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Hunger strike called off as govt commits to meet their demands Posted on 26 November 2011 by Editor Following a written commitment from the government to start the registration of all kinds of asylum seekers including new ones within the next five months, the ongoing hunger strike was called off on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. Acting CDO of Jhapa, Yogendra Dulal, offers Khada to hunger

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Satpal Singh Rawat, the MP for Indian National Congress party, MLA in the 15th Lok Sabha-lower house of Indian Parliament. He is also the head of Manav Utthan Seva Samiti, an religious organization. Last august the politician cum religious leader-Revered by his follower as Stapal ji maharaj wa in Thimphu to strengthen the enforcement of Drukpas costumes over minority hindus in Bhutan. Some

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His Majesty King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck wears Tika6 October, 2011 - His Majesty celebrates Dassian Tikka with the people of Samtse. Coinciding with this important day, His Majesty granted Kidu to hundreds of people, from students to the elderly. His Majesty is on a tour of Southern Bhutan visiting areas affected by the recent earthquake.His Majesty King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck in a

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THIS IS HOW THE DESPOTIC REGIME IN THIMPHU SEND CONDOLENCE ON THE DEATH OF ITS OPPOSITION LEADER WHO DIED IN EXILE- FROM THE GOVERNMENTS MOUTHPIECE -KUENSEL.རོང་མཐོང་ཀུན་ལེགས་རྡོ་རྗེ་གྱོངས་ཡོདཔ། རིག་འཛིན་དབང་ཕྱུག། ༉ ནེ་པཱལ་ལུ་ འབྲུག་ཀོང་གེ་རེསི་ཚོགས་པ་གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་མི་ རོང་མཐོང་ཀུན་ལེགས་རྡོ་རྗེ་དེ་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༡༠ པའི་ཚེས་༡༩ འི་ནུབ་མོའི་ཆུ་ཚོད་༡༡ ལུ་ རྒྱ་གར་སི་ཀིམ་ མ་ནི་པཱལ་སྨན་ཁང་ནང་སྦེ་ གྱོངས་སོ་

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.SAARC members agree to reduce sensitive lists by 20pcWednesday, 12 October 2011 13:51 ISLAMABAD: The South Asian Association for Regional (SAARC) Cooperation working group for reduction in sensitive list have agreed to reduce their sensitive lists by 20 percent.A statement issued by the Ministry of Commerce here Wednesday said that reduction of 233 tariff lines which is an obligation for

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Bhutan refuses third country intervention KOSH RAJ KOIRALA KATHMANDU, April 17: Bhutan has refused any intervention from India or any other third country in resolving the problem of Bhutanese refugees living in various camps in eastern Nepal for over two decades. Visiting Bhutanese Prime Minister Jigmi Y Thinley has even refused to acknowledge that the 108,000-plus people who began living in

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Consumer Price Index 12 April, 2011 - After a sharp drop in 2009 to 2.96 percent, Bhutan’s inflation rate has been steadily increasing to reach 9.67 percent in the first quarter of 2011. In the last quarter of 2010, the inflation rate was 7.14 percent.The national statistic bureau’s recent release of the consumer price index, for the first quarter ending 31 March this year, states that the year

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Intention to raise in parliament (again) the compulsory wearing of the gho and kira Damphu town: Loitering in the small town other than in gho and kira could cost big Dzongkhag Yargye Tshogdu 13 April, 2011 - Tsirang dzongkhag’s yargye tshogdu, after elaborately discussing the need to wear gho and kira in town, decided to submit the issue as an agenda for discussion in the parliament. The

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Posted: Sunday, March 20th, 2011 Kate Middleton and Prince WilliamAs Prince William and Kate Middleton look forward to life after the wedding, what lessons — good and bad — can they learn from other royal families around the globe? In the latest BBC America Modern Monarchy show, I've been taking a look at worldwide "royal do's and don'ts." Which royal families have retained the support of their

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Link to Glacier study Resources HereManufacturing.Net - March 04, 2011 Announcement of Data Release Glacial Lake Inventory of Bhutan using ALOS (Daichi) DataThe Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is cordially announcing public release of "Glacial Lake Inventory of Bhutan using the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS, nicknamed "Daichi") Data" (evaluation version). In the

