West Bengal-Bhutan border to be beefed up (Kuensel)
22 November, 2007 - Enhancing security along the Indo-Bhutan border to check infiltration of Indian insurgent groups and anti-social elements into Bhutanese territory was one of the issues discussed at the 17th border districts coordination meeting (BDCM) in Thimphu on November 18 between Bhutanese officials and a delegation from the Indian state of West Bengal.

Thimphu tardy in nominating candidates (Kuensel)
21 November, 2007 - Thimphu dzongkhag’s nine gewogs (including a nomination from Thimphu city or Throm) have yet to nominate National Council candidates, even though the last date for nominations is only a week away.

Thimphu starts impounding strays (Kuensel)
22 November, 2007 - Except for the vehicles passing on road below Memelakha, the garbage landfill site, about 13 kilometres from Thimphu, is a quiet place hidden among pinewood forests.

SSB recruits jawans for deployment on Nepal, Bhutan borders (Outlook India)
Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has started recruitment of jawans for deployment on the Nepal and Bhutan borders, officials said. In order to deploy more jawans on the Nepal and Bhutan borders, recruitment process has started, SSB Director General, Gopal Sharma said here yesterday.

‘Egg’cellent news! (Kuensel)
24 November, 2007 - Eggs should once again become affordable for thousands of Bhutanese families with the government lifting the ban on the import of poultry products on November 21 after India was declared free of Bird Flu.

Sarkozy gana el paro pero tiene difícil reformar pensiones (El Paso Times)
PARIS—El presidente francés Nicolás Sarkozy se centró en una batalla que podía ganar, dividió a la oposición y salió airoso tras nueve días de huelga de los funcionarios del transporte público.

It’s a numbers game (Kuensel)
24 November, 2007 - For most Bhutanese, it’s all about numbers: How much do you earn? How many girlfriends do you have? How many acres of land … how much do you pay as rent … how many people …

(AFX UK Focus) 2007-11-21 09:01 GMT: ADB grants 15 mln usd to develop micro, small, medium enterprises in Bhutan (Interactive Investor)
MUMBAI (Thomson Financial) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it is extending two grants totaling 15 mln usd to support the development of micro, small and medium-sized businesses in Bhutan.

NEPAL: Fire-hit Bhutanese refugees receive aid (AlertNet)
Source: IRIN Over 400 Bhutanese refugees in eastern Nepal whose homes were ravaged by fire last week are receiving aid, and materials to rebuild their homes, refugees told IRIN on 18 November.

Lakpa Tashi Sherpa: mountain marathon man (Kuensel)
24 November, 2007 - Up-down, up-down, up-down…. They ran and walked over rough terrain, along a narrow path in the deep almost dry blue pine forest, panting along the meandering trail.

Seven NC candidates disqualified
24 November, 2007 - Seven National Council candidates, after being nominated through the gewog zomdus (meetings), were disqualified this week because they did not have university degree certificates.

One voter out of four unregistered
As of November 23, only 310,349 people were eligible to go to polls for the National Council elections scheduled for December 31.

It’s a numbers game
24 November, 2007 - For most Bhutanese, it’s all about numbers: How much do you earn? How many girlfriends do you have? How many acres of land … how much do you pay as rent … how many people …

‘Egg’cellent news!
24 November, 2007 - Eggs should once again become affordable for thousands of Bhutanese families with the government lifting the ban on the import of poultry products on November 21 after India was declared free of Bird Flu.

The birth of Khorlo Zangmo

All in a day’s birth

24 November, 2007 - Sangay Zangmo, 24, from Drametse, Mongar, almost delivered her baby girl on the bus she was travelling in.

Lakpa Tashi Sherpa: mountain marathon man

In Pheidippides’ footsteps

24 November, 2007 - Up-down, up-down, up-down…. They ran and walked over rough terrain, along a narrow path in the deep almost dry blue pine forest, panting along the meandering trail.

Time is running out
24 November, 2007 - A political party organises a meeting. People are told to bring their phop and tora and they are given a feast of rice and pork paa after the speeches. Another political party organises a meeting in the same place. People are told to bring their phop and tora but there is no food. Organisers of the second party suspect that party workers of the first party had told the people to bring their phop and tora to embarrass them.

Like a white elephant in the forest

The gup’s office in its splendid isolation

23 November, 2007 - From the picturesque Lungtenzampa, about seven kilometres away from Trashigang, which served as a must stop-over for villagers before the place was flooded in 2004, a rutted road meanders to Samkhar, one of the hugely populated gewogs in the dzongkhag. After almost a kilometre’s bumpy climb, a lone white structure looming amidst the jungle comes into view.

West Bengal-Bhutan border to be beefed up

Delegates at the 17th BDCM in Thimphu

22 November, 2007 - Enhancing security along the Indo-Bhutan border to check infiltration of Indian insurgent groups and anti-social elements into Bhutanese territory was one of the issues discussed at the 17th border districts coordination meeting (BDCM) in Thimphu on November 18 between Bhutanese officials and a delegation from the Indian state of West Bengal.

Hard beans spell hard cash

Udzorong’s orey fields in bloom

22 November, 2007 - For farmers of Udzorong in Trashigang dzongkhag the onset of winter means it is once again time to get busy harvesting orey, a pulse which in recent years has become an important cash crop for the gewog.

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