Repressive regimes everywhere employ torture on political prisoners to both extract information and to weaken the dissent. From the notorious Abu Ghraib in Iraq to Guantanamo in Cuba, the contemporary politics is replete with torture chambers of many kinds. It’s ironic that a country, which conjures up an image of the Himalayan paradise in the [...]

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Nov 18: The increased production of the hydropower from the country has substantially increased income for the government and raised the GDP rate as high was 21 percent. However, the expanding power industry has nothing to do with the local people.  Even after seven months Tala hydropower project was handed over to Druk Green Power Corporation, [...]

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 Nov 18: Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley has left for Brazil to attend the much hyped conference on Gross National Happiness. The country is hosting firth international conference on GNH beginning November 20.  Economic Affairs Minister Khandu Wangchuk accompanied the Prime Minister in the sojourn. In Brazil, PM Thinley is scheduled to make a keynote address at [...]

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Bhutanese refugee leaders talk Gross National Happiness philosophy.

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