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Thimphu: A disabled unfriendly city – Kuensel Online
1 October, 2009 – It was easier for 50-year-old Noriaki Sugo and his wife Kimie Sugo to come all the way from Japan to Bhutan than to move around in Thimphu city. The physically impaired couple, came to Bhutan on a 10-day cultural tour and was seen … [read more]
Setting standards for safer homes – Kuensel Online
September 21 Earthquake 1 October, 2009 – A team of Bhutanese engineers, who visited areas that were severely hit by the September 21 earthquake, is preparing a technical report, which would locate major earthquake fault lines and fractures within … [read more]
Your Say – Saudi Gazette
I would like to bring to the Health Ministry’s notice that despite the seriousness of swine flu, most private companies have not adopted any precautionary measures. I read in local newspapers that hypermarkets had installed the disinfectant lotion … [read more]
Marching to world domination: China celebrates 60 years of communism … – Daily Mail
The bunting is out, the streets have been cleared, the troops are making their final preparations, and even the massive portrait of Mao on the Tiananmen Gate seems to wear a more self-satisfied expression than usual. Today, China will celebrate the … [read more]
India was once a hub of ancient silk route (IANS Books – With Images) – Thaindian.com
Around 2,000 years ago, a loop of the ancient silk route, called the southern silk road, linked Yunnan province of China to the northeastern parts of India, says travel writer Sunita Dwivedi in her forthcoming book. Titled “In Quest of Buddha: A … [read more]
Bhutanese tapestry on display at UTEP – El Paso Times
The University of Texas at El Paso has added a new hand-sewn tapestry, “Four Friends,” to its collection of Bhutanese artifacts. Khendum Gyabak, a UTEPdoctorate student from Bhutan, presented the tapestry to the university. It can be seen in the … [read more]
Bhutanese Student Gives UTEP Gift – KFOX 14
EL PASO, Texas — The University of Texas at El Paso, already world famous for its Bhutanese architecture, acquired another piece of Bhutanese culture Wednesday. A 23-foot long tapestry that was hand-made in Bhutan was given to the university. A 23 … [read more]
India was once a hub of ancient silk route (IANS Books) – Mynews India
Around 2,000 years ago, a loop of the ancient silk route, called the southern silk road, linked Yunnan province of China to the northeastern parts of India, says travel writer Sunita Dwivedi in her forthcoming book. Titled ‘In Quest of Buddha: A … [read more]
Bad economy blamed for bleeding enrollment in local school districts – Grand Rapids Press
GENESEE COUNTY, Michigan — The hallways are emptier at more than half of area schools in a year when the economy was blamed for sending more families out of state for work, according to Wednesday’s early enrollment count. For a second year … [read more]
UTEP hangs tapestry gift from Bhutan – El Paso Times
The University of Texas at El Paso has added a new hand-sewn tapestry to its collection of Bhutanese artifacts. (Courtesy of The University of Texas at El Paso) EL PASO – The University of Texas at El Paso has added a new hand-sewn tapestry to its … [read more]
Kuensel – Bhutan’s National Newspaper
1 October, 2009 – The four-day Thimphu tsechu ended yesterday with the Guru Tshengye cham (Eight manifestations of Guru Rinpoche)
September 21 Earthquake 1 October, 2009 –
A team of Bhutanese engineers, who visited areas that were severely hit by the September 21 earthquake, is preparing a technical report, which would locate major earthquake fault lines and fractures within the country, to provide recommendations on relocating communities or setting new standards to build safer homes in the region.
Three women charge a businessman with fraud over a trip to the USA
1 October, 2009 – Three women have accused a Thimphu-based businessman of defrauding them in the lure of taking them to the USA. One of them, a beautician, has also accused the businessman of attempted rape, sexual molestation, harassment and theft of her money and belongings.
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| Heloisa Oliveira and her visions of cham |
1 October, 2009 – For the first time perhaps one of the most distinct features of Bhutanese culture and the core tradition of ritual movement, have been documented in hand-painted photographs, which capture the trance in which the mask dancers move.
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1 October, 2009 – A tourist from Austria, 67, died of cardiac arrest on the way back from Taktshang, Paro around 11.30 am on September 29. [read more]
Physically challenged Japanese couple bemoans lack of barrier-free infrastructure
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| Noriaki Sugo and his wife |
1 October, 2009 – It was easier for 50-year-old Noriaki Sugo and his wife Kimie Sugo to come all the way from Japan to Bhutan than to move around in Thimphu city.
