International Sources
Bhutanese UNV among 600 evacuated from Afghanistan – Kuensel Online
19 November, 2009 – A Bhutanese UN volunteer, Lhap Tshering, was among the 600 UN international staff temporality evacuated from Afghanistan, after terrorists attacked the UN guesthouse in Kabul on October 20. Lhap Tshering, 29, who had started … [read more]
Haa fire guts three houses – Kuensel Online
He had come to Thimphu for treatment. The cause of the fire is not … get the time to get my coat, which had Nu 15,000 in the pocket,†said Gopinathan, who has been working in Bhutan for the past 14 years. “The fire spread too fast with the wind … [read more]
“Jesus Plus Nothing” – Sharlet on the Family from Harper’s – Democratic Underground.com
And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. —Matthew 10:36 This is how they pray: a dozen clear-eyed, smooth-skinned “brothers†gathered together in a huddle, arms crossing arms over shoulders like the weave of a cable, leaning in on … [read more]
The Hindu – Hindu
An official discussion paper on the status of Himalayan glaciers is coming under fire. The paper, issued recently by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, argued that the glaciers, which nourish several great rivers such as the Indus, Ganges and … [read more]
Region’s top bureaucrats eye better ties – Bangladesh News 24 hours
… Administration Training Centre in Savar next year, they may well be joined by a number of young would-be-bureaucrats from India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal Bhutan and Maldives. Bangladesh Civil Service rookies may in turn rub their … [read more]
Get the small town feel in Edmonds, Washington – Baltimore Sun
EDMONDS, Wash. — When I was growing up there circa 1960, Edmonds was a quintessential American small town. Within about three blocks we had a bakery, a variety store, a soda fountain, a hardware store and the Princess movie theater, where a Saturday … [read more]
Sub-Continent’s Berlin Wall – Khaleej Times
This fortnight saw the 20th anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. So liberating and decisive, when a vast multitude of people chose to see sense and forget trifles that generally incense mankind, when the similarities between two … [read more]
Down But Not Out As Yet – Outlook India
The rebel group has not forgotten how some of its important leaders went missing after the Bhutanese military assault against … several major concessions from New Delhi, including a land route to Bhutan and Nepal for purposes of business and trade … [read more]
Money Matters – But Less Than People Think†– Nationalpost.com
On one otherwise unremarkable day, countless eons ago, one of our shrewder ancestors first exchanged puka shells, a red pebble, or a nugget of shiny metal for a wildebeest steak and human commerce was born. Or, more accurately, money was born. Ever … [read more]
Human Trafficking Needs to Be Tackled in South Asia – Newsblaze.com
Lured from the hills of Nepal, Nisha found herself sold to a brothel in Mumbai at 11. Two years later, she had contracted HIV. She had been entertaining five to ten customers a day for those two years. At 19, the slightly-built Rakhi is the mother of … [read more]
Kuensel – Bhutan’s National Newspaper
12 families left homeless; nine lose all, no casualties
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| Cause unknown: One of the houses that was razed to the ground Photo:: Jamyang Phuntsho |
19 November, 2009 – About 12 families living in upper Haa town were made homeless when a fire, which broke out yesterday afternoon, completely gutted three houses and partially burnt another.
Nine families lost everything in the blaze. The three families living in the partially gutted house managed to salvage some of their belongings. [read more]
Tourism Council of Bhutan19 November, 2009 – Almost two years after it was established as a council, the tourism council of Bhutan (TCB) will finally function as a fully autonomous authority with nine new council members led by the prime minister and a restructured TCB secretariat. [read more]
19 November, 2009 – The tourism council of Bhutan (TCB) and the tourism authority of Thailand (TAT) are in talks to increase the flow of tourists between the two countries.
