Bhutan News archive for 14 August 2007

Malaysia Star

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After 56 years: Tunnels and wells discovered in Drugyel dzong

Ap Kalay looking down one of the newly discovered wells

14 August, 2007 – Ap Kalay was ten years old when he saw the Paro Drugyel dzong razed to the ground in an inferno in 1951. Since then growing up he had often played in its courtyard and knew pretty much every nook and corner of the dzong. Or so he thought. He was the unofficial caretaker who took pleasure in explaining to visitors the colourful history of the dzong long in ruins but which he worshipped. Nothing, however, had prepared him what came next.

Three months back the Paro dzongkhag had initiated a cleaning campaign at the ruins. It was neglected and was growing into a picnickerÂ’s spot who littered the place with papers, plastics and pet bottles.

The orange versus the white

14 August, 2007 – When the general elections begin in March next year the contest for seats in seven of the 47 constituencies in the National Assembly are likely to draw much attention.

Pasakha: On its way to prosperity but hurdles remain

A factory that packs refined oil in tins

13 August, 2007 – Huge gray structures fill the horizon as one nears Pasakha, 18km from the border town of Phuentsholing.

From a distance the area gives a serene impression with the landmass rising into gentle sloping foothills on one side and the Indian plains stretching to infinity on the other.

On closer inspection, however, the gray skyline reveals a maze of towering walls consumed by a frenzied activity. Dusty men in thin vests, their faces and arms covered in a cake of sweat, toil with machines under a hot humid sun.

RCSC appoints officials

13 August, 2007 – Twelve days after the announcement of the appointment and transfer of senior civil servants to executive positions in the government, the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) has come up with a second appointment and transfer list.

Pests torments Zhemgang farmers

Tshogpa Kinley Dorji showing the victims of the pest

13 August, 2007 –
A swarm of insects the size of a grain of Paro red rice has invaded the 46-acre of Wangdar paddy field in Goling village, under Nangkhor gewog in Zhemgang dzongkhag, destroying more than a quarter of the hapless farmersÂ’ paddy seedlings.

Bhutan sends peace message to Nagasaki

Mr. Tadanori Takada presents the paper cranes to Mr. Teruyuki Yokose

13 August, 2007 – About 1,000 paper cranes and messages of peace from students of schools and institutes in Thimphu were put on display at the Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic bomb victims in Japan.

The Parent-Child Equation
13 August, 2007 – ItÂ’s said that the quality of a
fruit depends upon its seed. Similarly, there will be some inborn qualities passed on from parent to child. Parents, on the one hand, like to see their offspring grow into beautiful and ripe fruit. On the other hand, children too aspire to see to fruition the tiny seed used to bring them into a world of biodiversity.

The Parent-Child Equation
contd…

13 August, 2007 – Second type of parent is
the common or normal one with sieve-type children.

Bata: Boon in monsoon

Zhemgang students in their monsoon Bata slippers

Time Out
13 August, 2007 – It may make noise, wet feet, trip you, say what you want, but you canÂ’t break the Bata slipperÂ’s regard among the Zhemgang students in monsoon.