The Bhutanese Society of New Zealand (BSNZ) Saturday held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at Palmerstone North. According to its newly elected President, Bal Ghimire, the first AGM elected the new executive board of five members. Lucky Rai and Dilli Neupane were elected as the society’s Vice Chair and General Secretary respectively. Likewise, Suryaman Ria [...]

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Hemanta Acharya,17, a Bhutanese school girl from Blacktown, New South Wales Australia ,finished her South Africa tour from 28th June to 16th July attending an indoor football festival named Football for Hope Festival 2010 held in Johannesburg, South Africa. The festival held during the last FIFA World Cup 2010 was organised by Street Football World [...]

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A police squad from Damak Police Office, acting on a special tip-off, arrested at least three Bhutanese from Beldangi-I camp for stealing solar lamps from various camps, Tuesday evening. The detainees were identified as Dilip Rai and Santosh Rai from sector C-2, 145 and Mangal Singh Gurung of C-2, 94/95. Police became successful in arresting the trio [...]

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Dozen of Bhutanese youths from Beldangi-I camp have been staging street drama on domestic violence and violence on children at various places of Nepal-India border since a week. The awareness program with a team – role of youths in controlling sexual violence on children in border areas – also features a drama of Bhutanese children [...]

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The Bhutanese Community in The Netherlands (BCN) has announced the results of Inter-School Secondary Level Essay Writing Competition held on June 15 to mark World Refugee Day 2010. The announcement was made in a function organized here in Beldangi-I camp today. According to the statement of BCN, Mamata Gurung from Tri-Ratna Secondary School of Beldangi-II, Golsarna Baniya from Sunrise Academy of Khudunabari and Romant Bhattarai

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Representatives of Bhutan Media Society (BMS) and camp management committee distributed cash donations to fire victims here. Following the online appeal from BMS, Bhutanese Community in The Netherlands contributed 150 Euros for the fire victims, while Tek Nath Mishra from California and family of a former camp secretary Manorath Khanal from Arizona contributed US $40

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The funeral ceremony of 9-year-old Bishnu Kumar Nepal, who died drowning into a lake this week, was observed in a local cremation center in Akron, Ohio. Photo courtesy: FamilyThree hours long funeral process ended Monday evening, Amber Subba told Bhutan News Service from there

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Manorath Khanal, who chairs the Bhutanese Community in Arizona (BCA), has been selected to participate in Refugees Resettlement Consultations to be held on June 7 and 8 this month in Washington D.C. The consultation program of Office of Refugee

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Beldangi-I, April 14 : A monokranti follower alias Glim completed his 7 days of worship in a nine feet chamber beneath soil, amidst a special function this morning. The event organizer, Bhutan Manokranti Samiti, appreciated his initiave -to change the world, you need to change yourself. Hundreds of exiled Bhutanese gathered to witness the event. [...]

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Beldangi-II, April 14 :A three-day journalism training of Bhutanese Refugee Children Forum (BRCF) ended here today . According to the resource person, Jeetan Subba from Association of  Press Freedom Activists Bhutan, the training focussed on publication of wall bulletion by children. 14 participants, two from each of the seven camps, attended the training funded by [...]

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