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Lhasa Underpass Floods - Radio Free Asia
Original reporting by Dolkar for RFA’s Tibetan service. Tibetan service director: Jigme Ngapo. Translations by Karma Dorjee. Written in English by Richard Finney. Edited by Sarah Jackson-Han.
GDC: 'Among Friends: An Uncharted 2 Post-mortem' - Joystiq
There is one drawback to seeing Uncharted 2 's co-lead designer, Richard Lemarchand, unfurl the development process behind the most successful and most ambitious game in the studio's history. A post-mortem panel, held on Thursday afternoon at the ...
Trololol Guy Watches Parodies Of Himself (VIDEO) - Huffingtonpost.com
With the video of Trololol guy making the rounds and showing up everywhere from YouTube to Kimmel, it's easy forget that the singer is a real person. Not just some meme here for our enjoyment. But tha... With the video of Trololol guy making the ...
Wenger/Real Madrid, Football Cannot Have Videos, United ... - Bleacherreport.com
Answer: Yes, leave me alone. Arsenal’s manager still can’t be bought off with cash as he rebuffed suggestions that he was fixing for a move to the Bernabeu to become manager of the most expensively assembled team in football history. Ronaldo ...
Developing fx derivatives imperative - Daily News and Analysis
Mumbai: Forex derivatives surfaced as a contentious issue for Indian corporates and banks two years ago and have grown more menacing with each passing day. In certain extreme cases, the companies involved have even had to shut down, leading to a ...
US sees some rights progress in S Asia - The Daily Star
The United States said Thursday it saw progress in human rights in parts of South Asia last year, as Bhutan, Maldives and Nepal all solidified democracy. The positive signs belied a grim situation in much of South Asia, where the US State Department ...
Moving forward at a faster pace - The Daily Star
Grid connectivity with Nepal, Bhutan and India has been welcomed but questions have also justifiably been raised as to the present effective capacity of the Energy Regulatory Commission and the current tariff rates applicable in Bangladesh.
India's power production falls short by 2.7 percent - New Kerala
Replying to a question in the Lok Sabha, Union Minister of State for Power, Bharatsinh Solanki, said: 'The electricity generation in the country including import of power from Bhutan was 700.73 Billion Unit (BU), which was 20.15 BU (2.7 percent ...
US slams rights abuses in China, N.Korea and Iran - Big Hollywood
Muslim ethnic Uighurs take part in a protest in Urumqi in China's far west ... South Korean activists hold a banner as they urge North Korea to improve it... An Iranian opposition supporter covers his face with a bloodstained hand du... The United ...
U.S. human rights report: Hillary Clinton says ... - Minnpost.com
Those range from an extensive truth and reconciliation effort undertaken by Liberia, he said, to new criminal-justice measures in Georgia and a transition to a constitutional system in Bhutan.
Kuensel - Bhutan's National Newspaper
(Not) Home (Not) Alone
10 March, 2010 - The sight of a childs first day at a childcare centre conjures up the image of a boy described by Shakespeare in the second of the seven stages of a man in one of his plays, As You Like It.
On the other side of the beat
10 March, 2010 - Life in the capital city did not turn out as rosy as Echu Kumari dreamed when she left her home in Samtse a few years ago in search of a better life in Thimphu.
Focus on economic growth and equity
Rishore Coal Mine: Currently there are 89 mining leases are in operation with 150 new applications. Draft Mineral Development Policy 12 March, 2010 - To ensure equitable distribution of wealth, the draft mineral development policy has proposed a One mining lease to an individual or to a company.
Many fingers in one pie
Controversy over ownership between ABTO and TCBTourism Development Fund 12 March, 2010 - The governments decision to use Nu 26 million from the tourism development fund (TDF) as funding to market Bhutan as a tourism destination under the McKinsey plan has led to differences between the association of Bhutanese tour operators (ABTO) and the tourism council of Bhutan (TCB) over the funds control and ownership.
Appointment under process
The High Court appointments await a new incumbentAttorney General 12 March, 2010 - The appointment of the new attorney general, who will complete the formation of the national judicial commission, is now going through various selection processes, said a government spokesperson.
