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Bhutan pips India in 3G race - Business Standard
Even as India struggles to introduce 3G services, cellular subscribers in Bhutan will now be able to make video calls and enjoy high-speed internet on their mobile phones with the launch of 3G services in the country. Bhutan Telecom has commercially …

‘Dragon’s Gift’ exhibit extended, monks to perform mandala ritual - Honolulu Advertiser
The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan exhibit will remain open at the Honolulu Academy of Arts for an extra weekend this month, during which monks will perform a special ritual. After consulting with Lopon Ugyen Dorji, Principal, of …

Exercise Makes Cancer Patients Less Tired - Health and Age.com
Beyond the often debilitating side effects of chemotherapy, including nausea, vomiting, abnormal blood levels, and hair loss, cancer-related fatigue affects 70-100% of patients with cancer, and it can persist for months or years after treatment …

Visually Impaired Children Experience Himalayan Art Through a Special … - Forbes
New Database of Events from AFB and NAPVI Offers Similar Activities for Visually Impaired Children in New York City NEW YORK, May 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Blind and visually impaired children from the New York City area will learn about the …

Diabetes Drugs May Increase Hip Fractures - Health and Age.com
Perhaps you’ve already heard that the diabetes drugs rosiglitazone (marketed as Avandia®) and pioglitazone (marketed as Actos®) have been linked to an increased risk of heart failure and may increase the risk of bone fractures in patients with type …

Get, set, go for 3G - Kuensel Online
8 May, 2008 - Sixty of the estimated 200,000 cellular users in the country have subscribed for Bhutan telecom ltd’s (BTL) 3G services, which allow video calls and high speed internet on cell phones. The service, which was launched on May 5, and is …

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Shahid Bahonar Stadium stage nine-nation show - Pakistan News Service
LAHORE: Islamic Republic of Iran Football Federation (IRIFF) has approved Tehran’s Shahid Bahonar Stadium for the AFC U14 Festival of Football (South Asia Region) slated to run from 10-23 May 2008. It will be first time Pakistan will appear in …

Final-day delight - SkySports
But Sky Sports’ voice of football and his back-up team of experts are here to answer your questions and queries on all things statistical and historical from the beautiful game. Martin will be taking his place in the commentary box at the JJB Stadium …

Third competitor in milk market - Kuensel Online
8 May, 2008 - Introduced in February this year, ‘Zimdra’ homogenized double toned milk from the Singye Group, is the latest option for processed milk consumers in the country. Company officials say that it has so far sold about 120,000 litres (10 …

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Incommunicado: losing your tongue?
I’m the great pretender. I eat, walk and sleep Dzongkha, yet I take pride in saying, “I can only write in English”
Trying to presume the garb of the hypocritical attitude of, “I only know how to correspond
in English and am poor in Dzongkha,” sounds a bit absurd sometimes. In striving to be what we are […]

Type of rose in the college garden
Floods of tear washed away the dreams of hopes that glimmered YOUNGDREL’s face. The abrupt end of nurtured relation turned out to be fake and dream turns to be a dream like. Good grounds of expectation become worst of all.
On the third day presence of Youngdrel in the College he resigned loving one bountiful lady […]

“The change: old habits die hard”
Everything in life is impermanent except the Change. If we can cope with it then true and long lasting happiness can be enhanced both for the present and the future. Change can ravage anybody’s sanity if untamed. The change must come and it is unavoidable but as human beings, we can nurture it for our […]

Everyday is a winding road
The government has toiled hard in creating schools even in remote areas to provide easier access to education, leading to an increase the numbers of children going to school, however, a mode of transportation is something that has been sidelined.
Its 5 am, Phub Dema and her younger brother, Kezang, are up. After a quick wash […]

The old man and the mani: an old wheel still in spin
Observer’s Kunga T Dorji meets a man without possessions. All he has is a mani
It’s breakfast time at the Punakha Higher Secondary School in Lekithang. As the students file up in the dining hall for their servings of fried rice and tea, a lone figure in a shabbily worn sun-bleached gho limps […]

The story of the times
I was born in the boondocks – an obscure village that is. No nurse delivered me for the health unit was too distant. Besides, there was the chance that she may not have been there at the time.
There was a school I attended rather late in my adolescence. Early learning was not possible because my […]

HM opens first parliament
His Majesty the King yesterday graced the first session of parliament under the democratic constitutional monarchy. In age-old tradition, His Majesty was received and escorted in a chibdrel ceremony to the parliament where the members of the political parties offered kusung thukten mendrel, followed by the zhugdrel phuensum tshogpai ceremony. During these auspicious ceremonies, the […]

Of distant lands and dreary procedures
The local area plans within the Thimphu municipal boundary have been complete – not so with land demarcation. That makes land allocation a very distant dream.
The Thimphu municipal boundary was identified from Olarongchhu through Ngaberongchhu
in Chang and Mewang geogs and the structure plan approved in 2002. Work on local area plans started right after.
Since then, […]

MoH gears up to revamp health services
The DPT cabinet will establish a medical college within the next two years using the JDWNRH as the “teaching base.”
The shortage of medical professionals has resulted in doctors and nurses being overworked, thus hampering their professional services.
The Health Minister, Lyonpo Zangley Dukpa, said the only way to address the shortage of medical professionals was to […]

Public grievance cell
In one of its first actions after assuming office, the new government has established a public cell in the Lyonchen’s office.
This cell will provide direct access to the public to express their grievances relating to government policies, laws, rules, and regulations, public service delivery, governance and other matters.
It will also keep the government informed on […]

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