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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]

India grants Bhutan, Maldives Rs.13.7 bn additional aid - Thaindian.com
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) India has granted Bhutan and the Maldives Rs.1,370 crore (Rs.13.7 billion) as additional aid, it was announced here Friday.Of this, Rs.900 crore (Rs.9 billion) will go to Bhutan in two tranches, while Rs.470 crore (Rs.4.7 …    [read more]

India grants Bhutan, Maldives Rs 13.7 billion additional aid - Zee News
New Delhi, Dec 19: India has granted Bhutan and the Maldives Rs.1,370 crore (Rs.13.7 billion) as additional aid, it was announced here Friday. Of this, Rs.900 crore (Rs.9 billion) will go to Bhutan in two tranches, while Rs.470 crore (Rs.4.7 billion …    [read more]

Bhutan woman tells of transition from monarchy to democracy - Spencer Daily Reporter
(Photo submitted) Adorned in their Bhutanese national dress and special scarves, Tashi Ongmo, left, and her family, which includes father Dr. Gado Tshering, brother Thinley Jamtsho Tshering, mother Tashi Choden and older sister Chimi Ongmo, were …    [read more]

Mumbai’s Taj Mahal Palace and Tower to reopen December 21 - San Francisco Examiner
Mumbai’s Taj Mahal Palace and Tower is scheduled to reopen its doors on Dec. 21, 2008 at 7 PM. The iconic hotel became front page news after a series of horrendous attacks on this Indian city. With the reopening of the rooms in The Taj Mahal Tower …    [read more]

Kiwi volunteers recall Druk Yul - Kuensel Online
18 December, 2008 - “Let’s go back,” said many former Bhutan volunteers when they met in Kaikoura, New Zealand, recently. Twenty-one New Zealanders, who worked through Volunteer Service Abroad, met to catch up and discuss their time working in …    [read more]

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]

Folk festival with a difference - Kuensel Online
18 December, 2008 - Three days of traditional Bhutanese food cooked by local villagers, traditional spear and boomerang throwing, ‘human bull’ fights, a traditional hike and more were the highlights of the first folk festival, described by many …    [read more]

Deepavali to Christmas - Grand Forks Herald
With their grandmother, Tika Kharel, seated between them in the van, cousins Dilli Oli, 24, and Krishna Bhetwal, 18, admired the bright, festive lights Wednesday night as Robin David drove slowly through Lincoln Park’s “Christmas in the Park …    [read more]

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Kuensel - Bhutan’s National Newspaper

Buddhist answers to common questions

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

There are many traditions and schools in Buddhism, such as Theravada, Zen, Kagyu, Pure Land, and Nyingma etc. Why is this? How should we see them?

Well, people and cultures are different. The Buddha recognized this fact, and in order to accommodate our various needs and characteristics, he devised 84,000 methods to lead us to the truth. Like clothing, if there were only one style and size, few people would find something suitable. Therefore, many styles have been created. Irrespective of the design, however, the articles must possess a common factor that defines them as clothing. The teachings of the Buddha are similar.    [read more]

Folk festival with a difference

Kabchi Champ - The winner of the roasted wheat category at the festival in Punakha

18 December, 2008 - Three days of traditional Bhutanese food cooked by local villagers, traditional spear and boomerang throwing, ‘human bull’ fights, a traditional hike and more were the highlights of the first folk festival, described by many as a “festival with a difference.”
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The greening of (among others) Gonpa Tshoka
Community forests adopted in Trashiyangtse as part of coronation/centenary celebrations

18 December, 2008 - Dedicated to the centenary, coronation and establishment of a democratic constitutional monarchy, the Trashiyangtse dzongkhag forestry officials handed over a community forest to 45 households of Gonpa Tshokha under Ramjar gewog on December14.    [read more]

Kiwi volunteers recall Druk Yul

FROM NZ WITH XOXO - Remembering good times together

18 December, 2008 - “Let’s go back,” said many former Bhutan volunteers when they met in Kaikoura, New Zealand, recently.

Twenty-one New Zealanders, who worked through Volunteer Service Abroad, met to catch up and discuss their time working in the Himalayan kingdom. They decided to start planning a return trip.    [read more]

Bhutan- Northeast cooperation to boost trade

Chairman of FINER, Mr R S Joshi and BCCI chairman Ugen Dorje after the signing

18 December, 2008 - The Bhutan chamber of commerce and industry (BCCI) and the Indian Federation of industries and commerce of North Eastern region (FINER), signed a memorandum of understanding on December 15, for broad based collaboration that will be supportive and beneficial for bilateral trade developments between the two countries.    [read more]

New JDWNRH complex inaugurated

18 December, 2008 - Cancer treatment bunkers, digital X-ray machines, mammography machine, heat ventilation and an air conditioned system are some of the features of the new Jigme Dorji Wangchuck national referral hospital (JDWNRH) complex, which was inaugurated by her Majesty the Queen mother Ashi Tshering Pem Wangchuck on December 14.    [read more]

Bhutan Observer

Should MPs complain about Police not saluting them?
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Knock, knock…anybody home?
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How gay are Bhutanese gays?
Article 213 in Chapter 14 of the Penal Code of Bhutan states, “A defendant shall be guilty of the offence of unnatural sex, if the defendant engages in sodomy or any other sexual conduct that is against the order of nature” Does unnatural sex, which is graded as a petty misdemeanour, include homosexuality? How rife […]    [read more]

Bhutanese take to socialising online
Sonam, 24, is a happily married woman and has a son. Unlike conventional love stories, she fell in love with her husband when he was a faceless man she met while socialising online.
Never had she imagined that she would be marrying the faceless person on the other end of the line.
The story has been similar […]    [read more]

Basket ball final
The Merlins relinquished a 25- point halftime lead to lose the men’s final of the Coronation and Centenary Basketball Tournament, 72- 68, to the Pazaaps on December 17.
In the women’s final, which was also played at the Youth Development complex, Mystique beat the Flames.
A total of 24 teams took part in the tournament.
While the winning […]    [read more]

Tennis - many players, few courts
Tennis enthusiasts are being pushed out of tennis courts in Thimphu, as the courts are booked throughout holidays and after office hours, according to some disgruntled players.
They say Changlimethang has just three tennis courts that are always occupied. Karma Yoezer, a corporate employee, said that he had spent a lot of time in college playing […]    [read more]

The art of criticism
The year was 1914. The world cried for war but Bhutan chose education. That was how Haa School was born. Much later, Jigme Palden Dorji, the Prime Minister of Bhutan and Nari Rustomji, the Prime Minister of Sikkim, selected 30 boys from different villages and admitted them to selected schools in India. Progress in education, […]    [read more]

The toilet and the strain
Employment is a basic human need. With unemployment at 3.2% today, about seven thousand of our welleducated youth are out in the cold. It will take more than a ‘Labour Market Information’ from the Ministry of Labour to provide some desperate relief. Forty percent of our population is on the waiting list of the next […]    [read more]

Medals and a tug-of-war
Smiling broadly, His Majesty the King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck awarded Aum Neten Zangmo, chairperson of the Anti Corruption Commission, the prestigious Druk Thuksey medal, praising her work and integrity.
He told the crowd of thousands at the Changlimethang stadium that she deserved the medal for “carrying out her duties as head of the Anti- Corruption […]    [read more]

Bhutanese dams not to be blamed
The flooding and consequent damage in Assam during the 2007 monsoon were not caused by the release of excess water from dams in Bhutan, which had been reported by Central Water Commission, India. The government of Assam had claimed that release of water from Bhutanese dams had caused floods in July, 2007. Similar concerns were […]    [read more]

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