International Sources
From Bhutan to the Bronx – BBC South-Asia
“We can’t understand anyone, and they can’t understand us. We walk on the street, and everybody is a giant. It’s scary. We go into the subway it’s strange, getting into a lift is odd,” she says. “Everything is strange.” She giggles as she describes …
Environmental havoc looms for Bhutan – Boston Globe
PUNAKHA, Bhutan – High in the Himalayas, above this peaceful valley where farmers till a patchwork of emerald-green fields, an icy lake fed by melting glaciers waits to become a “tsunami from the sky.” The lake is swollen dangerously past normal …
In Bhutan, arrows (and insults) fly – Chicago Tribune
PARO, Bhutan — Dorji, a house painter with close-cropped black hair, draws his bowstring, hooks his thumb on his cheek and takes aim at what looks like an impossible target: an 11-inch-wide slip of wood dug into the soil a whopping 460 feet away, a …
Bhutan on the brink – Deccan Herald
With the Earth’s rising temperatures, many glacial lakes in Bhutan are at risk of overflowing and dumping their contents into the narrow valleys where much of the country’s population lives. High in the Himalayas, above this peaceful valley where …
Where’s Matt Lauer? Lifting NBC’s ‘Today’ ratings – Newsday
A poster of Muhammad Ali looms over Matt Lauer ‘s cluttered office up the stairs from NBC’s “Today” show studios. Both men are accustomed to training for grueling physical feats. Lauer ate better, stepped up his workouts and slept more during the …
Bhutan bags 21 new birds – Kuensel Online
29 April, 2008 – Besides being home to some of the world’s endangered bird species, Bhutan has recorded 21 new additional species, adding to its high floral and faunal diversity, according to officials of the nature conservation division. With the …
Film industry in decline – Kuensel Online
29 April, 2008 – Bhutanese film producers say that the biggest bottlenecks for the rapidly evolving local film industry are a lack of venues to screen productions and screening restrictions in the districts. With just one cinema hall in the capital …
Bound Women, Sacred Temples, Chiseled Males: 57th Street Art – Bloomberg
April 29 (Bloomberg) — Bound kimono-clad women, a muscular author in a loincloth, a cliff-side temple — the images in “Photographers of Japanese Descent” range from East to West, sacred to street. The exhibition on view at the Howard Greenberg …
Where in The World Is Matt Lauer Now? – The Ledger
MATT LAUER has begun his ninth series of “Where in the World Is Matt Lauer?” His destination is kept a mystery from colleagues as well. Lauer ate better, stepped up his workouts and slept more during the past few weeks in preparation for his ninth …
Food, biofuels and developing countries – Globe and Mail
As the price of food rises and stories are told of people around the world stocking up on commodities such as rice, questions are being asked about the role biofuel is playing in what many predict will become a worldwide crisis. In North America, the …
Kuensel – Bhutan’s National Newspaper
Flat facts about high heels
Shoes are your passion. And high heels are the mainstay of your professional image and never go out of fashion. But your feet don’t feel too good in them. Is it time to surrender these beauties?
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29 April, 2008 – Ask any woman … and high heels are an essential part of their wardrobe. Apart from looking and feeling taller, high heels are worn for that feel of sophistication imparted by making your legs look longer and bottom smaller and which can convert you from a drab ‘flatfoot’ to a diva ‘spectacular’!
These boots are meant for (more than) walking
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29 April, 2008 – Y
ou want to know a man’s style, look at his shoes. A line that everyone remembers and you must have surely noticed how people giving others the once-over scan their shoes first.
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29 April, 2008 – Dorji Khandu, 48, from Sha Wangdi runs a shoe shop in Thimphu. He tells City Bytes what the most sought after designs are and what one should look for when buying shoes.
1. How’s business?
It’s good but it was better in the past.
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| Brahminy starling |
29 April, 2008 – Besides being home to some of the world’s endangered bird species, Bhutan has recorded 21 new additional species, adding to its high floral and faunal diversity, according to officials of the nature conservation division.