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Written by: SAAGBy Dr. S.ChandrasekharanBhutan took another major step in institutionalising democracy by starting the local council elections.There were many problems and delays in the run up to the elections. Firstly, there was the delay in demarcation of the boundaries to form 1042 Chiwogs ( village level constituencies) and higher grouping of Gewogs and four municipal levels.Secondly, there

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Jayanth Jacob & Srinand Jha, Hindustan TimesNew Delhi, February 19, 2011 Email to AuthorLand acquisition politics in poll-bound West Bengal is derailing the first India-Bhutan rail link project. The project, laced with strategic, business and symbolic underpinnings, was expected to be completed in 2013. With a host issues plaguing the project — announced by Prime Minister M anmohan Singh while

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: Darrang, October 21, 2010The construction work of a Bhutan border check gate along Indo-Bhutan international border at Daifam near Bhairabkunda has been temporarily suspended following an objection raised by the Udalguri district administration. By a press release ,SS Meenakshi Sundaram, Deputy Commissioner, Udalguri district said that-Bhairabkunda on the Indian side has been the tri-junction

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TNN | Feb 20, 2011, 11.08pm ISTKOKRAJHAR/GUWAHATI: Even as Bhutan has been refuting that its territory is being used by militants from India's northeast, the recent attack on Bhutanese security personnel inside that country's territory by suspected NDFB (anti-talks) militants brought to the fore the fact that the Himalayan kingdom is still not immune to the activities of the outlawed armed group.

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AKANSHYA SHAH NEW DELHI, March 13: If you are a Nepali national and flying to New Delhi, rest assured, you have no access to the duty free shops at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), which by all international standards is considered the fourth best in the world. The newly implemented customs rule governing IGIA has barred Nepali nationals the access to duty free commodities. This

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STATEMENT OF MOTIKHAR ACHRAJA Date:-11/03/20111. My Father Mr. Devi Charan Acharja was forced to live Bhutan in June 1992.2. In 1986 I separated from the joint family and staying with my nine family members. While appropriating the land among five brothers, I got the share of land measuring 10.31 acres under the old thram (land registration number)

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News Release21 February 2011 ADB, Japan Support Economic Opportunities for Women in BhutanMANILA, PHILIPPINES - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of Japan are providing assistance of $1.95 million to Bhutan to support increased economic opportunities for women.The grant from the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction, administered by ADB, will strengthen the gender mainstreaming and

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Buddhist Bhutan Wrestles With 'Shocking' Abuse Study By Vishal AroraReligion News ServiceNEW DELHI (RNS) The government commissioner charged with promoting "Gross National Happiness" in the tiny Buddhist nation of Bhutan said he was deeply dismayed by a recent study that found a majority of Bhutanese women think their husbands have the right to beat them.Karma Tshiteem, head of Bhutan's

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Choices for those cut offEnrol in a private school, repeat the same class or train for a blue-collar jobLabour Market 17 February, 2011 - With the cut off point fixed at 61 percent for Class X, the ministry of education will absorb only 3,727 students into 32 government higher secondary schools across country.A total of 9,330 students appeared for the examination in 2010 and 5,236 students will

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Press Trust Of India Washington: US Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero will visit India, Bhutan and Nepal this week to discuss bilateral issues and look into the situation of refugees in the region, the State Department has said.During her trip to southern India and New Delhi, Otero will discuss bilateral coordination on global issues, visit Tibetan refugee settlements,

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2011-02-07 18:30:00 India on Monday announced that it would provide a grant of Rs.15 crore to Bhutan for education development.The announcement was made by visiting Indian External Affairs Minister S.M.Krishna after calling on Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and meeting the country's acting Foreign Minister Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk.iplomatic ties between India and Bhutan were

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(AFP) – NEW DELHI — The top diplomats of India and Pakistan held talks on Sunday in Thimphu, the Bhutanese capital, in the first high-level meeting between the two rival countries since July.Indian foreign secretary Nirupama Rao and her Pakistan counterpart Salman Bashir met on the sidelines of a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) conference, the Press Trust of India news

