Oct 31: After herculean six hours surgery, Hari Adhikari, General Secretary of Bhutan National Democratic Party (BNDP), who is now in California in USA under resettlement program, has finally started to improve his deteriorated health status. ‘Had it not been such prompt attention and specialized service, I wouldn’t have been the same man. Indeed, this [...]

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Oct 31: No human casualties were reported as of yesterday but initial information suggest that structures damaged by the September 21 earthquake may have been further weakened by the 5.2 magnitude tremor which struck eastern Bhutan around 11 pm on Thursday. With its epicenter in Mongar, close to the Trashigang border, the quake was also [...]

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Oct 30: A Bhutanese refugee has been held in connection to robbery at Laxmi Bank Limited in Damak, Nepal.   According to police, the one who has been arrested has been identified as Daak Man Bhujel, 22, a registered refugee from Beldangi I refugee camp, Sector G.   Bhujel was arrested near Damak bus park. With the [...]

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Kathmandu, October 30: Bhutan Media Society has starting relaying its valley-based weekly radio programs to eastern Nepal coving all camps, some districts of India and Bhutan’s border from October 18. “Now each episode of Saranarthi Sarokar from Nepal FM Network, Kathmandu, is liked to Ganatantra FM, Dharan, via satellite exchange,” said Bhutan Media Society (BMS) [...]

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Oct 29: Measuring more than 5 x 7 feet and weighing in at 133 pounds, Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom has been certified by Guinness World Records as the largest published book in the world. Production of the book stretched image-processing systems to their limits. The life-size portraits of people and [...]

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KATHMANDU, 29 October 2009 (IRIN) – Bhutanese refugees in Nepal have expressed dismay at a recent decision by the World Food Programme (WFP) to cut food rations sharply. “We are worried about the children,” said Yam Gurung, a 33-year-old refugee at the Beldangi-2 camp in Jhapa District, nearly 500km southeast of Kathmandu. “They suffer from [...]

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Oct 29: The chief election commissioner of Bhutan has written to the prime minister asking the government to revoke CDG Constituency Development Grant (CDG). Commissioner wrote at a time when National Assembly members has prepared plans and and projects for the CDG. In the letter he sent earlier this month to Jigmi Y Thinley, the [...]

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Oct 29: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has said it is alarmed to learn the mass resignation of journalists from the Bhutan Times, after sharp disagreements on editorial process and content with a newly appointed chief executive. In a statement, the global trade union of working journalists, said ownership of Bhutan’s first privately owned [...]

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Oct 29: A joint team of Hamse Dumse Community Forest and Armed Police Force (APF) entered Beldangi-I camp and seized a truck of firewood and timber yesterday. With suspicion of exiled Bhutanese collecting firewood abundantly during Dashain and Tihar, the community forest decided to raid huts inside camps. According to camp secretary T.B.Gurung, the search [...]

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Oct 28: Association of Press Freedom Activists (APFA) has condemned the acts of Bhutan Times management for imposing its interest on editorial team due to which journalists have to leave the paper in group on October 22. Below is the press statement issued by APFA- Bhutan. Press Release Association of Press Freedom Activists (APFA) condemns [...]

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