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April 1st, 2nd, 5th and 6th: Bhutan - The Height Of Happiness - ONE News
A deep and humorous look at Bhutan as it struggles to adapt to the invasion of modernity. Long thought of as a secluded paradise, Bhutan is renowned for rejecting economic prosperity in pursuit of Gross National Happiness. For centuries, its … [read more]
Bhutanese Show touches Japanese Hearts - Kuensel Online
26 March, 2009 - Japan and Bhutan share a bond more than friendship. This was felt when a cultural troupe from Paro, Phuntsog Drayang visited the Itami City in Japan on March 12. In its one week of stay, the troupe performed to a packed house at the … [read more]
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View All Alphabetically —– Afghanistan Albania American Samoa Anguilla Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil … [read more]
Asian Art Museum puts Bhutan on display - Contra Costa Times
Dance plays an important role in spiritual life of Bhutan. A Cham ritual dancer is pictured. IT STARTS WITH a subtle vibration coming from deep within the lower galleries of San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, followed by chanting and the clashing of … [read more]
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Comment on stories on this website and on all other Johnston Press newspaper websites. See a list of our websites here. Set up a personalised homepage featuring content from any Johnston Press newspaper website or from any site with a RSS feed … [read more]
Cambodia: Evidence at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal - 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]
Researchers: Cyber spies break into govt computers - AP - Guardian Unlimited
Associated Press Writer= TORONTO (AP) â A cyber spy network based mainly in China hacked into classified documents from government and private organizations in 103 countries, including the computers of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan exiles, Canadian … [read more]
10 hydropower projects finalised - Kuensel Online
25 March, 2009 - Bhutan and India have agreed to a final list of 10 hydropower projects with a total capacity of 11,576 MW to be constructed in Bhutan by 2020. This was decided during the visit of the economic affairs minister Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk … [read more]
Himachal hydropower station achieves record generation - New Kerala
Shimla, March 31: Hydroelectric power generation at the 1,500-MW Nathpa-Jhakri project in Himachal Pradesh touched a record 6,600 million units this financial year, officials said Tuesday. ‘The Nathpa-Jhakri station has achieved a record generation … [read more]
Indian Elections 2009: The Impact of Socially Conscious Corporate … - 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]
Kuensel - Bhutan’s National Newspaper
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30 March, 2009 - If you think watches are the only ones to pamper your wrists, then think again. Spring is the time to adorn and pamper your wrists with big chunky bangles.
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30 March, 2009 - While thereÂs been little alteration in our diet, a significant part of it has undergone a drastic change.
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One of the most common lifestyle diseases, diabetes, is on the rise in Bhutan. Nutritionist Pemba Yangchen tells us more about what a diabeticÂs basic diet should be like (besides the medicines, of course!)
30 March, 2009 - Hippocrates, the father of medicine, rightly said, ÂLet food be the medicine and let medicine be your foodÂ; the former for the ill and the latter for the healthy.
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30 March, 2009 - Sangay Chedup, 21, from Nanglam, is a VTI trainee at Rangjung. HeÂs currently working part time at Club Hive.
1. What are you training for?
IÂm in the electrical line. [read more]
A blast of sarcasm, a burst of humour, an idea  he gave Kuensel shape and set it on course
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| Dasho Kinley Dorji is the Secretary of MoIC today |
APPRECIATION
30 March, 2009 - A critic once told a Kuensel reporter, a caustic lilt of sarcasm tripping off his tongue, ÂOne of the first things you learn in Kuensel is how to read in between the lines. He was referring to the editorials written by KuenselÂs then editor-in-chief, Kinley Dorji. The remark was obviously meant to poke fun at the roundabout style of the editorial. But what he chose to ignore was the fact that they worked. Even to a critic like himself.
30 March, 2009 - A 17-year-old student of the national institute for the disabled (NID) in Khaling committed suicide by hanging herself from a pole on the ceilingon March 20.
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30 March, 2009 - More than two weeks after the Thimphu district court passed judgment on the Yarkay group versus the department of urban development and engineering services (DUDES) and the works and human settlement ministry (MoWHS), the construction company has re-appealed to the court on March 19. [read more]
30 March, 2009 - The Humane Society International (HSI) and the department of livestock will work on a long-term plan to manage the stray dog population in the country. [read more]
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30 March, 2009 - Seated cross-legged, eyes focused on a scroll and undisturbed by distractions outside, Thukten Tshering is in the zone. He has to finish painting a Toenpa thangka in three days flat.
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The prospect of an airport in Gelephu sends land prices escalating
50 km away
30 March, 2009 - Bishnu Maya Subba considered herself lucky when she sold 50 decimals of land for Nu 35000 in 1992.
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Bhutan Observer
Are Bhutanese good drivers?
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Briefly
The five-day annual Paro Tshechu will be held from March 30 to April 3 during which all government offices and institutions will remain closed. No stalls or fairs will be allowed at Dheyangkha but handicraft stalls will be allowed at Tshongdue acrchery ground, but no gambling will be permitted.
âIn the current year alone, the Office […] [read more]
Shedra expansion going slow
The expansion work of Pema Shedrup Choeki Gatsheling Shedra, the nunnery of Tang in Bumthang, is past its deadline. The 59 metres long and 40 metres wide building was started in 2004 with the plan to complete it in 2008. Now, the deadline has been extended by three years.
Occasional volunteers from the village and about […] [read more]
Gomtu going thirsty
The 10-year-old water supply system from Suktikhola in Gomtu, Samtse, constructed by Penden Cement Authority (PCAL), is grappling to meet the demand of the residents.
According to PCAL officials, due to population increase, the present water source is unable to meet the demand. The cement factory needs continuous water supply for its operation.
PCAL has identified a […] [read more]
Bumthang youth go for video games
During the day, Kinzang Tsheringâs video game parlour in Chamkhar town in Bumthang is empty and deserted. After 4 pm though, it is pulsating with life. School children aged between 12 and 25 years and a few young monks throng the place until 8.30 pm.
The four PlayStation sets excite the children into a cacophony of […] [read more]
Children learn to meditate
While most children in Thimphu spend Sundays watching television or visiting video game parlours, some are into a serious mental training. Tandin Pem reports.
A group of young children sit on cushions in a circle in the lotus position. Lama Shenphen Zangpo, their spiritual master, rings a bell, and all of them straighten their backs and […] [read more]
Lunch at Karmaâs home
For most farmers in Lhuentse, His Majesty the Kingâs visit to their villages and granting land kidu marked the end of share-cropping and years of heartache. But it meant much more than that. Tempa Wangdi reports.
As His Majesty settled for packed lunch, Karma Yangzom from Magar had an opportunity to share His Majestyâs lunch. âNever […] [read more]
BAFRA steps up for bird flu
Following the continuing and widespread outbreak of bird flu across the border in the Indian states of Assam and West Bengal, Bhutanese authorities have stepped up their effort to curtail its spread into Bhutan by setting up improved disinfecting facilities along the border towns.
The border town of Phuentsholing was the latest to possess one at […] [read more]
Viewers choose different artistes
Out of 10 categories for the viewersâ choice awards, only three went to the same artistes who won the film awards in the seventh national film festival organised by the Motion Pictures Association of Bhutan (MPAB).
Singye Galem was voted the best film and Tshering Wangyel, the best director. Chencho Dorji won the award for the […] [read more]
Bars boom in Bhutan
If a person in Bhutan wants to get a drink, the person is lucky. For, though Bhutan is a small country, it has a large number of bars.
There are different kinds of bars. You see them everywhere, from tiny ones snuck in some dark corner of a shady building to the posh bars. People different […] [read more]
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