Bhutan News archive for 30 August 2009

International Sources

FINER for health – Kuensel Online
30 August, 2009 – Delegates from the federation of industry and commerce of north eastern region (FINER), Guwahati, and Bhutanese medical professionals met yesterday to discuss issues related to the health care system. The meeting discussed how FINER …    [read more]

KPMG identifies 11 areas for Indo-Bhutanese cooperation – Newstrack India
Thimphu (Bhutan), Aug.23 (ANI):iLeading audit, tax and advisory services firm KPMG has reportedly identified eleven keys areas in which India and Bhutan can cooperate. Titled a ‘Study of Investment Climate in Bhutan,’ the KPMG report identifies …    [read more]

16th SAARC summit to be held in Bhutan – Xinhua News Agency
KATHMANDU, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) — The 16th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit is scheduled to be held in the Bhutanese capital Thimphu on April 28-29, 2010, a Nepali local media reported on Saturday. According to eKantipur …    [read more]

Chidambaram meets Bhutan King – New Kerala
Thimpu (Bhutan), Aug.22 : Visiting Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram called on Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck here on Saturday. According to Kuensel News, the two leaders are said to have reviewed bilateral relations and discussed …    [read more]

Chidambaram holds talks with Bhutan king, PM – Hindustan Times
Home Minister P Chidambaram, on a four-day visit to Bhutan, has held talks with the country’s top leaders including the King and Prime Minister on a wide range of issues including border management, security and checking militant activities. King …    [read more]

India to set up cultural centre in Bhutan – Times of India
THIMPHU: Bhutanese can now look forward to learning playing the sitar or the tabla and know more about Indian literature and theatre at their doorsteps, literally. The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) and the Bhutan government have agreed …    [read more]

Bhutanese double gold medallist – Kuensel Online
23 August, 2009- A Bhutanese civil servant has been awarded two gold medals for topping the masters in public administration (MPA) examinations and his outstanding performance in the final year from Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj (RTM), Nagpur …    [read more]

India’s cultural centre in Bhutan – Mynews India
Thimphu : Soon Bhutanese will be enjoying Indian culture as India will open up a cultural centre in Bhutan pretty soon. Bhutanese can now look forward to learning playing the sitar or the tabla and know more about Indian literature and theatre at …    [read more]

Media Advisory – Minister Kenney to meet Bhutanese refugees – CNW Group
SHERBROOKE, QC, Aug. 28 /CNW Telbec/ – The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, will meet with Bhutanese refugees at the Service d’aide aux Néo-Canadiens. The Bhutanese refugees, of ethnic Nepalese …    [read more]

Bhutan first private insurance company opens shop – Newstrack India
Thimphu (Bhutan), Aug 23 (ANI): Bhutan’s first private insurance company has opened shop here with a promise of providing quality and speedy service to become the country’s insurer of choice. According to a report filed by Chennai Online, except for …    [read more]

Kuensel – Bhutan’s National Newspaper

Picture Story

30 August, 2009 – The four new dzongrabs selected through open competition. (From left) Sherub Dorji, Samdrup Jongkhar, Mani Sangye, Zhemgang, Sonam Tshering, Bumthang, and Pema Dorji, Chukha. They were formally appointed yesterday.    [read more]

Grooming tomorrow’s leaders

30 August, 2009 – The capital city is literally under siege from our leaders of tomorrow.

They are pouring in, in the hundreds, from all parts of the country and filling up the nightclubs, restaurants and compelling photo studios and tailors to put in the extra hour.
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Thrompon of many chosen by few

Analysis 29 August, 2009 – When the country’s capital city, Thimphu, with around 80,000 residents, elects its first thrompon (mayor) later this year, not more than 10,000 people will be eligible to vote.    [read more]

Bhutan Observer

Use of our mountain slopes
With the rising rural to urban migration, the constraints on urban infrastructure will keep on increasing. It will be unrealistic to assume that this flow of people from villages to the towns will stop in the foreseeable future. Our towns will keep on expanding in a planned way as well as in an unplanned, haphazard [...]    [read more]

Six treated for mushroom poisoning
Six men from Denchi village in Pemagatshel were treated in the district hospital after they had consumed a poisonous mushroom on August 21. Two were brought to the hospital in a serious condition. The victims consumed a poisonous mushroom locally called khibamung.
“Pupil in one of the patients’ eyes had constricted when they were brought to [...]    [read more]

Ban on corporal punishment – a tall order?
Teaching in the Bhutanese classrooms are not the same today in an ever complex teaching – learning environment.
Almost suddenly, the society demands the “elusive” quality education. On the other hand classrooms have become cramped. Teaching, suddenly is not a one way communication where teachers are knowledge “giver” and students knowledge “receiver”.
On the other hand both [...]    [read more]

Imagining India: A book review
Title: Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century Author: Nandan Nilekani Publisher: Penguin, New Delhi Pages: 531 in hardbound Price: Rs 699
Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century (published 2008) by Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys Technologies Limited (Bangalore) and one of India’s ‘finest and most dynamic minds’ today, is a wealth of insightful perspectives, [...]    [read more]

What do we eat?
Sir, I am particularly worried about last week’s Bhutan Observer story on fallowing of wetland.
Bhutan is considered an agrarian society with little landholdings. As the editorial rightly said, less than 8 per cent of the total area is arable. This is a concern especially because if we lose such a little land to development and [...]    [read more]

His Majesty approves extraordinary sitting
Today, His Majesty the King granted a Kasho commanding the Speaker of the National Assembly and the Chairperson of the National Council to convene an extraordinary sitting of parliament. While it had been widely known that parliamentarians expected and additional joint sitting of the Civil Service and Local Government Bills, the kasho and royal messages [...]    [read more]

workshop on BRIDGE
HRH Princess Sonam Dechan Wangchuck on August 25 released electoral documents and DVDs on rules, regulations, guidelines, strategies and interpretation, at the opening of a workshop on BRIDGE (Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections) Civic Education Development Project sponsored by Ausaid
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Yangphel quarter finals tomorrow
The biggest archery tournament of the year, Yangphel Archery Tournament, has reached the quarter finals. The first match tomorrow will see Predator, Six Mongling and Daju Bhai playing at the lower bacho at the Changlimithang archery range in Thimphu.
From the 154 teams in the league, 24 teams will be playing eight matches of the quarter [...]    [read more]

Oh, this kabney protocol and naked people!
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Stop the nangten gold rush
Last year, Pemagatshel Dzongkhag saw seven chortens vandalised in a month. This year, this month alone, eight chortens have been vandalised in three gewogs in the dzongkhag. Last June, within two nights, four chortens were lost in Thimphu Dzongkhag, including three of them from Mewang Gewog alone in a single night.
And as aways, in all [...]    [read more]