November, 2010
Enchanting tourists through Haa summer festival next year
(Thimphu) The desolate and abandoned Haa valley will enchant numerous tourists as it springs to life with the Haa summer festival, scheduled to be introduced and held from July 9-10 next year. The initiative is introduced to promote Haa as a tourist destination by the Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB) and ... [more]
Child Adoption Bill
Child Adoption Bill 30 November, 2010 - In the absence of legal framework for child adoption, a practice already on in the country, members of the national council (NC) have come under compulsion to adopt one. One of the members, who requested anonymity, said the government was under pressure from the ... [more]
Electricity For All
Electricity For All 30 November, 2010 - The government has 31 months to provide some form of lighting to an estimated 37,000 rural homes if it is to achieve electricity for all by June 2013. Between July 2008 and November this year more than 6,000 homes were given electricity connections, according ... [more]
3rd Clean and Sober Day
Walk the Talk: A traffic police makes way for the clean and sober walk through Thimphu city on Saturday 3rd Clean and Sober Day 29 November, 2010 - It’s been 11 months since 23-year old Karma Tshering got high. The tall, fair and soft spoken young man does not look ... [more]
Annual South Asia Media Summit
Compartmentalising according to sex leads to stereotyping Goan cultural programs welcome the South Asian jouralists for the summit. Annual South Asia Media Summit 29 November, 2010 - As the curtains went up for the international film festival on November 22 in Goa, India, women journalists from south Asia also gathered in ... [more]
Thailand Education Fair
Thailand Education Fair 29 November, 2010 - With growing emphasis on quality education in recent times, with exposure to complement it, more and more affluent Bhutanese parents are opting to send their children to neighbouring countries for higher studies. Thailand, especially since it began offering scholarships to Bhutanese students, has become ... [more]
St Petersburg Forum
Finding commitment to fund efforts to double the number of wild tigers The 13 Tiger Range Countries: The historic forum was organised by the Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin St Petersburg Forum 28 November, 2010 - The international tiger conservation forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, which ended on November 21 capped ... [more]
model of GNH in action
A drive to determine how the dzongkhag can be a model of GNH in action Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche Samdrupjongkhar Initiative 28 November, 2010 - Next month, the residents of the southeastern district of Samdrupjongkhar will try and figure out answers to some vital questions like: What kind of place would they ... [more]
International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women observed
November 25 is observed as International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women. Her Majesty the Queen Mother Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuck joined the people of Paro to mark the day. “Commit, Act and Demand: We can stop violence against women”, is the theme for this year’s International Day for Elimination ... [more]
Wheaton College students complete semester
The Wheaton College students in Royal Thimphu College Eight students from Wheaton College, USA, who were attending the fall semester under a partnership programme at the Royal Thimphu College (RTC), will be leaving the country on Tuesday. The eight students were selected among 40 to pilot the unique partnership with Wheaton College. ... [more]