While Bhutanese refugees want to go back to their country after nearly two decades of exiled life in Nepal, the international community, especially the US, Canada backed by the UN refugee agency, have lately been repeatedly advocating for taking these ill-fated people to mesmerised western society. In her recent address to the annual meeting of … Read more
As preparations for the first political elections draw closer, the Delimitation Commission is in the process of charting out electoral boundaries for election purpose so as to give equal weightage to all voting zones. The Chief Election Commissioner of Bhutan, Dasho Kunzang Wangdi, talks to BT on the progress made by his office in defining … Read more
Kathmandu, October 12:Peoples Forum for Human Rights and Development (PFHRD) Bhutan welcomed the recent declaration of US government to resettle Bhutanese refugees in America. “This is a positive development towards ending this long pending humanitarian problem. To live in refugee huts for such a long time without any guarantee of dignified repatriation and future is … Read more
Kathmandu, October 12: China said Thursday that soldiers posted near its border with Nepal clashed with some 70 people attempting to flee the country, killing one person on the spot and injuring two others, including one who died later of altitude sickness. The official Xinhua News Agency said the clash occurred on Sept. 30 — … Read more
Damak, October 13: Human rights leader Tek Nath Rizal has urged the exiled Bhutanese community not to be divided merely with the offer by the US government to resettle over 60,000 of them. He asked all to remain patient till the government of Nepal takes any decision over the matter. In a statement issued after … Read more
Kathmandu, October 13: Government of Nepal formally wrote to the Bhutanese government asking to sit for talks on issue of exiled Bhutanese. In a letter dispatched by the Nepalese foreign ministry on Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister K. P. Sharma Oli has asked the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk, to … Read more
New York, Oct 11: A landmark United Nations convoy has brought the first group of nearly 25,000 Congolese refugees back home from Burundi in another sign of the gradual return to normalcy in the war-torn country. According to UN News Center, the group of 282 refugees, who had been living in the Gasorwe refugee camp … Read more
Thimphu, October 10: Trashigang dzongkhag has proposed for a new domestic airport and has even identified a site for it between Bartsham gewog and Ramjar gewog (in Trashiyangtse dzongkhag). According to a district engineer, necessary information has been collected and a preliminary report has been prepared for the feasibility study from the ‘top sheet’ as well … Read more
Thimphu, October 10: A Japanese NGO Nippon Skilled Volunteer Association of Japan (NISVA) would be sending senior skilled volunteers to Bhutan for the next three years to help the private and corporate sector, vocational and training institutes, public health and agriculture. NISVA, committed to provide the expertise through volunteers, singed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the … Read more
Kathmandu, October 11: In response to the suspension of camp secretaries from Central Committee of the Bhutanese Refugee Representative Repatriation Committee (BRRRC), 528 individuals from Beldangi-II has sharply criticized Rizal’s move without a valid reason. in a press release, the signatories have appealed the media to cover views of all section of the exiled Bhutanese but not only … Read more