Kathmandu: A new human rights report by US department of state said the human rights situation in Bhutan has improved in the year 2007 but is not adequate for in a democratic nation.  The report released on Wednesday says the constitution provides for freedom of speech and of the press; however, the government attempted occasionally [...]

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Netherlands: When the International Organization for Migration in Nepal is claiming that it has so far resettled around 10,000 exiled Bhutanese under third country resettlement program, a fresh lot of 30 individuals reached Amsterdam Schipol on February 16 for resettlement. The Dutch Ministry for Immigration and Neutralization confirmed of permitting the fourth group of the [...]

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Kathmandu: International Organization of Migration (IOM) said it has helped more than 10,000 exiled Bhutanese to resettle in third countries so far, the process that started in January 2008.  In a statement IOM said 9,032 of them are resettled in United States. Similarly, Australia resettled 520, New Zealand 186, Denmark 140, Norway 109, the Netherlands [...]

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THIMPHU: The US has said it will continue to resettle Bhutanese refugees from their camps in Nepal. During his recent visit to the Himalayan country, United States Assistant Secretary for Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher said about 15,000 refugees will be permitted to resettle in a year and about 60,000 in [...]

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Thimphu: To catch fresh bites of discussion between the US delegation and the Bhutanese politicians, Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon rushed to Thimphu Saturday morning. Accompanied by Joint Secretary North Satish C. Metha, Menon called on King Jigme Khesar and other high level government officials. Menon received the glamour of welcome at the Dechencholing Palace [...]

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Thimphu: Months after completing his job at the SAARC secretariat in Kathmandu, Chenkyab Dorji has no season to worry about. He has been appointed as the chief of King’s Privy Council Saturday. On valentine day, Dorji and other three also received the job as member of the council. They are Nado Rinchen, who was assigned [...]

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On January 13, Ganga Baral (Neupane) went to the Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix for receiving two Bhutanese families arriving in Phoenix from Khudunabari camp. This is a regular work of Ganga, who works as a Refugee Case Manager at Lutheran Social Service (LSS) of the Southwest in Arizona. Much excited to help new refugees arriving in Phoenix get resettled in a new place, Ganga joined the LSS of the Southwest from September 15 last year. Besides picking up the newcomers from the airport, she assists them for their immediate requirements which may be regular home visit, department of security interview, schooling for children and appointment with doctors for medical assistance among others.

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Thimphu: Bhutan Telecom has announced that as a planned strategy of doing away with obsolete technology, it will be replacing the DRMASS system in Bubja and Tshangkha under Trongsa district and in Jigmecholing under at Gelephu sub-division with GSM FWP (GSM Fixed Wireless Phones). As such, the telephone numbers of subscribers at Bubja, Tshangkha and [...]

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New Delhi: A Bhutanese women delegation led by Rinsy Dem, wife of Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley, completed a nine-day long visit to India on Monday.  The first of such women delegation from Bhutan to visit India had arrived Delhi on February 1 on the invitation of government of India to study rural development projects undertaken [...]

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IP Adhikari has an exclusive report on NOC. Then, you will listen to conversation between TP Mishra and Govinda Thapa, a social worker cum student leader from Damak.

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