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Dhaka has requested New Delhi to issue notification to allow Nepal and Bhutan transit through India, which would give the two countries access to the Mongla and Chittagong ports, reports UNB. The request came when Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu Moni held a discussion with Indian external affairs minister S M Krishna Monday in the sideline of the SAARC Council of Ministers' meeting at Thimphu,

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2.5 percent unemployment rate achievable: PM23 January, 2011 - With the kind of progress made in employment of Bhutanese, the government is optimistic to bring down the unemployment rate to 2.5 percent by the end of 2012.The prime minister Jigmi Y Thinley said this during the third quarterly review of accelerating Bhutan’s socio economic development (ABSD) on January 20 in Thimphu. “It seems to

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Some have taps but no water (file photo)Perspective 23 January, 2011 - Access to clean drinking water in Bhutanese schools is improving with 290 schools out of 576 having sufficient water supply systems irrespective of the availability of taps, according to the annual education report, 2010.Ensuring every school with sufficient drinking water was one of the longer time aims of education ministry.

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Indian officer rebukes Delhi's claim of Nepal Maoist training Indian rebelsTelegraph NepalOne of the high-ranking officials of India's Central Intelligence Bureau (CIB) has ridiculed the allegation made by his own government that Maoists in Nepal were providing training to the Indian Maoists.The Kantipur Daily dated November 15, 2010 reports quoting local newspaper in Siliguri India "The Himalaya

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Sixty years ago an atmosphere of cooperation and resolve to protect those uprooted by war and persecution prevailed as States negotiated the creation of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).Back then, few UN Member States imagined that large-scale situations of statelessness and forced displacement would occur beyond the horrendous

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Syracuse, NY -- Members of the Nepalese community will celebrate Dashain, the largest festival in the Nepali calendar, and they’re inviting the public to take part in the celebration.The Nepalese community will hold a festival from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 16 at the Franklin Magnet School on South Alvord Street.The event will feature Nepalese food, music and dance. Officials from the city, police

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For exiles, the ethnic Nepali Protestant’s conviction is just another example of the government’s policies against minorities and non-Buddhist religions. Protestant bishop says, the government “should at least maintain basic democratic freedoms and human rights”. Kathmandu – “This is the picture of Bhutanese suppression against religious freedom,” said Rev Narayan Sharma, Protestant bishop of

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The problem of scarce clean water:Nearly 1 billion people lack access to clean water, which causes a litany of struggles, diseases and even death.40 Billion Hours: African women walk over 40 billion hours each year carrying cisterns weighing up to 18 kilograms to gather water, which is usually still not safe to drink. More Info »38,000 Children a Week: Every week, nearly 38,000 children under the

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HONOUR FOR KING: Bhutan’s King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk receives the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Law from West Bengal Governor and Chancellor of the University of Calcutta M.K. Narayanan at the annual convocation in Kolkata on Tuesday. Photo: Sushanta PatronobishOctober 5, 2010.Honorable Chancellor and members of the University, distinguished guests, and my dear students of the University

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Please endorse the appeal!The Vice-ChancellorUniversity of CalcuttaSir,We have come to know from media reports that the University of Calcutta has invited the King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, to deliver the convocation address scheduled to be held on 5 October 2010.You are perhaps aware that there are about 108,000 Bhutanese people living in seven refugee camps in Nepal and about

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From BhutannicaBHUTAN'S CURRENT CRISIS - A VIEW FROM THIMPHU by Kinley DorjiA chronology of eventsThe Bhutanese crisis - an ethnic time bomb - exploded in 1988. But the wisdom of hindsight indicates that it had been ticking for quite a while. As an observer of the problem since it surfaced from a silent conspiracy into a rumble of dissent, and then escalated into an open rebellion, I will first

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CU to become research hub: V-CKolkata The University of Calcutta will soon emerge as the nucleus of research and an important centre for the Central government’s “Look East Policy”, said the Vice-Chancellor of the university. The university has outlined plans to upgrade the existing Center for South and South East Asian Studies. “CU will emerge as the nucleus around which a number of institutes

