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Mongolian father killed after confronting Arab falcon hunters; his teenage son reportedly witnessed it
A pretty disturbing case is unfolding in Mongolia right now involving the long-running Gulf Arab falcon-hunting industry. On August 18, 2026, in Buutsagaan sum, Bayankhongor Province, a local herder named Otgonbold, around 32–33 years old, was killed after being run over by a vehicle.
According to his family and local eyewitness accounts, Otgonbold had confronted a group of Arab falcon hunters who were operating in the area and told them to leave his pasture. His 14-year-old son was reportedly there and witnessed what happened. The family's version is that Otgonbold approached them on a motorcycle, left his son nearby, confronted the hunters, and was then deliberately run over. Several vehicles allegedly left the scene afterward without stopping.
This part is still under investigation. Mongolian police have officially confirmed that a 32-year-old man was killed after being struck by a vehicle, but they have not yet publicly identified the driver or formally confirmed that an Arab national was responsible.
However, the governor of Bayankhongor Province, E. Enkhbat, has publicly said that he received information that the victim's son witnessed the incident, saw the vehicle, and that the people suspected of involvement had fled and were being pursued by authorities. A criminal investigation team was also sent from Ulaanbaatar.
The governor of Buutsagaan sum, Kh. Dagvadorj, has been unusually blunt about the wider issue. He said his local administration simply does not have enough manpower to constantly follow and control these foreign falcon-hunting groups, that he personally opposed allowing them to hunt in the sum, and that mongolia should stop trying to merely “regulate” the practice and abolish it altogether. He also said this is not a problem unique to his district and referred to previous cases where people had lost their lives in connection with these activities.
This matters because wealthy falconers from Gulf states have been coming to Mongolia for years to capture wild saker falcons, an extremely valuable bird in Gulf falconry. Much of it is actually legal: the mongolian government issues special “cultural purpose” permits and quotas to foreign groups, including groups connected to Gulf royal families. Official documents from this year show permits being issued in Bayankhongor itself.
Around that legal business, however, there have been years of allegations involving illegal trapping, rule-breaking, corruption and privileged treatment.
The name N. Marjangul, also known as Mara, a Kazakh woman who has reportedly worked as an intermediary between Gulf falconers and Mongolia for decades, has again appeared in mongolian media coverage of the wider network. Investigative outlets have previously accused her of arranging hunts, cultivating connections with officials and being involved in questionable falcon exports. There are also new allegations linking the same network to earlier suspicious deaths.
The tension was already high before this death. Just about a week earlier, in Tsagaandelger sum, Dundgovi Province, five arab nationals and a mongolian interpreter were stopped while preparing to catch saker falcons. Authorities found that they had illegally captured 30 pigeons, apparently for use in the hunting operation. They were fined, while no separate penalty was imposed for saker hunting because they had not yet been caught with an illegally captured falcon.
So this death did not happen in a vacuum.Right now the most important thing is that the killing itself is still an active criminal investigation. Whatever the investigation ultimately finds, Mongolia seriously needs to ask why this falcon-hunting industry has been allowed to become this fucking messy.
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That said, do you think I'm heading in the right direction? Or could the design be enriched with more elements characteristic of Mongolian culture?
I'm honestly very new to Mongolian culture, and I feel like the sources I've been looking through haven't given me enough information or suitable visual references. If anyone could give me some guidance, references, or point me toward good places to research Mongolian culture in greater depth, I'd really appreciate it.
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Have you sent or received a package between Korea and Mongolia? I'd like to buy you coffee and ask you about it :)
Helloow I'm a UI/UX designer at a Korean beauty ecommerce company here in Mongolia. We already bring products over from Korea, and now we're launching that as its own express cargo service I'm designing the site people will use to book and track their shipments.
I'm looking for people who've actually done this, whether you've sent things home while living or studying in Korea, received packages from family or friends over there, or ship regularly for a small business. If you've dealt with this process, you know things about it that I don't.
It takes about 30 minutes and there's no prep. You'd try out a prototype of the site, do a couple of simple tasks on it, and tell me about your own experience. No right answers, and I'm not selling anything.
We can meet somewhere convenient in UB, or do it over a video call if you're in Korea.
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family advice
I am a 16 year old girl in Mongolia (central asia). I live with my mom, dad, and two younger brothers (one is 11 years old which I’ll later on refer to as A and the other one is 3, who I will refer to as B).
