PM to address Bhutan Parliament - Hindustan Times
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address the first elected Parliament of Bhutan when he undertakes a two-day visit to the Himalayan country from Friday. Singh will be the first international leader to address the Parliament which was elected in the ...

PM to address new Bhutan Parliament - Statesman
NEW DELHI, May 13: When the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh lands in Thimpu on May 16 on a two-day visit, he would have the distinction of being the first foreign leader to address the world’s youngest Parliament. During the visit, Dr Singh will ...

PM to visit Bhutan on energy diplomacy - MSN India
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will go to Bhutan on Friday on a two-day visit, the first by an Indian prime minister to the youngest democracy in South Asia after more than a decade. Manmohan Singh will address a joint session of the first ...

Teen transvestite gets Bhutan thinking about sex - Reuters
THIMPHU (Reuters Life!) - In Bhutan, the men wear gowns and often carry women's names, but this has not stopped a teenage transvestite from causing a stir by publicly coming out in this tiny, secluded Himalayan kingdom. Names in Bhutan are often ...

PM to address Bhutan's first Parliament - Business Standard
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be the first foreign dignitary to address the first ever Parliament of Bhutan during his two day visit from May 16. Singh, who is visiting the Himalayan Kingdom after recent elections for the 47-member national ...

Media expected to monitor historic govt: Bhutan PM - MSN India
Thimphu, May 12 (IANS) Bhutanese Prime Minister Lyonchhen Jigme Y. Thinley has said the media and people of the Himalayan kingdom would play the role of a watchdog to monitor the performance of the government in the absence of a formidable opposition ...

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Prioritizing food production, the RDTC way - Kuensel Online
12 May, 2008 - When Pasang Wangmo dropped out of class 10, she stayed home to help the family manage its small dairy farm of three jersey cows and a few other local cattle in Kabjisa, Punakha. As a daily routine, she fed the herd, milked them and ...

A conversation with the Hong Kong ‘chimi’ - Kuensel Online
The new ‘home’ is actually built to accommodate the national council and it will make its mark. Also, the opening ceremony was a bit more elaborate involving the monk body. Of course, this is the only time the monk body will participate, now that ...

Packages to the world's top hiking destinations - MSNBC
For outdoorsy types and adventurers out there, we’ve scoured the world for the top hiking destinations that are bound to get your adrenaline going. What we found is a trio of excellent packages to get you to legendary trekking spots – the Inca ...

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Gelephu’s medicine man
Nine years ago, 65-year-old Jagir Man Ghalley cut off his own right middle finger and fixed it himself. He learned the art of medicine when he was 12. Later at the age of 18, he became a full-fledged medicine practitioner. He’s from Dekiling. Jagir Man has treated more than a 100,000 people. “Sometimes  people from India [...]

The last vestige of Shumar Drungpas
The crowning of the first Druk Gyalpo, Gongsar Ugyen Wangchuck, as the first hereditary king of Bhutan on 17 December brought to an end a period of intermittent civil war. Major administrative reforms took place in the country through the establishment of local administration under regional dzongpons and dzongtshabs. Under such transformations, the people of Pemagatshel, [...]

Incommunicado: losing your tongue?
I’m the great pretender. I eat, walk and sleep Dzongkha, yet I take pride in saying, “I can only write in English” Trying to presume the garb of the hypocritical attitude of, “I only know how to correspond in English and am poor in Dzongkha,” sounds a bit absurd sometimes. In striving to be what we are [...]

Type of rose in the college garden
Floods of tear washed away the dreams of hopes that glimmered YOUNGDREL’s face. The abrupt end of nurtured relation turned out to be fake and dream turns to be a dream like. Good grounds of expectation become worst of all. On the third day presence of Youngdrel in the College he resigned loving one bountiful lady [...]

“The change: old habits die hard”
Everything in life is impermanent except the Change. If we can cope with it then true and long lasting happiness can be enhanced both for the present and the future. Change can ravage anybody’s sanity if untamed. The change must come and it is unavoidable but as human beings, we can nurture it for our [...]

Everyday is a winding road
The government has toiled hard in creating schools even in remote areas to provide easier access to education, leading to an increase the numbers of children going to school, however, a mode of transportation is something that has been sidelined. Its 5 am, Phub Dema and her younger brother, Kezang, are up. After a quick wash [...]

The old man and the mani: an old wheel still in spin
Observer’s Kunga T Dorji meets a man without possessions. All he has is a mani It’s breakfast time at the Punakha Higher Secondary School in Lekithang. As the students file up in the dining hall for their servings of fried rice and tea, a lone figure in a shabbily worn sun-bleached gho limps [...]

The story of the times
I was born in the boondocks – an obscure village that is. No nurse delivered me for the health unit was too distant. Besides, there was the chance that she may not have been there at the time. There was a school I attended rather late in my adolescence. Early learning was not possible because my [...]

HM opens first parliament
His Majesty the King yesterday graced the first session of parliament under the democratic constitutional monarchy. In age-old tradition, His Majesty was received and escorted in a chibdrel ceremony to the parliament where the members of the political parties offered kusung thukten mendrel, followed by the zhugdrel phuensum tshogpai ceremony. During these auspicious ceremonies, the [...]

Of distant lands and dreary procedures
The local area plans within the Thimphu municipal boundary have been complete – not so with land demarcation. That makes land allocation a very distant dream. The Thimphu municipal boundary was identified from Olarongchhu through Ngaberongchhu in Chang and Mewang geogs and the structure plan approved in 2002. Work on local area plans started right after. Since then, [...]