Chances of cheaper rates
Druknet Broadband 12 March, 2010 - In a move that would further make internet access cheaper, Druknet, the countrys largest and oldest internet service provider is considering slashing the price of its cheapest personal broadband package.
Power to the people
12 March, 2010 - Prime Minister Jigme Y Thinley has sent a strong message to the dzongdags let party workers participate in development process or the government would resign together with the party workers.
Kidu land left fallow
Sarpangs absentee plot-owner problem
Under lock and key: An empty house on an undeveloped plot in Umling, Sarpang 12 March, 2010 - Many people, resettled through provision of kidu land in Sarpang dzongkhag, do not live on or cultivate their land, which officials and farmers say is causing inconveniences.
Work to resume (on date of completion)
Bypass Setback: Prime land was sacrificed for this unfinished project Chamkhar-Dekiling Bypass 12 March, 2010 - Shopkeepers have sacrificed some of the best locations they had occupied and farmers, some of their fertile lands, for construction of a bypass between Chamkhar and Dekiling towns in Bumthang.
Subsidies only for outgoing and round trips
The national airline bases fares on best market practiceDrukair Fares 12 March, 2010 - Bhutanese travelling abroad were privileged to fly in and out of the country in the national airline at a subsidised rate compared with tourists visiting the country.
Bhutan Observer Newspaper
Failing DoR seeks corporate entity
The Department of Roads (DoR) will be corporatized if the revised Road Act is passed in the forthcoming session of the parliament in July. The revised Road Act provides for the establishment of National Roads Corporation, which will be an autonomous agency with funding from the government. Proposed by McKinsey, the change is aimed at improving productivity [...]
The richer, the filthier
Mounting waste is increasingly associated with unbridled consumerism. METHO DEMA traces their relationplastic Four years old Jigdrel Wangmo walks into a grocery store with her mother. She picks a packet of potato chips from the rack, then a packet of Wai Wai noodles. She ponders over which chocolate bar to choose. She picks a Dairy Milk [...]
His Majesty meets dzongdas
His Majesty the King today granted and audience to the dzongdas of 20 dzongkhags at the Lingkhana Palace
Nobel Laureate in Bhutan
His Majesty the King today granted an audience to Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri who is on a two-day visit to the kingdom. A Nobel Laureate and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Dr Pachauri also called on the Prime Minister Lyonchhen Jigmi Y Thinley. Dr Pachauri and the prime minister had discussions on a [...]
Phuentsholing’s architectural identity crisis
From a bird’s eye view, one can barely differentiate Phuentsholing from the bordering Indian town of Jaigaon. This, town planners and architects say, is because Phuentsholing town suffers from an architectural identity crisis. Phuentsholing Thrompoen Kinzang Norbu said Phuentsholing town has little that is Bhutanese because it had been planned before the proper building rules were [...]
Do you accept homosexuality?
Second private bank Bhutanese will have a more choice in availing themselves of financial services with the opening of second commercial private bank in the country. T Bank will be launched today in Thimphu. T Bank is a domestic bank promoted by three promoters – Wangchuk Dorji, Topgyal Dorji, and Savitri Dorji of Tashi Group [...]
Barter not Bhutan
Prime Minister is rightly doubtful about joining WTO. WTO is too huge and consumerist for tiny Bhutan. Its philosophy is free trade, which is consumerist in nature. Consumerism is for huge trading economies, not for a young, rudimentary economy like Bhutan. Bhutan stands to gain little from free trade because we have little to trade. Today, [...]
Electricity goes to Merak and Sakteng
Works on electrifying Merak and Sakteng gewogs in Trashigang have started, and if things go as planned, the two gewogs will receive electricity by the end of this year. According to Bhutan Power Corporation’s (BPC) Deputy Manager in Trashigang, Tshewang Rinzin, apart from the 750 households in the two gewogs, villages enroute to the gewogs like [...]
Former diplomat sentenced
The Thimphu dzongkhag court on February 24 sentenced Peyma Dorje, first secretary (Finance) of the Royal Bhutanese Embassy in New Delhi, India, to one year and six months in prison for embezzlement and official misconduct. The verdict states that the defendant has knowingly and intentionally committed the offence of embezzlement. Section 287 of the Penal Code [...]
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