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A Bhutanese found dead in New Zealand

According to news received quite late from New Zealand, a Bhutanese recently resettled in Palmerston North suburb of the county has been found hanging on January 15. Late Kumar Pradhan had been in Palmerston just four months but had arrived New Zealand in late August last year. Friends and relatives remember him of a friendly [...]

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» Giri elected to lead UK community
» Wild elephant creates panic in Beldangi
» Buddhist community observes Lhosar in camps
» Headwind hands over photos to CMC; supports women hunger strikers
Media Monitor

Private papers want Dzongkha out

Dzongkha editors of private newspapers will meet the information and communications minister and secretary next month to discuss their proposal to discontinue publishing Dzongkha editions of their English language papers. The private media houses, during an informal meeting with the ministry on January 16, said the mandatory publication of the Dzongkha edition had become a [...]

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» One too many?
» BBS launches second channel
» Media must live up to the honor
» 6 TV applications with BICMA …
News Analysis

Happy, happy Bhutan

Hindi soaps are getting popular in this nation of smiles, though some women question the value systems they endorse. Fifty years ago, when I was a child, we didn’t have money for shoes. We wore something roughly stitched together from the jute of gunny bags. But it was a time of innocence… everyone around was [...]

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» Does SAARC justify peoples’ aspirations?
» Issue of Granting Refugee Status
» Bhutanese democracy struggle bids bye to its amble fighter
» Of royal wedding
Commentary

Let my people go : with video

Ghatastapana is a national holiday in Nepal. Cherishing fond memories of each of the seven camps for Bhutanese refugees in eastern Nepal, I drive to Goldhap camp. A place once familiar looks strange. People used to throng to greet me, Namaste, the little ones calling “Father, Father!” The food distribution centres were crowded; opposite, old [...]

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» Bhutanese Refugees Past and Present: A look at where they are today
» Gross National Happiness: A holistic paradigm for sustainable development
» Tick tock KABOOM
» Modernising Kurdistan : A Bhutanese Approach
Opinion

Remittance to Bhutan

Bhutan needs more remittance, probably more than anything in the past. Remittance helps to back up and sustain the general spending in daily life. Bhutan is not a country which sends a lot of people to international labor market, therefore no question of getting larger revenue as remittance. With low capacity of absorbing a large [...]

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» Open doors for repatriation
» Bhutan, Kingdom of the happiness!
» Gaddafi’s Letter to the newly-wed Bhutan Royals
» Parliamentary visit: a new development in the Japan-Bhutan friendship
Human Rights Monitor

Child rights still in its infancy

Despite numerous achievements in the area of child rights, there seems to be a lack of a formal and streamlined child protection system in the country. The recent Bhutan Multiple Indicator Survey shows that 30 percent of girls are married before the age of 18 years, while 18 percent of children are engaged in child [...]

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» 15 year old stabs 19-year-old
» Man detained for defamation
» No law in place to protect their rights
» Govt. provided no assistance
Untold Story

Reviewing Eviction Options – Historical Human Disaster

Dorona is the most remote and backward ‘Gewog’ (block) of all the inhabited area of Dagapela that can be logically argued through the availability of goods and services both in terms of forward and backward linkages. It had a dispensary in a two roomed single floor house at Nimtoladara with the staffing of a compounder [...]

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» Unfolding the recurring tale
» My pantheon – destroyed for happiness
» Execution of Chhabda at Changlimithang
» The Struggling Journey-II