Category Archives: Mongolia

Happy New Year

7 February 2008 – 0:01

To my Mongolian friends - I hope you have a happy Tsagaan Sar.
To  my Korean friends - “say hay boke mahn he pah du say oh”
To my Chinese friends - Happy New Year.

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, China, Korea | Comments (0)

More Chinese Toxic Chemicals

11 November 2007 – 23:52

The UB Post reported that the General Intelligence Agency of Mongolia believes that there is a network of Chinese smuggling toxic chemicals into Ulaanbaatar and then from there out to the illegal (and possibly legal) mining operations. The chemicals are used to refine gold and a Chinese national was arrested in UB for having three [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, China | Comments (1)

Ulaanbaatar’s New Subway

14 July 2007 – 23:13

In perhaps the best kept secret in the world the Mongolians have, according to their newest hotel, opened a Conference and Exhibition Centre and a Subway in Ulaanbaatar. The image to the right here (click on it to read the full size text) appeared on the front page of the website of the Corporate Hotel, [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific | Comments (7)

Happy Naadam (Наадам) Festival

11 July 2007 – 0:01

To my Mongolian friends - enjoy your Naadam (Наадам) festival and holiday.
For the rest, the Naadam festival is an annual festival and holiday in Mongolia, turning up on the 11th, 12th and 13th of July each year. The festival is in celebration of the three manly games of archery, horse-riding and wrestling. These are [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific | Comments (0)

UB Post Back on the Air

29 June 2007 – 23:24

The UB Post, Mongolia’s best (well I think it is) English Language newspaper have restored their website to the world again. It has been off the air for a few weeks. Today they noted:
Dear readers,
We apology for mistakenly erased all the contents together with user information created since last December. We found this happened when [...]

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USS Mongolia

13 June 2007 – 18:45

By now most of the readers of my blog know that I have a particularly soft spot for Mongolia, the Land of the Endless Blue Sky. Most of you have realised as well that I love ships … all of them … big buggers, small ones, sailing, steam, oar-powered, you name it. Then there is [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, History, Naval, Wargaming | Comments (2)

Gallery Updates

12 June 2007 – 9:30

I have been madly updating the gallery over the past few days with Mark I versions in place for:

Mongolian Landscapes
Places Visited

I have also uploaded all the museum photos from the old gallery. These are covering the Choson, Three Kingdom and Koryo Periods of Korean History as well as the Thai Airforce Museum. Labelling (captions) are [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, Australia, England, Europe, General, Kazakhstan, Naval, Thomo, Travel, Wargaming | Comments (0)

Mobicom Roaming Charges Expensive

25 May 2007 – 1:07

I spent nearly two years living full-time in Mongolia and one of the things I learned very quickly was that Mobicom was an expensive Mobile Phone provider. Unfortunately, as far as GSM went, it really was the only game in town until Unitel arrived.
By far the most expensive (and still extremely expensive even on an [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific | Comments (0)

Microsoft Encourages Mongolian Piracy

8 May 2007 – 1:11

It seems that the Microsoft Genuine advantage applies to everywhere in the world … except Mongolia. If you are a resident of Andorra, or Turks and Caicos Islands, or Svalbard and Jan Mayan (that would have to be 2,000 slightly frozen Norwegians and a similar number of Polar Bears) you can take advantage of Microsoft’s [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, Technology | Comments (0)

From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine

7 May 2007 – 3:22

The New York Times noted in an article called From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine by Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker and published on 6 May 2007:
A poisonous solvent sold by counterfeiters and mixed into drugs has figured in mass poisonings around the world that killed thousands.
This is something that has [...]

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