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Discover Bhutan hits the stands - Kuensel Online
1 May, 2008 - Tourism has forayed into print with the launch of the country’s first travel magazine “Discover Bhutan” yesterday. The 100 glossy paged magazine aims to provide a platform for the tourism fraternity and the general public to …

Bhutan: International Sanitation Day observed - IRC
On 12 April students from the capital Thimphu performed dances and skits with the theme “Sanitation Matters” to observe International Sanitation Day/World Water Day. Cash prizes were awarded for the best slogan and posters. Celebrations had been …

From Bhutan to the Bronx - BBC South-Asia
“We can’t understand anyone, and they can’t understand us. We walk on the street, and everybody is a giant. It’s scary. We go into the subway it’s strange, getting into a lift is odd,” she says. “Everything is strange.” She giggles as she describes …

Parallel universes to meet at the Smithsonian - Kuensel Online
1 May, 2008 - In what may prove to be an historic meeting, an astrologer, who believes that the sun and moon are practically unconquerable, will sit with an astronaut to exchange ideas in an open forum during the largest exhibition on Bhutan abroad …

Bhutan allows more foreigners, but no bungee - Sydney Morning Herald
Travellers in the insular Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. The insular Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan aims to boost tourists five-fold but will preserve its cachet as an exclusive destination with no bungee jumping backpackers allowed, officials say. The …

Bhutanese refugees find new home - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Bhutanese siblings Dilli Prasad Odari, 20, Man Maya Odari, 25, Yani Maya Odari, 22, stand in the doorway of their Whitehall apartment. For 17 years, the Odari family was among more than 107,000 Bhutanese refugees in camps scattered among the …

BHUTANESE HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS OF THEIR NEW PARLIAMENT - Inter Press Service
APRIL 2008 (IPS) - Expectations are high among the people of Bhutan for the new government to deliver on its promises, especially once the new constitution is adopted in early May when the parliament convenes, writes Francoise Pommaret, Bhutan’s …

Where in the World is Matt Lauer? - Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK (AP) - A poster of Muhammad Ali looms over Matt Lauer ’s cluttered office up the stairs from NBC’s “Today” show studios. Both men are accustomed to training for grueling physical feats. Lauer ate better, stepped up his workouts and slept …

Bhutan to allow more foreigners, but no bungee jumping - ninemsn
The insular Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan aims to boost tourists five-fold but will preserve its cachet as an exclusive destination with no bungee jumping backpackers allowed, officials say. The small and stunning mountainous nation first welcomed …

Going international - North Adams Transcript
A group of eight international students from Miss Hall’s School visited C.T. Plunkett School in Adams on Wednesday. Wearing their national dress, the girls, from the countries of Ethiopia, South Korea, China, Bhutan, Pakistan, India, Germany and …

Kuensel - Bhutan’s National Newspaper

Discover Bhutan hits the stands

The (offt) tourism council director general Thuji Nadik and ABTO president Yeshey Norbu launching the magazine

1 May, 2008 - Tourism has forayed into print with the launch of the country’s first travel magazine “Discover Bhutan” yesterday. The 100 glossy paged magazine aims to provide a platform for the tourism fraternity and the general public to highlight information and experiences, apart from enabling people to make the best choice of destination in Bhutan.

Teacher-couple enrich community school
An appreciation of the noble profession on Teacher’s Day (May 2)

Pema Choden and Pem Kinley

1 May, 2008 - It’s late at night and principal Pem Kinley, of Paga community school in Chapcha, is talking to himself in his office. Except for the sound of a rolling tape and his voice being recorded, the school is dead silent.

Boulder extraction: For and against public interest

A readily available resource poses a threat to life and limb

1 May, 2008 - For seven villages in Nubi gewog, the journey to Trongsa town has become longer by two hours and is getting more precarious with each passing day.

Bhutan Observer

bO Observation: Jolly good luck!
I want to believe we are all living well. But that arouses suspicion. We just need to glance at the news; both town and country. There’s enough fodder there for a regurgitating mammal to contemplate upon and enact. Now let’s look at news concerning the countryside; a villager, a farmer and the rest of that […]

Readers’ Voice: I drink, therefore I am
There is an ancient Indian fable about a drunkard. The story goes that the man, in an inebriated state, made all the more intrepid by the influence of alcohol, impetuously demanded to make a purchase of the Raja’s royal mount. After a lot of persistence, the courtiers timidly reported the incident to their liege and […]

Readers’ Voice: When it came to names, the bard was apparently wrong!
When William Shakespeare challenged, ‘What is in a name?’ and drew out an indisputable analogy of ‘rose by any name would smell just the same,’ little did he realize that a divine madman, Lam Drukpa Kuenley of the East, would preach otherwise?
The name, to the Lam, was so crucial that it determined who was to […]

in summary
Signboards: Democracy comes amarching

The Lyonchen’s office
The new government is in place but whether there should be any political appointment in Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is a general apprehension.
Some say the appointees should be civil servants while other says that some members of the Druk Phuentsum Tshogpa should also be appointed.
The structure of the PMO has been submitted for approval to […]

The enigmatic signboard
Democracy has arrived. The new government is in place and the ministers have assumed their responsibilities. But wait, there seems to be a dictator lurking inside the system. We don’t quite know about the size of the moustache but the mind is certainly dictatorial. There is this almost sinister fixation with uniformity. He would have […]

bO Column: Frustrations of a “dog-eat-dog” world
A Zen story goes: a doctor was deeply frustrated that every soldier he treated would go right back into battle and would subsequently be killed. Much disturbed, he presented his dilemma to a Zen master. At which the master advised that every time the doubt arose, he should instruct himself saying – “because I am […]

First session of the parliament
The first session of the parliament under the new government has tentatively been fixed on May 8.
The members of parliament will discuss and endorse the five bills of Election, Constitution, National Assembly, National Council and Parliamentary Entitlement.
Bills will be passed in three stages; it will go to the National Council from the National Assembly for […]

The salary factor
With the Parliamentary Entitlement bill yet to be endorsed, Pay Commission yet to be instituted and parliament session yet to begin, the Members of Parliament (MP) are living without salaries while the ministers are getting paid.
The legal justification to this is that the ministers have started working and shouldering responsibilities but have not the rest? […]

Child labour and the policy makers
Sir,
  Children are said to be the reflection of god but does it apply to one’s children only or also to children throughout the world? On this question, every decision maker will try to colour themselves and hide under the colourful of words of care and concern, without meaning it from their heart.
Today’s children are […]

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