Alternative venues prove art is all around us (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
From hotel lobbies to the local coffee house, art is everywhere. So it was that on a recent trip to Breathe Yoga Studio on the South Side that I ran into the work of a remarkable artist, Chhime Dorji, who hails from Paro, Bhutan.

India to seal Bhutan border, intensify policing on Nepal border (Deepika)
Siliguri, Dec 22 (UNI) India will seal Bhutan borders in West Bengal and Assam on the eve of Himalayan nation’s first National Council election on December 31 and intensify policing on Indo-Nepal border, a senior police official said today.

Bhutan power to cost more from next fiscal (The Times of India)
State utilities will have to pay more from the next financial year for power they buy from Bhutan.

Bhutanese refugees in Nepal hope to resettle in the US (ANI via Yahoo! India News)
The first planeloads of Bhutanese refugees living in Nepal are expected to leave the Himalayan nation in January for resettlement in the United States. U.S. officials will begin processing some of the 106,000 Bhutanese living in U.N.-managed camps in east Nepal.

Bhutan is best for biking (Kuensel)
22 December, 2007 - Mountain biking can be a natural wonder with unlimited adventure. And Bhutan had an environment suited for it.

U.S. visas for Bhutanese upgraded (Kuensel)
22 December, 2007 - Bhutanese students, exchange visitors, and their spouses and children travelling to the U.S. will now get a two-year visa from U.S. embassies and consulates anywhere in the world, says a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In Bhutan, Sacred Sights Amid the Clouds (New York Times)
The black-and-white portraits and landscapes by Kenro Izu, taken over the past five years, fall somewhere between photojournalism and pictorialism.

Bhutan celebrates the past, anticipates the future (Kuensel)
NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATIONS 19 December, 2007 - It was with deep appreciation that the people of Bhutan looked back at the past 100 years as the kingdom celebrated the 100th National Day on December 17, 2007. People around the country were moved when His Majesty King Jigme Khesar offered a traditional bow to His Majesty the fourth Druk Gyalpo, symbolising the people’s appreciation for the past and …

Life in Bhutan (New York Times)
“Traveling many years, I have not yet seen a place as peaceful as Bhutan, or a place affecting such peacefulness within myself,” the photographer Kenro Izu has written. “If there is a place indeed named Utopia, this place may come the closest to it.”

Sharing some family time in Bhutan; Expert travel Advice for all sorts of trips; Get a Jump on new Year, New Orleans … (Austin American-Statesman)
From Sondra Fox of Horseshoe Bay.

All geared up and ready to go
22 December, 2007 - Next Sunday, on the eve of the New Year, thousands of Bhutanese will press a button on the electronic voting machine (EVM) at 864 polling stations around the country to vote in the candidates they want for the National Council, ushering in the start of the kingdom’s historic parliamentary elections.

U.S. visas for Bhutanese upgraded
22 December, 2007 - Bhutanese students, exchange visitors, and their spouses and children travelling to the U.S. will now get a two-year visa from U.S. embassies and consulates anywhere in the world, says a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Party membership lists on ECB website
22 December, 2007 - The Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) has published the list of registered members of the two political parties on their website and said that those, whose names are not on the list, are not ‘registered’ members of the political parties.

Death toll rises to three
BCCL ACCIDENT UPDATE 22 December, 2007 - Another victim of the molten gypsum accident at the Bhutan Carbide and Chemicals Limited (BCCL) factory died on December 16, bringing the death toll to three in the past week.

Bhutan is best for biking

Have wheels, will travel: Off the beaten track in Kurtoe

22 December, 2007 - Mountain biking can be a natural wonder with unlimited adventure. And Bhutan had an environment suited for it.

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22 December, 2007 - Effigies of His Majesty the King, the fourth Druk Gyalpo, and His Holiness the Je Khenpo being escorted after the jana chidoe kurim in Mongar. His Holiness the Je Khenpo instructed all the rabdey dratshang in the 20 dzongkhags to perform the jana chidoe kurim for the successful enthronement of the Fifth King, the centenary celebrations, and the beginning of parliamentary democracy in 2008. The three-day Kurim in Mongar concluded on Thursday and Trashigang rabdey’s will begin on December 25.

Mongar: Lots of legwork, little time

Buttonhole where and when available

21 December, 2007 - Jigme travels frequently to Mongar town to supply shops with tengma (roasted flattened maize), a popular traditional snack.

Sarpang: A three-horse race is on!

A close contest lies on the cards

20 December, 2007 - With 12 days to the National Council election, the race among the three candidates of Sarpang is reaching an intensity that can be felt right across this southern dzongkhag.

Kuensel (East) goes colour
20 December, 2007 - Kuensel’s regional office in Kanglung, Trashigang, has started printing in colour, exactly a year after the office was set up.

From vision to reality
19 December, 2007 - It was a moment that carried the weight of Bhutanese history.
On the morning of December 17, 2007, exactly 100 years after Gongsar Ugyen Wangchuck began the reign of the Wangchuck dynasty, the fourth Druk Gyalpo, His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, and His Majesty the King, Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, bowed to each other, their Royal Scarves lowered in the traditional gesture of respect.

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