Bhutan News Archive for January 26 2011
Bhutan Broadcasting Service
Amochu land reclamation taking shape
Jan 25, 2011 The Amochu land reclamation project is finally taking shape. Phuentsholing city officials said the Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited of India, to which the DHI, the investment wing of the government, has awarded the consultancy service contract, has already started the work. [read more]
Diabetes on the rise in Gelephu
Jan 25, 2011 The Gelephu hospital has been treating an increasing number of diabetic patients. Doctors say this is mainly because of life style change and food habits. [read more]
Odd numbers evened out
Jan 25, 2011 Office goers around the Tashichhodzong vicinity no longer have to play the odd and even number game. Entry inside the parking area which was allowed according to the vehicle registration numbers, odd numbers on one day and even numbers the next day, has been lifted from today. [read more]
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 10t! h Five Y ear 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 electi! on 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]
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Kuensel
Daganas progress raises questions
Achievements measured in physical terms
Already almost there: Kana gup Lhawang Dorji makes his presen! tation a t the MTR review meeting on January 24
MTR 25 January, 2011 From what the gups of Dagana had to say during the mid term review (MTR) of the dzongkhags 10th five-year Plan activities, four of the 14 gewogs in district have already achieved almost 100 percent of Plan activities which ends in June 2013.
The other 10 gewogs also reported of achieving more than 75 percent of the planned activities. [read more]
No man to lift
Update 25 January, 2011 When the Thimphu referral hospitals elevators start moving again could largely depend on when it gets government appointed operators to man the lifts. [read more]
Allowed or not is the question
25 January, 2011 One of candidates who stood for the recent thrompon election informally inquired whether it was allowed for a political party member, who was still registered, to openly support a mayor candidate. [read more]
Dzongdas to oversee hospital management
25 January, 2011 Dzongdas across the country will now have an additional role to play. With the signing of performance compacts with the health ministry, they will now be working together with health officials to improve hospital services. [read more]
What signs?
25 January, 2011 The number of crime cases recorded with the police in the last year has more than doubled. There is nothing surprising in that. Theft and burglary tops the crime list. Again there is nothing to be surprised of. [read more]
Nursing the foreign doctor shortage
Specialists 25 January, 2011 Some big district hospitals across the country are today not able to offer specialist services with 17 doctors from Myanmar, Burma, having returned home after completing their contract here. [read more]
Negligence prove handy, for once
Nabbed unconscious: Police rescue man from a pit
25 January, 2011 So what if the residents of Olakha suburb in Thimphu continues to vent their fury at the planners for creating a mess out of their place, the disarrayed area, for once, served a noble purpose. [read more]
Ending the even and odd game
25 January, 2011 If you intend to make a trip to Tashichhodzong or the offices in the vicinity starting today, you no longer have to go through the calendar and make sure it matches your vehicle registration number. [read more]
Fuel damages compensated
What caused the problem still not known
Fuel trouble: One of the trucks that broke down after refueling
Diesel 25 January, 2011 The Bhutan Oil distributor (BOD) in Samdrup Jongkhar has paid compensation for damage to vehicles that refueled diesel at their fuel station yesterday evening. [read more]
Will it make a differenc! e?
< p> Huge expectations, limited power24 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]
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Bhutan Observer
What does joining ILO mean?
Jan 25, 2011 Bhutan is all set to join the International Labour Organisation (ILO). What does the countrys membership to ILO mean? Joining the 183-member ILO will bring changes in the countrys labour market, especially with regard to standards and rights at work, opportunities to secure decent employment and income, effective social protection for all, and strengthened dialogue. [...] [read more]
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]
< h4>House that tells two storiesJan 24, 2011 Not far from Thimphu, a crumbling old farmhouse tells two stories that of olden days and modern struggles. Jigme Wangchuk captures 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]
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Business Bhutan
age and experience makes tsheten dorji phuentsholing mayor
Jan 22, 2011 Runner-up Ashan Chhettris father say! s 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 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 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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