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| A lot of space is available for expansion along the Amochu banks |
Amochu Land Reclamation Project 1 October, 2009 –
Phuentsholing is fast developing and expanding. The pace of expansion of the country’s commercial hub is in the meantime exerting huge pressure on the limited land. [read more]
1 October, 2009 – A 30-year old woman died on the way to the Tsirang general hospital on the morning of September 29 after delivering a 3.25 kg baby boy at her home in Tsholingkhar.
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1 October, 2009 – The country’s first woman magazine, “Yeewong, bringing her forward,” hit bookstores in Thimphu yesterday bringing a dash of glamour and colour to Bhutan’s gradually evolving print media
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1 October, 2009 – The road from Babesa to the capital begins well enough. Traffic moves speedily and smoothly on the expressway, exits and entries are clearly marked, reflectors gleam on either side. It seems too good to be true.
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Bhutan Observer
Community forest boom
Trashigang Dzongkhag will have 31 community forests covering 13,432.42 acres of land by December, according to the dzongkhag division forest officer.
Twenty-two of them have already been approved. Fourteen out of 22 community forests have been handed over to the Community Forest Management Group (CFMG).
The dzongkhag aims to have at least one community forest for each [...] [read more]
For better feed and fodder
With the objective to help gewog extension officials prepare fodder economically using locally available resources, the National Feed and Fodder Development Programme (NFFDP) in Bumthang conducted a feed and fodder development workshop in Trashigang last week.
Attending the workshop were dzongkhag livestock officers (DLOs), gewog livestock extension officers and farm managers from Trashigang, Pemagasthel and Samdrup [...] [read more]
Grand facade, filthy inside
The building houses the city and the narcotic control offices. Ironically, it is dirty and frequented by drug abusers. Tandin Pem finds out how the NPPF building in Thimphu is in a mess
The big, white building looks grand by the Bhutanese standards and it is spacious inside. But as one enters the building, the first [...] [read more]
Possible eviction worries Narphung shopkeepers
A recent media report on the possible eviction of shops alongside the Trashigang-Samdrup Jongkhar highway at Narphung has worried shopkeepers. Many of them are making plans to make adjustments and petition the agency concerned.
Eighty-two-year-old Khotsa, one of the first business people in Narphung, which is about 60 km from Samdrup Jongkhar towards Trashigang, said the [...] [read more]
Juggling childcare and career
With the hunt for babysitters becoming increasingly futile, working mothers in Thimphu are torn between filial obligation and career demands. Kinzang Choden reports
Her day starts early in the morning. She rushes to her husband’s car after dropping her five-month-old baby at her in-laws’ house. It is already nine am, and she is already late for [...] [read more]
New stadium for Phuentsholing
Sports enthusiasts in Phuentsholing are awaiting a facelift of the Phuentsholing Sports Association (PSA) ground into a grand stadium. The stadium will benefit not only Phuentsholing but also the nearby southern dzongkhags.
The Phuentsholing City Corporation initiated the project with Nu 9.8 million assistance from the Asian Development Bank. According to Bikash Pradhan, the PSA Secretary [...] [read more]
Strengthening media for democracy
To identify key characteristics of the media environment in which freedom of expression, independence, and pluralism of the media can flourish, a meeting was held between Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC), Bhutanese media representatives and UNESCO experts at the MoIC hall last week.
The participants considered various means by which the media could bridge government- [...] [read more]
Festival sales
Everyone in Thimphu is in festive mood these days. With Thimphu tshechu underway and dashain around the corner, tailors and garment shops in Thimphu had a busy week. Tailors worked till mid night to deliver orders on time.
Both tshechu and dashain are occasions when people wear best of their clothes. Many sew new clothes while [...] [read more]
A model in the making
Modelling was not her dream. Never did she think that she would walk the ramps and promoting some well-known brands. But she is living the dream she never dreamt. From a timid girl, Samphelmo Sherpa has become a promising model at the age of 24.
I t all started when she was a freshman at Garden [...] [read more]
Word grilling
‘Word’ when s-prefixed becomes ‘sword’. And ‘s’ stands for ‘severe’. No wonder, my daughter dreaded the so-called ‘conselling’ by her school-counsellors in India. She said it was not ‘counselling’; rather, it was ‘grilling’. I would use Jug Suraiya’s statement, “‘Word’ is a four-letter word†to apply to such grilling sessions. And, she preferred corporal punishment [...] [read more]
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