This article was originally published by the UB Post in June 2016, but has since been taken down. Sadly, the newspaper has a habit of removing articles upon the request of companies, individuals, and government agencies (foreign and domestic) that are unhappy with articles that aren’t flat-out complimentary.

Creeping its way into international media and viral news is the story of Mongolia abandoning its existing address system and “adopting” the addressing system of the what3words app nationwide.

What3words is an online application that assigns a three-word “address” to any location on the planet based on GPS coordinates, with addresses like crass.liver.atomic and bliss.teeth.exams. The address for The UB Post office on what3words is puzzles.unites.confident, a less than reassuring moniker for any newspaper.

The foreign stories paint this move, something said to take place next month...

When you contacted me in January about joining the team of Longest Shortest Time Mamas moderators, I was excited to play a different role in a community that I’d really come to value over the last year. That invitation signaled a change to a healthier direction for the group, and I was honored to be considered.

And then I waited.

I waited for the hiatus on posting to end while the LST staff and two existing moderators regrouped. During and after the hiatus, you and Abigail talked about how we could define hate speech and that you had been thinking about new rules for the group. I imagined they would be new rules that would gently guide the content of LST Mamas back to the core values that you put forward on the podcast. Helping to bring the group back to those values was why I agreed to sign on as a new moderator.

I waited while you said you guys were going to try to work with a...

It was in spring, four years ago, that I fell madly and deeply in love with Mongolia. When the landscape was brown, the winds were cold and the steppes littered with the bleached bones of livestock. I felt the first stirrings of a life I could live here.

I’ve talked about that journey and I’ve shared the experiences of the past two years living here with my husband, his amazing family, my new friends, new ventures, new experiences and the birth of my daughter Terra. I’ve been less vocal about the events of the last nine months. In August of last year we discovered that we would be expecting again. I kept it under wraps for a while, with the discretion of “babies aren’t that big a deal” and “here we go again”. I spared social media from updates about cankles, heartburn and baby bump photos, in part because it seemed repetitive and so little time had passed since my first pregnancy...

Last week, Mongol TV, Mongolia’s most publicity savvy television station, pulled a pricey prank on its competitors in television and print media. This, about a week after the CEO of the station was featured in The Hollywood Reporter. She was profiled for being a champion of a more transparent, rule-abiding, and professional media in Mongolia. Mongol TV wanted to keep the tide rolling in a concerted effort to make an international name for itself as a stand-out in Mongolian media.

Mongol TV generated a fake story about a Mongolian company opening up a McDonald’s franchise in the heart of the city. This expensive prank roped in the hopes of expats, repats and well-traveled locals. They came up with a hokey opening weekend special of McMutton burgers and goat’s milk milkshakes to cater to the tastes of the new audience. According to a Reuters correspondent who blogged about the hoax...