The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Japan are extending a $3 million grant to Bhutan to rebuild damaged schools using earthquake-resilient materials and designs which could potentially be replicated around the country. The grant from the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction for the Upgrading Schools and Integrated Disaster Education Project will be used to reconstruct [...]

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Understandably, as these large numbers of people are beginning their new life in these countries, they are facing number of settlement challenges. Some of these challenges are comparatively easy issues that will get resolved during the course of resettlement but there are others without less obvious solutions and people have to learn to find ways of coping. In my personal opinion, new immigrants in these countries have to take especial efforts in making their transition smooth and quicker by taking some initiatives, being proactive and adapting by listening to the settlement agencies, people who have settled earlier and gone through the same process and those who have good knowledge of the settlement process.

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At a time when the quality of Dzongkha is being questioned and discussed in every possible medium comes an opportune attempt to apprise Bhutanese of their national language. Beginners can take a plunge into the language, starting with the alphabets illustrated in elementary pictures and interpretations. Students can refer their Dzongkha textbook contents in a [...]

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BY RN POKHREL: It might perhaps appear too early to say as to if the exiled movement led by RK Dorji will yield fruitful results but if his recent activities are selfless-driven, it might drive our long struggle to a good height. The coalition should have two fold working strategy one based on human rights and the other for political affairs. The first move of the coalition should be to address the problem of the people in the camp as the primary deal and future strategy should be on political achievements. Now the matter is strategy and approach and then unity with vision and mission. United Bhutanese voice from across the globe for peace and justice in Bhutan has no alternative, thus, the leaders should coin a special roadmap to lead the movement to a successful height.

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In less than two weeks of her resettlement in Buffalo in New York, Dhan Maya Gurung (Poudel) has committed suicide on Friday night. Reports received late from Dhan’s sister in Arizona confirmed that she committed suicide in her new temporary house in Buffalo days after her resettlement. A permanent resident of Chirang district in Bhutan, [...]

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A delegation of Bhutanese leaders led by RK Dorji has met former foreign minister and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum chairman Upendra Yadhav at the latter’s residence in a bid to lobby Nepalese leaders for the repatriation of refugees. During the meet, Yadav said “India always chose to remain silent whenever the Government of Nepal sought its [...]

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BY Dr. Bhampa Rai: labeling citizens, whose entry into Bhutan dates back to not before the 17thcentury, as "illegal immigrants" of Bhutan is neither logical nor justifiable. The rulers, who also follow Buddhism, as commoners do, have been discriminating and suppressing other religions. A monk named Gomchen Karma from Tashigang, a follower of another sect of Buddhism Nyningmapa, was shot dead on October 27, 1997 by the district officer Lakpa Dorji and expelled many senior Buddhist monks of eastern Bhutan simply for attending a peaceful procession demanding equal rights to religions. After this incident, to appease this community and to avoid two front enmities, the regime promptly promoted Sharchop officers to the ranks of ministers. But all the ministers from other ethnic community are still under compulsion to dance to the tunes of the regime.

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चार भुटानी शरणार्थी संगठनले स्वदेश फिर्तीका लागि संयुक्तरुपमा गर्ने भनिएको आन्दोलन षड्यन्त्रको रुप भएको राहत बञ्चित पीडित भुटानी शरणार्थी समूहले आरोप लगाएको छ । समुहले  बिज्ञप्ति मार्फत शरणार्थीहरुको मुद्धामा कहिल्यै पनि काम नगरेका नेताहरुले काठमाडौंमा कार्यालय खोलेर आन्दोलन गर्छौं भन्नु लाजमर्दो भएको जनाएको छ । शरणार्थी आन्दोलनमा वास्तबिक सहयोग पुर्‍याउने भए शिबिरमा आएर राजनीति गर्न [...]

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Bhutan Media Society, Kathamndu handed over the donations made by resettled Bhutanese and their community organisations to fire victims of Beldangi-I camp on Feb 19, 2010.

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President of Druk National Congress (DNC), RK Dorji, who is in Nepal after his extradition case was rejected by Delhi High Court, has been asked to lead the democratic struggle of exiled Bhutanese by Bhutan People’s Party (BPP), Bhutan National Democratic Party (BNDP) and Bhutanese Movement Steering Committee (BMSC).  Top brass of these parties and [...]

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