TAT director, Chattan Kunjara Na Ayudhya, said that the two authorities recently held a meeting in Thimphu to deliberate areas of collaboration. [read more]
19 November, 2009 – The white-bellied heron, a rare and endangered bird, has found a Shangri-La in Bhutan. Out of the 200 birds worldwide, 31, or 15 percent of the bird population, has found sanctuary in the Punatsangchhu basin. This is a matter of national pride. Indeed, it reflects the conservation efforts that Bhutan has put in at a time when threatened species of both flora and fauna are annually disappearing off the face of the earth. [read more]
19 November, 2009 – There will be no live TV coverage of the proceedings of the fourth session of the National Assembly, which begins on Friday, November 20, except during the opening and closing days and when the anti corruption committee’s annual report is discussed. [read more]
19 November, 2009 – A Bhutanese UN volunteer, Lhap Tshering, was among the 600 UN international staff temporality evacuated from Afghanistan, after terrorists attacked the UN guesthouse in Kabul on October 20. [read more]
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| NO MILK TODAY: Late rains and quake has cut oil production by more than half |
19 November, 2009 – Late rains and the September 21 earthquake have drastically reduced the extraction of lemon grass oil in the four eastern dzongkhags of Trashigang, Mongar, Lhuentse and Trashiyangtse. [read more]
Misuse by visitors puts six elevators in the new JDWNRH complex on the blink
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19 November, 2009 – The 12 elevators of the new JDWNR hospital complex have been temporarily shut down after six of them broke down barely a month after the complex opened. [read more]
19 November, 2009 – Drukair flights are back on schedule today, after a disruption of more than three hours at the Paro airport yesterday and the day before. [read more]
19 November, 2009 – A 25-year-old married woman from Chargarey, Samtse, committed suicide by hanging from a tree on the evening of November 15 near her house in Sarpang. [read more]
Bhutan Observer
Bhutan’s GDP growth up
As per the national accounts statistics of the National Statistical Bureau, the real GDP growth increased to 21.4 percent in 2007 from 6.3 percent in 2006. This growth was triggered by the substantial growth in the secondary sector. During the fiscal year 2007-2008, Bhutan experienced a trade deficit of Nu 2.9 billion to a trade [...] [read more]
Bhutanese film in Pan-Asia film festival
Milarepa, a Bhutanese film directed by Neten Chokling, will be shown alongside international films at the 2nd Pan-Asia Film Festival at the Apollo Cinema, Piccadilly Circus in the UK from November 27 to December 11.
Milarepa is a feature film, which follows the life of the legendary 11th century Tibetan Buddhist mystic and saint, Jetsun Milarepa.
A [...] [read more]
The call for responsibility
“Our King entered the coffee house, hugged us and asked how we were. I said thank you,†my niece burst out. She made me laugh so hard that after some time tears dropped down my cheeks. I do not remember the last time this happened to me or whether I ever experienced such a moment. [...] [read more]
Finally, FCB gets the auction yard land
After having waited for the last six years, the Food Corporation of Bhutan (FCB) has now acquired 29,000 sq ft land at the auction yard to augment its infrastructural needs for increasing transactions.
This year, in July, after the dry port land was shifted to Tori Bari near Pasakha, the State Trading Corporation of Bhutan (STCBL) [...] [read more]
Making the right cut
His love for movies started at a very early age, but movie industry had not actually been a career option for him. He aspired to become an army officer. However, the movie industry gained big time on what the military lost out.
Talop Wangchuk, 25, director and editor, is all about determination and faith.“This sounds like [...] [read more]
Organic is not necessarily green
Wealthy housewives are loading their shopping trolleys under a cringing weight of organic produce sold at twice the price its non-organic version.
I am talking here about the wide spectrum now available from beautiful, humble, red tomatoes to exorbitantly expensive organic hemp denim jeans pinned to their shapely bottoms by a bespoke tailor on her last [...] [read more]
Funeral site proposal comes through
The government has approved the construction of multi-religion funeral facilities at Hongtsho after receiving report from Thimphu Dzongkhag on the feasibility studies at Pungshi in Mewang Gewog and Hongtsho in Chang Gewog.
The report found Hongtsho more feasible as there is no human settlement nearby and the site has been used for the last 40 years. [...] [read more]
Dipping business in Gedu
More than seven months after Tala hydropower project was handed over to Druk Green Power Corporation on April 8 this year, shopkeepers and house owners in Gedu town say their business has become cold.
Most businessmen say they did well when Tala hydropower plant (THP) staff worked at Gedu headquarters as they were their main customers.
Now [...] [read more]
Khandro Drowa Zangmo’s reincarnation?
Ugyen Cheki Nima, five, from Trashiyangtse is at once different and precocious for her age. She has been wearing a nun’s robe since she was six months old.
At three, she started talking about her past life. She said that she is the reincarnation of Khandro Drowa Zangmo, a legendary divine queen, and that she has [...] [read more]
Sewing a living
More than 60 people in Lingmithang, Mongar, know how to use a sewing machine, and almost every household owns a sewing machine. That could be the reason why the two tailoring shops there do not run well. All thanks to Lopoen Phuntsho who is a tailoring master.
Three years ago, Lopoen Phuntsho, 55, started tailoring classes [...] [read more]
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