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FCB manager pleads guilty – Kuensel Online
The branch manager of the food corporation of Bhutan (FCB) in Paro, Jigme Ugyen, yesterday pleaded guilty of issuing false receipt amounting to Nu 2.9 million. With this, Jigme Ugyen has accepted all the four charges of forgery, deceptive practice … [read more]
Bhutanese refugee leader gunned down in Nepal camp – New Kerala
Kathmandu, April 22: A 52-year-old Bhutanese man living in a refugee camp in eastern Nepal was gunned down Tuesday, police said. Shantiram Nepal, a 52-year-old, was killed by a group of people who attacked him at his hut in eastern Nepal’s Beldangi … [read more]
Bhutanese refugee leader gunned down – Gulf Times
Shantiram Nepal was killed by a group of people who attacked him at his hut in eastern Nepal’s Beldangi camp on Thursday. Five people have been arrested on the suspicion that they were behind the killing. Nepal was said to have been a member of the … [read more]
Bhutan’s exiles hope for new start in Bay Area – Contra Costa Times
On the first day of English class, a dozen classmates from a dozen countries introduced themselves. They stood up and told each other what brought them to the United States. Bhim Timsina had the most to say, sharing a long, bleak story about a … [read more]
Drukpol best with bamboo bows – Kuensel Online
28 April, 2009 – The stench of human faeces may have filled Changlimithang ground yesterday if what Bhutanese archers say is literally true. The Drukpol (royal Bhutan police) team thrashed Gyaltse Khalowa (finance ministry), 25-0 in the deciding game … [read more]
Resettled Bhutanese in U.S. photos shown in refugee camps – Xinhua News Agency
KATHMANDU, April 25 (Xinhua) — The photos of Bhutanese refugees resettled in the third country of the United States have been exhibited in Bhutanese refugee camps in Jhapa and Morang districts in eastern Nepal, according to local media on Saturday … [read more]
Employment services ignore women: report – Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal
Rosalind Lockyer, executive director of the PARO Centre for Women‘s Enterprise, holds a copy of the report on Northern Women and the economy Monday, joined by PARO staff and board members in Thunder Bay. There is a lack of services for women over … [read more]
China frees monk filmmaker – Phayul
Dharamsala, April 22 – A monk who assisted in production of documentary film criticizing China has been released on Monday in Labrang, Sangchu County, Association of Tibetan Journalists (ATJ) said in a press statement today. Golok Jigme Gyatso had … [read more]
Indian Elections 2009: God and Country – Global Voices Online.org
Regions and Countries » Americas » Central Asia & Caucasus » East Asia » Eastern & Central Europe » Middle East & North Africa » Oceania » South Asia » Sub-Saharan Africa » Western Europe Countries » Afghanistan » Albania » Algeria … [read more]
Media should provide minimum coverage to extremist elements: Sherry … – Pakistan News Service
ISLAMABAD: Former Information Minister Sherry Rehman has urged on Media to formulate a code of conduct for itself and provide minimum coverage to the terrorist elements in media. While talking to a private TV channel program here Tuesday, she said … [read more]
Kuensel – Bhutan’s National Newspaper
28 April, 2009 – Most educated Bhutanese men love telling others that it’s in the Bhutanese culture to make sexual advances towards women. Meaning that flirtation, in any form, is culturally acceptable and that it’s no big deal. While this may be, to a certain extent, true, transplanting the attitude inside an office is a different matter. Because, very often, such an outlook manifests as abuse of authority by someone in power.
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| Two years on, the hostel is still incomplete |
28 April, 2009 – The room is about 12 feet by 10. About 30 students live within. Three share two beds. The room is so crowded that there is no open space on the floor, whose planks are rotting. There is no light. Students use kerosene lamps and candles to study and move around. The stench from the common toilet is so putrid that students cover their faces with blankets and sleep.
Increase of uncultivated wetland in the east poses a growing threat to national food security
28 April, 2009 – If the current rate of wetlands turning fallow is any sign, rice in Bhutan could one day become a luxury.
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| DPT needs to find funds to keep party afloat. |
Political infrastructure is close to defunct for want of finance
28 April, 2009 – With funding sources dwindling and party offices running on empty at their house owner’s mercy, the Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) leaders recently told their members of parliament (MPs) to raise money for the party. But that is easier said than done.
28 April, 2009 – At this time of year, every year, harsh words and buckets fly in Changzamtog, as residents squabble over drinking water, which is always in short supply.
