Bhutan News Archive for January 25 2011

Bhutan Broadcasting Service

Socio-economic progress in Dagana remarkable

Jan 24, 2011 The Prime Minister Loynchhoen Jigmi Y. Thinley said Dagana Dzongkhag has made remarkable progress in the overall 10th Five Year Plan developmental activities. He was speaking at the 10th Five Year Plan Mid-Term Review in Dagana. [read more]

No weight for academic performance in civil service exam?

Jan 24, 2011 The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) is planning not to give weight to academic performance in the Bhutan Civil Service Common Examination. Some colleges tend to give high marks while others are strict. The rating also differs from one academic discipline to another. Because of this, the RCSC says, it is difficult to ensure a level playing field. [read more]

Annual judiciary report

Jan 24, 2011 The judiciary saw a record 7,771 matrimonial cases in 2010, an increase of 34.06 percent over the previous year. Cases related to financial matters came second at 1,842 cases. [read more]

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 THROMDE: Kinlay 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 majorit! y

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]

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Kuensel

Will it make a difference?

Huge expectations, limited power

24 January, 2011 The problem Thimphu faces, from overall planning to efficiency of services, is as old as the city itself. Can this be changed? [read more]

Theft, burglary and battery top crime cases

24 January, 2011 The number of crime cases recorded last year at the Thimphu city police station has more than doubled from 2009s. [read more]

Daganas progress reviewed

Nu 124 M of total outlay of Nu 215 M used

Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley kicked off the dzongkhag MTR from Dagana yesterday

10th Plan Mid Term Review 24 January, 2011 Almost 63 kilometres of farm roads, 44 irrigation channels and connecting 12 gewog centres with motorable roads were some of the achievements of the 10th five year Plan in the central district of Dagana. [read more]

Mixture suspected in diesel

Fuel sent to lab to test for impurity

Several vehicles stopped at the station without fuelling

Samdrup Jongkhar 24 January, 2011 Drivers of two trucks and a new Mahindra Bolero alleged that their vehicles were damaged after they refueled diesel from the Bhutan Oil Distributor (BOD) pump in Samdrup Jongkhar yesterday. [read more]

What rules?

24 January, 2011 In keeping with election rules, candidates who contested the first Thromde elections as well as any Bhutanese citizen have 10 days to make a formal complaint regarding the election. [read more]

Mixed spectacle on tshogpa salary

Sharmila Limbu is Phuentsholings lone female tshogpa elect

Thromde tshogpa 24 January, 2011 Five of the seven candidates in Phuentsholing made it for the post of thromde tshogpa on January 21. [read more]

Make Thimphu pedestrian friendly

Residents want it on the priority list

Construction materials piled on pavements in Changzomtog

Capital city 24 January, 2011 Thimphu Thrompon elect Kinlay Dorjee has securing 24-hour water service high up on his priority list. The city is faced with endless problems and going by what residents say, pedestrian walkway calls immediate attention, probably next to water. [read more]

S/Jongkhars tshogpa elects

Thromde tshogpa 24 January, 2011 The candidates were aged between 26 to 52 years. The thromde also elected its youngest and only woman candidate, 26-year old Sonam Lhamu. Three candidates are businessmen, two are farmers, while one had also left a manager job in a private firm to contest the elections.
Heres a look at Samdrup Jongkhars five tshogpa elects. [read more]

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 o! f the pl ans 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]

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Bhutan Observer

Druknet goes wireless

Jan 24, 2011 Druknet will soon sell vouchers that will contain login information to access wireless internet services if the trial WiFi proves successful. In order to give a value-added service to its broadband users, Druknet is planning to make the internet connection wireless for all its broadband users, which means broadband users will have access to the [...] [read more]

NIIT course goes to Sherubtse College

Jan 24, 2011 Fifty B.Sc. computer science students of Sherubtse College are taking NIIT (National Institute of Information and Technology) courseforegoing their winter holidays. The course is the first of its kind undertaken by the college with financial support from the government of India. The course has six main components, namely enabling e-governance, empowering teachers and taking ICT [...] [read more]

House that tells two stories

Jan 24, 2011 Not far from Thimphu, a crumbling old farmhouse tells two stories that of olden days and modern struggles. Jigme Wangchuk! capture s the stories It is a piece of Bhutanese history frozen in time. It shares the story of its birth with historical Dechenphu Lhakhang. It is a four-storey traditional Bhutanese farmhouse that stands as [...] [read more]

Soaring food prices hit labourers and farmers hard

Jan 24, 2011 The increase in food prices fuelled by the recent salary rise for civil servants has hit the poor section of the population, including labourers of the department of roads (DoR) and villagers, hard. DoR labourers say they are increasingly finding it difficult to make ends meet in the face of rapid rise in food prices. [...] [read more]

As thromde elections unfold

Jan 24, 2011 Today, a little more than 7,000 Bhutanese are expected to go to the polls in the four Class A towns of Thimphu, Phuentsholing, Gelephu and Samdrupjongkhar. However, we are not sure how many voters are actually participating in the first local government elections. In the run up to the elections, we have seen some kind [...] [read more]

Football and basketball tournaments for vulnerable youth

Jan 23, 2011 The Department of Youth and Sports will be organizing football and basketball tournaments from January 25 in Thimphu and Phuentsholing. The tournaments, which will target vulnerable urban youth between the ages of 15 and 25 years, are part of the annual winter youth programme of the department. The football tournament in Thimphu will be played [...] [read more]

Bhutan falls in tax paying culture ranking

Jan 23, 2011 Bhutan has been ranked 94th out of 183 economies on the ease of paying taxes! in the world, according to the 2011 Paying Taxes survey under the Doing Business report of the World Bank. This is a fall by six ranks from 2010 when Bhutan was ranked 88th. The study was conducted by the World [...] [read more]

Enterprising youth to get concessional loans

Jan 23, 2011 The ministry of labour signed an MoU with the six financial institutions in the country on a credit guarantee scheme (CGS) to provide concessional loans to unemployed youth, who want to start a career in entrepreneurship. Launching the scheme on Wednesday, Labour Minister Dorji Wangdi said the scheme would address issues of financial access constrains [...] [read more]

Bhutanese craziness

Jan 23, 2011 Theres something crazy, nay absurd, about the Bhutanese that is totally incomprehensible. That absurdity is personified in the designated city bus stops around the Thimphu city created near bends. First, we built roads with crazy bends and roundabouts, probably designed to project our craziness. Those bends and roundabouts are made crazier by taxis stopping near [...] [read more]

Farmers old and strugglin

Jan 23, 2011 The youngest farmer in Radhi Gewog, Trashigang, today is 20. The average farmer in Trashigang is past working age. Young men and women are hardly seen on the fields. Aging farmers, whose educated children work and live in towns, say that the governments objective of universal education is taking away able-bodied young people from fertile [...] [read more]

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Business Bhutan

age and experie! nce make s 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 of 2000 to 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 fou! ndation 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 for Protection 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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