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School districts eligible for funding to aid refugees – Sacramento Bee
Sacramento schools are eligible for federal funding to help 1,801 refugee children in grades K-12 who have arrived in the county in the last three years, the California Department of Social Services announced … [read more]
Immigrants Weave New Connections Through Old Looms – msnbc.com
Old wooden looms sat unused at an arts center in Cleveland for more than 20 years – until an Ohio woman started weekly weaving workshops where Bhutanese women practice English and learn American-style weaving. Rebecca … [read more]
Sacramento schools eligible for federal refugee money – Sacramento Bee
Sacramento School districts are eligible for federal funding to help 1,801 refugee children in grades K-12 who have arrived in the county in the last three years, the California Department of Social Services … [read more]
Shopkick funding shows real world mobile trend – Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Private Equity Week) – Shopkick, a Palo Alto, California-based startup that tries to get people to use their mobile phones to go shopping in the physical world, raised $15 million in a Series B … [read more]
Get the most out of your garage sale – San Jose Mercury News
Pockets heavy with quarters and dollar bills, I collapse on my white plastic patio chair at 2 p.m., exhausted. I’ve just learned through seven hours of hawking junk on my driveway that having a garage sale isn … [read more]
LÃÂder hispano Mario Obledo muere en Sacramento – Houston Chronicle
Mario Obledo, el presidente de la Coalición Nacional de Organizaciones Hispanas, ha muerto, informaron sus familiares. TenÃÂa 78 años. La esposa de Obledo, Keda Alcalá-Obledo, dijo que el activista … [read more]
Manage Disaster, SDF, SAFTA agenda of SAARC – PR Inside
2010-08-24 07:16:17 – Finance Minister SAARC nations will be attending a three day conference in Thimpu from Tuesday. The conference will draw consensus for the newly operational SAARC Development Fund (SDF), and second … [read more]
China Tightens Grip on Tibet’s Business Class – Time
Weeks after a prominent Tibetan arts dealer was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges his supporters say were trumped up after he crossed powerful local officials, a second Tibetan businessman has been … [read more]
CBS in joint venture to launch India TV channels – Forbes
MUMBAI, India — A unit of CBS Corp. said Wednesday it has formed a joint venture with billionaire Anil Ambani’s Reliance Broadcast Network to launch television channels in India, joining a host of foreign … [read more]
Kuensel – Bhutan’s National Newspaper
After 29 years, Drukair’s monopoly ends (but only for Paro-K’mandu for now)
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| To operate four times a week with plans to go daily |
Buddha Air 23 August, 2010 – When one of Nepal’s private airlines, Buddha air touches down at Paro airport today, the country’s 29 year old commercial aviation industry will be welcoming its first foreign airline that will operate commercial air services to Bhutan.
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Businessmen and officials work hand in glove, say residents
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| About 95 percent of the rural timer land up in sawmills |
Illegal Timber Business 23 August, 2010 – The residents of Haa, where illegal timber business is rampant, allege dzongkhag and forest officials are colluding with local businessmen in transporting the illegal timber.
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23 August, 2010 – The Gyalpoi Zimpoen’s office delivered semso to the family of Late Leki Wangchuk who was killed by a falling boulder on the night of August 21. Leki Wangchuk, 30, a native of Gelephu Sershong under Sarpang Dzongkhag was working in the Punatsangchu Hydroelectric Project. He is survived by his wife and two children. [read more]
Incomplete Joenkhar school hostel left without being handed over
23 August, 2010 – The rural skills development project (RSDP) has abandoned the construction of a girl’s hostel in Joenkhar community primary school in Sakteng gewog, Trashigang, that started in early 2009 and was supposed to be completed by the start of the this academic session. [read more]
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23 August, 2010 – His Holiness the Je Khenpo Trulku Jigme Choeda confered dhar to four newly appointed Lam Netens of Trashigang, Chhukha, Gelephu and Tashiyangtse dzongkhags in Tashichoedzong yesterday morning.
(From left) Lam Jigme Chopel of Trashigang, Lam Ugyen Dorji of Chukha, Lam Lotay Singay of Gelephu, Lam Yeshi Tenzin of Trashiyangste.
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23 August, 2010 – As in the case of other aspects of transition to modernity between one nation and another, and within a nation, the transformation in terms of ICT has been marked by unequal distribution.
