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Bhutan launches new monitoring system – That’s Cricket
Thimphu: People entering and leaving Bhutan can now look forward to faster services at border checkpoints with the launch of a new immigration information and monitoring system. The new computerised system launched on Monday will ease congestion at … [read more]
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GUWAHATI, India – Floods and landslides caused by three days of incessant rain killed six people and left thousands homeless in India’s remote northeast, one of the country’s most flood-prone regions, officials said on Wednesday. A sudden wave of … [read more]
Bhutan’s biggest party ever – Kuensel Online
23 October, 2008 – With the historic coronation event only two weeks away, a festive ambience has begun to set in and the fever has crept beyond the capital to other districts in the country. Many schools and institutions ring with voices and … [read more]
Bhutanese refugee advocates for his people in Syracuse – Newsblaze.com
Upon arrival at their new home of Syracuse, refugees from Bhutan are greeted at Hancock airport by the welcoming smile of Hari Adhikari, a fellow Bhutanese refugee and human rights activist who has been threatened, beaten and arrested over the past … [read more]
Bhutan’s on top for Christmas – ONE News
Some years ago I met an affluent, middle-aged (and childless) American couple who every year spent Christmas week in some faraway and often exotic location, among them Bethlehem, an African safari, up the Amazon, on an Antarctic cruise, at the North … [read more]
India ready to assist in making South Asia more secure: PM – Hindustan Times
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called upon European nations to ‘do more’ to fight climate change, as he spoke at the end of a two-day Asia-Europe Meeting in Beijing, reports HT Correspondent. Becoming the first world leader to address the Bhutan … [read more]
Activist helps Bhutanese refugees settle in Syracuse – Syracuse Post-Standard
Post-Standard: Working to help his people, again : First the teacher-turned human rights activist ignored arrests, torture to bring his people home to Bhutan. When that failed, he moved to Syracuse where he’s now helping hundreds make a new home … [read more]
The Sham of Bhutan Democracy and Gross National Happiness – Newsblaze.com
If you’ve read what the mainstream media has had to say about Bhutan in the last year then you would probably have a strong impression of Bhutan and its government: a monarchy that has “given up its power” and embraced democracy. You would probably … [read more]
Flash floods hit north-east India – BBC South-Asia
Flood waters have displaced nearly 70,000 people, damaged crops, and cut off a national highway linking Assam with the rest of the country, officials say. Paramilitary and local civil defence forces have been called in for rescue operations. Two … [read more]
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Kuensel – Bhutan’s National Newspaper
29 October, 2008 – About 2,500 years ago a Prince walked away from his Palace, his material comforts, his Throne. He did it to help his people, through education and through spirituality. He eventually showed them, and the world, the path to enlightenment. [read more]
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29 October, 2008 – It is the end – and the beginning – of history. On the morning of November 1, the third day of the ninth Bhutanese month, His Majesty the King will be empowered as the Druk Gyalpo in a unique and sacred empowerment ceremony, which symbolises his transcendence of the ordinary and the temporal and the personification of divine wisdom. [read more]
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29 October, 2008 – There was more energy than required as Lhadom outran Zimdra in a tense final of the second veteran football tournament fought out at the police ground in Thimphu on Saturday. [read more]
The pursuit of future happiness in present toil seems to be the expat Bhutanese philosophy of life in Australia
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28 October, 2008 – Bhutanese who come to Australia expecting to find a largely white society are usually surprised to find a population of diverse ethnicity. There are emigrants from all over the world. And the international student population adds variety to it. [read more]
