Bhutan News Archive for January 23 2011

Bhutan Broadcasting Service

One killed in a gang fight

Jan 22, 2011 A 22-year-old man has been killed in a gang fight in Monggar on Thursday. The fight took place in the town. It was reported to the police at around 11pm. [read more]

To vote or not to vote?

Jan 22, 2011 Yesterday, voters in the four Thromdes of Thimphu, Phuentsholing, Gelephu and Samdrup Jongkhar went to the polls to elect a Thrompon and Thromde Tshogpas. As per the election rule, only voters who have their census in the respective Thromdes are allowed to vote. It means, in Thimphu, just over 6,000 people can vote. The town has a population of about 100,000 people. Many believe that it is not right for a fraction of the population to decide the fate of the entire town. [read more]

Progress encouraging, says PM

Jan 22, 2011 The Prime Minister Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y. Thinley described the progress of Accelerating Bhutans Socio-economic Development Project encouraging and heartening. He was speaking at the third quarter review meeting on Thursday. [read more]

Thimphu votes for Kinlay Dorjee

Jan 21, 2011 THIMPHU THR! OMDE: K inlay Dorjee has been elected the Thrompon of the capital Thimphu. Kinlay Dorjee won 1335 votes, with a comfortable lead of 182 votes. Karma Thinlay Wangchuk got 1153 votes. Rinzin Dorji is in the third place with 606 votes. This is according to preliminary reports. The official results will be declared tomorrow. [read more]

Samdrup Jongkhar gives Karma Sherub Thobgyal majority

Jan 21, 2011 SAMDRUP JONGKHAR THROMDE: It was a landslide win for Karma Sherub Thobgyal in Samdrup Jongkhar. Karma Sherub Thobgyal got 140 votes, 58 votes more than Dechen Wangmo, the only other contestant. Dechen Wangmo got 82 votes. [read more]

Namgay leads in Gelephu

Jan 21, 2011 GELEPHU THROMDE: According to preliminary reports, Namgay is leading the race in Gelephu with 309 votes. The second contestant, Churamani Tiwari, has won 223 votes. Namgay is leading with 86 votes. The results will be officially declared by the election commission tomorrow. [read more]

Tsheten Dorji wins in Phuentsholing

Jan 21, 2011 PHUENTSHOLING THROMDE: Initial reports show that Tsheten Dorji has won 182 votes. Dr. Ashan Chhetri came a close second with 140 votes. In the third place is Uttar Kumar Rai with 125 votes. [read more]

Accident leaves two dead

Jan 20, 2011 Two men including the driver were killed and another two injured when the Maruti van they were travelling in went off the road at Samzhor on Tuesday. Samzhor is located between Narphung and Gomdhar in Samdrup Jongkhar. [read more]

Insurance claim for plane crash victims

Jan 20, 2011 The relatives of the Bhutanese pilgrims who perished in the Nepal plane crash will have to wait two more months to get the insurance for the victims. [read more]

Lift the ban on import of vehicles says Opposition

Jan 20, 2011 The Opposition, yesterday, asked the judiciary to intervene and lift the temporary ban on the import of vehicles. Opposition member Damchoe Dorji said the ban has affected potential buyers and the business of the car dealers. He was speaking at the second hearing in the Supreme Court on the governments tax revision on vehicles. This is the first constitutional case to be tried in a court of law. [read more]

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Kuensel

Healthy lifestyle plans stuck

23 January, 2011 The plan to build a bicycle track around the city by the agriculture ministry is still in paper, even though it has been approved in principal by the cabinet.

It is one of the plans to make Thimphu a friendlier city for physical activities. [read more]

Inflation crosses seven percent in 2010

23 January, 2011 Annual inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, in the last quarter of 2010 was 9.1 percent, up from 7.1 percent in the September quarter, pushed by rise in prices of both food and non-food items according to data released by the National Statistical Bureau. [read more]

Road show dissapointing say tour operators

23 January, 2011 With no business deals made to send in tourists to Bhutan, all 17 tour operators returned home disappointed from the US after participating in a mini road show last month. [read more]

From fire-starters to fighters

Prevention before cure: Villagers making fire line in Chali

Chaling, Mongar 23 January, 2011 A lot has changed since Nidup, 89, fought the last forest fire in his village in Chaling, Mongar. The forest has become the communitys property, random felling of trees has ceased, and villagers prevent forest fires rather than start them. [read more]

238 schools still without sufficient water

Some have taps but no water (file photo)

Perspective 23 January, 2011 Access to clean drinking water in Bhutanese schools is imp! roving w ith 290 schools out of 576 having sufficient water supply systems irrespective of the availability of taps, according to the annual education report, 2010. [read more]

2.5 percent unemployment rate achievable: PM

23 January, 2011 With the kind of progress made in employment of Bhutanese, the government is optimistic to bring down the unemployment rate to 2.5 percent by the end of 2012.

