Ulaanbaatar
MONTSAME News Agency marks its 100th anniversary
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Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. Today, July 19, marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Mongolian National News Agency MONTSAME.
The sixth meeting of the people’s government convened shortly after declaring the victory of the people’s revolution in Mongolia, namely on July 19, 1921, released a resolution on establishment of General postal and telegraphic committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This was the foundation of the present MONTSAME news agency, the Mongolian Telecommunications and the Mongolian Post Office with foremost mission to promote Mongolia abroad and keep inform the domestic audience with latest developments in the world.
The Mongolian
telegraphic agency MONTSAME debuted its first ever news with a headline “Revolt
of Mongolians” and label “MONTA reports” on March 18, 1921. The news about the
Mongolian People’s Army has freed Kyakhta from Kuomintang invaders was further
transmitted from the Dalta agency to ROSTA which posted it on the Russian
“Pravda” newspaper on March 30, 1921.
Today, it is the first in Mongolia to publish a weekly newspaper in Russian, Chinese, Japanese, English and vertical Mongolian, as well as a five-language daily news website, www.montsame.mn. In addition to publishing a quarterly magazine, Mongolia Today, it also publishes MONTSAME Daily News and MONTSAME News in English and Russian.
The MONTSAME news
agency has been successfully fulfilling its duty to promote Mongolia to the
world, delivering news from the capital city, 21 aimags and from Moscow and
Beijing through www.montsame.mn and
publishing weekly newspapers in traditional Mongolian script, English, Russian,
Japanese and Chinese and quarterly journal ‘Mongolia Today’.
As a member of the Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA), the news
agency regularly exchanges news with OANA member countries and supplies daily
news about Mongolia to its database /www.oananews.org/.
The MONTSAME news agency established cooperation agreements with Russian
ITAR-TASS, RT, Xinhua, Reuters, Yonhap, Prensa Latina, Kyodo Tsushinsha, Polish
Press Agency, Bulgarian News Agency, Anadolu Agency, Ukrinfirm, Voice of
America and Azerbaijan State Telegraph Agency, Kazinform, Mehr News Agency and
Korean Central News Agency, exchanging daily news and holding mutual visits of
correspondents and technical workers.