Burning the midnight oil, Sherubtse-style
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| The Sherubtse campus: “… has suddenly become more decent and quiet.” |
29 April, 2008 – If you happen to pass through Sherubtse College in Kanglung at night, you are likely to come across a group of men wielding torches.
Cent per cent in Economics
29 April, 2008 – When the results for Sherubtse’s economics department came in last month, they provided a pleasant shock – every single student had passed!
Better roads, higher accident rates
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| Smooth as silk but speed can kill |
29 April, 2008 – New data from the road safety transport authority (RSTA) show that broader highways are leading to a significant jump in motor accidents.
New-look National Assembly makeover
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| The arena of political discourse and national legislation |
29 April, 2008 – The functioning of the elected parliament will be different from the previous National Assembly, according to the assembly secretariat.
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| The mangled wreck of the van |
29 April, 2008 – Two men died and two others were injured when the maruti van they were travelling in plunged off the road in Kuengarabten, Trongsa, at around 7:30 am on April 24.
Kaba crop flattened by hailstorm
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| Months of toil and sweat decimated in a day |
29 April, 2008 – Wheat and barley cultivation in Kaba village, Trongsa, has taken a pelting in recent weeks, with hailstorms destroying several acres of the area’s two important spring crops.
Bhutan Observer
bO Observation: Jolly good luck!
I want to believe we are all living well. But that arouses suspicion. We just need to glance at the news; both town and country. There’s enough fodder there for a regurgitating mammal to contemplate upon and enact. Now let’s look at news concerning the countryside; a villager, a farmer and the rest of that [...]
Readers’ Voice: I drink, therefore I am
There is an ancient Indian fable about a drunkard. The story goes that the man, in an inebriated state, made all the more intrepid by the influence of alcohol, impetuously demanded to make a purchase of the Raja’s royal mount. After a lot of persistence, the courtiers timidly reported the incident to their liege and [...]
Readers’ Voice: When it came to names, the bard was apparently wrong!
When William Shakespeare challenged, ‘What is in a name?’ and drew out an indisputable analogy of ‘rose by any name would smell just the same,’ little did he realize that a divine madman, Lam Drukpa Kuenley of the East, would preach otherwise?
The name, to the Lam, was so crucial that it determined who was to [...]
in summary
Signboards: Democracy comes amarching
The Lyonchen’s office
The new government is in place but whether there should be any political appointment in Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is a general apprehension.
Some say the appointees should be civil servants while other says that some members of the Druk Phuentsum Tshogpa should also be appointed.
The structure of the PMO has been submitted for approval to [...]
The enigmatic signboard
Democracy has arrived. The new government is in place and the ministers have assumed their responsibilities. But wait, there seems to be a dictator lurking inside the system. We don’t quite know about the size of the moustache but the mind is certainly dictatorial. There is this almost sinister fixation with uniformity. He would have [...]
bO Column: Frustrations of a “dog-eat-dog†world
A Zen story goes: a doctor was deeply frustrated that every soldier he treated would go right back into battle and would subsequently be killed. Much disturbed, he presented his dilemma to a Zen master. At which the master advised that every time the doubt arose, he should instruct himself saying – “because I am [...]
First session of the parliament
The first session of the parliament under the new government has tentatively been fixed on May 8.
The members of parliament will discuss and endorse the five bills of Election, Constitution, National Assembly, National Council and Parliamentary Entitlement.
Bills will be passed in three stages; it will go to the National Council from the National Assembly for [...]
The salary factor
With the Parliamentary Entitlement bill yet to be endorsed, Pay Commission yet to be instituted and parliament session yet to begin, the Members of Parliament (MP) are living without salaries while the ministers are getting paid.
The legal justification to this is that the ministers have started working and shouldering responsibilities but have not the rest? [...]
Child labour and the policy makers
Sir,
 Children are said to be the reflection of god but does it apply to one’s children only or also to children throughout the world? On this question, every decision maker will try to colour themselves and hide under the colourful of words of care and concern, without meaning it from their heart.
Today’s children are [...]
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