March 10, 2010: Immigration officials have arrested some 130 people from Thimphu, Paro, Haa, Wangduephodrang, Punakha and Chhukha who were working as maids and baby sitter without obtaining permission from the government. Those arrested by the officials are as young as 10 years, and most came from India while few from Nepal. 40 were voluntarily declared [...]

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March 5, 2010: The recent annual census registration carried out across the country has left many children without being registered. The major problem behind the failure to remain these children without being registered is clueless father, most of them born out of night hunting. According to national law, it is mandatory to mention father in the [...]

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March 03, 2010: At least three people have been injured in a vehicle accident at the Debum Lam in Hongkong market, Thimphu on Tuesday. A Chinese bus lost control and crashed unto motor vehicles parked by the roadside damaging over a dozen of cars at around 2:15 pm. The bus however suffered minor damage on the [...]

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February 25, 2010: The right to education in Bhutan is likely to deteriorate in the years to come, thanks to rigidity in issuing new permits to open more private colleges in the country. Less than half of the grade 10 pass out students will get admission this year in government-run higher secondary schools. Noting poor existence [...]

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January 31, 2010: People of Goshi geog under Dagana failed get government’s assurance to reopen their Goshi Junior High School by early 2010 tuned out to be a foul play of politics. The school was turned into an army barrack after 1990 and remained closed for two decades and more. Due to absence of the school in [...]

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THIMPHU, Bhutan, In this distant and isolated nation in the eastern Himalayas, known as the “Land of the Thunder Dragon,” almost everything looks uniformly Buddhist. Most men and women in the landlocked country between India and China wear their national dress, and all the buildings – with their sloping walls, trefoil-shaped windows and pitched roofs – [...]

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Since the days of Victorian England where children were exploited as chimney sweeps, the world has become a more advanced place where child labor is no longer accepted. In a country such as Bhutan, where small rural families depend on every family member contributing to the care and maintenance of agricultural holdings, child labor is perhaps [...]

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Jan 18: Absence of judges at the existing highest court of the country has badly affected justice delivery almost for last one month. The High Court, the existing apex court of the country currently has only one sitting judge while regulation needs at least two judges to for hearing cases and giving verdict. With Jigme Zangpo and [...]

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January 16, 2009: Delays in transfer of thram in the Wangduephodrang, Dagana and Tsirang are hampering both government development activities at the local level and private land development. Though the revised Land Act 2007 mandates to complete such transfer within 365 days, cases are pending for years leading to halt in development activities. In Tsirang, where land [...]

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January 16, 2009: The government employees are happy with the plan unveiled by National Pension and Provident Fund to calculate their pension on 40 percent average of the last 24 months’ basic salary and not on an employee’s last salary. According to old scheme, the retired official was entitled to pension on 60 percent on average [...]

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