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Bhutan offers free condoms to check growing AIDS cases
Hindu, India - Aug 21, 2007 Thimphu, Aug. 22 (PTI): Faced with a sudden rise in the number of HIV positive people, Bhutan is distributing a variety of condoms with different flavours … |
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Final version of Bhutan's draft constitution ready
Hindu, India - Aug 6, 2007 Thimphu, Aug. 7 (PTI): The third and final draft version of Bhutan's Constitution is ready after authorities made some major changes to articles related to … |
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Asia: Bhutan to open first call center in English
Asahi Shimbun, Japan - Jul 25, 2007 Domestic phone calls made in the United States will be forwarded to the country northeast of India, and Bhutanese operators will answer questions. … |
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Pranab arrives in Bhutan; hydel projects deal on cards
Times of India, India - Jul 27, 2007 THIMPU: External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Thimpu on Friday on a three-day official visit during which India and Bhutan are expected to … |
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Reluctant citizens gear up for first election
Globe and Mail, Canada - Aug 11, 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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Highway official to visit Domohana
The Statesman, India - 3 hours ago … to allow the Siliguri, Assam, Bhutan and Sikkim-bound heavy vehicles to pass through NH-81 via Gajole, Harishcahndrapur in Malda and Purnea in Bihar. … |
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Ambuja Cements: High value
Business Standard, India - Aug 23, 2007 This money will also be invested towards a 70 per cent stake in a Rs 34-crore JV in Bhutan. In CY06, the company had divested some of its mutual funds to … Holcim?s open offer to buy Ambuja?s stake The Statesman all 10 news articles |
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Poaching, encroachment threaten India's leopards
Reuters - Jul 30, 2007 Since July last year, police have seized dozens of leopard skins and body parts near India's northeastern border with Bhutan. "We have found that leopard … |
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Indian firms gear up for competition from Pak cement
Economic Times, India - Aug 22, 2007 Cement companies from Bhutan, Bangladesh, China and UAE also have entered the race. ?We are looking at ports in Gujarat to cover the state, Rajasthan and … |
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Amanresort treats in Sri Lanka, Indonesia
Economic Times, India - Aug 22, 2007 Also in Asia, watchout for the fifth lodge in Bumthang, Bhutan on 1 November, 2007. British Airways and Elemis, the luxury British spa and skincare brand, … |
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| The deer with Dorji Eden |
24 August, 2007 - Everyone in Tali Community Primary school knows that, of late, Karma Dorji has become irregular at school.
He seldom - maybe twice a week - comes for morning prayers, briefly attends class and disappears.
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| One kilogramme pouches of Brokpa Yosha |
Time Out 24 August, 2007 - Its smell is so foul, a whiff could knock the senses out.
Yet it is a vital ingredient to bring out that special flavour of Bhutanese specialties like emadatsi (chili cheese curry), Jaa Ju (spinach soup) and ,ezay (chili pickle).
Whos to blame?
23 August, 2007 - Zhemgang town is clustered on a slope surrounded by the Black Mountain range. Like every Bhutanese town, its 20-odd shops crowd a small stretch of road that wriggles through them. Its been that way for many years.
Engineer gets fined
Bribery charges dropped
23 August, 2007 - The former district engineer of Bumthang dzongkhag has been ordered to pay a sum of Nu. 36,000 as Thrimthue in lieu of a one-year prison sentence by the Bumthang court for the faulty tendering of the Ura Lower Secondary School hostel contract in 2003.
Who will get a plot in Dekiling?
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| Stacked timber: Some of it has started to rot |
23 August, 2007 - What will be the criteria to get a plot in Dekiling, the new township in Chamkhar valley in Bumthang?
This question weighs heavy on the minds on shopkeepers in the present Chamkhar town with the dzongkhag administration yet to declare the criteria.
23 August, 2007 -
Office and residential buildings worth Nu. 760 million of the Tala Hydro Project Authority (THPA) have been handed over to Royal University of Bhutan and will become part of the Jigme Singye Wangchuck College of Business Studies to open in June next year.
Notary Public Office established
23 August, 2007 - The judiciary has set up a Notary Public Office in Thimphu to specifically deal with and speed up registration of property transactions and issuance of certificates and notaries.
Tsirang and Dagana to bid diesel generators goodbye
23 August, 2007 - Tsirang and Dagana dzongkhags are expected to receive more reliable power supply by December this year when the stringing of a 220 kV transmission line from Rurichhu in Wangduephodrang reaches Tsirang.
Campaigning before date unlawful: Election Commission
22 August, 2007 -
The Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) has said that political parties are not allowed to campaign for votes until it announces the campaign date, but politicians are allowed to visit their constituencies and familiarise themselves with the voters.
Corruption: Sharing the responsibility
22 August, 2007 -
Government leaders know what to do but are not doing it. Rules exist but are not implemented. The bureaucracy has shown poor leadership and suffers from poor organizational culture. There is no record keeping in the system and, therefore, no trails to decisions. There is a lack of accountability throughout the system. There is no attempt to improve service quality. The media is not playing its role. Neither is the judiciary. There is no one responsible for the morality of the civil service.
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