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Select a Region or Country: - Jaunted.com
Africa And Middle East Asia Australia And South Pacific Central America And Caribbean Europe South America North America United States View All Alphabetically —– Afghanistan Albania American Samoa Anguilla Argentina Armenia Aruba …    [read more]

Economists appraise Bhutan’s happiness model - San Francisco Gate
(12-04) 04:00 PST Thimphu, Bhutan — In the thick of a global financial crisis, many economists have come to this Himalayan kingdom to study a unique economic policy called Gross National Happiness, based on Buddhist principles. When considering …    [read more]

Road to Shangri-la: Stanley Johnson witnesses the coronation of Bhutan … - The Independent
Last month, a new monarch was crowned in the secretive Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. The writer Stanley Johnson was one of a tiny handful of Westerners to receive an invitation. But first he had to get there … There were relatively few foreigners …    [read more]

New Bhutan tours added at Uma Paro - e-Travel Blackboard
Como Hotels and Resorts have introduced two new itineraries to travel Bhutan with Uma Paro. The new packages include a multi-activity adventure which involves biking, hiking, high altitude golf, overnight camping and whitewater rafting, with the …    [read more]

India to import 5,000 Mw power from Bhutan - Business Standard
“As per the agreement with Royal Government of Bhutan, our government has agreed to import 5,000 Mw electricity by 2020,” Ramesh said in a written reply. Further, Ramesh said that several initiatives have been taken by the government to attract …    [read more]

John McCain visits Bhutan, gives tips on democracy - Los Angeles Times Blogs
John McCain visited the world’s youngest democracy on Thursday, one month after he lost the race to lead the world’s oldest. McCain stopped in Bhutan, a tiny Buddhist kingdom nestled high in the Himalayas between I ndia and China, while on a tour of …    [read more]

Former Bhutan king’s name dropped from V-B honour list - Times of India
SANTINIKETAN: The name of the former king of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuk, has been dropped from the list of the recipients of Desikottama (DLitt Honoris Causa), though Visva-Bharati authorities had earlier declared his name. Seven persons would be …    [read more]

Canada Welcomes First Group of Bhutanese Refugees - Market Wire
MONTREAL, QUEBEC–(Marketwire - Dec. 8, 2008) - The first of a large group of Bhutanese refugees will be arriving in Canada today, announced Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism. The group of 24 refugees will be …    [read more]

10000 MW plan - Protocol agreement to be signed - Kuensel Online
8 December, 2008 - Detailed project reports on Mangdechu, Punatsangchu, Chamkarchu I and II, Kuri Gongri, Khlolongchu, Sunkosh, Punakha reservoir are in the pipeline or being carried out for the planned 10,000 MW hydro projects in the country, say …    [read more]

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Kuensel - Bhutan’s National Newspaper

Buddhist answers to common questions

12 December, 2008 - Lam Shenphen Zangpo answers basic questions that every Bhutanese man, woman, and child on the street wants to know.

I am a good person, so why do I need to practice Buddhism?

This is a common question. In order to answer it, perhaps we should first explore what it means to be ‘good’. I’m sure that most people who claim to be good are not guilty of gross crimes, such as theft or assault. However, if you ask them if they ever get angry, jealous or talk badly about others, it is likely that they will give an embarrassed smile in response.    [read more]

And this year’s award goes to …
Lengo II takes home the lion ‘s share of trophies on offer

12 December, 2008 - Lengo II, a film, that depicts a love story between a lengo (hearing impaired and verbally challenged) boy and girl, took home the lion’s share of awards, nine out of 28, at the seventh national film festival held at the clock tower square on December 6. In 2004, Lengo won 14 awards.    [read more]

What’s in the way of quality education

11 December, 2008 - Many schools in Bhutan lack essential infrastructure and curricular reform is stifled by a lack of sufficient orientation and resource support to deliver the curriculum. And teachers, the agents of providing quality education, work in poor conditions and have low morale and motivation.    [read more]

