26 January 2009: The Netherlands-based Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) has shown deep concern about the unfair trial and sentencing of Bhutanese journalist Shanti Ram Acharya (20), a correspondent of The Bhutan Reporter, which is funded by GHRD. Press Statement Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) is deeply concerned about the unfair trial and sentencing of … Read more
New York, January 28: Arizona State University in Phoenix will showcase their documentary on exiled Bhutanese in March that its student made during her winter holidays. According to a statement by the university’s Information Specialist Marshall Terrill, one of its Carly Campo spent her holiday season for preparing the document of exiled Bhutanese … Read more
Thimphu, January 24: In midst of the increasing unemployment in the country, the government-owned Royal Insurance Corporation Ltd. (RICBL) has begun cutting down the staffs in its strategy to provide efficient service and decrease recurrent expenditure of the government. Under the “Voluntary Retirement Scheme”, which comes into effect immediately, the corporation will pay 12 or … Read more
Jewel TopsfieldJanuary 27, 2009 PARSURAM Sharma-Luital was once arrested for not wearing the compulsory Bhutanese national dress while wading across a river in the blazing sun. Yesterday he and his wife wore it with pride at their citizenship ceremony at Station Pier to symbolise the freedom Australians have to wear and say what they will. … Read more
Thimphu, January 24: A four-member European Union delegation of Hans Schoof, Kamini Paul, Kristina Buende and Laszlo Illes visited Wangdue Phodrang and Tsirang Dzongkhag on January 21 and 22 to inspect irrigation projects in the districts. The delegation visited Megachu Irrigation Scheme and talked with the local farmers and the Renewal Natural Resources (RNR) staffs … Read more
New Delhi, January 24: A government minister has accepted that Bhutan has finally hit by the global economic recession. Earlier, the government had predicted Bhutan’s economy will not be affected because is it small and has not big business with other countries. Minister of Economic Affairs Khandu Wangchuk addressing the 15th Partnership Summit 2009 at … Read more
Gelephu, January 24: The border business in Gelephu continues to face hindrance at the hands of police personnel deployed at the border gate and the custom officials since a week. The officials have restricted the people from Dadghari, the border town of India, buying any goods from Bhutanese town Gelephu, thus indirectly putting hurdles for … Read more
JALPAIGURI: Intelligence agencies are worried over reports that Bhutan Maoists have extended support to the Gorkhaland movement in the Darjeeling Hills, spearheaded by Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM). Under the circumstances, it is being feared that the region might witness acts of extreme violence According to Intelligence reports, the Bhutan Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist-Maoist) has been regularly … Read more
The Center for Human Rights and Democratic Studies (CEHURDES)—a Kathmandu-based freedom of expression monitoring group—has condemned the imprisonment of Shantiram Acharya, a young Bhutani journalist, by the Bhutanese authorities. According to the Association of Press Freedom Activists (APFA) Bhutan, an exiled Bhutanese media group based in Kathmandu, Acharya, a Bhutanese of Nepali origin who was … Read more
Kathmandu, January 23: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said it is worried at the Bhutan High Court’s sentencing of journalist Shanti Ram Acharya to a prison term of seven-and-a-half years on terrorism charges. In a statement issued on Friday, IFJ said, Acharya, 20, lived in refugee camps in Nepal since he and his immediate … Read more