26 Bhutanese interrogated for voting in Indian polls
Indian authorities arrested 26 Bhutanese citizens on allegations that they cast their votes in neighboring cities in India
Month: May 2009
Importing teachers from beyond seven seas
Bhutan, which once said it has more population that country can sustain, has now begun importing workers from foreign countries. Though thousands of Indians still work in various Bhutanese offices and unskilled sector, Bhutan will not import people from western countries for teaching
Journalists decorated with awards
Despite indirect censorship on media, the elected government for the first time arranged for media awards to various journalists as gesture to inspire for better journalism on Sunday
'Media situation not much changed'
May 04: President of the Bhutan Chapter of Third World Media Network (TWMN), also editor of APFAnews.com and Bhutan News Service T. P. Mishra has strongly called on the international communities including the rights and media groups to mount pressure on concerned authorities for the establishment of media freedom in Bhutan. Presenting a 20-minute paper … Read more
‘Too early to say Bhutan has press freedom’
A Bhutanese journalist working with a weekly newspaper published from Thimphu said it would be too early to say that Bhutan has press freedom even after the country adopted constitution and changed its politics from absolute monarchy to parliamentary democracy last year
Bhutanese health professionals being trained in New York
Six Bhutanese health professionals are currently taking training in emergency medical services and emergency medicine at the Frank and Lisina Hoch Center for Emergency Education at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Sleepy Hollow
Barren Land of Press Freedom
Politics has been liberal but environment for media and media workers have not changed so much in the last one year of democratic practice in Bhutan, a new report says
Annual Press Freedom Report 2008-09
Entitled ‘Barren Land of Press Freedom’, the new report by Association of Press Freedom Activists (APFA) – Bhutan mentions the murky picture of media freedom and freedom of speech and expression. Media outlets have increased but still journalists work under the self-censorship environment.
Alarms ring of glacial floods
Last year, when environmentalists gathered in Thimphu, they had warned of outburst and flood out of glacial lakes in Bhutan, which has begun to show hints now
Noble way of flourishing Buddhism
Bhutan, which used brutal measures to protect Drukpa Kagyu sub-sect of Buddhism, has not finally found a noble way to make it popular – including Buddhism in national curriculum