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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]

India to offer scholarships to Bhutanese students - Indolink
Thimphu, Jun 19 (PTI) External Affairs Minister S M Krishna today wrapped up his two-day “rewarding” visit to Bhutan with an MoU under which scholarships will be provided to Bhutanese students to study at prestigious universities in India. Before …    [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]

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]

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]

Tibetans celebrate Karmapa Lama’s 24th birthday in Dharamshala - New Kerala
Dharamshala, June 26 : Tibetans living in exile in Dharamshala celebrated the 24th birthday of Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the 17th Karmapa on Friday. Born on June 26, 1985 in Kham region of eastern Tibet, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, is heir to the Tibetan’s …    [read more]

Krishna meets Bhutan foreign minister on his trip - Hindustan Times
Indian Foreign Minister S M Krishna arrived in Bhutan on Thursday on his maiden visit abroad after taking over his new assignment as the minister. His Bhutanese counterpart Lyonpo Ugyen Tshering received him and the rest of the Indian delegation at …    [read more]

No ULFA in Bhutan - Kuensel Online
21 June, 2009 - In response to a question from an Indian journalist during a press conference yesterday in Thimphu, that ULFA may be camped within the borders of Bhutan, the Bhutanese foreign minister, Lyonpo Ugyen Tshering, said that it was not true …    [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

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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