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Experts look to Bhutan in search of happiness Times of India, India - Aug 25, 2007 AMSTERDAM: Bhutan?s king long ago dispensed with the notion of Gross National Product as a gauge of well-being. He decreed that his people would aspire to … Measuring happiness INQ7.net all 14 news articles

Calcutta Telegraph

Oberoi group to invest Rs 4500 cr, add rooms Economic Times, India - Aug 27, 2007 … of hotels including two in Abu Dhabi, one in the Sultanate of Oman, one in Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt, one in Marrakech (Morocco) and two in Bhutan. … EIH to set up second hotel in Kolkata The Statesman Oberoi group plans expansion Hindu East India Hotels to add 2700 rooms in five years Economic Times Reuters India all 15 news articles

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Foreign roads pose health hazards MSNBC - 7 hours ago Bhutan is what Nepal was. Suffice it to say that the farther you go, the rougher the roads, the newer the drivers and, more often than not, the wilder the …

Buli Manmo Tsho

Choney Zangmo makes offerings to the lake

28 August, 2007 - The footpath that goes north of Buli village, passing through paddy fields and a dense forest, could be the most used trail in Zhemgang dzongkhag.
The trail, after an half hour trek, disappears into a lake surrounded by tall, dark, broad-leaved Quercus trees. This is the Buli Manmo Tsho (lake), which, according to folklore, can foretell the future.

New gewog boundary leads to tsamdro controversy

28 August, 2007 - The new gewog boundaries, which were drawn to finalise the constituencies for the 2008 elections, has led to a conflict over grazing rights between the villagers of Bardo and Shingkhar gewogs in Zhemgang dzongkhag.

All in the family
The custom of having more than one spouse is an existing practice with the Brokpas

The people of Merak

27 August, 2007 - When Tshering got married 38 years ago, it happened very quickly.
One day, her parents told her that they had arranged for her to marry a man, she had never met before, from a neighbouring village in Merak gewog. She was nineteen then.
The very day she reached her husband’s house, she was informed that she would also become wife to two younger brothers of the man she had been matched with.

Potato, apple yield down

Empty FCB godown, Phuentsholing

27 August, 2007 - Going by the quantity of
apple and potato crop
arriving at the auction yard of the Food Corporation of Bhutan in Phuentsholing, the yield of these two cash crops has dropped significantly this season.

Tourism- fee reduced, deposit increased
27 August, 2007 - There is good news and not
so good news for the 331
Bhutanese tour operators and other hopefuls. The tourism license fee has been reduced to Nu 12,000 from Nu 25,000, but they will have to shell out Nu 300,000 as security deposit with the Department of Tourism.

PDP’s Chumey-Ura candidate

Lham Nidup, the PDP candidate

27 August, 2007 - The former
director of
the department of National Budget, Lham Nidup, has joined the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as its candidate from the Chumey-Ura constituency in Bumthang.

Education ministry asked to take action against officials
27 August, 2007 - The education ministry must
take action against its
officials for the embezzlement of Nu 13 million that the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) confirmed in May this year, or risk being treated according to the Audit Act, says the auditor-general.

University offers Trongsa Penlop Scholarships

Dasho Bap Kesang and Dr. Arthit Qurairat signs the MoU

27 August, 2007 - The Rangsit University in
Thailand will provide 15
full scholarships and 30 short-term courses in a span of ten years as part of what it calls the ‘Trongsa Penlop Scholarships’. In addition, the university will also provide 10 scholarships in civil engineering in 2008, to commemorate the accession of Bhutan’s 5th king to the throne.

Alcohol kills child
27 August, 2007 - A three and a half year old
child of Shingkhar village in
Zhemgang dzongkhag died of excessive alcohol consumption on August 23 according to the Shingkhar Basic Health Unit’s (BHU) health assistant.

Another transformer theft

The stolen transformer in Ahlay village

27 August, 2007 - About 60
households in
Damchu and Ahlay villages under Chukha dzongkhag are left in the dark after miscreants vandalized the recently installed electricity distribution transformers.

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