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1. Bihar CM meets Bhutanese PM in Bodh Gaya2010-09-27 12:00:00Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Bhutan Prime Minister Lyonpo Jigmi Y. Thinley here on Sunday to discuss a proposal for the development of a Buddhist circuit in the state."India has helped Bhutan in its growth. Bhutan has developed so much that it has one of the highest per capita incomes among SAARC countries. The electricity

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Robert O. Blake, Jr.Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian AffairsSan Diego, CASeptember 30, 2010As preparedI am delighted to be here at the San Diego World Affairs Council today to discuss with you U.S. policy in South Asia and to highlight some of the lesser-known success stories coming out of South Asia. You know, I often say that a day spent outside of the Washington beltway,

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By Ryan SeyboldPublished: Thursday, September 30, 2010Updated: Thursday, September 30, 2010 02:09 Jan Janecka, a Texas A&'M research associate, spent 10 days in Bhutan to set up a wildlife conservation laboratory. The developing country's leaders asked Scott Mills from the University of Montana to help provide Bhutan with the technology and methods to develop economically with minimal impact on

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By Yesenia RoblesThe Denver Post Bhutanese refugees Chuda Zaudam, left, and Iccha Dhungel tend to the winter crops at Feed Denver as part of the required community service under their resettlement agreement.An organization in Denver that usually dedicates its time to growing gardens spent the past month cultivating donors to help it win a challenge grant.Feed Denver is one of eight urban-farming

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A 17-member Bhutanese business delegation led by the Secretary of Ministry of Economic Affairs, Bhutan Dasho Sonam met DCCI Senior Vice President M Shahjahan Khan and the Board of Directors on Tuesday. DCCI Senior Vice President M Shahjahan Khan called upon Bhutan Investment Road Show business delegation to invest in power, energy and tourism sector in Bangladesh under Public Private Partnership

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Ministry of labour eases pressure regarding workers from outsideEASED: The labour ministry has relaxed the rules a bit (File photo)Foreign Nationals 1 October, 2010 - Hotelier Pema had been looking for prospective Bhutanese employees ever since the labour ministry’s notification in August restricting the number of non-Bhutanese workers businesses in the border towns can employ. The notification

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The toilet connectionSMRITI MALLAPATY KATHMANDU, SEP 03 - In the Bhutanese refugee camps of Eastern Nepal, the 2006 announcement of resettlement into developed countries was met with both apprehension and appreciation. Efforts to repatriate the over 100,000 refugees have so far failed, and since Nov. 2007, at least 35,000 refugees have left for Western countries, most notably the

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Himalayan News ServiceKATHMANDU: The second Joint Secretary level meeting between Nepal and Bhutan in November in Thimphu will prepare bilateral trade agreement. “The trade talks will include issues regarding list of exportable products from both the countries,” said Surya Prasad Silwal, Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Commerce and Supplies (MoCS). “The issues regarding trade routes and

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22 September, 2010 - With Dzongkha Braille now at par with Unicode in all its symbols and signs, visually impaired students in the country would now be able to read and write words that were not possible before.Learning Dzongkha for the visually impaired first started orally at the national institute of visually impaired (NIVI) in Khaling.Officials from the curriculum and professional support

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Tale of Terrible Torture (Exclusive) 17 September 2010By Pabitra Gautam It was past midnight, the 22nd of November 1990. I was sleeping with my children at home. Suddenly, I was woken up by the sound of banging on my door. When I opened the door, I was chilled to see my husband, Hom Nath Gautam and step son, Deo Dutta Gautam in handcuffs arrested by Major Chachu, accompanied by a dozen policemen

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Chhoedey lhentshog lists those who can vote Religious personalities above politicsVoter Eligibility 17 September, 2010 - A lam, who holds a lineage but is not associated to any monastery, or has no disciples under him, who engages in civil activities or a namesake lam can participate in the elections.On the other hand, a lam, who holds a lineage, leads a religious establishment, who is married

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17 September 2010Food and nutrition security policy in the pipelineAlthough Bhutan’s national average energy consumption exceeds 2,500 kcal a day, in the worst-off areas, this figure does not even reach 1,900 kcal. Average consumption of protein, vitamins, and miner­als is even further below what is required for good health, according to the draft Food and Nutrition Security Policy (FNSP), 2010.

