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Reluctant citizens gear up for first election
Globe and Mail, Canada - Aug 10, 2007 But not in the remote, Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. Here, it's the King who is trumpeting democracy and calling for a one-person, one-vote system. … |
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Bhutan's Prime Minister Confirms He Will Resign Soon, Enter Politics
Voice of America - Jul 18, 2007 By Steve Herman Bhutan's prime minister and six other members of his cabinet are set to resign within weeks. Prime Minister Khandu Wangchuk, … |
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Elephant's body found near Indo-Bhutan border
Times of India, India - Jul 24, 2007 JALPAIGURI (WB): An elephant was found dead in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri district near the Indo-Bhutan border on Tuesday, Forest officials said. … |
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Assam a liability for Arunanchal
Hindustan Times, India - Aug 10, 2007 Alternatively, the state wants the reopening of traditional border trade points with Bhutan, China and Myanmar to offload its farm produce rather than … |
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SAARC ministers to discuss regional development fund ¡¡¡¡
Xinhua, China - 5 hours ago Founded in 1985, the SAARC includes Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan. China, Japan, South Korea, … |
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India's model democracy
BBC News, UK - 20 hours ago … countries in the region is that Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka are countries formally owned by their dominant religious communities. … |
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Scouting celebrates 100th anniversary
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Aug 1, 2007 While observances took place from the Kingdom of Bhutan to Ecuador, the symbolic focus was on Brownsea Island, off the coast of southern England. … |
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Carbon Trading Proposal May Put Mature Tropical Forests At Risk …
Science Daily (press release) - Aug 14, 2007 The HFLD countries are Panama, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Peru, Belize, Gabon, Guyana, Suriname, Bhutan and Zambia, along with French Guiana, … |
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Carbon market encourages chopping forests: study
Reuters - Aug 13, 2007 … Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Peru, Belize, Gabon, Guyana, Suriname, Bhutan and Zambia, along with the French territory of French Guiana. … |
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Asia's labor force growth to slow over next decade
MarketWatch - Aug 13, 2007 These include Pakistan, the Philippines, Afghanistan, and various smaller nations such as Bhutan, Timor Leste, Laos and some Pacific Island countries. … |
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16 August, 2007 –
Legs and torsos of cows and pigs dangle on a hook. On a bloody table is a skinned goat, stomach cut open, teeth bared. Pieces of meat are stuck on the hands, arms, shirts, and pants of the butcher with the carving knife. Inches away from the table are the hordes of Thimphu residents, their mouths in waters, waiting in line to get their hands on the best meat, which are usually the thighs because it has less fat.
Lyonpo Jigmi Y Thinley elected as party president
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15 August, 2007 – The Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) unanimously elected the former home minister, Lyonpo Jigmi Y Thinley, as the party president in a meeting held in Thimphu, today.
To leap or to look?
15 August, 2007 – One of the advantages that Bhutan has always claimed is that we have the opportunity to learn from the mistakes made by other countries, thus avoiding the same pitfalls. Of course it is not much of an advantage if we do not learn those lessons. And it is a tragedy that we not only repeat those mistakes but we do not learn even from our own mistakes.
Register with party, but vote on your will
15 August, 2007 –
Filling up a party registration form is not a binding commitment on a voter to vote for a particular party in the first general election in 2008.
15 August, 2007 – The Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) political party is all set to register today with the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB).
The party will officially nominate its party president, secretary general and announce its candidates today at a general meeting in Kelki higher secondary school, Thimphu. The party will also declare its vision and mission at the meeting. According to the party spokesperson, Dupthob Rinzin, the party will register with the ECB in the afternoon.
15 August, 2007 – Alerted by Indian intelligence sources, the Royal Bhutan Police prevented a potential explosion in a five-storey building opposite Kuenga Hotel in Phuentsholing on August 10.
Vacant Thrompon post worries Thimphu landowners
15 August, 2007 –
The news that the office of the Thimphu Thrompon (mayor) will remain vacant until early 2008, the next one is to be elected, has become a concern for land owners in the extended municipal boundary of Thimphu city.
High court upholds verdict on RIM defamation case
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15 August, 2007 – Upholding the judgment passed by the Thimphu district court in April this year the High Court has ordered the director of the Royal Institute of Management (RIM) in Semtokha to pay Nu.27,000 to two faculty members of the institute he defamed.
Shizuoka Prefecture donates bus
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15 August, 2007 – The Samthang Vocational Training Institute in Wangduephodrang will receive a grant assistance of 17,636 US Dollars (Nu. 6,99,267.40) from the government of Japan in the form of a school bus under the grassroots project.
After 56 years: Tunnels and wells discovered in Drugyel dzong
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| 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.
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