Bhutan News Archive for January 16 2011

Bhutan Broadcasting Service

12-year-old killed in accident

Jan 15, 2011 A 12-year-old boy has been killed on the spot when the vehicle he was travelling in went off the road in Jomotshangkha, Samdrupjongkhar. The accident occurred at around 3pm on Thursday. [read more]

Thrompoen hopefuls to lock horns in live debates

Jan 15, 2011 The Election Commission will be holding live debates among the candidates contesting the Thrompoen elections. It will be organised by BBS. [read more]

Imposter receives four years

Jan 13, 2011 The Thimphu district court has sentenced a 25-year-old man to four years in prison for deceiving and robbing people. He has also been found guilty of robbery, impersonation, and theft. [read more]

Public toilets pathetic

Jan 13, 2011 The capital Thimphu does not have adequate public toilets. The town has a population of roughly 100,000. It has however only five public toilets. And they are poorly maintained. [read more]

Man gored by a tusker

Jan 12, 2011 A 56-year-old man, an Indian citizen, has been attacked and gored in his face by an elephant early this morning. The incident took place at around 9 a.m. in Saralpara village along the Indo-Bhutan border. The area is about two and half kilometres from Sarpang town. [read more]

Thimphu hit by a dearth of drugs

Jan 11, 2011 The Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital in the capital has been facing an acute shortage of drugs for quite some time now. The patients cannot get the required medicines. It is also difficult to get the prescribed medicines from the medical shops. [read more]

Producers piqued by piracy

Jan 10, 2011 Thanks to modern gadgets and the internet, music lovers can download, copy, and share music easily but it is also promoting piracy. As a result, the sale of music CDs and cassettes has been decreasing rapidly causing a huge loss to the nascent music industry. [read more]

PM leaves for Bangladesh

Jan 10, 2011 The Prime Minister Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y. Thinley left for a four-day state visit to the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka today. He is visiting Bangladesh as the chair of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). [read more]

Man apprehended in connection with antique coins theft

Jan 9, 2011 The Thimphu city police have apprehended a 65-year-old man in connection with the! theft o f antique coins. [read more]

Entrance examination for teachers

Jan 7, 2011 More than 420 graduate teachers are sitting for their entrance examination. They have all graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Education from the Paro and Samtse Colleges of Education recently. They must pass the entrance examination to qualify as teachers. In the past, their jobs were guaranteed. They joined as teachers directly after they graduate. Not anymore. [read more]

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Kuensel

Who will Thimphus next mayor be?

Understanding prospects of the three candidates in the fray

Thromde Elections 15 January, 2011 In exactly a week from today, Thimphu will have its first elected mayor. [read more]

Not much of a sounding board

Freedom of expression does not find voice in the press fora

Draft Report 15 January, 2011 Although, a majority of Bhutanese is aware about freedom of expression, they hardly use the media to express their views. [read more]

Sixty-fold revised fee put on hold

The idea, which is to separate the sheep from the goats, must await the SC verdict

License Re-registration 15 January, 2011 Relieving local contractors of the exponential increase in the license and its re-registration fees, construction development board officials lat! e last e vening called Kuensel to inform of the indefinite suspension of the revision. [read more]

Hostage to unrest

15 January, 2011 For two days this week the border town of Phuentsholing looked crowded with shoppers buying school stationery, uniforms and school shoes. [read more]

Demands meet no supply

Bhutan not yet ready to export electricity to Bangladesh

Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley arrives at Paro yesterday after a four day visit to Bangladesh

15 January, 2011 Prime Minister Jigmi Y Thinley, during his four-day visit to Bangladesh, discussed prospects of electricity trade between the two countries, but did not promise anything. [read more]

Electorate takes it easy

The only ones breaking a sweat are the candidates

Thromde Elections 15 January, 2011 If the turnout of eligible voters at campaign meetings is any indication, the thromde elections in the Samdrupjongkhar will be completed within a few hours. [read more]

Putting Lauri on the roadmap

Though the upcoming farm road has eased life somewhat, transportation costs are hard to stomach

15 January, 2011 Remote Lauri gewog in Jomotsangkha dungkhag is getting closer. [read more]

Swedish proposal shelved (for now)

Easier to land and take-off but harder to achieve

Paro Airport: No second runaway for now

Second Runway 15 January, 2011 Households and resorts located in the immediate vicinity of Paro airport can breathe a sigh of relief. A Swedish proposal to build a second runway at Paro airport, which would have caused them to be displaced, has been shelved, according to the department of civil aviation (DCA). [read more]

Bhutan Salt shut down

A change of categorisation of imported salt has led to a hold-up in its supply

15 January, 2011 Bulk iodised salt might not be out of the market, but it is in short supply, with the only salt company in the country having to shut down for days because of a miscommunication with its suppliers. [read more]

Contractors have kittens

Being perishables, the goods must reach P/ling depot within three days of being plucked

Exporters Prayer: Oh for a road within the country

N. Bengal Strike 15 January, 2011 Walking for almost five hours, villagers from various parts of Deorali in Lhamoizingkha drive a caravan of mules laden with oranges to the Labrang depot. [read more]

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Bhutan Observer

AMC supplies poor quality grinding stones to farmers

Jan 15, 2011 Trashigang: People of Radhi and Phongmey gewogs in Trashigang complain that the ! Agricult ure Machinery Centre (AMC) in Paro has been procuring and supplying inferior quality grinding stones for grain mills for the last several years. They say that the new grinding stones supplied by the centre chip, crack, and break after a few months of [...] [read more]

