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Hound w/ Ravage 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]
Communist guerrillas kill four Bhutanese forest guards – Deepika Global
THIMPHU, Bhutan, Jan 1 (Reuters) Four forest rangers were killed by a landmine planted by communist guerrillas at a Bhutanese village, police said today. ”Six Bhutanese forest rangers were returning to their camp after shopping when the tractor they … [read more]
Security alert in Bhutan after Maoists kill four rangers – Thaindian.com
Thimphu, Jan 1 (IANS) Bhutan has sounded a massive security alert after the killing of four forest rangers in a powerful landmine explosion by Nepal-based Maoist guerrillas, officials here said Thursday.A Royal Bhutan Police spokesman said the … [read more]
Bhutan on alert after Maoists attack – Times of India
THIMPHU: Bhutan has sounded a massive security alert after the killing of four forest rangers in a powerful landmine explosion by Nepal-based Maoist guerrillas, officials said on Thursday. A Royal Bhutan Police spokesman said the explosion took place … [read more]
Security alert in Bhutan – That’s Cricket
Thimphu: Bhutan has sounded a massive security alert after the killing of four forest rangers in a powerful landmine explosion by Nepal-based Maoist guerrillas, officials here said Thursday. A Royal Bhutan Police spokesman said the explosion took … [read more]
Newest refugees hail from Bhutan – Nashville Tennessean
The Bhutanese, people from a small Himalayan kingdom that is one of the last theocracies in the world, are the latest wave of resettled refugees in Middle Tennessee. Seventy-two Bhutan refugees, resettled by local Catholic Charities, started arriving … [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]
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]
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]
Immunising Bhutan – with Japan’s help – Kuensel Online
25 December, 2008 – The government of Japan will continue to support the expanded programme on immunisation (EPI) in Bhutan for the next three years. The health secretary, Dasho Dr Gado Tshering, the resident representative of JICA, Tetsuo Yabe, and … [read more]
Kuensel – Bhutan’s National Newspaper
BREAKING NEWS 1 January, 2009 – Four Bhutanese foresters were killed and two injured on December 30 in Sarpang after their tractor was blown up by an improvised explosive device planted on the road about four km west of Singay village in Sarpang. [read more]
Management to take administrative action against six employees
1 January, 2009 – Sixty-one employees of the Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan Ltd. (RICBL) breathed a sigh of relief yesterday after the high court acquitted the employees who were charged by the Anti-Corruption Commission of forgery, official misconduct and submitting fake bills while claiming reimbursement from the company. [read more]
1 January, 2009 – The high court on December 30, sentenced five soldiers of the royal Bhutan army to 13 years each in prison for gangraping a 16-year old girl in Thimphu last year.
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1 January, 2009 – National Assembly members pressurised the agriculture minister, Lyonpo Dr Pema Gyamtsho in parliament on December 30, on the ministry’s strategy to tackle the increasing incidence of wildlife attacks on humans, crops, livestock and property. [read more]
The good news for defendant, acquittal; the bad news: no compensation
1 January, 2009 – A full bench of the High Court, on December 30, dismissed the defamation suit appealed by the office of the attorney general (OAG) against the former authorised agent of PlayWin online lottery and owner of All Stars Entertainment, Sangay Dorji, and upheld the lower court’s judgment, stating that the decision was “fair and reasonable enough”. [read more]
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1 January, 2009 – Thousands of people received blessings from Rangjung Kharsapani or Chenreyzig (Avalokiteshvara) in Punakha dzong, when it was displayed to the public for three days, from December 27 to 29. [read more]
Twin reports reflect diametrically opposite views on this incursion
1 January, 2009 – The entry of new banks in the country has pushed up paid up capital of existing banks from Nu 200 million to Nu 300 million.
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SDF will be operational only after all member state parliaments ratify the charter
1 January, 2009 – The National Assembly, on December 30, ratified the SAARC Development Fund (SDF), which will be established in Thimphu once all member countries ratify the SDF charter in their respective parliaments. [read more]
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1 January, 2009 – About 130 volunteers from Tsenkhar, Tsakaling, Tsamang and Banjar villages contributed labour at the construction site of the 165-feet tall Guru Nangsi Zilnyoen statue in Lhuentse. The construction, although in progress is affected by shortage of funds, according to project officials. About 60 percent of the construction of Lotus Base (Sengthri) had been completed. [read more]
1 January, 2009 – Tshering Nedup, 31, a truck driver is sad and desolate. His only means of livelihood, his truck, was stolen from the parking lot on the evening of November 22. [read more]
Bhutan Observer
The roar of a pregnant tigress
What are symbols? Just as we cannot have thoughts without language, we cannot illustrate meaning without symbols. A symbol is a signpost erected on the grounds of collective aspirations. It is a seed of conviction that will harvest the many fruits of hope. Symbols are important in our lives.
2008 will be etched in history as [...] [read more]
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]
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