International Sources
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]
Something for everyone at Peoplefest – Boston Globe
Manchester, N.H. has embraced its diversity, and its Peoplefest is a celebration proving so. Traditions established more than a century ago by its original settlers – the French Canadian, Scottish/Irish, Italian, Greek … [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]
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]
Filmmaker to tape Norbu’s walk for Tibet – Herald Times
A filmmaker will document Bloomington resident Jigme Norbu’s walk from Indianapolis to Toronto. This isn’t the first walk Norbu — son of the late Indiana University professor Thubten Norbu, and nephew of … [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]
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]
CBS and Anil Ambani’s Reliance Broadcast Network launch TV channels in India – Minneapolis Star Tribune
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]
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]
Kuensel – Bhutan’s National Newspaper
Drukair’s first rival completes its first flight on the Paro-Kathmadu sector
24 August, 2010 – Bhutan’s airspace just got a little bit busier. Buddha air successfully conducted its first commercial flight between the Paro and Kathmandu yesterday. [read more]
Road widening work disrupts water supply pipes
Gomchu, Khaling 24 August, 2010 – Villagers of Gomchu under Khaling gewog in Trashigang are back to drinking water from seasonal brooks and springs rather than from piped supply lines.
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Laying groundwork for ministerial meet today
4th Finance Secretaries’s Meeting 24 August, 2010 – Finance secretaries of seven South Asian association for regional cooperation (SAARC) nations are in the capital to discuss their economic condition for the past year and build the regional economic conditions.
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RSDP manager blames delay on lack of gewog support for project
Joenkhar CPS Hostel 24 August, 2010 – The rural skills development project (RSDP) manager refuted charges against him of abandoning the construction of a girl’s hostel in Joenkhar community primary school in Sakteng, Trashigang, as factually incorrect. [read more]
Chiphen Rigpel 24 August, 2010 – Indian distributors of electronic devices have to commit to buy back the dysfunctional ones that Bhutan would use for Chiphen Rigpel. [read more]
Bhutan’s first constitutional case will be heard by the high court
Taxation Policy 24 August, 2010 – If the high court accepts the case, Bhutan’s first constitutional case will be over the government’s taxation policy, which the opposition leader has questioned and now litigated against. [read more]
12-year old girl returned to guardian
Child Trafficking 24 August, 2010 – Thimphu police have detained a woman, a vendor at the Lungtenzampa bus terminal, for allegedly trafficking a 12-year old girl to Nepal last year. [read more]
24 August, 2010 – Hundreds of travellers on the lateral highway got stranded at Trongsa after a massive landslide blocked the road yesterday, near the dzong viewpoint. [read more]
24 August, 2010 – It appears the ruling government might be dragged to court, with the opposition leader having filed a case in the high court on the government’s revision of sales and customs duty. [read more]
Dialysis machines 24 August, 2010 – The regional referral hospital in Mongar boasts two dialysis machines; but the machines, worth over four million ngultrums, installed about six years ago, are still not put to use, because of a lack of technicians, according to hospital officials. [read more]
Bhutan Observer
Meet the champions
Yeedzin FC were crowned the A Division Champions 2010 after beating Druk Star 5-0 in the closing match of the chamÂÂpionship on August 17. The club was awarded Nu 250,000 along with a rollÂÂing trophy and the chance to represent Bhutan at the AFC President Cup next year. Yeedzin won the league with a game [...] [read more]
Race on for Miss Bhutan title
The race for Miss Bhutan 2010 has begun in earnest with the grooming sessions already started from this week. The 18 finalists have been put up in three apartments in Langjophakha, Thimphu, where four girls share a room and popular actor Aum LhaÂÂmo is their resident mother. To motivate the girls, the three apartments have [...] [read more]
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]
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