Running against Corruption

11 December, 2008 - “Our leaders should remember that acting tough is more important than talking tough.”

Said the chairman of the anti-corruption commission (ACC), Aum Neten, on Tuesday after she launched International Anti-Corruption Day in Thimphu.    [read more]

From classroom to community
Sherubtse’s geography students bring water supply to remote Kanglung village

11 December, 2008 - Four households in Ritsangdung, the farthest village in Kanglung gewog, received drinking water on December 8 through a Nu 100,000 project, funded by World Water Partnership and carried out by the department of geography and planning in Sherubtse College.    [read more]

Bhutan Observer

One-way ticket to hell and back
A life littered with family crises ignited a hellish journey of experimental tryst to juvenile misdemeanours to full-blown crimes. The hard-fought war against drug addiction was only won in the end. Pushkar Chhetri reports.
Tshering, 26, started experimenting with drugs at the age of 14. He first started sniffing patrol for a while. “It had an […]    [read more]

Women’s Battle in Bangkok
The Bhutanese under 19 Women’s cricket team left for Bangkok on Wednesday to play in the first international tournament.
The Cricket Association of Thailand is hosting the inaugural tournament which runs from December 13 to 23. The 14 Bhutanese players are high school students from different schools. They are accompanied by their coach, Mr. Damber Singh […]    [read more]

Having a ball
The Coronation and Centenary basket ball tournament, held in the Youth Development complex, is battling it out with 24 teams.
The tournament, which runs from December 6-17, is organized by LD Technology in collaboration with the Youth Development Fund and it is sponsored by Bhutan National Bank Limited, Bhutan Post and Tashi Cell.
Tsherap, the organizer said […]    [read more]

His Majesty the King Inaugurated Ta-dzong Museum in Trongsa
The new five-storied Ta Dzong Museum in Trongsa was inaugurated by His Majesty the King on December 10. The museum contains must-see displays such as the Raven Crown of the First Druk Gyalpo, the spoken statues of Dorji Chang or Vajradhara, Gongsar Jigme Namgyel’s extraordinarily long sword which suggests his tall stature, and a 500-year-old […]    [read more]

Dechenphug to be consecrated today
His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo will grace the consecration of the newly renovated Dechenphug Lhakhang in Thimphu today. The consecration rabney will be conducted by the Dorji Lopen.
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Everything is personal
Here is a litany of complaints compressed and compiled for your reading pleasure. It’d be foolhardy to think changes will come our way just because someone vaguely wrote about it in a newspaper. And who takes newspapers seriously in Bhutan anyways? People I know buy it for Crosswords and Sudoku, all delightful toilet engagements.
My grievances […]    [read more]

A sign o’ the times?
In a theft in Phuentsholing this week, a teenager from a well-to-do family snatched a bag off a woman but was chased and stopped by a monk. From a news point of view, it was an unusual case of human interest value.
Unusual as it may have been, the incident brought to surface a number of […]    [read more]

The grand finale of Druki Sungki Dendur
The grand finale of Druki Sungki Dendur, will begin on December 19 at the CICCC ground in Thimphu. The contest will be a three-day programme with three different rounds of zhungdra, boedra and rigsar.
At a meeting in Poland, many poor nations have complained about delays in accessing cash from the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), […]    [read more]

Filmmakers cry foul over film awards
The seventh national film award ceremony that doled out 28 different awards left a bad taste in the mouths of many in the film industry who say the awards were not given fairly.
A case of sour grapes and bad losers? Or are the complaints legitimate? From the 16 films reviewed, 10 different awards went to […]    [read more]

Bhutan mining hurts Bengal, says minister
A West Bengal minister yesterday said faulty mining practices in Bhutan caused flooding in Bengal, especially during summer.
Speaking by phone, Manohar Tirkey, the Minister of State for PWD, said the problem which he had raised earlier this year remained. He said that every year, there were floods in Bengal owing to the mining. “We want […]    [read more]

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