Ending the Year with a Bang!

5 January, 2009 - No New Year celebration is complete without parties. New Year’s Eve revellers, cutting across all ages, converged on various discotheques in the city as they bid 2008 goodbye. Their swelling numbers, with each passing year, are an indication of the city’s growing love for partying and merry making.    [read more]

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5 January, 2009 - Pema, 24, works in Taj Tashi. The English honours graduate shares his views on New Year resolutions.

1. How long have you been working for?
It’s been six months now since I started working.    [read more]

Audit slams urban roads

5 January, 2009 - The Royal Audit Authority, in its report, has pointed out that the construction of roundabouts, road dividers, and concrete blocks on already blacktopped roads was a bad idea. They robbed road space, which was already narrow, hassled drivers, and wasted scarce government resources, it said.    [read more]

Bhutan Observer

12-year-old raped
A soldier has been accused of raping a 12 year-old girl on the night of December 25.
The victim was tending to her grandmother who was admitted in Gidakom hospital. The army man was also attendant to his wife in the same hospital. They were staying in different rooms in a rented house near the hospital.
On […]    [read more]

MPs turn down bags
National Assembly members resented the idea of receiving a cheap freebie so much that they spent a good 20 minutes of the first morning of the year talking about it, in session.
The Speaker brought up the matter saying Druk Holdings and Investments (DHI) had offered each parliamentarian a new leather bag but there was a […]    [read more]

Sonam is first Bhutan Star
This 19-year-old girl from Trashigang was planning further studies when Jigdrel Trophel kicked off Druki Sungki Dendur. Sonam Yangden thought she could study after the initial selection so she gave it a try. Little did she suspect that she would be declared the first Bhutanese Star on new year’s eve. Dressed to impress in grand […]    [read more]

Kangpar road plan remains changed
The Public Works Department (PWD) has declined the former Kangpar Gup Penjor’s petition to consider retaining the original Kangpar feeder road plan. While his petition stated that the original route passing through Bedengphu would benefit more villagers, the people from Thrimshing and Khamey put up a separate petition favouring the realigned route.
According to sources, the […]    [read more]

Tsangpo on mystery fire
Several mysterious fires have ravaged a house in Tsangpo village in Trashigang. The first fire broke out from Norbu Wangdi’s kitchen last year.
Norbu Wangdi thought that the fire was caused by carelessness or electric short circuit. “But I was wrong,” he said. 34 days after the first fire, another fire gutted the ceiling of his […]    [read more]

Trees or cows?
Villagers in Lumang and Thrimshing need more than a couple of new Ficus trees and some vegetable seeds to prevent land degradation and achieve sustainable land management, according to Trashigang’s District Livestock Officer.
“We cannot make any impact with one or two plantations of fruits, ficus and fodder trees. Plantations would be required in massive amount […]    [read more]

A weaver’s pride
Forty-four years ago, a 10-year-old girl weaves a kira. She keeps it as an heirloom for 44 years. Now 55, she wears her prized kira. Gyembo Namgyal reports.
There are certain things in life which each one of us cling to dearly. Such dear things could vary individually based on one’s status, their values or significance […]    [read more]

Fatherless children and census dilemma
The census fate of children without a legitimate father hangs in balance. Where do they belong? Gyembo Namgyal reports.
Children born out of wedlock find it difficult to get themselves registered in the census if their father’s identity is not known. Therefore, more mothers are now moving from the traditional out-of-court settlements to court settlements and […]    [read more]

Loden Zhitshog: Knowledge has no owner
Sonam Wangdi is the first student to be sponsored a two-year degree course by Loden Foundation in BSC Visual Communication in Patrician College of Arts and Science, Chennai.
Sonam said, “I am grateful that such a foundation exists because it has made a difference in the lives of people like me. Loden is indeed realising GNH […]    [read more]

Enchanted by Bhutan - A book review
When the fourth Druk Gyalpo Jigme Singye Wangchuck announced his abdication of the Throne in December 2006, the nation felt suddenly orphaned. What we did not know was that even foreigners shared our feelings. Yoshiro Imaeda, a Japanese who worked for Bhutan for a long time, was one such person whose life was deeply affected […]    [read more]

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