Bhutan News archive for 27 August 2008

International Sources

Boxing for army sons – Kuensel Online
27 August, 2008 – With his bare fists below his chin, the 9-year-old Dorji Nima strikes a fighting pose as do other boys beside him. A tough looking soldier bellows an instruction. Dorji double punches the air with his right hand and moves into …    [read more]

Thumbnail sketch of Thimphu’s less fortunate – Kuensel Online
26 August, 2008 – Thimphu, in its vibrant urban buzz, is busily engaged in the pursuit of property and comfort but in the process many seem to have overlooked the deprived sections of the city. These are people, who survive amidst the modernization …    [read more]

A Spontaneous Eco-Wander Through Germany – Slate
While zooming by a field of wind turbines, traveling on a train from Amsterdam to Bremen at 200 kilometers per hour, I suddenly realized that I was experiencing turbine envy. My own country, the United States, seems to be stuck in a co-dependent …    [read more]

Belief in the beast – star.com.my
Once ingrained in the history and culture of Bhutan, the yeti today is being dismissed, just like the other old ways of this isolated Himalayan nation. HE REMEMBERS the darkness of the pine forest, and the footprints, and his terror when the creature …    [read more]

Tibet’s most famous woman blogger, Woeser, detained by police – Times Online
Tibet’s most famous woman writer and blogger was accused of taking photographs of military installations and arrested by police after she returned home briefly to Lhasa, the capital. The detention of Woeser, who, like many Tibetans, goes by a …    [read more]

Register » – yorkshirepost
Comment on stories on this website and on all other Johnston Press newspaper websites. See a list of our websites here. Set up a personalised homepage featuring content from any Johnston Press newspaper website or from any site with a RSS feed …    [read more]

Climate change threatens South Asia food supplies – Boston Globe
DHAKA, Bangladesh— Melting Himalayan glaciers, rising sea levels and depleting fresh water sources as a result of global climate change are posing grave threats to food production and economic development in the populous South Asia region, experts …    [read more]

Afridi not excited to play in Ramdan – Pakistan News Service
Karachi: Pakistan is looking at the possibility of inviting India, among others, to fill in for the now postponed Champions Trophy next month and go to South Africa to play in a tri-series. However, Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi is not very …    [read more]

Achakzai calls for postponement of presidential elections – Pakistan News Service
QUETTA: APDM central convener Mehmood Khan Achakzai has called for postponement of presidential elections adding the elections will not bring stability in the country but will further aggravate the situation by fueling blame game and charges and …    [read more]

A bad dancer shows what Web does best – Seattle Times
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]

Kuensel – Bhutan’s National Newspaper

Post accident driver missing

HILUX LEFTOVERS – Strewn on the path to destruction

27 August, 2008 – A search team of police and Royal Institute of Management (RIM) staff are combing the Wangchhu banks – the union of Thimpchhu and Pachhu – for the body of an RIM driver who went missing after the Toyota Hilux he was driving plunged into the Pachu, about 3 km from the Chunzom checkpost on Sunday, August 24.
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HEHE – No laughing matter
‘Green’ agriculture ministry initiates Tuesday – No Vehicle Day

WITHOUT WHEELS: Lyonpo Pema Gyamtsho with staff walk to work to save the environment

27 August, 2008 – At around 8:30 yesterday morning, staff of the agriculture ministry hit the road to go to office as usual. But this time, for a change, they walked.    [read more]

Boxing for army sons

GROOMING ‘EM YOUNG – Perfecting their pugilistic skills at Lungtenphug

27 August, 2008 – With his bare fists below his chin, the 9-year-old Dorji Nima strikes a fighting pose as do other boys beside him. A tough looking soldier bellows an instruction. Dorji double punches the air with his right hand and moves into position for the southpaw shot.    [read more]

Yangphel’s first K/O stage

27 August, 2008 – The road is still not clear for the 54 teams who made it to the knock-out stage of the Yangphel archery tournament yesterday.
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Traditional healing in the land of medicinal herbs

The present indigenous hospital

26 August, 2008 – Traditional medical system was established in Bhutan by the personal physician of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, Tenzin Drugyal, in the 16th century AD. This ancient system of healing was passed on as an oral tradition till it was formalised by establishing the institute of traditional medicine services (ITMS) in 1967 as an indigenous unit under the department of health services.    [read more]

Know your nutrients

26 August, 2008 – With the ban on chicken still on and other meat items not easily available at this time of the year, how about supplanting your meatless diet with vegetables and fruits, especially when these can provide the same amount of nutrients required.
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10?

26 August, 2008 – Tshering Dem is a salesgirl in R Penjor Tshongkhang. The 20-year-old tells City Bytes how she gives people directions to her home and the shop.

1. How do you tell people where your shop is located?
I tell them it’s near the main traffic and opposite the clock tower.    [read more]

Bhutan Observer

The price of doing drugs
Getting high on drugs might seem like another part of the world with all that excitement initially, but when this fun turns to fear, one might as well wish for a time machine to go back and erase the past. Pushkar Chhetri reports.

Tenzin (name changed), 28 has been doing drugs since he was 14. He [...]    [read more]

Beyond Druk, Datsi, Tashi and Sonfy
For a diminutive speck on the map of the world Bhutan really does have a few bolts from the blue up its sleeve. But then, we saw last week that size does not really matter. The adventure continues and the surprises still abound:
That I have run into so many people from the east, that Thimphu [...]    [read more]

Monsoon Cup in Gelephu reaches quarterfinals
The third Gelephu Sports Association (GSA) Monsoon Cup Football Tournament, the greatest sporting event in Gelephu, has reached its quarterfinals. Everyday, it is drawing about three thousand spectators. The crowds brave wet weather and footballers battle it out on a water-logged pitch.
Almost half of a total of 17 teams, including four from Assam, have been [...]    [read more]

Managing solid waste in Thimphu has become a overwhelming task as urban areas have grown messily
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“Make haste or be buried in waste,” Dasho Benji
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If you love my curves I’ve many
I’ve just about had it with the roads. I’m exasperated! Come on people, let’s all be civil. This is not Bangkok nor is it the streets of New York. This is our capital and we all run into each other sooner or later. So stop honking me when all you are going to do today [...]    [read more]

Donation & religion
Sir It is becoming a common sight – people collecting donation in the name of renovation/ construction of religious monuments and other religious activities. But we are unaware of any Rules/Acts regarding the collections and contribution of such donations.
It is observed that almost all classes of citizens donate for the religious purpose but do hesitate [...]    [read more]

Pay revision & division
Sir,
Looking at the history of civil servants’ salaries, the pay of a civil servant is revised on a percentage-wise basis. From higher percent and higher grades to lower rates and grades, benefitting the people holding higher posts. This makes the lower income group in our society struggle. We learn from advertisements in newspapers that the [...]    [read more]

Lhabsang Thruesel ceremony at the Paro airport and other stories
The Prime Minister, Lyonchen Jigmi Y. Thinley, in a sombre mood during the closing ceremony of the three-day National Conference on Solid Waste Management held at RIM, Semtokha, Thimphu
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His Holiness the Je Khenpo Trulku Jigme Choeda performed a Lhabsang Thruesel ceremony at the Paro International Airport.
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Internet users are getting back the bandwidth they were denied [...]    [read more]

Child rape
Yesterday, Thimphu dzongkhag court’s Bench II had its first preliminary hearing on the case of a 14-year-old who was raped and impregnated by her 45 year-old step father along with battery charges.
The case was charge sheeted on Monday by the Women and Child Protection Unit, RBP.
The case has been registered under Section 183 on the [...]    [read more]