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Security clearance (of another sort) Clearing for Safety: The roadside is cleared of bushes twice a year Sarpang-Gelephu Highway 17 September, 2010 - The coming of autumn, when leaves turn brown, brings worries to local leaders of the four gewogs in the southern district of Sarpang. It means it is time for them to clear the bushes and undergrowth on either side of the 32-km Sarpang-Gelephu

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14 September 2010By RK DorjiI was arrested in 1997 by the Government of India at the behest of Royal Government of Bhutan in Delhi. I was imprisoned for 14 months at Tihar jail. On 12 June, 1998, I was released on bail by the Delhi High Court. However, my bail conditions required that I had to report to the local police station twice a week and I couldn’t go out of Delhi. My arrest itself was

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September 10: The Dzongkhag Yargye Tshogdu (DYT) members in Samtse said “NO” to the proposal for the construction of a slaughter house in the Dzongkhag. This was decided in the 108th DYT meeting which ended on Tuesday.The Dzongkhag Livestock Officer said that there was a need to open a slaughter house in the Dzongkhag. He said due to lack of standard slaughter house and meat processing unit,

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By Govinda Rizal “Did you get your NOC?’’Jamyang asked me this whilst closing his umbrella, then proceeding to the police head quarter.“No, not yet,” I replied. I knew Jamyang through a few encounters. For the first time I saw him in Thimphu.One of my brothers, Hem was studying in Khaling. Once Hem came to Thimphu with his class mates during their educational tour and stayed with me. I was

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By Matt O'BrienContra Costa TimesSpecial SectionsBhutan: A Journey from Conflict Sep 4:A journey from conflict: The Mainalis adjust fitfully to new life in OaklandVideo: Mainali family journey Part III and IVBhutanese refugees' road to America started in the Bush administrationSlide show: Bhutanese Refugee Education and Camp Life"U Start Again": Bhutanese refugees get crash course in American

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19 August, 2010 - She is slim, tall, beautiful and an upcoming star in today’s Bhutanese cinema. At just 22, Tandin Bidha, the young actress has already acted in seven movies, has another three in store, acted with veteran stars and has been nominated for best supporting actress for the national film awards. The cheerful actress from Paro has always been into acting. “I was always passionate

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A brand new newspaper with a reader-friendly language Druk Neytshuel: The seventh newspaper hit the stand yesterday 30 August, 2010 - At a time when the quality of Dzongkha is being questioned and discussed in every possible medium comes an opportune attempt to apprise Bhutanese of their national language.Beginners can take a plunge into the language, starting with the alphabets illustrated in

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Empty schools in two villages speak of separate priorities Old Habits Die Hard: A family on route to its summer residence Merak-Sakteng 23 May, 2010 - It’s different in the highlands of remote Sakteng in northern Trashigang. Walking to the dungkhag, visitors encounter droves of cattle herded by young school-aged children. Rarely are these children in the company of their parents while herding

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Govt. asked to clarify Bhutan lottery follows the protocol, rules and regulations of an agreement signed between the two governmentsKerala Controversy21 August, 2010 - The Indian external affairs ministry has sought clarifications from the Bhutanese government on the operation of Bhutan lotteries in Kerala, following a complaint from the Kerala government, after the issue went through a heated

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A male hybrid golden langur with hybrid traits in Dunmang Tsachu, Zhemgang The Golden Langur29 August, 2010 - The endangered golden langur (trachypithecus geei), which is native to Bhutan and some parts of the neighbouring Indian state of Assam, could be under threat of extinction from crossbreeding with the capped langur, according to a Bhutanese researcher. “The crossbred offsprings are very

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All India Karate Independence Cup19 August, 2010 - A 24-year old Bhutanese, working as a relationship manager in one of the local banks, picked up a gold medal at the All India Karate Independence Cup, which was held in Kurukshetra, Haryana, India from August 13 to 15.Ugyen Wangchuk, a second dan in karate, got past seven contestants to win the gold in the 60-65 kg category. The contest drew

