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Month: March 2009

Handbook for exiled journalists published

March 6, 2009 by Editor

A new handbook for training journalists in remote and disadvantaged parts of South Asia is currently being printed in Nepal. It is the brainchild of T.P. Mishra, founding president of the Bhutan Chapter of the Bangladesh-based Third World Media Network

Categories Media Monitor Tags bhutan journalism in bhtan, media freedom, Nepal, refugee journalists, right to speech, tp mishra 48 Comments

Docs force Kawtal take glucose, UN is mute spectator

March 6, 2009 by Editor

Bhutanese doctors have forcefully administered glucose to N. L. Kawtal who has been in fast unto death in the Chamgang Central jail, Thimphu since last week

Categories Main News Tags bhutan, hunger strike in bhutan, NL. Katwal, political prisoners, thimphu 2 Comments

Indo-Bhutan car rally starts

March 5, 2009 by Editor

The second India-Bhutan friendship car rally started at Siliguri in West Bengal on Wednesday, delayed by two days of the earlier schedule

Categories Main News Tags bhutan, india, indo-bhutan car rally, jaigaon, siliguri, thimphu 6 Comments

On a mission of bureaucratic reshuffle

March 5, 2009 by Editor

ureaucratic reshuffle is not easy for the new government until it has political influences in that sector or at least some trade unions supporting the ruling party

Categories Main News Tags bhtan business, bhutan, Bhutan Board Particle, DHI, Druk Holding and Investment, Royal Insurance Corporation, State Trading Corporation of Bhutan, voluntary retirement scheme

A Bhutanese show in Minnesota

March 3, 2009 by Editor

Bhutanese recently resettled in Minnesota, USA celebrated Bhutan Day on February 28 with a number of cultural shows, performances and a first conference in an attempt to visualize the atrocities of the Bhutanese government in early 1990s to evict them

Categories Main News Tags bhutan, bhutan day, Bhutanese refugees, minnesota 12 Comments

BNDP concerns hunger strike by Katwal

March 3, 2009 by Editor

Bhutan National Democratic Party (BNDP) has urged the international community to look into the situatin of N. L. Katel, who has started hunger strike in Chemgang central jail in Thimphu

Categories Main News Tags hunger strike, katwal, thimphu
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