Beldangi, May 31: Exiled Bhutanese have launched a campaign in all the seven camps urging dignified and early return-home program. Harkajung Subba, co-ordinator of the Civil Society informed the BNS that an estimated 8,000 exiled Bhutanese from 916 families took part in the campaign that began two weeks ago. A few organization including the Human [...]

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When several thousands of the exiled Bhutanese are finding new homes in abroad as coordinated by the UNHCR, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a Bhutanese youth from eastern Bhutan, Tandin Penjore, was deported to Germany from Switzerland on May 22

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Damak: Several dozens of bamboo huts in camps were blown off by incessant rain, which appeared in the eastern region since a week. “Altogether 107 huts have been damaged by storm followed by heavy rain yesterday”, said camp secretary of Khudunabari camp.   More than a dozen of school apartments got dismantled, making unfit for [...]

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Armed Police Force (APF) in the camp has arrested one exiled Bhutanese youth in connection to child-rape. According to the APF inspector Mahesh Raj Bista, they arrested Indra Bahadur Thapa, 19, of Beldangi-II, who admitted that he raped the child two years back when she was just five. The story was revealed following the deteriorating health condition of the victim, when she complained of acute pain in her genital

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SPOKANE — It took just three weeks for Maria Esther Zamora’s Spanish class at North Central High School to gather everything the Prahdan family needs to start a new life. After almost two decades in a refugee camp, Kahri and Indra Prahdan are starting over. A two bedroom Spokane apartment is where Pradhans and their [...]

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Chief of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Nepal Daisy Dell, accompanied by chief donor representatives toured the Bhutanese refugee camps in Jhapa and Morang districts on Wednesday. The team visited Goldhap, Beldangi and Sanischare

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Notice by Bhutan News Service and APFA-Bhutan Dear readers, Bhutan News Service and Association of Press Freedom Activists (APFA) – Bhutan take initiative for building network among the Bhutanese living in different parts of the world with the aim to finally transforming it into a Non Resident Bhutanese platform. We wish to create environment for [...]

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The newly resettled Bhutanese in Denver, Colorado are getting passing sleepless nights due to increasing attacks on the in the recent days.

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In the case you ever visit the Bhutanese refugee camp in Jhapa district, Nepal at Beldangi II, Sector I-1, Hut No 39, the first question you will be asked is whether you are the one who will take them to see their sons. Ram Chandra Guragai Ram Chandra Guragai The aged couple, Ram Chandra Guragai, 73, and Yasoda, 69, are living on the good will of their neighbors. Simple and essential tasks such as fetching water from the nearby tap and preparing meals are no longer possible for them most of the time. People age all over the world, and in Bhutanese refugee society the elderly are usually cared for by the families of their children. For Ram Chandra and Yasoda, however, this care is a dream, as their family is about 10,000 miles away. Two years ago the Guragai family started the resettlement process. As a family they faced the violent mass exodus from Bhutan. As a family they endured 18 years of struggle and poverty in the refugee camps of south-eastern Nepal.

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Bhutan is all set to host South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit in 2010. This is the first time Bhutan will host the summit since the regional body formed in 1985. In the past, this country denied hosting the summit on grounds that it does not have adequate physical infrastructure to host such big gathering

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