Rajen Giri, the president of Youth Organization of Bhutan (YOB) and Aakash Budathoki, focal person for European region for YOB, currently residing in Sweden, attended the International Union of Socialist Youth World Festival 2009 in Budapest, Hungary this week. The YOB press and publicity department wrote that Giri and Budathoki organized the information session on […]
Transcultural Psycho-Social Organsation has said it will start counselling programs inside exiled Bhutanese camps. According to the organisation, the program includes counselling to children and aged group people. The program will be aimed at healing the psychological trauma caused by resettlement process and family division. The program is also targeted as making it as treatment […]
Bhim Bahadur Gurung, 26, from Pathri Sanischare camp, sector C-3, hut number 40, was awarded the Third Dan Grading on July 11. Gurung passed the grading examininations conducted by Nepal Taekwondo Association (NTA) under National Sports Council Nepal. According to Deep Raj Gurung, the mater instructor of the association, Gurung is the only Bhutanese awarded […]
Exiled Bhutanese resettled in Norway have observed Bhanu Jayanti today amidst a special function. According to our correspondent Ramesh Gautam, more than 150 exiled Bhutanese observed the day. The program, which was conducted from a stage in Alta, one of the Kommunes (municipality) in the far North, was aired live through Skype in online to […]
Bronx, New York: New York-based local online news portal syracuse.com has wrote in today’s edition that in some areas of Syracuse in New York State in USA, there have increased incidents concerning physical attacks on exiled Bhutanese resettled here. According to the report published in the online, eight men attacked Hari Rizai while he was […]
A survey conducted by the Senior Citizens of Bhutan (SCB) led by Harkajung Subba has shown that as many as twenty-thousand Bhutanese refugees still want to return home. SCB with support from few other exile-based organizations including the Human Rights Organization of Bhutan, had urged the compatriots to fill out a form, asking them to […]
Adelaide, South Australia: The Bhutanese community in South Australia observed Bhanu Jayanti amidst a program here today. Chaired by Bhutanese human rights leader Ratan Gazmere, the program was attended by over a dozen participants. The program started with reciting of Ramayan and followed by presentation of poems and other literary items. Speaking at the program […]
The National Assembly has seen a majority of its members opposing the section in the local government bill (LG), which states that a local government will be removed if it loses the confidence of the people. Local governments include dzongkhag tshogdu, gewog tshogdu, and thromde tshogdu. After two days of discussion on dissolution of LG, […]
The National Council decided by a majority vote to lift the ban on the sale of tobacco and tobacco products. Following the decision, the section C in chapter three of the bill Tobacco control bill, which says, “No person shall sell tobacco and tobacco products” shall be removed. Council members said that the ban on […]
The National Front for Democracy (NFD – Bhutan) has hailed the recently publicized government policies and programs of the government of Nepal concerning Bhutanese refugee issue