March 29: Youth Organization of Bhutan (YOB) has asked the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) through Asia Pacific committee to design the mechanism to protest the gross human rights violation by government of Bhutan.  According to a press statement by its President Rajen Giri, his organization raised such a concern during its participation at [...]

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Delegates of  the Asian Forum for Himan Rights urged the Nepalese prime minister to resume the bilateral talks with Bhutan  in the upcoming SAARC summit. When Bhutan is hosting the first ever summit of the South Asian Association for the Regional Copertion on  April, delegates of this Manila based human rights watchdog  met the Nepalese [...]

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Relay march leaders arrested(update) Armed Police force arrested three of the front line leaders of the relay march today mornig. When the march was due to begin, the Sanischare camp based APF rounded the key  leaders including Badal Thapa, Damber Rai and Krishna Thapa. Theya  are kept at the Sanischare APF base camp and it [...]

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March 26: Demanding that their issue should be an agenda of discussion during the 16th round of SAARC summit, those favouring repatriation have declared relay march to Bhutan from camps. In a press statement, the coordinator of the relay march Badal Thapa said their demand of “return home” should be addressed during the summit.   [...]

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By Teju Chouhan/Australia March 26, 2010: Bhutanese Community in Australia Inc (BCA) participated in a series of functions to celebrate the Cultural Diversity Week and Harmony Day, March 21. Victoria celebrates and promotes the rich cultural values and traditions on Harmony Day by organizing series of functions across the State. Amongst many of those events, [...]

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Beldangi-I, March 23: 45-year-old Tika Ram Sarki from this camp, who fled from Koshi Zonal Hospital where he was undergoing treatment of his chronic liver infection, is still at large since a week said his brother, Moti Lal Sarki. “The hospital management has not shown any interest to look for his whereabouts,” said Moti told [...]

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Unlike in Nepal and India, they are still unfamiliar to the outside world. The red Maoists have just unfurled its flag in Bhutan, and have set the alarm bell of a new threat in the Eastern Himalayas. Like the other South Asia countries, the secluded Dragon Kingdom too has started to witness Maoist movement, a political battle, aimed at abolishing the Monarchy from the last Shangri-La. A series of bomb explosions mostly in the southern periphery of the Himalayan Kingdom, where majority of Nepali-speaking people dwell, during the last couple of years, is the announcement that the comrade-in-arms of the radical Communists are now looking for a political change. The 2008 political transformation in Bhutan---from an absolute monarchy to a “constitutional monarchy” has been dubbed as an eye-wash by the Maoists. The red-brigade is determined to achieve a Nepal-like situation---establishment of Bhutan as a republic.

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Jhapa, March 21: Druk National Congress (DNC) -Democratic has sent a condolence letter to Sujata Koirala, daughter of late  Girija Prasad Koirala today through Nepali Congress Jhapa district president Sudhir Siwakoti. DNC Democratic president Thinley Penjore in his message said as a great statesman and towering political personality of Asia, his untimely demise was not [...]

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The Bhutanese Community in Australia (BCA) received the Harmony Day Award 2010 in Broadmeadows on yesterday at the Migrant Resource Centre North West. Resource centre chairman presented the award to president of BCA, Parsuram Sharma Luital, on behalf of the community

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March 20: Druk National Congress has offered heartfelt condolences Nepali Congress (NC) and people of Nepal at the passing away of former prime minister and president of NC, Girija Prasad Koirala today. Rongthong Kunley Dorji, the president of DNC said that he was instrumental in providing safe refuge in Nepal to exiled Bhutanese from their [...]

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