November, 2010
Financial Services Bill
Financial Services Bill 26 November, 2010 - National council members yesterday highlighted the need for financial institutions to take responsibility of lending money to the poorer sections of Bhutanese society. Although the proposed amendment in the bill articulates mandatory lending from all financial institutions to select priority sectors, NC deputy chairperson ... [more]
Tourist Standard Hotels
Tourist Standard Hotels 26 November, 2010 - While Paro valley is deeply worried that it has too many tourist standard hotels, in the eastern dzongkhags the concern is that there are too few. Some tour operators are of the view that, with almost no tourism infrastructure in the east, bringing in ... [more]
Bangladesh offers Bhutan use of its ports
Bangladesh advisor to economic affairs, Dr Masihur Rahman, meets Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley, yesterday Bilateral Talks 26 November, 2010 - During the bilateral talk between Bhutan and Bangladesh on Wednesday in Thimphu, Bangladesh offered Bhutan the use of its Mongla and Chittagong ports, to import and export goods to third ... [more]
Child Care And Protection Bill
Women and children committee asked to revise the draft act accordingly Child Care And Protection Bill 26 November, 2010 - The national assembly’s women and children committee was asked to revise the child care and protection bill and re-table it in a next few days, after most members voiced concern about ... [more]
Labels in English and Dzongkha
Take Your Chances: For products like these, buyers have to take the seller’s word for it Pre-packaged Food 25 November, 2010 - Beginning next year, groceries selling pre-packaged food labelled in languages other than Dzongkha and English will be dealt with in accordance with food rules and regulations 2007. Bhutan agriculture and ... [more]
Jarung Khashor Chorten
Chorten Restored: The 300-year old Jarung Khashor is the second major monument damaged by last year’s quakes to be rebuilt Jarung Khashor Chorten 25 November, 2010 - On November 23, Trashigang dzongkhag consecrated a 300-year old Jarung Khashor chorten above Chazam marking the restoration of its second major monument damaged ... [more]
Our group was overwhelmed at the experience we had
Dear Tashi, Many thanks for sending us the picture of the Reincarnation. Really we were very impressed with him in the brief reception he gave us and all our group will be glad to have the picture you sent. I would also like to augment the appreciation we set out in the ... [more]
Black-Necked Cranes
The first of the flocks begin to show up more than a week later than last year Welcome Visitors: Their numbers have been seen to increase over the last three years (File Photo) Black-Necked Cranes 23 November, 2010 - Just as Bhutanese nomadic communities in the east and up north begin to ... [more]
Sri Lanka to lend support
PM returns with this assurance and assistance in the medical sector Security Council Seat 22 November, 2010 - Sri Lanka has assured Bhutan of its support in pursuit of a non-permanent Security Council seat in 2013, said Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley at Paro airport yesterday. The prime minister was returning after ... [more]
Handlooms for speedy weave
Imported devices will produce in a day what took a week on traditional ones Quick Work: Where one tego took 6 days; now 6 tegos takes three Constitutional Development Grant 21 November, 2010 - For Pema Yangzom from one of the nomadic communities of Sakteng in Trashigang, weaving her traditional dress ... [more]