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Anger management – Bangkok Post
Dharma can help manage anger. Usually we study about human resource management, risk management, time management and financial management, which are all concerned with external elements. But anger management concerns our inner self. When anger arises … [read more]
Family jewel Tradition near defunct – Kuensel Online
29 September, 2009 – As a young girl in Punakha, Peday loved wearing traditional ornaments to embellish her outfit for all kinds of celebrations in her village. She has a collection of ornaments like turquoise (yue), corals (bjuru) and pearls (muti … [read more]
Dashain – A homecoming festival – Kuensel Online
In this festival to commemorate the victory of good over evil, family members, wherever they are, make it a point to come home to apply tika, made of uncooked rice and curd, on the forehead and receive blessings for a good and long life from their … [read more]
Climate change brings natural disasters and disease – On Line Opinion
Climate change has set in, with global temperatures projected to rise up to 4C by 2100. Tropical cyclones will likely become more frequent and more intense, rainfall will increase and sea levels may rise by up to nearly a metre as tropical sea … [read more]
Climate change antithetical to sustainable development, nations tell … – UN News Centre
28 September 2009 – With countries least responsible for climate change bearing the brunt of the man-made phenomenon, sustainable development is being jeopardized by climate change, nations said at the General Assembly today. Foreign Minister … [read more]
Chandigarh/Ambala, September 28 – Tribune
The MC is finding it hard to execute its own biomedical waste policy for hospitals across the city. As per information, most hospitals are flouting norms formulated for the purpose and are mixing biomedical waste with regular garbage and throwing it … [read more]
Book News of the Day – Seattle Post Intelligencer
Colophons will be swollen and printer slugs tumescent when Bruce Whiteman, Head Librarian at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library of U.C.L.A. in Los Angeles, presents an address to The Colophon Club of San Francisco on October 13, 2009 titled … [read more]
New Indicators for Success – eMaxHealth.com
In mid-September, French President Nicholas Sarkozy proposed an overhaul to the way we gauge economic success, telling his national statistics agency to go beyond GDP by taking “quality of life†factors into account. The request came after Nobel … [read more]
Study says China quake a once in 4,000 years event – Miami Herald
Geologists say a major quake could strike at any time in Utah, with new research showing the last large temblor along the Wasatch Front was more recent than previously thought. The Utah Geological Survey and U.S. Geological Survey said in a study … [read more]
At least 8 dead as quake rocks Bhutan – CNN
NEW DELHI, India (CNN) — A strong earthquake rocked Bhutan on Monday, blocking access roads in the mountainous Asian kingdom and killing at least eight people, the country’s home minister told CNN. Rescue teams are en route to the quake-stricken … [read more]
Kuensel – Bhutan’s National Newspaper
Update: September 21 Earthquake29 September, 2009 –
At least 2,800 families in eastern Bhutan were still spending the nights outside in shelters and in sheds as of yesterday evening, with their homes having either crumbled or become unsafe to live in, according to dzongkhag officials.
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The burgeoning garbage problem needs both immediate and long term solutions
29 September, 2009 – In an effort to curb the mounting garbage problem and complement the segregation of solid waste at source, an introduction of a “buy back system” (BBS) for manufacturers and dealers of local products will be proposed to the government. [read more]
Like so many other customs, the ornaments of old don’t catch the young’s fancy
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| The young prefers the trendy to the bulky but expensive bjurus |
29 September, 2009 – As a young girl in Punakha, Peday loved wearing traditional ornaments to embellish her outfit for all kinds of celebrations in her village. [read more]
A week after the earthquake, some people have not returned home
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| Cheten Zangpo (centre) and his 84-year-old grandmother outside the shelter used to guard their crops from wild animals on the evening of September 25. |
29 September, 2009 – Before dusk falls, Tshomo and her children sup and get ready to leave their home. She dresses them in warm clothes – old sweaters over old ghos – as a thin fog begins to hover just above the feeder road winding up to Drametse. [read more]
A religious occasion for a family get-together
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| Nar Bahadur’s family |
29 September, 2009 – It’s the time of Dashain and so a time for Lhotsampa communities to get together.
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| Spiritual healing at Mongar hospital |
29 September, 2009 – The Mongar regional referral hospital organised the ninth teaching of chapdro (seeking refuge) and initiation of menlha lung (medicinal oral transmission) for patients and staff of the hospital on September 26, coinciding with the auspicious day of the medicinal Buddha. [read more]
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| Phub Lham and family in their kitchen |
29 September, 2009 – August 18 was the last date Phub Lham and her five children slept in their one-storey bamboo hut in Patala, a remote village in Tsirang.
