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Bhutanese PM meets Manmohan Singh and other leaders in Delhi - Newstrack India
New Delhi, July 1 (ANI): Bhutanese Prime Minister Jigmi Y Thinley held meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday evening at Hyderabad House here. Both the leaders believed to have discussed about ways and means to take the bilateral …    [read more]

Suicide rate increasing in the land of happiness - Foreign Policy Blogs
In 1972, the number one priority of new King Jigme Singye Wangchuck of Bhutan was the country’s Happiness. It reads like the beginning of a children’s story, but it’s a real quantifiable concept. A measure of overall personal satisfaction weighed …    [read more]

Reader postcard from Punakha, Bhutan - Seattle Times
Photographer’s description: The Punakha Dzong is a historic Buddhist monastery in Bhutan. Established in the 1600s, it is the winter home of the country’s Buddhist leader. We visited in May in a collaboration between the University of Washington Burn …    [read more]

Bhutanese PM to meet Manmohan Singh next week - Thaindian.com
New Delhi, June 27 (IANS) Bhutanese Prime Minister Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y. Thinley arrives here Tuesday on a four-day visit - the first by a foreign leader to India since the new government took charge last month. With the new Indian government placing …    [read more]

Bhutan, India work to strengthen economic ties - Newstrack India
New Delhi, July 1 (ANI): Bhutan Prime Minister Jigme Yoser Thinley called on Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee here on Wednesday over bilateral economic relationship. Bhutan has liberalised its Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) laws to attract Indian …    [read more]

Bhutanese PM first to visit India during Manmohan’s second term - Thaindian.com
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) Bhutanese Prime Minister Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y. Thinley will become the first head of a foreign state to visit India during the second tenure of the Manmohan Singh government when he arrives here on a four-day visit Tuesday …    [read more]

A Bhutanese in Afghanistan - Kuensel Online
29 June, 2009 - “Nothing moves here without paying bribes,” says one of the rare Bhutanese United Nations’ employees in Afghanistan, Karma Jimba. Karma is among four Bhutanese living and working in war torn Afghanistan. When he first started …    [read more]

Concern over Bhutan suicide rate - BBC South-Asia
The authorities in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan say that they are increasingly worried about a recent spate of suicides. Last week alone there were three suicides of two girls and a man. The country’s main newspaper, Kuensel, says that in January …    [read more]

Bhutan, India to develop 10 hydel projects by 2020 - New Kerala
Kolkata, June 30: India and Bhutan will jointly develop 10 hydroelectric projects by 2020, according to Bhutanese Prime Minister Jigmi Y. Thinley. “By 2020, the two countries have agreed to develop a little over 11,000 megawatts hydel power green …    [read more]

Bhutan liberalizes FDI laws to attract Indian investors - Economic Times
KOLKATA: Bhutan is keen to attract Indian investors in areas like generation of hydel power, information and communication technology, hospitality, agriculture and infrastructure. With such an objective, the Bhutanese government is liberalizing its …    [read more]

Kuensel - Bhutan’s National Newspaper

WFP – In philatelic appreciation

1 July, 2009 - The world food program (WFP), in collaboration with Bhutan post, launched yesterday a series of postal stamps, which reflect their support to various sectors in Bhutan.

The stamps were launched in Thimphu as WFP celebrated its 35th anniversary.    [read more]

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30 June, 2009 - The Chief of Army Staff, Indian Army, General Deepak Kapoor receiving a guard of honour at the courtyard of Tashichhodzong yesterday. The general, who is in the country as a guest of the government, received an audience from His Majesty the King and met with Chief Operations Officer of the RBA, Major General Batoo Tshering.    [read more]

Bhutan Observer

160-km drive for water
It is Saturday evening in Pasakha, Phuentsholing, and everyone is planning for a relaxed Sunday. But for Naku Dukpa, it is time to go to Shaba Tomja in Paro where his family of four lives.
Naku is an employee of Tashi Beverages. Every Saturday, he drives 160 km to Paro to do an important task. On […]    [read more]

Each day, six road accidents
On average, there are six serious vehicle accidents in Thimphu every day. Last week, there were two deaths caused by vehicle accidents.
According to the traffic division of the police, a minimum of 30 people are caught every day violating traffic rules.
Major Passang Dorji, the Superintendent Police of traffic division, said accidents could be avoided if […]    [read more]

Gearing towards community policing
Four police officers have been sent to Japan as part of setting up a pilot community policing programme.
The officers will learn and observe the crime prevention activities that have been carried out in Japan. Upon their arrival back home, they will submit their study findings to the cabinet.
If the proposal is accepted, the community policing […]    [read more]

A guide to flowers of Bhutan
The effort made by Wangchuk, an untrained Botanist, for his first book A pictorial guide to the wild flowers of Bhutan is commendable. The book is the first of its kind written by a Bhutanese author. Most people, who study taxonomy, know how daunting it is to collect data on classification and identification. The four […]    [read more]

What cable operators broadcast
With an estimated 30,000 cable subscribers and 52 cable operators in 2008, there is a growing public concern over the contents broadcast by cable operators in their local channels. There seems to be a lack of stringent regulation for content broadcast by the local channels, which is evident in the quality of their broadcast.
According to […]    [read more]

Business of giving colours and shades
C harlie Chaplin is known to have once said that clothes and make-up, which he had on during performances, made him feel the person he was. Although that may not be the case with our local celebrities, make-up does add to a person’s character.
A ccording to producer and director Tshering Wangyel, make-up artists are very […]    [read more]

Culture versus changing fashion
Bhutanese traditional dress for women, kira, has taken a transitional change over the years. From an ankle-length dress bound around the waist by a kera and strapped on the shoulders by a pair of koma and a long-sleeved blouse or wonju inside with a small coat or tego outside has now altered to waist cut, […]    [read more]

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Democracy behind closed doors
The National Assembly is a stage and all its members merely absurd players. That is all you know in Bhutan, and all you need to know.
The NA members, excluding the two opposition members, say that live telecast of the entire proceedings should be stopped. And the reasons are undemocratic at best, and at worst, absurd.
Reason […]    [read more]

Redressing the education system
Over several years now, we have read in newspapers about redressing our education system. The core of our expressions were in form of complaints, criticism and more so the blame-games. As a positive onlooker, I have always admired those writers because they are all concerned about the future of Bhutan’s education system.
I have not been […]    [read more]

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