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Wilful Negligence 23 August, 2010 – It reads like a scene from a Bollywood flick, where an urban knave visits a village, woos an innocent maiden, painting a comfortable town life before disappearing on the announcement of her conception. [read more]
Fund shortage means some investment plans may fall by the wayside
Bhutan Power Corporation Limited 23 August, 2010 – Some of its investments plans to improve and upgrade power supply and services will have to go, but which ones are to be struck off the list is the dilemma confronting the Bhutan Power corporation limited (BPCL), the country’s power supply and distribution company. [read more]
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23 August, 2010 – Prime minister, Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley, at the construction site of the Institute of Language and Cultural Studies (ILCS) in Taktse, Trongsa, on August 20.
The prime minister was accompanied by the education
minister, Lyonpo Thakur S Powdyel, vice chancellor of royal university of Bhutan Dasho Pema Thinley, GNH secretary Karma Tshiteem and several parliamentarians.
The Takse campus is spread over a 69-acre area about 25 km from Trongsa town.
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Imtrat Rolling Trophy 23 August, 2010 – Sherubtse College beat the Yonphula Army team in two straight but intense matches yesterday to win the annual Imtrat volleyball competition rolling trophy.
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Bhutan Observer
Happiness for bardo beings
The other day, I was reading something on Gross National HapÂÂpiness. How happy are we? Exactly what constitutes happiness? His Majesty King Jigme Singye Wangchuck didn’t come out with a mantra that will make you happy. As a child, I have heard the story of a soldier who stole a tinder box from a witch. [...] [read more]
Second Gold for Bhutan
Ugyen Wangchuk, who has earned a name for himself in the world of martial arts both within and outside the counÂÂtry, has brought home another gold medal during All India Karate Independence Cup held in Kurukshetra, Haryana, in India. This is his second gold medal in the same champiÂÂonship. He won the gold in 2008. [...] [read more]
Chongshing gets first farm road
The people of ChongshÂÂing Gewog in PemagatÂÂshel can now look forward to a better life with the construction of a 19.615-km farm road having begun last week. The farm road connects the gewog centre at Thongsa village with Denchi, the proposed new dzongkhag headquarters. The road will meet the on-going Khar-Yurung feeder road at Mandi [...] [read more]
Bhutan’s tobacco ban: A visitor’s perspective
Bhutan has distinÂÂguished itself interÂÂnationally through the 2004 ban on the sale of tobacco. Past difficulties in enforcing the ban have led to the passing of the new ToÂÂbacco Control Bill to provide serious penalties for the sale of tobacco. However, this led to fresh criticism of the ban as unworkable and ineffective. From a [...] [read more]
Himalayan countries discuss roadmap to adapt to climate change
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal on August 18 started a three-day high-level technical consultative meetÂÂing in Kathmandu, Nepal. Called ‘Sacred Himalayas for Water, Livelihoods, and Bio-cultural Heritage’, the expected outcome of the meeting will create a roadÂÂmap leading to the proposed ‘Climate Summit for a Living Himalayas in Bhutan 2011’. Dr Jagadish Chandra Pokharel, Vice [...] [read more]
Review of Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty, the latest film in town, is not the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty as the title suggests but the story of an ordinary boy who believes that he will meet his dream girl one day. The film starts with an old woman telling a story to some small children. She tells the children [...] [read more]
Community forest bears fruits
Tashi Wangchuk, 32, and his family from huentse lived with his in-laws for a decade in perfect harmony. However, with time, the size of the family grew and he realized that he needed to build a house for his own family. But with no easy access to timbers and credit facilities, his hope remained dim. [...] [read more]
Demonizing the Buddha
Our reporter Jigme Wangchuk goes to Paro to find out whether there is truth in a ghostly story surrounding a possessed television set If there was a modern Bhutan ghost story, it must be the one woven around a television set on a ridge above Tsento village in Paro believed to be possessed. Tsento villagers [...] [read more]
Doctors and healers need to coexist
Sir, Recently, the death of a four-year-old girl in Mongar, probably due to treatment a traditional healer had given her, has provoked debate and anxiety in the society. While some people, especially modern medical practitioners, blame traditional healers of killing people with their unsoÂÂphisticated ways of treatment, one cannot ignore the fact that we have [...] [read more]
Discussing public space
Journalists, civil society employees and the members of UN Solution Exchange on August 18 took part in a disÂÂcussion on public space. The discussion was part of a visioning workshop orgaÂÂnized by Solution Exchange Bhutan to promote public space for democratic disÂÂcourse. Public spaces play a central role in the formation of demoÂÂcratic culture in [...] [read more]
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