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29 September, 2009 – Winners: Punakha HSS won the IMTRAT 2009 inter school quiz competition on September 26 that was held in Thimphu. Chukha HS stood second and Kelki HS third. Ten schools participated.
29 September, 2009 – For centuries, Layaps had depended on livestock, their main source of livelihood. Owing to their location, high up in the mountains, they have also always lost their cattle to tigers, leopards and bears.
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28 September, 2009 – A scene from the Shawa Shachi dance (Dance of the Stag and the hounds) during the first day of the Thimphu tshechu yesterday. The tshechu began yesterday although government offices, institutions and schools will be closed for tshechu break only from today. [read more]
Bhutan Observer
New stadium for Phuentsholing
Sports enthusiasts in Phuentsholing are awaiting a facelift of the Phuentsholing Sports Association (PSA) ground into a grand stadium. The stadium will benefit not only Phuentsholing but also the nearby southern dzongkhags.
The Phuentsholing City Corporation initiated the project with Nu 9.8 million assistance from the Asian Development Bank. According to Bikash Pradhan, the PSA Secretary [...] [read more]
Strengthening media for democracy
To identify key characteristics of the media environment in which freedom of expression, independence, and pluralism of the media can flourish, a meeting was held between Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC), Bhutanese media representatives and UNESCO experts at the MoIC hall last week.
The participants considered various means by which the media could bridge government- [...] [read more]
Festival sales
Everyone in Thimphu is in festive mood these days. With Thimphu tshechu underway and dashain around the corner, tailors and garment shops in Thimphu had a busy week. Tailors worked till mid night to deliver orders on time.
Both tshechu and dashain are occasions when people wear best of their clothes. Many sew new clothes while [...] [read more]
A model in the making
Modelling was not her dream. Never did she think that she would walk the ramps and promoting some well-known brands. But she is living the dream she never dreamt. From a timid girl, Samphelmo Sherpa has become a promising model at the age of 24.
I t all started when she was a freshman at Garden [...] [read more]
Word grilling
‘Word’ when s-prefixed becomes ‘sword’. And ‘s’ stands for ‘severe’. No wonder, my daughter dreaded the so-called ‘conselling’ by her school-counsellors in India. She said it was not ‘counselling’; rather, it was ‘grilling’. I would use Jug Suraiya’s statement, “‘Word’ is a four-letter word†to apply to such grilling sessions. And, she preferred corporal punishment [...] [read more]
Shingkhar specialties in Thimphu
Food lovers in the capital have something to look forward to this Sunday. Shingkhar Village Food festival 2009 will be held at Rabten apartments. O rganized by Shingkhar Dechenling Phenday Tshogpa, the food festival will be held between 12:30 pm to 3:30 pm.
On the menu will be traditional food items from the village of Shingkhar [...] [read more]
Reviving Daga Shindre Tshogpa
After operating in loss for few years, Daga Shingdre Tshogpa (DST), a farmer’s group in Dagana, is expected to spring back to life with renewed help from its stakeholders and SNV Bhutan. SNV (Netherlands Development Organisation) is working to help DST become a functional farmers’ group and a viable business entity. It is supporting the [...] [read more]
Dzongkha, Our National Language: Some considerations in relation to language change in a global context
On a global scale, language shift, language loss and language deaths are a staring reality. The sobering fact about the world’s minority languages – especially the oral ones with only a few thousand users (in most cases elderly members of the tribe or community), is that they are easily sucked or displaced by the more [...] [read more]
Polytechnic wins rolling trophy
Jigme Namgyel Polytechnic in Dewathang emerged winners of the HIV/ AIDS awareness football rolling trophy in Samdrup Jongkhar after beating Pepsi FC on September 22.
They defeated Pepsi FC by three goals to nil. The winners took home the rolling trophy, a token cup and cash prize worth Nu 10,001 and the runners-up walked away with [...] [read more]
Ap Tsara speaks…
Wai! They say it’s easier to find a husband or a wife than an apartment in Thimphu. Soon they will say that it’s easier to buy a car than finding a parking space. Times have changed, and Thimphu is running short of space – first for people, then for their cars.
Thimphu’s construction boom hasn’t kept [...] [read more]
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