Bhutan

While preparing the October 4 issue, CEO Mr Sangey, who is not a journalist, sat beside the editor and tried to impose his idea of how a story should be edited.

The Chief election commissioner of India Navin B. Chawla is in the capital to hide its intellectual deficiency diagnosed by the Bhutanese legislature and to retrieve the constitution from the dustbin and place it back on the table.

Visiting Bhutan is an otherworldly experience. The last Himalayan Shangri-La opened its doors to tourism in 1974, and even today only a few thousand people each year are granted visas.

Here follows the address of Rongthong Kunley Dorji on the occasion of the 15th Foundation day of the Druk National Congress.

Mr. N.L Katwal had put off the hunger strike and is stable. However, another ten political prisoners had taken to the hunger strike starting today, demanding the institution of the independent judiciary in Bhutan.

Bhutanese doctors forcefully administered glucose to N. L. Kawtal, fasting to death in Chamgang Central jail, Thimphu since last week.

Bhutan has two facades. Tourist Bhutan has resorts, modern infrastructure, high living standards, where bureaucrats and royals live. Poor Bhutan is where electricity, roads, health, education, sanitation, rule of law are still dreams.

This project must come to a win-win situation not just to bring home hard currency, but also increase farmers living standards, attract more joint, private ventures, instill the positive effect of globalization

Government regulator far exceeding its authority, prescribing the bounds for press, ethics for journalists and guidelines for media content generation as well as instructing journalists how to hold panel discussions.

The Political persecution is still rampant. Freedom of speech and expression are restricted. Freedom of assembly and association is banned.

One month after the election in the US, president runner up, Senator John McCain, was in Bhutan. If you guessed he was there to learn meditation or gaining tips to happiness, you are mistaken.

'The Bhutanese refugees have been waiting over a decade for a solution to their plight,' said Rachael Reilly, Human Rights Watch's refugee policy advisor.

Nepal Resettlement Program Manager for International Organization for Migration (IOM), David Derthick, 52, is also the IOM Head of Sub-Office Damak.

Those who supported him gained his side and others found themselves on the opposite side. All the people of the nation were classified into eight categories.

Will a day come soon, when the two leaders will meet somewhere in the world, talk of these people who connect them, who bind them and who expect from them?

The Human Rights Organization of Bhutan says the Royal Government of Bhutan is trying to extraditite Mr Tenzin from the state government of Assam as he is a political threat to Bhutan.

The writer of this story seems to have forgotten that Nepalis came in hordes around the end of the 19th century to clear the forest in southern Bhutan. Prior to that, arrivals were insignificant.

The different skilled craftsmen were brought from Nepal to build the Buddhist Stupa and Monasteries, these people of the various ethnic groups began to settle in Bhutan.

The young monarch needs wisdom from Luntenzampa, Darjeeling, London and Paro, and his inborn potential; to politically save Bhutan, diplomatically prevent incursion; to lead the nation to a self sufficient Shangri-La...

Looking past the highly successful public relations campaign by the Bhutanese monarchy, however, reveals a very different picture.