after the surprise announcement that discussions about a Kim-Trump-summit were taking place, plans remain shrouded in mystery if they exist at all. A recent CNN report suggests that the location of a meeting is one of the aspects under discussion and that Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, remains under consideration. The logic that recommends Ulaanbaatar remains unchanged over the past four weeks, but has been bolstered by events in the meantime.
What Mongolia Gains By Playing Host to a Historic Trump-Kim Summit
Mongolia wants to host a U.S.-North Korea summit, but what’s in it for Ulaanbaatar? By Julian Dierkes and Mendee Jargalsaikhan for The Diplomat March 17, 2018 In the past week, many pixels have been animated over the surprise announcement that a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un could be held before May. Given the actors involved, much will remain uncertain about such a meeting for some time.
8 Reasons Why Mongolia’s Capital Ulaanbaatar Might Be The Place for a Trump-Kim Summit
By Julian Dierkes and Mendee Jargalsaikhan for The Diplomat March 10, 2018 In his recent article “8 Questions the Trump Administration Must Answer Before the Summit With Kim Jong-un,” The Diplomat’s Ankit Panda included the location of the meeting.
A New Cabinet for Mongolia
The Mongolian parliament elected U Khurelsukh prime minister on October 4. He toppled previous Prime Minister J Erdenebat by mobilizing against the “City” faction of defeated presidential candidate M Enkhbold within the Mongolian People’s Party.
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