Month: May 2008

Press freedom in Bhutan

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At a time when media professionals and press freedom practitioners are celebrating ‘World Press Freedom Day, May 3’ around the globe quite blissfully, Bhutanese people are worried of exercising even their fundamental right to free speech and expression in the country. The long-practiced curtailment on this right from the absolute Druk oligarchy still prevails in … Read more

Yechuri goes U-turn in his stand

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Kathmandu, May 02: Leader of CPI-M Sitaram Yechuri made U-turn in his earlier stand that his party would support the repatriation of exiled Bhutanese to their homesteads. Yechuri while speaking to journalists in Nepalese capital Kathmandu on Friday said since the issue was between Nepal and Bhutan, India wishes not to intervene. He denied commenting … Read more