27 October, 2008 – “Hello, may I speak to Mr Karma please?” Ap Thinley spoke over the phone, hesitantly.
“Just a moment,” came the reply from the other end. A few seconds later, Ap Thinley was speaking to his only son who is an engineer. [read more]
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27 October, 2008 – Good news for urban dwellers! If you want to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life, there’s a new place just out of town: the Royal Botanical Park at Lamperi, just eight km from Dochula. [read more]
27 October, 2008 – When sheer ignorance and ego-intoxicated petty tyrants; when men dared to tread over clouds to reach the horizon of their absolute greed; when people suffered from hunger for power; when bloodshed drenched the battlefield and tiny fiefdoms repressed their subjects, like a beam of light, as if destined to rule the world, a dynasty was born. [read more]
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27 October, 2008 – Smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer. Although smoking rates have declined amongst adult men and to a lesser extent among women, there are an increasing number of teenage smokers, particularly girls. Lung cancer is the most prevalent cancer worldwide and accounts for 1:3 cancer deaths in men and 1:6 cancer deaths in women. Female mortality from lung cancer now exceeds that from breast cancer. Twenty percent of smokers will develop lung cancer. The five-year survival rate is 10-13%. [read more]
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27 October, 2008 – Sonam Zangmo, 21, from Chaskhar, Mongar is a graduate from Darjeeling, India. A non-smoker, these are her views on smoking.
1. What do you think about smoking?
I think it’s something that gives pleasure – a style for the youth and also a sin. [read more]
27 October, 2008 – In what could be a twist in the royal insurance corporation of Bhutan ltd (RICBL) case, the 68 accused employees submitted to the High Court that government representatives have crossed all norms of investigation and were bent willy nilly on getting judgment in their favour. [read more]
Bhutan Observer
Is pay hike for the politicians along with the Civil Servants justified?
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Keeping the family heritage alive
Ap Loday could be one of the few craftsmen who faithfully keep their trade going. Eshori Gurung reports.
Every morning, 60-year-old Ap Loday Gyeltshen wakes up, wears his spectacles and climbs the steep ladder to a small adjoining room – the room he has been working in for the past two decades.
The red bricks at the [...] [read more]
The legacy of Toeb Chandana
A journey into the spiritual significance of an idyllic village revealed the vibrant and inexhaustible legacy of an illustrious lineage. Phuntsok Rabten reports.
The legacy of Toeb Chandana village is firmly rooted in the arrival and activities of Lama Drukpa Kuenley and intertwined with the flourishing of the Drukpa lineage in Bhutan.
At about a few [...] [read more]
Aiten Brokpa lugso: How sustainable is it?
Can nomadic villages of Merak and Sakteng in Trashigang sustain their age-old practice of rotational grazing in the face of the present day environmental concerns? Does the environment support the conventional practice of owning as many cattle as possible depending on the natural regeneration of tsamdro? What are the environmental and economic implications of overgrazing?
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Dzongkha 24 October
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The Bounties of our Dear Country
Land of Menjong Norbui ling
Named by the people from forbidden land
Since with abundance of herbal plants
Up hills and down dales in the land
The land of prophecy by enlightened one
Flourished with distinguished dharma
West to east; north to south
Fabricated into fertile society
The true dharma-holder of Drukpa
Ngawang Namgyal stepped into the soil of Dragon
Established the government of dual [...] [read more]
The glories of the last shangri-la
Bhutan as she emerged in the 17th century, was the life work and the legacy of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal. By 1650, Zhabdrung was universally recognized as the legitimate soul of Bhutan. But the history of modern Bhutan began only in 1907, when Ugyen Wangchuk, the monarch of destiny, assumed the throne with the title Druk [...] [read more]
Table tennis championship starts today
The 14th National Table Tennis Championship will start today as part of centenary and coronation celebration. 52 participants have registered for the tournament majority of whom are male and Thimphu residents. The table tennis coach, Dala, said, “We have fewer female participants because they are too shy to come for practice.â€Â
There will be seven categories [...] [read more]
BFF stops funding for Wangdue and Paro
Bhutan Football Federation (BFF) has stopped its annual funding for Wangdue and Paro dzongkhags as a result of non-payment of dues of approximately Nu 0.8 million. According to the federation, the dzongkhags were required to submit bills reflecting the expenditure of the funds, which the two dzongkhags failed to do. The federation uses its internal [...] [read more]
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