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Televised Death Reveals Swiss Haven For Suicides - WJZ
SCHWERZENBACH, Switzerland (AP) ― Twice a week, on average, in a nondescript building by the railroad tracks, a foreigner comes to die. Most are terminally ill. Some are young and physically healthy except for a permanent disability or severe …    [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]

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]

Seat presentará otro ERE temporal que afectará a un máximo de 5.300 … - Granada Digital
El fabricante de automóviles español Seat prepara un segundo Expediente de Regulación de Empleo (ERE) temporal para el primer semestre de 2009 en su fábrica de Martorell (Barcelona) y que podría afectar a un máximo de 5.300 trabajadores …    [read more]

A tribute in appreciation - Kuensel Online
10 December, 2008 - The serrated ridges around Trongsa form a vast rim from where hill slopes run sharply to the valley floor. The slopes are covered by a lush forest of evergreen and seasonal colours. Numerous white waterfalls streak the hillsides …    [read more]

Bhutan, Trashigang: farmers build toilets to practice new skills - IRC
Farmers in Trashigang, Bhutan, have been constructing toilets to practice skills they have learned whiile participating in a rural skills development project. Under the project, 329 villagers from ten gewogs (blocks or village groups) in Trashigang …    [read more]

Aguilera pide celeridad a los ayuntamientos en la aplicación del … - Granada Digital
La consejera de Gobernación de la Junta de Andalucía, Clara Aguilera, solicitó hoy a los ayuntamientos de la provincia que efectúen con celeridad todos los procedimientos necesarios para beneficiarse del Programa de Transición al Empleo de la …    [read more]

Repeat of ’Technical fault’ not to be tolerated: President Zardari … - Pakistan News Service
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday made it clear that no more air space violations from India would be tolerated. The assertion was made at a meeting between President Asif Ali Zardari and PM Yousaf …    [read more]

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Blacklist terror charity still open in Pakistan - Times Online
The main complex of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), the Pakistani charity linked to last month’s attack on Mumbai, is still open four days after the UN Security Council placed the group on a terrorist list, The Times has learnt. Pakistan claims that it …    [read more]

Kuensel - Bhutan’s National Newspaper

Roundabout right of way

15 December, 2008 - About three accident cases occur every two weeks at the roundabouts, says the traffic division officer-in-charge Captain Namgay. A roundabout is a channelised intersection at which all traffic moves clockwise around a central traffic island.    [read more]

Coronation and Centenary Basketball Cup Jump Starts

15 December, 2008 - Twenty-three teams including four women teams are participating in the ongoing coronation and centenary celebration Basketball tournament at Nazhoen Pelri Complex.
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Getting the kids to do their bit

15 December, 2008 - When your young children feel as though you believe they’re capable of handling simple chores around the house, it’s a powerful message to them.    [read more]

10?

15 December, 2008 - Norbu, from Dremitsi, Mongar, is a parking fee collector in the heart of town. The 21-year old tells us about his meal timings and professional life.

1. Where did you study?
I studied on Mongar but dropped school after class IV.    [read more]

The 11 galleries of the Ta-dzong museum

The Raven Crown, designed by Lam Jangchub Tsendrue

15 December, 2008 - The newly consecrated Ta-dzong museum gives a glimpse of Bhutan in the last 100 years with two galleries showcasing the history of monarchy in Bhutan with many royal possessions.    [read more]

2nd largest park inaugurated

Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley installs the Sachu Bum-ter to inaugurate the parlk

15 December, 2008 - It was a tribute to the Wangchuck dynasty for a century of visionary leadership in conservation of Bhutan’s rich natural heritage. And for once, it was the only protected area comprising of all four national symbols-flower, animal, tree and bird.    [read more]

Sick steel industries seek cash transfusion

15 December, 2008 - The cries of the Pasakha steel factories for rescue after the Wall Street crisis hit them with mounting losses has prompted the minister of economic affairs Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk to drive down south this week to assess the situation for himself.    [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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