Luke is back

The Mongolia News blog these days certainly is Luke Distelhorsts Mongolia NewEurasia. After some wel deserved holiday he is back on the track, with a couple of posts on:

• US Deputy Assistant Secretary Of State In Mongolia (is that the assistant of the deputy of the assistant secretary, the assistant of the deputy secretary or the secretary of the deputy assistant?)
• Spring In The Mongolian Gobi (Dornogovi Aimag) - excellent images and info
• Land in Ulaanbaatar Designated For Schools - pressing issue

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Mongolian language documents in the vatican archive

Stumbles across an interesting site of the Vatican Archives, where several Mongol Bichig documents are still kept. The story that I know, that isn't mentioned here is that of Raban Sauma, who travels from the Mongolian Court in Beijing all the way to the Vatican and delivers a letter.

On the Vatican site they have some information on the Ilkhans of Persia:

"The three documents written by the chancery of the Mongolian Ilkhans of Persia are respectively: a safe-conduct of 1267 (or at latest of 1279) issued by Abaya to a papal embassy on his way back to the West; a letter by Aryun to Pope Nicholas IV «the fifth day of the new moon of the first month of the Summer of the year of the Tiger » (14th May 1290) and a letter by Gasan to Pope Boniface VIII of 1302 on the negotiations for the common attack plans against the Mamelukes of Egypt, who then were also the lords of Syria."

Mongolia TV5 as online pay TV

MediaZone presents TV5:
The Mongolian TV channel TV5 is now available for online viewers through a anual subscription of about USD 100 a year. Already their news programme had the name "internet news", but it had not much to do with this ever expanding medium, as they used mostly footage that was taken from the BBC or other international channels

Online dispute on Mongolia's politicians

Since some time there has developed a lively dispute on the entries of Mongolian politicians in Wikipedia. Especially posts on current prime minister
Miyeegombo Enkhbold and previous prime minister Tsakhiag Elbegdorj have been subject to some severe mud throwing their discussion pages (see Enkhbold and Elbegdorj)

The players in the discussion are one person under the name of Latebird, who by others is "proven" to be the son of Enkhbold; the main opponent is a New York based Mongolian/Brit under the name of Lemonhead who "doesn't like corruption". Academic challenger is supposed to oversee the battlefield, but doesn't completely stay out of the line of fire.

The discussion gets rough when lemonhead ("I contribute to wikipedia only fact based verified information") depicts Enkhbold as "Mongolia's corrupted Prime Minister of non-military junta government".




For those not so familiar with Wiki-slang: (N)POV = (Neutral) Point Of View


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this post is dedicated to another E., sorry to have made you wait so long

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