The prime minister Jigmi Y Thinley said this during the third quarterly review of accelerating Bhutans socio economic development (ABSD) on January 20 in Thimphu. [read more]

A Bap is capitals mayor

Residents should see some improvement within the first year

Thromde election 22 January, 2011 I am very excited and nervous as well.
Appearing flushed and exhausted at his residence yesterday, 40- year old Kinlay Dorjee, who was elected Thimphus mayor in the first thromde elections, said it was an immense relief to hear the results in his favour. [read more]

P/ling goes for age and experience

After formally assuming the post, I want to begin by cleaning the town

Thromde election 22 January, 2011 The results were out. Tsheten Dorji had won. The 59-year-old was bewildered. He didnt know whether to answer his phone, ringing every time he finishes talking to one or to listen to the officials who want him to sign the poll results. [read more]

Namgay sweeps 5 constituencies

People have put a lot of responsibilities on my shoulder

Thromde election 22 January, 2011 Gelephu Thromde elected Namgay as its Thrompon yesterday giving the former Chukha dzongda a total of 307 votes and two postal ballots in an election that many predicted would go the other way. [read more]

Former cop wins in S/Jongkhar

I attribute my link with the people of the two constituencies for my victory

Thromde election 22 January, 2011 Karma Sherab Thobgyal, 41, got 140 votes of the 222 votes cast yesterday to become the first thrompon of the southeastern town of Samdrup Jongkhar. [read more]

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Bhutan Observer

Thrompon elections results: Kinley Dorji wins in Thimphu; Tsheten Dorji wins in Phuentsholing;Karma Sherab Thobgyal wins in Samdrupjongkhar;Namgay wins in Gelephu.

Jan 21, 2011 [read more]

The elections for thromde tshogpa demkhongs of Thimphu, Phuentsholing, Gelephu and Samdrupjongkhar is taking place today

Jan 21, 2011 [read more]

Children learn to play tennis

Jan 19, 2011 The Bhutan Tennis Federations winter tennis coaching camp will begin from tomorrow at the Changlingmithang Tennis Centre in Thimphu. About 60 boys and girls are expected to participate in Under-10 category, 40 in Under-12 category and 20 in Under-14 category. The coaching sessions will be conducted from 9 am to12 pm every day. The participants [...] [read more]

An elderly gomchhen sings prayers on the pavement of Norzin Lam in Thimphu

Jan 19, 2011 [read more]

Business of reviving old shoes

Jan 18, 2011 A young Bhutanese man in Thimphu starts Bhutans first shoe cleaning centre. Jigme Wangchuk finds out what it takes to be a shoe cleaner, and a professional one at that In one of the darkest and most obscure nooks behind a row of buildings on the other side of Norzim Lam, opposite the Clock Tower [...] [read more]

The east-west lateral highway is still blocked by snow at several places

Jan 18, 2011 [read more]

MoU signed today to create SEZs

Jan 18, 2011 DHI and the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MoEA) today, Tuesday, signed an MoU to develop special economic zones (SEZ) in three locations. The three locations are Motanga under Samdrupjongkhar Dzongkhag with an area of about 152 acres, Jigmeling under Sarpang Dzongkhag with an area of 1,185 acres and Dhamdum under Samtse Dzo! ngkhag w here the exact [...] [read more]

Cars line up below the Lungtenzampa fueling station in Thimphu to refuel yesterday evening in anticipation of the petrol price hike today

Jan 18, 2011 [read more]

The price of petrol in Bhutan has increased by Nu 2 to Nu 2.25 from today

Jan 18, 2011 [read more]

Bhutan-Bangladesh trade relations get a booster

Jan 17, 2011 Prime Minister Jigmi Y Thinleys visit to Bangladesh this week is expected diversify relations between Bhutan and Bangladesh. Addressing a banquet hosted by Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday, Lyonchhen noted that the relationship between the two countries was progressively diversifying both in material as well as less tangible forms encompassing a range of [...] [read more]

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Business Bhutan

age and experience makes tsheten dorji phuentsholing mayor

Jan 22, 2011 Runner-up Ashan Chhettris father says he is not satisfied with results because his son did not even win in his home constituency Two days prior to the Hamar Bangla strike Read more [read more]

government to review the company act o! f 2000 t o reflect new economic developments

Jan 22, 2011 Since 2000, the economic situation in the country has undergone major changes. In an attempt to attune it to ground realities and to make it more inclusive, the government has Read more [read more]

women outnumber men to elect mayors

Jan 22, 2011 Thimphu gets Kinley Dorji, Samdrup Jongkhar chooses Karma Sherub Thobgyal, Gelephu votes for Namgay and Phuentsholing goes for Tsheten Dorji as first elected mayors Ushered by a warm sun following Read more [read more]

helping media

Jan 22, 2011 The first executive director of Bhutan Media Foundation, Lily Wangchhuk talks to Business Bhutans Phuntsho Wangdi on her plans for the foundation Q. What is the first thing that you Read more [read more]

bhutans only environment ngo wins us$ 350,000 award

Jan 22, 2011 RSPN joins eleven other organizations in receiving the prestigious MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions (MACEI) The Royal Society f! or Prote ction of Nature (RSPN) of Bhutan is among the Read more [read more]

strategize the implementation of gnh, dont bulldoze it

Jan 22, 2011 After French president Nicolas Sarkozy and more recently the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown decided to include happiness or peoples wellbeing in measuring the countrys development, Germany has now expressed Read more [read more]

Relearning to wear my kira

Jan 22, 2011 Due to my lack of interest and Dzongkha-learning disability, my parents came to a decision to ship me off to Sikkim, where the subject would be avoided and where Id Read more [read more]

the marginal but expanding market for reject or second quality oranges

Jan 22, 2011 Walking across an orange depot as vast as the Changiji housing complex in Thimphu, it might be difficult for one to get hold of fine quality oranges as it all Read more [read more]

collateral free loan for aspiring entrepreneurs with good business ideas

Jan 22, 2011 If you are thinking about starting a business but do not have the funds, it is time to knock the door of the labor ministry. All you need is an Read more [read! more]

health officials cheat country off millions

Jan 22, 2011 A plastic bucket worth Nu 600 was bought for Nu 7,500. Rot is spread across most departments in the health ministry with faulty tendering, favoritism, buying poor quality equipments, excessive Read more [read more]

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