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Gimotive/Stankiewicz seeks bankruptcy - Wrcbtv.com
HAMBURG, Germany (AP) - Gimotive/Stankiewicz, a German-based supplier of soundproofing insulation used by auto makers, has sought bankruptcy protection. The announcement by the district court in the central city of Celle, about 60 miles (100 …    [read more]

China pips India to sign gas deal with Myanmar - Business Standard
China’s state oil and gas firm China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) last week signed a Gas Sales Agreement with South Korea’s Daewoo International for buying gas from the Shwe field in A-1 offshore block and the adjoining A-3 block, industry …    [read more]

Bandit Lockdown (Activators) Product Sightings - Seibertron.com
Country: - Select a Country - Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina …    [read more]

Round 18 and counting … - Kuensel Online
31 December, 2008 - The foreign minister, Lyonpo Ugyen Tshering, reminded the National Assembly that 18 rounds of meetings had been held on the Bhutan-China boundary since April 1984, and that the new government would hold the next round of talks on …    [read more]

Bhutanese take divorce in their stride - BBC South-Asia
“The divorce case is very, very common. If you go to the court, you will see most of the cases are all on divorce.” It may sound like a comment from Scandinavia - but this is Bhutan and the speaker is a young artist, Barun Gurung. His own parents …    [read more]

Another minor raped - Kuensel Online
31 December, 2008 - Thimphu police has arrested a Royal Bhutan Army soldier for allegedly raping a 12-year old girl. Minors are increasingly becoming the victims of rape, records show. Of the 28 victims in Thimphu in 2008, eight were minors, below 18 …    [read more]

PNB receives approval for JV in Bhutan - Financial Express
Mumbai: State-run Punjab National Bank on Monday said that it has received regulatory approval from the Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan for setting up a bank in joint venture with the Bhutanese Promoters. The Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan has …    [read more]

Bhutanese monk to spend weekend at Tibetan museum - Staten Island Advance
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Venerable Lama Karma Namgyel, a Bhutanese Buddhist monk, will be at the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art Jan. 3-4 for a weekend of special blessings, teachings, a fire ceremony and dance. Lama Karma is the founder …    [read more]

Recession hits Bhutan’s tourism industry - Times of India
THIMPHU: Global meltdown has hit Bhutan’s all-important tourism sector and tour operators have sought special measures from the government to deal with the crisis. The Association of Bhutanese Tour Operators (ABTO) has said that over 1,500 tourists …    [read more]

INDIA’S PNB RECEIVES IN-PRINCIPLE APPROVAL FOR JV IN BHUTAN - TradingMarkets.com
The Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan has accorded in-principle approval for setting up Druk PNB Bank Ltd, a joint venture bank between PNB and Bhutanese Promoters, PNB said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. Earlier this year, the country’s …    [read more]

Kuensel - Bhutan’s National Newspaper

New ambassador to India

31 December, 2008 - “It is a great honour to represent Bhutan as ambassador to India, our closest friend and neighbour and our most important development partner,” Major General Vetsop Namgyel told Kuensel. He left for New Delhi today to take up his new assignment as Bhutan’s ambassador to India.

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Walk – but watch out!
Pedestrian accidents are rising in proportion to increased traffic

29 December, 2008 - The roads are narrow and the space limited. Still, the number of cars in Thimphu continues to rise. Compounded by an increase in incidence of unlicensed driving, this is increasingly becoming an issue when it comes to road safety for pedestrians.
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10?

29 December, 2008 - Ugyen Phuntsho, 24, runs P-Wang, a club and restaurant in Thimphu. He shares his experience of this entertainment business.

1. How long have you been in this business?
It’s been about four months now since I took it over from the old owner.    [read more]

Bhutan Observer

Trading leaves for a living
For over a century, the farmers from Denchukha Gewog in Samtse have braved the vagaries of nature and
traded betel leaves with Haa. Rabi C. Dahal reports.
For the people of Denchukha Gewog in Samtse, how well the betel leaves grow in the subtropical forest around them matters a lot. Betel leaves is their lifeline. For nearly […]    [read more]

First private free school for Thimphu
Starting 2009, Singye Group of Companies will start Thimphu’s first free community school in Bjemina.
The school will be a charity school. Books, stationeries and uniforms will be provided by the school.
“To begin with, we will start pre-primary classes and class one, which will slowly be upgraded in the future,” said Tshering Chhoden, Programme Officer in […]    [read more]

I’m out the choppy waters of democracy, lads
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Give them their share They will remain there
Are we discussing rural-urban migration this time around? This social phenomenon forms the backdrop to many social issues on the parliamentary agenda.
We are discussing youth unemployment, which is largely an urban issue. Answers to this challenge are few given a stunted private sector and a zero-growth-policy-adopting civil service. The government’s much parroted answer to educated, […]    [read more]

Opposition Leader slams PM’s government performance report
It was another elbow to the ribs in the course of what many perceive to be an already strained relationship when the Opposition Leader expressed disappointment with the Prime Minister on the opening day of Parliament on December 24.
Opposition Leader Tshering Tobgye criticised Lyonchhen Jigmi Y Thinley’s report on the performance of the government, saying […]    [read more]

Development issues high on agenda
Not too much fumbling with patangs and coloured kabneys, or shuffling about in stiff tshoglhams, or huddling into comfort-seeking groups this time around.
A been-there-done-that sense of familiarity prevailed when visibly more confident Members of Parliament attended the opening ceremony of the second session of the first Parliament on Wednesday, December 24, in Thimphu.
In an address […]    [read more]

Bhutan gets 300- hour chham archive
The Honolunu Academy of Arts (HAA) has gifted a video archive of over 300 hours of high-definition footage on chham (Buddhist ritual dances) to the Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs yesterday at the National Library, Thimphu.
The gift, presented to the Home Secretary by Mr Gerard Houghton, the official representative from the academy, comprised two […]    [read more]

Drug abuse on the rise still
The narcotic control agency this year seized 13,526.5 items of pharmaceutical drugs illicitly trafficked from across the border along with 6,845 grams of marijuana. Kinley Dorji, the Executive Director said that most of the trafficking was carried out on the Thimphu-Phuentsholing highway.
The Bhutan Narcotic Control Agency (BNCA) seized 244 bottles of Corex (cough syrup), 4,745 […]    [read more]

Five years for manslaughter
A woman in her early twenties was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to five years in prison this month by the Dzongkhag Court of Pemagatshel.
Pema Lhamu from Murshing Gonpa, mother of a minor girl, was convicted for the death of her maternal uncle on the night of September 13. Her 44-year-old mother, who was […]    [read more]

The Centenary Citizen
Out of the five oldies born before 1907, Ap Lethro, 109- year-old from Khamey, Jigmechholing, Sarpang, was declared the “Centenary Citizen.”
The Citizen’s Initiative for Coronation and Centenary Celebrations will present a cash prize of Nu 25,000 to Ap Lethro.
Although his official age is 109, people in his village believe that he is older.
Presently, he lives […]    [read more]

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