Sept 12: The first extraordinary sitting of the parliament yesterday passed the LG bill but did not come to any resolution, after more than five hours of discussions, on the draft criteria for declaring bills as urgent, addressing disputed bills in future, voting on bills in a joint sitting and drafting of bills. The joint committee [...]

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SPOKANE — It took just three weeks for Maria Esther Zamora’s Spanish class at North Central High School to gather everything the Prahdan family needs to start a new life. After almost two decades in a refugee camp, Kahri and Indra Prahdan are starting over. A two bedroom Spokane apartment is where Pradhans and their four [...]

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On a recent morning, a diminutive woman wearing long, black and blue Tibetan skirt and a white sweater arrived at the Bouddha monastery’s gate to talk about what seemed like a one person mission. Prayer flags fluttered as she sat to speak amidst the incessant chanting of Om Mane Peme that emanated from the several cassette and CD shops in this tourist destination. The serenity of the Buddhist temple could hardly hide the severity of Karma Zangpo’s predicament: her Bhutanese refugee husband Tenzing Zangpo was rearrested by Indian police immediately after being freed on bail from a jail in Guhawati, the capital of Assam state in northeastern India. And, she was witness to the bizarre incident on April 6 when Mr. Zangpo, the General Secretary of Druk National Congress

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THIMPHU: The US has said it will continue to resettle Bhutanese refugees from their camps in Nepal. During his recent visit to the Himalayan country, United States Assistant Secretary for Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher said about 15,000 refugees will be permitted to resettle in a year and about 60,000 in all. Boucher [...]

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PARSURAM Sharma-Luital was once arrested for not wearing the compulsory Bhutanese national dress while wading across a river in the blazing sun.

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