Bhutanese Refugee Children Forum (BRWF) organized art competition among children of the camps this Sunday. According to BRWF coordinator Indra Timsina, altogether 49 children including children with vulnerability took part in the competition

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Mar 10: A forest fire in the eastern district of Trashigang has burnt down an automobile workshop, three cars and 25 two-wheelers kept for repair there. The fire started on Tuesday and is yet to come under control. Further the wild fire burnt down a sawmill, a house, makeshift labor camps at Kheri and damaged 150 [...]

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Mar 09: Two Canadians traveled extensively in Beldangi camp on Tuesday to access the latest situation in the camps at the wake of resettlement process. Margaret Styczynska, manager for resettlement and integration services of the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society and Bozana Sljuka, manager for settlement programs of the Lethbridge Family Service met with the exiled Bhutanese [...]

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Hundreds of exiled women marched in a rally today to mark the 100th International Women Day today morning. The rally displayed several slogans related to women issues including 'women right is human right' before the mass converted into a gathering in the camp premises

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Mar 05: Police in Aurora area of Colorado State are asking the public for help finding a missing man who is a Bhutanese recently resettled there. According to police the 42-year-old Tulasi Niroula, who went missing on Monday afternoon, is a deaf-mute and does not understand English. He is illiterate as well. He is described as about 5 feet 6 inches [...]

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Mar 05: New Bhutanese envoy to the Maldives ,Dasho Bap Kesang has presented his Credentials to President Mohamed Nasheed, at a ceremony held at the President’s Office on Thursday. After the presentation of credentials, the President and the Ambassador discussed bilateral relations between the two countries and ways of further strengthening these relations. Discussions were also concentrated on the preparations of [...]

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February 20: Bhutan News Service (BNS) in close coordination with the Camp Management Committee (CMC) in Beldangi-I camp distributed relief package to fire victims in the camp on Friday amidst a special function.    BNS distributed cash donation to fire victims in presence of representatives from the UNHCR, LWF and Armed Police Force. The donation package ranged [...]

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 February 20: The postmortem of former camp secretary Ramesh Subba, who was shot dead on February 19, was done yesterday at Bhadrapur-based hospital.  Aita Maya Subba, spouse of late Ramesh who was present at the spot said “my husband was talking to me in my cell while he was shot.” Aita Maya further added that the connection [...]

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Beldangi, Feb 20: Ramesh Subba, the former camp secretary of Beldangi I camp was shot dead yesterday evening. Subba, the temporary resident of Beldangi I sector G was shot dead by unidentified armed gunmen at Itabhatta in Mechinagar Municipality, three kilometers west of Kakarvitta. His dead body is kept at Bhadrapur Hospital for postmartem. According to T.B Gurung, the [...]

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A refugee woman of Sanischare camp was stabbed by her husband yesterday. Chandra Maya Rashaili , 40, a temporary resident of sector C-3, Hut no 45 died at the spot when her husband Narad Mani Rashaili attacked her with Khukuri(a typical knife). Following the incidence, police attested Narad Mani from the spot. The police [...]

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