A chorten at Rangshikhar Gonpa in Trashigang silhouetted against the fading sunlight last Tuesday

Jan 15, 2011 [read more]

Education city project holds first stakeholders meeting

Jan 15, 2011 DHIs Education City Project (ECP) on January 14, Friday, organized the first meeting for the ECP stakeholders with the Ernst & Young team, the consultants for the project. The first stakeholders meeting is part of a series of subsequent meetings with the objective to solicit comments on aspects that lead to pro-active assessment of the [...] [read more]

Semthuen and GNH defeat Spring Water

Jan 14, 2011 Semthuen and GNH won a game each to oust Spring Water in the ongoing Sha Dagay archery tournament at Tikizamba in Bjena gewog in Wangdue yesterday. Semthuen and GNH won a game each with 30 kareys each while Spring Water hit only 20 kareys and lost the match. The knockout tournament on compound bow is [...] [read more]

Growing NPPF plans more investments

Jan 14, 2011 Despite increasing competition in the financial market, the Na! tional P ension and Provident Fund (NPPF) has recorded a growth of 14.57 percent in its annual revenue generation. According to the annual financial report of NPPF, the gross revenue generation increased from Nu 512.98 million in the 2008-2009 financial year to Nu 587.73 million between 2009 and [...] [read more]

Second stage of disability assessment to be launched Saturday

Jan 14, 2011 The Ministry of Education (MoE), Ministry of Health (MoH) and National Statistical Bureau (NSB) in collaboration with Unicef will be launching the second stage of the Disability Assessment of children between 2 and 9 years on January 15, 2011, in Punakha. This initiative is the first of its kind in the world in line with [...] [read more]

Alcohol more dangerous than drugs, say experts

Jan 14, 2011 Alcohol is more dangerous than illegal drugs like heroin and crack cocaine, say British researchers. They found out that alcohol damages nearly all organ systems when drunk in excess and it is responsible for more deaths and crime than illegal drugs. This finding is disturbing to Bhutanese for whom alcoholic drinks are an integral part [...] [read more]

Bhutanise and publicise products, tourism experts recommend

Jan 14, 2011 Bhutan should draw lessons from tourism successes of other countries, Bhutanise them and publicize its products. That was at the heart of recommendations made by two foreign speakers at the high-level seminar on mainstreaming tourism held in the capital on Wednesday. The secretary general of United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Dr Taleb Rifai, recounted [...] [read more]

Strike strands travellers

Jan 14, 2011 Hundreds of Bhutanese travelling to and from India were stranded on Wednesday with the start of the 96-hour strike called by the Gorkha janmukti morcha. More strikes and roadblocks are expected after January 19. [read more]

India to celebrate Republic Day

Jan 14, 2011 The embassy of India on January 26 will organise function to celebrate Indias Republic Day at the embassy residence, India House Estate, in Thimphu. At the function, the Indian ambassador to Bhutan, Pavan K Varma, will read out the message of president of India to the nation (India). [read more]

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Business Bhutan

DRYING MONEY IN THE SUN WITH ANGAY

Jan 15, 2011 Recently, angay (grandmother) and I spend a wonderful time together doing the messiest thing in the world. We were cutting meat and drying it in the sun in true Bhutanese Read more [read more]

only 8,596 voters are eligible to vote for the mayors election

Jan 15, 2011 The number of voters to elect the first ever elected local government leaders of the four major municipal towns of Thimphu, Phuentsholing, Gelephu and Samdrup Jongkhar on T! hursday, January 20, Read more [read more]

dear thimphu and phuentsholing thrompon candidates

Jan 15, 2011 Our reporters Dawa T Wangchuk in Thimphu and Saraswati Sundas in Phuentsholing talked to people on their expectations from the new thrompon THIMPHU 1 RABGAY, Read more [read more]

bhutan to monitor health hazards related to climate change

Jan 15, 2011 Surrounded by snow capped mountains, people of Lhasa in Tibet had never even seen a mosquito in their lives. Today, studies have shown that the parasites have started appearing in Read more [read more]

pm joins bangladeshi fisherman and bollywood celebrities to hail the sundarbans as a global wonder

Jan 15, 2011 The prime minister this week connected very well with Bangladeshi fisherman and Bollywood celebrities as he voted for the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world, nominating it to Read more [read more]

why bhutan has so many constitutional issues?

Jan 15, 2011 Now that we have the advantage of hindsight, we can afford to look back and see what we should have done right after becoming a democracy in 2008. Among other Read more [re ad more]

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM IN BHUTAN

Jan 15, 2011 Bhutanese investigative journalism has evolved rapidly from discreetly reporting on annual audit findings to journalists doing their own hard hitting and impactful stories. This effective form of journalism has affected Read more [read more]

landslides caused by air pockets in mountains continue to disrupt thimphu-paro traffic

Jan 15, 2011 The road block along the Thimphu-Paro highway near Chuzom is expected to continue for another week as boulders keep falling disrupting traffic for hours. The maximum one-hour journey to travel Read more [read more]

cable operators denounce dth service in the country

Jan 15, 2011 Local television cable operators have described the Direct-To-Home (DTH) television service in the country as breaching Bhutanese laws and have asked the government to review it. The cable operators have Read more [read more]

bhutanese industries appeal for excise refund and tax exemptions

Jan 15, 2011 Hydropower raw material suppliers and intermediary industries say currently Indian companies enjoy and unfair edge over them Bhutanese manufacturers and suppliers sought equal treatment for supply of materials to hydropower Read more [read more]

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