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9 September, 2010: Dr. Vandana Shiva, seen right, was the main resource person at the one day seminar on “Moving towards Organic”, its opportunities and challenge for Bhutan, conducted by the national organic programme under the Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Forest organised a Hon’ble Minister, Dr. Pema Gyamtsho, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MoAF) graced the

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September 9th, 2010 Northwest By Matthew SingerRonault “Polo” Catalani has seen it happen many times. As a community lawyer, the manager of New Portlander Programs for the Office of Human Relations and son of Indonesian immigrants, he knows intimately the trajectory of many Asian families in Portland who arrive with hope and determination and then – through the difficulty of integrating into

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By: Kanak Mani Dixit Travelling east on the highway from Siliguri to Guwahati, looking north, the green of the Indian flatlands gives way to the blue hills of Bhutan. Beyond the low-lying monsoon clouds, up in the Bhutanese districts of Samchi, Chirang and Geylegphug, unfolds a story of cultures in collision. A ruling minority feels threatened that its identity is about to be swamped by

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A change in attitude sought of lower level personnel Say Kuzuzangpola : SP Tshering Dorji speaks to law enforcers Royal Bhutan Police 21 July, 2010 - “*Tshoed, tshoed*… move your car,” is a disrespectful common phrase many vehicle drivers, especially ones, who don’t drive the flashier ones, receive from traffic policemen.“That’s not how you do it,” said Paro town’s superintendent of police (SP),

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Bhutan Urban Development Project II14 July, 2010 - Bhutan will receive USD 12 million for the Bhutan urban development project II (BUDP) from the World Bank (WB), according to an agreement signed between the World Bank and Bhutan yesterday. The agreement for the international development association (IDA) credit was signed between the WB country director, Nicholas Kraft, and the finance secretary

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10 July, 2010 - It was as though one Bhutanese was detected being HIV positive a week within the last seven months. Health records showed that between December 1, 2009 and July 1 this year, 32 new HIV positive cases were detected, the highest the country ever saw since its first detection in 1993. From 19 cases in 2008, the number increased to 25 last year. So far, the total cases detected stands

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Priority will be given to farmers, who form groups to share the machine Power To The People: In the last 26 years, Bhutan has received about Nu 1.5B grant assistance from Japan Japanese KR II grant 9 July, 2010 - The agriculture ministry has received more than 1,000 applications from farmers across the country for the 152 power tillers the Japanese government recently gave under its KR II grant.

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Off-hour clinic: A blow to GNH26 June 2010Individual happiness that totals up to gross cumu­lative happiness of the nation rests upon how healthy every single citizen is. In other words, health is the nucleus of GNH. The dynamic con­cept of GNH would not have evolved so far if its essence did emphasize money as the prime source of happiness and ignored other pertinent fac­tors like health,

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February 23, 2010 · Filed Under Topstories, archive · Comment The Bhutanese media has received the much needed impetus to forge ahead with gusto. On Sunday His Majesty the King signed a charter heralding the establishment of Bhutan Media Foundation (BMF) which will surmount much of the difficulties dogging the fledging industry.To get the foundation going, His Majesty granted a seed fund of Nu

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February 18, 2010 · Filed Under Topstories, archive · Comment Some 30 Indian workers of a construction company has been crying foul for two years as they had not been paid even after repetitively notifying the contractor.They had been working for Phurba Construction based in Thimphu. They were employed for painting of the Mongar referral hospital for 18 months since 2007 and they claim that they

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February 4, 2010 · Filed Under Top Articals, Topstories, archive · Comment Of the Nu 34 billion support committed by the government of India (GOI) for the 10th plan, Nu seven billion has been earmarked for sustainable development projectsThe ambassador of India to Bhutan, Pavan K Varma, handed over a cheque for Nu 393.9 million to Prime Minister Lyonchhen Jigmi Y Thinley yesterday.The amount

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Archery ranges are ubiquitous across Thimphu The only road leading in and out of RIM between the archery range 1 July, 2010 - By the virtue of being a national sport, archery ranges have been allowed to crop up in odd places across the capital city.Despite dangers associated with the game, archery ranges have been allowed next to people’s houses, sandwiching roads and paths or along edges of the

