Editor Karma Phuntsho’s article ‘Bhutan reforms and Nepalese criticism’ in Open democracy dated 13-10-2006 has factually wrong information that is largely made on the assumptions that prevails in Bhutan. When the 1958 Citizenship Act was implemented throughout Bhutan in 1985, it affected sections of the Lhotsampa community. It could have been resolved if Lyonpo Dago Tshering … Read more
Thimphu, November 02: The Election Commission is preparing regulations on election advertising and media coverage for the historic 2008 elections to ensure fair elections. Commission has said, The Media Coverage of Election Rules and Regulations and the Election Advertising Regulations would bar media from promoting any single political party. The regulations were also discussed during … Read more
Damak, November 02: The ten cadres of the Human Rights Organization of Bhutan (HUROB) and Bhutan Gorkha Natioanal Liberation Front (BGNLF) arrested by the Royal Bhutan Police while demonstrating in Phuentsholing October 29 were handed over to West Bengal police at Jaigaon who in turn reached them to Mechi bridge, Indo-Nepal border the following day … Read more
Kathmandu, November 02: A delegation led by National Front for Democracy (NFD) Thinley Penjor met Nepalese Deputy Prime Minister cum Foreign Minister K. P. Sharma Oli on November 2 and discussed about the issues of the exiled Bhutanese and the forthcoming bilateral talks between Bhutan and Nepal. According to Jagir Man Lama, General Secretary of … Read more
Kathmandu, November 2: Angolan refugees are reluctant to return home from neighboring Zambia despite an assurance that peace has returned to their home country, Zambian Home Affairs Permanent Secretary Peter Mumba said. Sunday Times of Zambia quoted Mumba as saying that the Zambian government is concerned about the continued reluctance when it is conducive for the … Read more
Kathmandu, November o2: A fresh population date collection process would begin in all the seven camps from November 15. The Home Ministry of Nepal and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Nepal office have said they will be cooperating in the process. The UNHCR had been pointing out the need for fresh census … Read more
No 25 November 2006
The play, at the Cherry Lane Theater, is named for the kingdom in the Himalayas, but everyone in it talks like a caricature of a Maine lobsterman, since it's set somewhere in New England, and that exaggerated drawl (done inconsistently here, as it almost always is) is theatrical shorthand for "poor and undereducated." Happily, there … Read more
Damak, October 30: The Bhutan government on Sunday arrested more than 10 of the exiled Bhutanese who stated demonstrations in Phuentsholing demanding early repatriation. According to the press statement issued by chairman of Human Rights Organization of Bhutan (HUROB) S. B. Subba, all of the arrested people are kept in the local police custody. The … Read more
New Delhi, October 28: President of the Druk National Congress (DNC) R. K. Dorji has said that the US proposal to take in 60,000 exiled Bhutanese was welcome. "We welcome the US view on exiled Bhutanese," he said. "We thank the Nepal government for its humanitarian support to us," he added. "Though the Bhutanese king … Read more