Category: Misc

Lethbridge becoming magnet for Bhutan refugees

By the end of the year 5,000 refugees from the small South Asian country of Bhutan will call Canada home, with hundreds of them settling in Lethbridge. Dan Bahdur Gurung, his wife and two children landed in Canada seven months ago. So far his daughter is the only one...

नेपालीमा समाचार

प्रधान मन्त्रि जिग्मी थिन्लेले देशबासीलाई आफ्नो दैनिक खर्चमा कमी गर्न अनुरोध गरेका छन् । बुधावार राष्ट्रका नाममा सम्बोधन गर्दै थिन्लेले भुटानको आर्थिक स्वावलम्बनका लागि खर्चिलो जीवनमा परिवर्तन ल्याउन आवश्यक छ । उनेल भनेका छन, हामी विजुली बेचेर नु ५.८ अर्ब कमाउछौ तर तेल किन्न मात्र नु ५.१ अर्ब खर्च...

An America surgeon awarded for his service in Bhutan

An orthopaedic health professional Dr. Robert Stein who served in Bhutan for more than two decades has been awarded in the US capital on Saturday. Dr. Stein, 69, has been helping Bhutanese citizens infected bones, children with severe disease since 1990. During that time, Bhutan had not a single doctor...

BAASA Press release

Date: 11th April 2012 The Bhutanese Community of South Australia has democratically elected New Board of Executives for Bhutanese Australian Association of South Australia (BAASA) Inc. (BAASA). BAASA was formed on 5th November 2009 to serve in the best interest of the Bhutanese community in South Australia. This is...

नेपालीमा समाचार

भुटानको निर्वाचन आयोगले आगामी वर्ष हुने संसदीय चुनावमा दुवै सदनको निर्वाचन एकै दिन गर्ने प्रस्ताव अघि सारेको छ । पहिलो निर्वाचित संसदको अवधि आगामी वर्ष मार्चमा सकिदैछ । संविधान अनुसार माथिल्लो सदन नेसनल काउन्सिल पाच वर्ष पुगेकै दिन चुनाव गरेर स्थापित गर्नु पर्ने छ भने तल्लो सदन नेसनल एसेम्ली...

U.N to create Gross National Happiness?

(UNITED NATIONS) — Should happiness figure in a nation’s bottom line? And should the concept of Gross National Product be replaced by Gross National Happiness? Bhutan’s Prime Minister Jigmi Y. Thinley told a high-level U.N. meeting Monday that it not only should but that it must if mankind is...