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Posted on 16 January 2010 by editor By Govinda Rizal Last September infants in Bhutan were immunized using new life saving ‘5 in 1’ vaccine named ‘Pentavalent’. Gross of children succumbed to the vaccine and others suffered from acute side effects. The samples of vaccines were sent to advance laboratories for test. The result took unexpectedly long time to come out. In the mean time, the health

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The vaccine reversal 9 July, 2010 - So far, health officials remained defensive about relating the contentious pentavalent vaccine with the deaths of eight infants shortly after receiving the shots.This week their defense seemed rather to be flagging. Which was only to be expected; as the people began to realise that no such cases surfaced, in almost a year after the vaccine was suspended.All

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Saarc adopts silver jubilee declaration30 April 2010The principal outcome of the 16th Saarc summit, the 36-point Thimphu Silver Jubilee Declaration, was adopted yesterday by the eight leaders of the Saarc countries. Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the founding of Saarc, the declaration charts the future course of the association to make it an even more effective and a robust body.“The true

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40-50 % of Thimphu’s waste goes into river, drains30 March 2010Only 40 to 50 percent of Thimphu’s waste goes to Memelakha landfill site, according to Pema Dorji, Senior Environmental Officer of Thimphu City Corporation (TCC).The rest of the waste is either dumped into the river or in the drains clogging them and making them overflow. Thimphu generates about 36 to 50 mt of waste a day.On average,

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29 March 2010After 18 out of 105 applicants for pre-primary admission in Trashigang Middle Secondary School got rejected this year, parents are questioning enrollment procedures and criteria.Parents complain that some students below the age of six got admitted after manipulating their birth certificates.A shopkeeper, whose son did not get admission because he was below six years, said some

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GNH and Democracy in Bhutan25 March 2010Bhutan will set new standards if it ensures that delivery processes in critical areas succeed in generating collective happiness, writes Malvika SinghIt is heartening to watch, witness and listen to leaders obsessed and committed to developing mechanisms and processes by which they can administer their country and bring ‘collective happiness’ to their

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Among others, to include rural development within EDP’s ambitEconomic Development Policy 24 June, 2010 - Having delved into the economic development policy, the national council’s (NC) economic affairs committee had reviewed, members yesterday discussed a list of recommendation to be submitted to the government.From the basics of defining the purpose of the policy to some salient ones, like

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Zhapto lemi: Forced to volunteer? 25 June, 2010 - When a village lhakhang begins to crumble, nobody tells the community to come together to rebuild it. It just happens. If the village irrigation canal gets damaged just before transplantation season, the community that depends on it gets together to fix it.Those in the community, who don’t show up, are usually asked to compensate in some way or

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Report points out need to reform and presents a list of recommendationsHuman Rights Committee 25 June, 2010 - Former convicts should be entitled to security clearance certificates, so that they are not deprived of the opportunity to start a new life, according to the national assembly’s (NA) human rights committee.Presenting the report yesterday, the chairman of the committee, Gasa MP Damcho

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Sowing the seeds of modern Bhutan A 20-point letter from King Ugyen Wangchuck to the Viceroy of India in 1921 In this rare photo the first King, Ugyen Wangchuck, is seen standing with a stick and wearing a hat near the long wall stupa in Chendebji near Trongsa. John Claude White, British Political Officer took this photo in 1905 during his trip to Bhutan. (Royal Geographical Society) 26 June,

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2010 - 11 budget highlights Social services get the lion’s share, as usual27 June, 2010 - In keeping with past trends, the social service sector, health and education, has the highest allocation, with an outlay of Nu 8.21B, which is 23 percent of the 2010-11 budget.Under health, the budget includes provision to construct a regional hospital in Gelephu, and the Bhutan institute of medical

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Where is Guru Rinpoche’s Bhutan? Part 1 of 2: Condensed from Dasho Karma Ura’s forthcoming booklet Singye Dzong PERSPECTIVES 19 June, 2010 - Many Sources on Guru’s Life21st June marks the birth anniversary of Guru, the son of King Indrabhuti in some accounts, or the lad of lotus blossom in most accounts , born in Udiyana in a place that we cannot identify exactly now. His emergence out of a

