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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 - Business Standard all 16 news articles

Dasho Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck receives Royal Scarf

29 August, 2007 - His Majesty the King granted the Royal Scarf to His Royal Highness Dasho Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck at a simple ceremony yesterday on August 28. The Royal Scarf symbolises “Lifelong commitment to the service of the king, country and people.” According to tradition, princes and princesses of the Druk Gyalpo wear the white scarf. This practice represents the pursuit of knowledge and attainment of the values of simplicity, humility and equality until such age when they begin the work of “fulfilling their sacred duty of service to the nation and people.” His Royal Highness, Dasho Jigyel, was born in 1984. He studied in Yangchenphug Higher Secondary School, completed high school in Choate Rosemary Hall, USA, and graduated this year from Oxford University, United Kingdom. His Royal Highness would have graduated a year earlier, but had returned to Bhutan during the first year of college to join the militia for the military operations in 2003.

Electorate on a learning curve?

29 August, 2007 -
Pema, 33, a businesswoman in the south-eastern dzongkhag of Samdrup Jongkhar, knows how to cast her vote through an electronic voting machine (EVM). Enough training has been provided in her village.

Meeting the leaders

29 August, 2007 -
Formal campaigning is yet to begin but Bhutanese voters are becoming excited by what the Election Commission of Bhutan calls “familiarisation” meetings organised by candidates representing the two registered political parties.

Safety first or last?

Workers at Olakha construction site

29 August, 2007 - A labourer at the new Thimphu hospital has his hips broken when chunks of bricks fell from a wall he is working on.
A construction worker gets his fingers crushed under a heavy excavator.
Recently, a short-circuit in a building near the Bhutan Oil Distributor left the city in darkness for about an hour because wires were left strewn without properly coiling them.
With the boom in construction, what seems foremost in the minds of contractors is not the safety of workers but meeting deadlines.

South Asian Free Media discusses poverty

29 August, 2007 -
The rapidly expanding media industry should play a more serious and responsible role in eliminating poverty and creating a better life for the people.

The situation
29 August, 2007 - As political activities gather momentum, so do the discussions and rumours. Today the primary interest is the electoral process. So is the focus of our strong oral tradition.

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.

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