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India launches Nehru-Wangchuk scholarships for Bhutanese - Thaindian.com
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna, on his maiden visit to Bhutan, announced a new series of scholarships for young students from the Himalayan kingdom to study in prestigious Indian institutions, the external affairs …    [read more]

Men still preferred: VTI girls - Kuensel Online
26 June, 2009 - Nidup and Duptho have just completed their final exams at the vocational training institute (VTI) in Buna, Trashigang. In a week they will be in Thimphu looking for jobs. Both are days away from graduation but their minds are not at …    [read more]

India to offer scholarships to Bhutanese students - Daily News and Analysis
Thimphu: External affairs minister SM Krishna on Friday wrapped up his two-day “rewarding” visit to Bhutan with a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under which scholarships will be provided to Bhutanese students to study at prestigious universities …    [read more]

Making more Bhutanese employable - Kuensel Online
22 June, 2009 - Bhutan will soon get its first national human resources and development policy, which will set the pace for human resource development (HRD) and also put in place systems for the development of skills required by the country. The …    [read more]

NEPAL: Repatriation or resettlement for Bhutanese refugees? - IRIN
BELDANGI, 22 June 2009 (IRIN) - Over the past year thousands of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal have resettled in third countries - mainly the USA - but many others, especially the elderly, hope only for repatriation to Bhutan. Pahalman Bhattarai, aged …    [read more]

Indian FM visits Bhutan - Xinhua News Agency
NEW DELHI, June 19 (Xinhua) — Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Thursday visited Bhutan, where he flagged off a new flight connecting Bhutan and India, reported the Indo-Asian News Service on Friday. During the one-day visit, Krishna …    [read more]

Krishna in ‘kingdom of happiness’ - Indian Express
External Affairs Minister S M Krishna, on his first foreign visit after taking office, arrived here on a two-day visit on Thursday and held talks with the Bhutanese leadership. Krishna had a luncheon meeting with the 29-year-old Bhutan king Jigme …    [read more]

No ULFA here: Bhutan assures India - Zee News
Thimphu, June 19: Bhutan on Friday assured India that there was no ULFA presence in that country. “We don’t have any presence of any ULFA cadre here,” Bhutanese Foreign Minister Ugyen Tshering told reporters after signing an MoU with External Affairs …    [read more]

NEPAL: Bhutanese refugees find new life beyond the camps - IRIN
Thousands of Bhutanese refugees who are Nepalese origin, after having lived in camps in Nepal for as long as 20 years, have been resettled to the United States and six other countries with the assistance of UNHCR and IOM KATHMANDU, 10 November 2008 …    [read more]

Bhutanese refugees begin new life in Arizona - Human Rights Watch
Ganga Baral is among the first of thousands of Bhutanese refugees who will be arriving in the United States during the next several years. She and her family arrived this Spring in Phoenix from a refugee camp in the farthest eastern reaches of Nepal …    [read more]

Kuensel - Bhutan’s National Newspaper

IT training for 100 at Infosys

26 June, 2009 - Hundred graduates are leaving the country today to undergo intensive IT training in India, courtesy of Infosys technologies ltd. The training is being provided free of cost by the multinational company.    [read more]

Men still preferred: VTI girls

26 June, 2009 - Nidup and Duptho have just completed their final exams at the vocational training institute (VTI) in Buna, Trashigang.

In a week they will be in Thimphu looking for jobs. Both are days away from graduation but their minds are not at peace. Troubling questions nag them, mainly to do with their being girls.    [read more]

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25 June, 2009 - Picture Story: His Majesty King Khesar taking a break playing football with students of Zunglen Community Primary School in Zunglen, Mongar during his recent visit to Drepong gewog.    [read more]

Bhutan Observer

Ap Tsara speaks…
Wai! Every week, I hear a familiar lament, “It is easier to find a girl than a house here.”
Housing supply in urban Bhutan just does not keep up with the demand. In a nation with a miniscule population which possess and manufactures most materials needed for housing construction, this sorry state of affairs is akin […]    [read more]

Should the entire National Assembly session be telecast live?
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Footwear store in Geneva uses Buddha statue to hang shoes
26 Jun 2009, 0009 hrs IST, Pranava K Chaudhary, TNN
PATNA: Sight-seeing in Switzerland does not leave a vacationer horrified, but Patna’s Prabhat Choudhary, his wife and daughter were shocked to see a Lord Buddha statue garlanded with a pair of shoes at a footwear shop in Geneva.
“We were strolling on shopping street when my 15-year-old daughter […]    [read more]

Picture story
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Phuentsholing’s business face
Business in Phuentsholing is almost paralised while Jaigaon is thriving with millions of ngultrums pumped from Bhutanese customers every day.
Bhutanese think everything is cheaper across the border, but a Bhutan Observer study revealed that it is not always the case. Many goods, including electronic items, bought directly from factory, third country imports and branded Indian […]    [read more]

Parliament session begins today
His Majesty the Druk Gyalpo will address the joint sitting of the third session of parliament
today.
The annual report on the state of the nation, including legislative plans and the annual plans and priorities of the government, will be presented on the first day.
Besides Civil Service Bill and Local Government Bill, which are placed under the […]    [read more]

More money,less salary
Corporate employees say they are shocked to learn that their revised salary plus the 15 percent corporate specific allowance (CSA) do not amount to their current salary.
They say that, if the revised salary comes as arrears from January 1, 2009, they may have to refund the excess salary they have received until now.
Analysts say the […]    [read more]

Sewage mess fears
With only 60 percent of the municipal area connected to the Babesa sewage treatment plant and the plant already reaching its capacity, Thimphu may soon have to battle massive sewage that has nowhere to go.
With a daily capacity of 1750 cubic metres and sprawling 13 acres, Thimphu sewage system design was carried out in the […]    [read more]

Minister this week
Foreign Minister Ugyen Tshering is well known as an internet savvy and intellectual person. He is soft-spoken and humble. Many claim that he was the first Bhutanese to use a computer.
On Sunday, Lyonpo visited Semtokha Dzong in the morning with his son to attend a religious ceremony. Then he went on a short trek to […]    [read more]

Education standards
A blushful salute to my little Tshering Dendup’s small-big verse, penned in Class VII in 1988, in Paro:
Rusted spades scratch the soil/ To earn a crumb of bread and oil.
What an irresistible visual image! What felicity! What a bundle of focused suggestions!
In 2008, I stumbled upon rare felicities across the pages of my Reading Club […]    [read more]

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