October 12, 2009: Only a year old, and in fabricated form, in multi-party practice, Bhutan leads a democracy dialogue in Asia with the beginning of a seminar in Paro today. The three-day conference, attended by some foreign scholars, cabinet ministers and members of parliament from the SAARC and BIMSTEC region and representatives of civil society, … Read more
Sipsu gets first coffee farm of the country October 10, 2009: The residents in Sipsu, under Samtse district in southern Bhutan have started the first batch of coffee farming. Some 40,000 coffee saplings have started sprouting leaves in the nursery. Following the allotment of 241-acre land to Samden group by the Ministry of Agriculture, the … Read more
New chief for Bhutan Times weekly October 10, 2009: As the financial crisis deepens in the first private newspaper of the country, Bhutan Times, its managing director and deputy managing directors have resigned from the post last week. Giving farewell to MD Tenzin Rigden, the publication house has received Wangcha Sangey as new MD. The … Read more
The headlines in our newspaper and news sites these days are dominantly on the threats and murders in the camps. Despite having protection cell at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) , International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the security surveillance of the police, threats inside camps are on rise, and thus refugees are pushed to comply
Wanted murderer arrested from Timai Damak, October 3, 2009: A team of Armed Police Force has arrested Yadav Gurung of Beldandi I camp who was in the top of the wanted list of police for increasing murders in camps. He was arrested from Timai camp on Friday night, camp secretary Dilli Ram Adhikari told APFAnews.com … Read more
Bleak picture of secondary market growth October 3: The miniature stock market of this small Himalayan kingdom did not show any brim hopes of expansion this year as well with only six out of 20 companies registered for trading made transactions. The share market has no formal setting and very few active players, thanks to … Read more
Disintegration of unionism and collective bargaining is one of those features that make democracy charming and adorable. Unionism not only delivers bargaining calibers to workers but helps germinate affection, friendship and joint work. Collective effort is the final decider to make things happen. The limitation of unionism bestowed by king-made constitution has been further kept … Read more
October 2: The violent strike by the earthquake on September has finally opened up Druk vision for setting building standards and codes to avoid any further disaster in future. A team of Bhutanese engineers have visited the disaster hit areas in eastern districts this week to assess the situation and to study the technical fault … Read more
September 30: Possibly for the first time in Bhutanese history that government initiated debate on freedom of expression, independence and pluralism on which media thrives, recently in Thimphu. The gathering sponsored by UNESCO was called by the Ministry of Information and Communication where representatives from the sponsoring UN agency, government and media outlets attended, primarily … Read more
It has been over a month since I landed at Adelaide airport in South Australia. The first month remained impressive as expected. I had my ninety six year old grandfather on his wheel chair- the eldest man in Adelaide from Bhutanese Community whom I had accompanied along with. After some 12 hours of flight from … Read more