Diplomats’ crowd in Thimphu
The Bhutanese media remain silent, or remain unknown, but diplomats from 16 countries, mostly based in New Delhi and Dhaka visited Bhutan in last week of May. Diplomats from Lithuania, Ethiopia, Albanian and Dominican Republic, all based in New Delhi, met with Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley in Thimphu on...
Challenging the JYT factor in Bhutanese politics
Bhutan is gradually opening up. Freedom of organisation, freedom to choose political through is getting in though the Bhutanese blood and sense. The mouths that remained shut for centuries are looking for every opportunity to speak, marginalised and sidelined personalities are taking up to show the strength. Suppressed groups...
Yuba Sansar 20 May 2012
Yuba Sansar 20 May 2012...
BAF Europe press release
A two member team from Bhutanese Advocacy Forum Europe (BAF) has met Mrs. Jean Lambert, Chairperson of The European Parliament’s delegation for relations with South Asia at her office in European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium today at 1.30pm. BAF representatives after expressing their deep appreciations towards EU’s continued support to...
A personal story of discrimination in Bhutan
This is a personal story of a Bhutanese failing to obtain citizenship due to discriminatory policy of the country. There are thousands of such citizens currently living in the country as they fail to find any appropriate forum to speak of their grievances. To obtain the citizenship of Bhutan,...
Impracticability of using Dzongkha
During the recently concluded parliament session, confusion had arisen regarding a Dzongkha word for ‘institute’. A same word for both University and Institute was used in the new bill introduced to the parliament for establishment of Bhutan Institute of Medical Sciences (BIMS). One of the media surveys last year...