Education ministry restores fast track double promotion for older students
28 April, 2009 – Twenty years after being scrapped from the education system, the ministry of education is re-introducing the ‘double promotion’ programme in Bhutanese schools.
28 April, 2009 – The new president of the Bhutan chamber of commerce and industry (BCCI), Topgyal Dorji (of the Tashi group of companies), formally took over his office yesterday in Thimphu. The prime minister, and other ministers, offered khadhar.
manager guilty of issuing false receipt to the tune of Nu 2.9 million
The branch manager of the food corporation of Bhutan (FCB) in Paro, Jigme Ugyen, yesterday pleaded guilty of issuing false receipt amounting to Nu 2.9 million.
28 April, 2009 – Prominent contributors to specific music and film industries were acknowledged with certificates and cash prizes of Nu 3500 during the World Intellectual Property (IP) Day on April 26 in Thimphu. [read more]
27 April, 2009 – You will see us more often in paper and in person. With the foundation already laid by our pioneers, Kuensel is increasing its frequency to six print editions a week, including a thicker weekend edition, starting today.
Bhutan Observer
Ap Tsara speaks…
Wai! A famous humorist once said, “There are three things most essential for a successful life. Good education, good heart and good humour.â€Â
Our elected ministers certainly have had impeccable education. The goodness of their heart will unravel within their term in power. Today, let us gauge their sense of humour.
In serious humour, for a poor [...] [read more]
Building houses for poor
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art,†they say. And it did begin in emotion for Asha karma, the founding member of Voluntary Artists’ Studio, Thimphu, (VAST).
VAST has lately initiated a community programme called Build-a-house through which VAST members will build houses for unfortunate families or provide financial assistance [...] [read more]
Farm services go to Drakteng
Trongsa Dzongkhag has inaugurated its first Farmers Support Services Unit in Drakteng, which is expected to meet the increasing demand for farm machinery spare parts and repairs.
The support services unit was set up to complement the services of the four regional agriculture machinery centres (AMC) that no longer have the capacity to cater to individual [...] [read more]
Recharge your phone battery with a blade of grass
Ingenuity of human brain seems limitless.
The arrival of cell phones in the villages has led to the discovery of ingenious ways of recharging a phone battery in areas without electricity.
In a most ingenious and curious way, a blade of green grass is all you need to recharge your cell phone battery.
Simply loosen the battery and [...] [read more]
Four marks of faith
At 72, Sangay Dema is frail and doddery. With one eye completely blind and the other with a failing vision, she is all but crippled by the vagaries of age and illnesses. But she has literally drilled holes into the ground with her sheer faith and determination.
Every day, she prostrates 50 times before the long [...] [read more]
Happy Earth Day
April 22 is Earth Day – a time when concerned citizens and world leaders reflect on the dire consequences of unabated development and consider options for healing the planet. Shenphen Zangpo looks at how Thimphu
can contribute to achieving this goal
If the world is to continue to support human life, there is one word that sums [...] [read more]
Yartsa guenbub goes regional
China will consider identifying an institute to serve as a regional focal agency to initiate, facilitate and promote research on cordyceps sinensis (yartsa guenbub), one of 15 resolutions of a two-day regional conference on cordyceps management and marketing in Bumthang on April 21 and 22 said.
The conference identified the need for community management of cordyceps. [...] [read more]
Breathing back life into PDP
The new executive members of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) are working to breathe back life into the party and take it to new heights and strength before the next elections in 2013.
The executive members said they were working collectively to make the party more credible. The new PDP president and Opposition Leader, Tshering Tobgay, said [...] [read more]
Shopping gold and diamond in Siliguri
It is weekend in Siliguri. Many Bhutanese are seen swarming different shops in the city. But of late, the Tanishq jewellery shop at City Plaza has become a favourite haunt for many Bhutanese shoppers.
Ever since India’s largest jewellery brand, Tanishq, was re-launched in Siliguri on March 28, many Bhutanese have started visiting it.
Showroom Manager, Sumanta [...] [read more]
When talent meets opportunity
He can sing but in six different Bhutanese singers’ voices, both male and female. He can speak in almost all the local dialects of Bhutan. He can make sounds of a flute without using one.
Commonly known as Jalap Lakey he is an entertainer, actor and a singer.
He was six when he could imitate the sounds [...] [read more]
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