The repatriation agenda of the exiled Bhutanese seems to have come to a standstill. It has become like not scrubbed clotted cream at the bottom of a boiling pan. Revivification of the agenda that is at the verge of extinction is a continuous call of the exiled Bhutanese. They are languishing for no other option … Read more
Born in 1975 in Kalikhola Maurey of Sarbang District in Bhutan, Manoj Rai is presently Camp Secretary of Khudanabari camp, the only verified camp by Joint Verification Team. He arrived in Maidhar in 1990 from where he was sifted to Khudunabari. He worked as a teacher in Sun Rise Academy and Druk Model School for … Read more
Ethiopia, September 23. The United Nations refugee agency has warned it will be forced to suspend the repatriation of 3,000 Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia unless it receives additional cash. Despite a tripartite agreement between the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Ethiopia and Sudan, signed in February, only 2,500 refugees have returned to south … Read more
Thimphu, September 25. Thimphu, September 26. The Regent’s School of Thailand has agreed to offer a 50 percent scholarship to five Bhutanese students. The school has agreed to enroll minimum of five students in the first round. According to the chairman of the school, the scholarships once awarded will continue till the last year at … Read more
Biratnagar, September 25: Status of one of the contributors of wildlife conservation in Bhutan has remained unknown for the last three days as helicopter of one of the Nepalese airlines — the Shree Airlines – lost in the eastern Nepal. Mingma Norbu Sherpa worked as WWF country representative to Bhutan between 1998 and 2004. Currently … Read more
Rongthong Kuenley Dorji, president of Druk National Congress was once a top leader in Bhutanese political movement. However, while he was trying to garner support from Indian friends, he was arrested by Indian authority and sent to jail. With special request from the Bhutanese government, Indian attempted his extradition but failed. One year later, he … Read more
The issue of Bhutanese Refugees has now become a long story. Sixteen years have passed by and still there is no solution in sight that the Bhutanese refugees will ever go back to Bhutan. It is indeed a long period of time for the refugees to remain in the slum-like refugee camps and survive on … Read more
Bhutanese refugees have been around forever. To be homeless for 16 years or more must be like an eternity. One can only imagine. But therein lies the problem. We have failed to imagine and comprehend the gravity of being displaced for so long. Worse, our governments were never mentally prepared for the job of taking … Read more
Thanks to persistent efforts of a Nepali academic and literary activist, North Carolina State University (NCSU) of USA has recently included Nepali into its curriculum. An applied anthropologist, HARIHAR P. BHATTARAI was born in Tanhun and did his M. A. in Nepali literature from Tribhuvan University. During his 12 year-long- association with the TU, Dr. … Read more
Again the story repeated. Another royal tycoon in Thailand, who was well regarded as ceremonial, destroys democracy, ruins democracy. We know until a person remains above the law, democracy remains incomplete. Despite attempts of the democratic government to end political deadlock, the Thai king overthrew the civilian government. This is against the democracy and democratic … Read more