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Older Bhutanese Remember Abominable Snowman - FOX News
SIGNYAR, Bhutan — He remembers the darkness of the pine forest, and the footprints, and his terror when the creature began to howl. He remembers the stories of his childhood, of a beast that stalked the upper reaches of the mountains, and how fear …    [read more]

Over 3,000 Bhutanese in Nepal resettled - Xinhua News Agency
KATHMANDU, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) — Over 3,000 Bhutanese refugees in Nepal has been resettled in western countries, The Kathmandu Post reported on Thursday. The refugees have been resettled in the United States, Denmark, Australia and other countries …    [read more]

PM warns Pakistan over terror, lauds democracy - Hindustan Times
Underlining India’s quest for “a peaceful, stable and prosperous neighbourhood”, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday reminded Pakistan that if support to terrorists did not halt, the peace initiatives between the two countries will suffer. “Our …    [read more]

Is Bhutan ready for foreign banks? - Kuensel Online
9 August, 2008 - The news that joint venture banks may enter the Bhutanese market next year has thrown the local financial companies into fits of anxiety. It has unsettled its master, the Druk Holding Investment (DHI), which is urgently engaging the …    [read more]

Premier League referee: The impossible job - Daily Telegraph
My arm is nice and straight, the flag is happily unfurled, and I’m pretty sure I got the offside right, but I’ve broken protocol by giving the decision with my carrying hand, so obstructing my view of the majority of the pitch. Forget the absurd …    [read more]

A few home truths - Kuensel Online
13 August, 2008 - “Dead flies on table, smell of rotten meat and poor cleanliness” is how an Austrian tourist described a top-notch hotel in Punakha. “Garbage and dogs in Paro” was a UK tourist’s complaint. “Too expensive – we got taken …    [read more]

Cassidy: Dancing Matt Harding stumbles on the true meaning of the Web - Silicon Valley
Admit it: You want to be Matt Harding. I want to be Matt Harding. Hell, everybody wants to be Matt Harding. The guy is an international Internet sensation who almost literally stumbled into his dream job. The makers of Stride gum paid him to travel …    [read more]

Study says happiness is the key to longer life - Turkish Daily News
Keep humming “Don’t Worry Be Happy.” The 1980s New Age-inspired hit got it right. New research shows being happy can add several years to life. “Happiness does not heal, but happiness protects against falling ill,” said Ruut Veenhoven of Rotterdam’s …    [read more]

Fighting terrorism a challenge, dialogue required to fight it: PM - Thaindian.com
New Delhi, Aug.15 (ANI): Delivering his fifth consecutive Independence Day speech on the occasion of Indias 62nd Independence Day on Friday, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh said that fighting terrorism was a major challenge before the country …    [read more]

Final part of text of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s address - Newstrack India
New Delhi, Aug 15 (ANI): Following is the final part of the text of Prime inister Manmohan Singh’s address from the Red Fort on the occasion of the nation’s 62nd Independence Day: Brothers and Sisters, Our ancient Himalayas are under environmental …    [read more]

Kuensel - Bhutan’s National Newspaper

Bajo gets go ahead
Township allotment
knot finally untied

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT – Constructions to begin at last and be completed within three years

14 August, 2008 - The dispute over the Bajothang town plot allotment has finally been settled with 131 business people getting plots in the new town of Wangduephodrang.    [read more]

Kanglung landlords lose student-tenants
Opening of business college curtails rental business

Free accommodation! – Empty and under lock and key

14 August, 2008 - While Trashigang faces an acute shortage of houses, Kanglung has to cope with a paucity of tenants.

Things were always not like this.    [read more]

Bypass threatens to bypass business
Highway detour gives Zhemgang hoteliers a miss

Redirected traffic – The under construction Wangdidang-tingtibi road.

14 August, 2008 - The ongoing construction of the Wangdigang-Tingtibi bypass, which will shorten the Trongsa-Gelephu highway by 26 km, has got Zhemgang town worried.    [read more]

Spillover

14 August, 2008 - Garbage intended for Memelakha seems to have been dumped en route on the
hillside opposite Semtokha dzong.    [read more]

Bhutan Observer

Football at the fringe
After nine days of soccer bonanza, the school team of Nangkor Higher Secondary School emerged as this year’s Pemagatsel League Champions defeating the Veteran’s Team comprising of school teachers of the dzongkhag with a score margin of 3-2 on a wet day on August 10. Played over a period of nine days, this year 13 […]    [read more]

Promoting Geo-Technology using Information Technology
If the information and techno savvy officials could convince their bosses, loads of information on
Bhutan will be accessible from any part of the world. Rabi C. Dahal reports.
As per the policy of the concerned organizations, the data could be uploaded for viewing or for sale.
Using a software called GenNetwork, information of spatial data could be […]    [read more]

Bara gewog ’s 600 households make their demands
Sir,
Bara gewog is in need of the following development programmes. Motorable roads: Bara gewog is isolated. A motorable road could link the gewog with Tendu gewog which shall enhance betterment of the concerned community.
Electricity: Electrification of the gewog is one of the most important development programmes that we long for. School: Our children have to […]    [read more]

An Invocation in Time
This is an invocation and not a short broadside to being Bhutanese in the spinning wheel of time. When rapid changes keeps churning out a state of constant flux, how does entrenched thinking reinforced by time, balance itself? Our clergy – the Dratsang is actually lighting the way ahead here. The ban on meat/alcohol consumption […]    [read more]

Construction boon
Boy! are we ahead of the deadline
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Bhutanese archers eliminated
Both Bhutanese archers have been eliminated in the first elimination round at the Beijing Olympics. Dorji Dema was eliminated after securing 10 points less than Georgia’s Khatuna Narima-nizay. Dorji Dema scored 97 points as opposed to the Georgian archer’s 107. In the men’s elimination round, Tashi Peljor fell behind Chinese Taipei’s Cheng Pang Wang. Tashi […]    [read more]

Juley Tso:popular campsite for trekkers
The mountains of Lunana are reflected on a sunny day in the waters of Juley Tso. The poppy laden meadows in the background is a popular campsite for trekkers (Photo: Lhendup)
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Fragile terrain cause of deaths
The casualties, 11 in four weeks, along a stretch of the Thimphu-Phuentsholing highway could not solely be attributed to the broadening work of the highway, said the Chief Engineer of DANTAK, Brigadier Rajesh Tyagi, during a press conference held on August 13.
“There have been casualties at Sorchen and Jumja before but it is not because […]    [read more]

New route to boost Bhutan-Bangladesh trade
The renewal of the 2003 trade agreement between Bhutan and Bangladesh sometime in November during the visit of the Minister of Economic Affairs, Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk, is likely to see the inclusion of 17 new items.
The agreement has two schedules that include exports from Bhutan to Bangladesh and Bangladesh to Bhutan. “Both the countries have […]    [read more]

Coping with a 1,000-hour strike
A 1,000-hour economic blockade, which began at 5 pm on July 20 in Assam, has been posing major problems to the daily lives of Gelephu residents.
Frequent blockades in Assam limit the supply of goods from India and Phuentsholing seriously hampering the economic climate of Gelephu. Many shops and stores in town are running out of […]    [read more]

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