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Organic farming: Let’s cash in on the demand25 March 2010The world is going gaga over organic farming. Growing organic, consuming organic and selling organic.The value of organic vegetables has increased in the past few years. People have increasingly come to understand the ill effects of vegetables grown using chemical pesticides, fertilizers and other allied chemicals.Because organic vegetables

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Keiji Nishioka: A bridge between two nations Posted on 09 March 2010 by editor By Govinda Rizal Keiji - a bridge for Bhutan-Japan relationsAt a time when Japan’s economy was in a bubble stage, when the Japanese people were considering TV, washing machine, refrigerator as necessities at their homes, a Japanese youth, an agriculture expert was writing development plans in a remote village in Bhutan

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Himalayan News ServiceKATHMANDU: The US government on Monday announced that it would provide a fund of $2.5 million to support Tibetan refugees in South Asia, including Nepal.Under the ‘Overseas Refugee Assistance Programs for Near East and South Asia’, the Obama administration invited the non-government al organisations to submit their proposals to run a one-year-long project supporting the

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Posted: 22 Feb 2010 11:33 PM PSTFebruary 23, 2009: Until a year ago, Bhutanese in exile, in whose symbolic shadow we used to stand. September 2008, came as a great beacon light of hope to the thousands of Bhutanese youths who had burn the flame of gender discrimination, deprived from the justice and right they deserved. The day when some of ours feet landed on Australian soil, hopes had finally

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His Majesty with representatives of the print and broadcast media at Lingkana palace21 February 2010 - Coinciding with His Majesty’s 30th birthday anniversary, His Majesty the King issued a royal kasho (charter) formally establishing the Bhutan media foundation.The media foundation is being established to support the development of mass media, so that it can carry out its roles and

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19 February 2010The RNR Census 2009, re leased recently, paints a com prehensive picture of use and sale of natural resources.The census, which collect ed data from 57,412 (93.2 percent) of households that engaged in agricultural farm­ing activities across 205 ge wogs and extended municipal areas in 20 dzongkhags, was conducted for the production year 2008.FindingsThe study showed a 14 per cent

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Bhutanese Minister for Economic Affairs Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk meets Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal at the latter’s residence in Baluwatar, Wednesday morning, Feb 10 10. Bhutanese Minister for Economic Affairs Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk has extended invitation of Bhutanese Prime Minister Jigme Yoser Thinley to Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal for the 16th Summit of the South Asian Association for

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Two Bhutanese refugees living in the UN-run refugee camp in Damak of Jhapa have committed suicide on Saturday.According to the police, 50-year-old Jas Bahadur Tamang of sector D 4 and 44-year-old Kul Bahadur Acharya of sector A 2 of Beldangi refugee camp took their own lives today.The reason behind the two committing suicide has not been known.Large number of Bhutanese refugees are currently

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Guilford Refugee Advisory Council Announces a Panel Discussion: Refugees from BurmaTriad -The event on February 23rd will cover the refugee crisis in Burma (aka Myanmar) and the culture and experiences of refugees from Burma living in Guilford County.Greensboro – As part of the ongoing Refugee Information Series, the Guilford Refugee Advisory Council announces a panel discussion on February 23rd

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Mumbai: Today is Losar once again. In fact, it is a golden jubilee of sorts — of 50 years in exile. But Tibetans are not celebrating. The pall of gloom of the 2008 riots still hangs over the community, and the government-in-exile or the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has asked for festivities to be muted.Most of the older generation of Tibetans living in exile in India had trekked mountains

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Late last month, the U.S. State Department announced that it was doubling the amount of its contribution to refugee resettlement efforts from $900 to $1,800 per person. The increase is retroactive to Jan. 1. "While the U.S. government cannot guarantee the success of these refugees, it is capable of providing sufficient support to ensure refugees are able to get on their feet during their first

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The East Bay's new Burmese immigrants left their homes in Thai refugee camps only to find themselves in an even tougher spot— inner-city Oakland amidst a punishing recession that threatens the assistance they depend upon.By Momo ChangMOMO CHANGOo Meh, April Ni, Bo Reh, and Groto Ni stand in the breezeway of the apartment complex they share with other recent Burmese refugees. Oo Meh and Groto Ni

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