« Editors of the Asia News Network with Nepal’s President Dr Ram Baran Yadav News editors from 18 Asian countries deliberated media’s role in fighting climate change in a two-day conference “Himalayan system in a changing climate future and media’s role” which ended yesterday in Kathmandu, Nepal. The receding Himalayan glaciers, rising temperatures, glacial lake [...]
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17th Feb, 2012
National airline Drukair to buy Airbus
National airline Drukair has ordered a third airbus jet. The airline signed a memorandum of understanding with manufacturer Airbus at an air show, taking place in Singapore, yesterday. But with a long waiting list for the popular A319 jet, Drukair will take delivery of the aircraft only in 2015, the airline’s marketing head, Sonam Wangchuk [...]
17th Feb, 2012
Snow leopards disappearing due to conflict with humans is the main threat to its population in Bhutan
The cats’ coming into conflict with humans is the main threat to its population in Bhutan A preliminary snow leopard prey survey conducted recently at the Wangchuck Centennial Park using camera traps revealed several footages of snow leopards and its prey.Watch video The study, worth Nu 2M, World Wildlife Fund officials said would focus on [...]
17th Feb, 2012
The giant panda believed to have been spotted by travellers along the Thimphu-Phuentsholing highway
The giant panda believed to have been spotted by travellers along the Thimphu-Phuentsholing highway may either be camera shy or forestry officials were taken for a ride. It has been more than a month since the camera traps were set at various locations at Wangkha and so far no footage of the giant panda or [...]
The Cabinet yesterday added six birds to the list of protected wild animals in Bhutan under the Forest and Nature Conservation Act. This, forestry officials said, was the first change since the Act’s introduction in 1995, taking the total number of protected wild animals to 30 different species. The bird species added to the list [...]
17th Feb, 2012
Kenchogsum lhakhang in Bumthang
Lack of funds and approval has kept the works on hold for two years «The remains of Kenchogsum lhakhang, which is still visited by locals and tourists Financial constrains and approval from the home ministry has kept on hold restoration works for the last two years on the historical Kenchogsum lhakhang in Bumthang that got [...]
14th Feb, 2012
The Royal Thimphu College and the Bhutan Olympic Committee will jointly provide six sports scholarship
The Royal Thimphu College (RTC) and the Bhutan Olympic Committee (BOC) will jointly provide six sports scholarship every year to students who have established the highest levels of sporting achievement and sportsmanship. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed between the College and the BOC today. The scholarship will be provided from [...]
13th Feb, 2012
Bhutan has more traditional healers than doctors
… against 183 modern doctors Bhutan has more traditional healers than doctors, nurses, health assistants, drungtshos and menpas all put together. Records with the health ministry show that there are 1,683 traditional healers across country against the 1,593 “modern” healers. This means, the number local healers, shaman (pows/pams) and astrologers (tsep) that comprise the “traditional [...]
12th Feb, 2012
Bhutanese Ara
Traditionally, Ara or locally brewed alcohol has played a significant role in Bhutanese culture. According to a research carried out by one of the psychiatrists in the country, use of alcohol dates back to the pre-Buddhist Bon religion. Alcohol was then used to appease deities. Alcohol is still served in most of the occasions in [...]
31st Jan, 2012
Phuentsholing experiences Cellular, cyber network choked
That, service providers say, will be coughed out once the crowd, the town is inundated with, disperses This time around, it is usual to find a deluge of people from various parts of the country crowd Phuentsholing town. This year, however, that crowd has swelled with more people having flocked to the border town for [...]