My family roles are VERY conservative and traditional. My dad is a deadbeat mf who works just like my mom is not fewer hours but never contributes to house chores or anything and occasionally takes care of my youngest brother. Furthermore, he hits me and yells me whenever I have fights with A. I feel bad for my mother bc she often works long, demanding hours (not blue collar jobs, she’s some kind of boss at a bank and my father is also in the finance industry) so, aa the eldest daughter I step up and basically take care of everything-cooking, cleaning, and fending for myself and my siblings- along with my studies (I’m going to be junior year in September).
However, I often feel overwhelmed and overlooked. I know that ever since A was born he has been my parents’ favorite-it’s no secret. My father knows that A is my mother’s favorite, however, the jury is still out on whether or not A is my dad’s favorite. You may feel inclined to think that “Oh, every child feels that way and every parent loves all their children equally”. However, I strongly believe this is not the case here. On multiple occasions my father would hit me for having a quarrel with A and would worry more about him getting hurt than B and I. And don’t even get me started on my mom. She defends him against anyone and everyone. Her little genius boy can do no wrong in her eyes-every and any wrongdoing done by A has some sort of justification. All of my extended family members believe he is often neglected by my parents bc whenever they come in contact with me or my parents, A is always in his room playing games on his phone and he prefers it that way. He is an utterly disgusting lazy mf (gets FURIOUS when asked to run to the store which is less than 30m from our home)and only gets away with that only bc he has a weiner. He cooks what I make and never cleans after himself. And god forbid he fries and egg (bc that is the only “cooking” he can do) bc if I tell him to washthe plates and pans he dirtied, he takes a long ass fucking sigh and does a rushed job while also managing to spill water everywhere. Whenever I get mad and try to tell my parents this, they just turn a blind eye. When I was his age (I know I sound like a boomer but bear with me please) I looked after my 6 year old brother, got him from his school which is far from my school, cook dinner, and clean the house before my parents got home.
During my summer break this year and last year, I looked after B while A got to actually enjoy summer and hang out with his friends. I cooked and cleaned all day while dealing with a screaming, crying, moody ahh toddler, while he went to his friends house. My parents take all this for granted and I have told them thatI want to go out but they usually say, there is no one else to look after my brothers. My main issue with BOTH my parents is that why give birth to your children if you can’t take care of them yourselves and have your eldest child take care of them at the cost of your one and only daughter’s childhood and studies.
Right now, this is my last straw. My mother is going to Australia to help my aunt and uncle look after the newborn baby bc they have jobs and one is studying abroad. My parents have decided to send A along with my mother even though school starts in almost 10 days. My uncle insisted that A was to come to Australia which I was surprised bc he practically raised me when I was small while my parents where working so I considered myself pretty close to him but then I remembered all the times he forgot about me and instead had fun (like take them out to dinner or the movies which is an absolute blast when you’re 8) with my male cousins. This is not the only issue as I am staring the IB program next year. This means I will have classes back to back from 7.45am until 6pm. With A gone, there will be no one to get B from daycare (this is the only thing he does around the house and is always complaining about it). I told my mom and dad this issue but to no avail, they told me to deal with it bc my mon and A will be gone for “only” a month. The final decision to send A with my mother has been today and I have been upset ever since I was told this. My mom mocked me to my father my making a clownish frowning face while making boohoo gestures to my father and I got mad. I have been mad ever since that happened but my mom hit me a while ago saying that I had no reason to be mad and that I was out of bounds.
I know this is wrong but I often times resent B for being born bc had he not been born, I wouldn’t have to clean the house everyday and solely focus on my studies even though it is my parents fault (they didn’t plan for him to be born and got cared away with doing the boombayah one night and conceived him). Nonetheless, I still love B and he is the cutest.
I am someone who has severe confrontational issues (I legit ghosted my bf bc I couldn’t tell him that I wanted to break up). What do I do? Every single day I cry thinking about my situation. And not to mention, I gained 10kg ever since summer break started and that has not benefitted my mental health at all. I’m seriously debating whether or not I should just end it all. Please give me advice.
If you had 2M USD, what would you do in Mongolia?
Retire? Start bank bus and loan business? MNT bonds? USD dividends?
JOB
12 grade this year and i dont have a single idea what to do afterwards i dont have passion or motivation for anything really but i dont want to end up pathetic fat chud any real world okay paying job ?