Bhutan News Archives

With its epicenter in Mongar, close to the Trashigang border, the quake was also felt 180 km away in Thimphu.

Pentavalent Vaccine 29 October, 2009 - 29 October, 2009 - A day after a two-month old baby received the first dose of the pentavalent vaccine, she stopped feeding well and cried more often.

The team of 309 includes about 20 women Operation Thorthomi 28 October, 2009 - The water level of the Thorthormi lake, which has the potential to cause glacial lake outburst flood if not mitigated, was reduced by only 86 cm in two months during the operation Thorthormi.

THIMPHU: n additional to recreational equipment like swings and slides, computers, too, could soon become part of a childrena s playground in Bhutan.

Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla visits Bhutan Monday on the invitation of the Himalayan kingdom's poll panel chief to discuss election management in the new democracy.

THIMPHU: The agriculture ministry is recommending tripling the countrya s national food reserve from the current 1,658 metric tonnes to at least 5,850 MT, mainly in cereals, to cope with emerging food security challenges.

THIMPHU: More than two weeks after the weekly Bhutan Times , the first privately owned newspaper in Bhutan, declared a loss of Nu 5.39 million and underwent a change of management, its editor and six of its 12 reporters resigned yesterday, citing a oepersistent editorial interference from the managementa .

Tajikistan News.Net Friday 23rd October, 2009 London, October 23 : Reports indicate that the melting of the Himalayan glaciers is threatening the kingdom of Bhutan, the impacts of which will adversely affect the entire South Asian region.

THIMPHU: The body of a three-year-old girl, recovered from a bush in Jungshina, is suspected to have drowned in the reservoir tank of the Bhutan power corporationa s mini-hydel while playing with her two brothers.

The main factor that triggers this movement is education and employment, said the works and human settlement minister Lyonpo Yeshey Zimba.

NEW DELHI: Enhancing cooperation to tackle the climate change impacts, the Saarc countries yesterday decided to set up 50 automatic weather monitoring stations in Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan to carry out study on weather pattern, especially storms, in the region.

The Bhutan - Telecoms, Mobile and Internet report includes all BuddeComm research data and analysis on this country.

'Yet we continue to be perplexed and challenged, both conceptually and in practice' : Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley International Conference on Democracy 15 October, 2009 - 'I hope I'm not alone in believing that it has been a successful one,' said Prime Minister Lyonchhen Jigmi Y Thinley at the closing of the three-day democracy conference in Paro ...

THIMPHU: Its gleaming glass entrance leads straight to eight spacious business counters.

THIMPHU: The Druk Green power corporation has initiated a Nu 16 billion hydropower project, which could give ordinary Bhutanese a chance to invest in a hydro project and also supply assured power to a data centre being planned by the Druk holding and investments .

THIMPHU: When Martha Lepcha, 32, who runs a canteen in Olakha, made her friend carry out her bank transactions for almost a year on her behalf, little did she know that she was being deceived.

Visiting Bhutan is an otherworldly experience. The last Himalayan Shangri-La opened its doors to tourism in 1974, and even today only a few thousand people each year are granted visas.

THIMPHU: Victims will have to depend on govt. relief and public generosity to rebuild None of the 12 houses and shops in Wamrong town that were burnt to the ground in the October 9 blaze will be entitled to insurance because they were not insured.

Ms Chompoonute Nakornthap hands over the cheque on behalf of the royal Thai government to Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley 14 October, 2009 The government of Thailand contributed USD 30,000 to Bhutan in aid of the effort to rehabilitate damages wreaked by the recent earthquake in eastern Bhutan.

Until then, Bhutan had no such record. Since then, Bhutan has not recorded any such activities either.

Chuma Tshewang, 24, suffered injury on the left hip and knee, while Chuma Nakchung, 30, suffered multiple superficial abrasions on the face, eyes and left forearm, according to the medical report from Gelephu hospital.

THIMPHU: A three-day international conference being held in Paro on a deepening and sustaining democracy in Asiaa will begin on Monday.

Local Crop: Processed marijuana from Chang Jiji and Olakha in Thimphu 9 October, 2009 - Bhutanese communities and individuals have been selling and exporting marijuana growing naturally in Bhutan across the border to Assam for many years, according to data from the royal Bhutan police .

Bhutan Telecom has announced that it has expanded rural coverage for its B-Mobile wireless services.

Tajikistan News.Net Thursday 8th October, 2009 Paro, Oct.8 : Bhutan has joined hands with the United Nations Development Programme to bring together high level representatives from twelve countries in Asia to brainstorm on how countries can go beyond the notion of democracy as a process of holding regular elections by deepening and sustaining ...

Her Majesty also awarded cash prizes to the winners of the national design competition in kira, gho and embroidery.

The OLPC Project 6 October, 2009 - Education in Bhutan is mostly about rote learning.

What he erected were more than just bridges. For the community, it was a relic, the masterpiece of a saint, who became popularly known as Drubthob Chakzampa .

THIMPHU: "We must first get rid of violence at home to get rid of violence at night clubs," said Sonam Wangmo, a student of Kelki higher secondary school during a speech she gave at the centenary youth village on the international day of non-violence celebrated worldwide yesterday.

The Lancet Study 27 September, - 2009 - Road accidents are the number one cause of death among people between 10-24 years worldwide, according to a recent WHO study by one of the world's leading medical journals, The Lancet, also the first ever study done on the causes of deaths in young people.

Alvis and Bugatti in Phuentsholing on September 29 2 October, 2009 - Residents of Phuentsholing town did not notice, until much later, that in the stream of vehicles rolling through the main gate on the evening of September 29, two were vintage cars built before World War II, an era when most of the world did not have motorable roads.

THIMPHU: A team of Bhutanese engineers, who visited areas that were severely hit by the September 21 earthquake, is preparing a technical report, which would locate major earthquake fault lines and fractures within the country, to provide recommendations on relocating communities or setting new standards to build safer homes in the region.

Noriaki Sugo and his wife 1 October, 2009 - It was easier for 50-year-old Noriaki Sugo and his wife Kimie Sugo to come all the way from Japan to Bhutan than to move around in Thimphu city.

According to Dr Choeda Gyeltshen of Paro hospital, who examined the body, the tourist had a history of heart disease.