By H.D.S. Greenway SEEN-IT-ALL Washingtonians saw something new last week: a Bhutanese temple rising on the Mall amid fluttering prayer flags near the Washington Monument. The Bhutanese are in town for the Smithsonian's Folklife Festival. With a population of just 600,000, the Tantric Buddhist kingdom in the high Himalayas wants to introduce itself to America, […]
KATHMANDU, 30 June 2008 (IRIN) – More than 1,400 Bhutanese refugees living in Nepal have been resettled in the USA and six other countries, with numbers expected to grow in the coming months, says the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). The Bhutanese refugees, who were initially against the idea of third-country resettlement, hoping instead to be […]
Damak, July 01: An armed rebellion group in Nepal’s southern belt has claimed responsibility over the explosion at the Damak office of International Organization of Migration (IOM). In a phone call to local journalists, local leader of the group named Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha led by a person called Jwala Singh, Arjun Yadav said the […]
Thimphu, July 01: The National Assembly restricted all its members from using laptop computers during the house session for fear they might spend their time playing computer games. The decision came soon after some member demanded the use of laptops instead of bundles of papers while coming to the session. The provision has been made […]
Damak, June 30: Office of the International Organization of Migration (IOM) in Damak has been exploded on Monday night. According to local police, the explosion took place at around 8 pm local time. Details of the losses from the explosion are yet to be known. Rescue operation was underway by the time this news was […]
Thimphu, June 30: The Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB) has decided to increase tariff for foreign tourists visiting Bhutan from US$200 to US$250, applicable in peak seasons. The daily tariff for seasons that attract fewer tourists will remain at US$200, including all other discount, surcharge and royalty. The Association of Bhutanese Tour Operators (ABTO) has […]
Devi Bhakta Lamitarey, was and still is in the list of wanted anti-government leader in Bhutan. Being one of the founding leader of Bhutan State Congress (later renamed Bhutan National Congress), Lamitarey waged peaceful war against discriminatory policies of the government, and most importantly for establishing democracy and human rights in Bhutan. Through two of […]
With the resettlement process of the exiled Bhutanese getting accelerating, Bhutan’s despotic regime sees greater challenges to hide its inhuman and barbaric activities of expelling its citizens. The resettlement process, the stories of the exiled Bhutanese getting spaces in western media and increasing number of people and agencies getting facts of the Bhutan’s oppression against […]
It has almost been two decades we spent our days in Nepal. To review our fight for identity and nationality, it is harder for us to calculate what we achieved beneficial. However, we have the reasons to keep our pride high up since we spent our life struggling to establish a free society that benefited […]
Damak, June 27: Human Rights Organization of Bhutan (HUROB) has urged the United States of America and members of core-group formed to resettle interested Bhutanese to expedite the process of repatriation of exiled Bhutanese. The HUROB petition sent to the US Ambassador to Nepal, Nancy J. Powell read, "The lackadaisical stand of the core countries […]