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Day two of Literary Festival discusses the spirit of writing

The second day of Mountain Echoes in Thimphu yesterday started with an engaging and frank conversation between Her Majesty the Queen Mother Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck and Indian ambassador Pavan Varma. They discussed various aspects about the country starting from the rootedness of Bhutanese culture to rural empowerment, women as conduits for social change, the [...]

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A friend and partner, 34 years long

Our reporter Jigme Wangchuk looks at 34 years of Bhutan-Denmark development partnership as Denmark celebrates its 50 years of oversees development assistance Spring had just set in after a long, cold and dark winter in Denmark. It was a March evening, a Saturday, 1962.  King Frederik IX spoke from Amalienborg Castle, followed by the under-secretary-general [...]

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More Bhutanese losing their mind

He looks up at the clear sky. He laughs. He shrugs and warns people around him of the uncertainties of the world. Again he begins to laugh. He is fairly healthy but his hair is disheveled and his clothes are grimy. Passersby cover their noses with disdain. He roams the streets of Thimphu city as [...]

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The scavenger boy of Memelakha

It’s quarter past noon on Monday, April 30…

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New knowledge leaves AIDS patients frustrated

After attending a training programme, HIV positive people in Bhutan say they never knew that they have been treated with obsolete medicines. Jigme Wangchuck reports Shiba Phuranilatpam (left) with Wangda Dorji, the executive director of Lhak-Sam It is their third and final day of training at the conference hall of Hotel Dragon Roots in Thimphu. [...]

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Modern education turns 100

Bhutan will celebrate 100 years of modern education this year. Jigme Wangchuk finds out what there is to celebrate  Ugyen Dorji Higher Secondary in Haa where modern education first began When Father William Joseph Mackey arrived in Bhutan upon the invitation of the third Druk Gyalpo, His Majesty Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, to be an educator [...]

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No more Om Sangla Mani

The Phobjikha valley in Wangdue is at once expansive…

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Nurturing a new breed of entrepreneurs

DHI is training a group of aspiring entrepreneurs to help them shape their business ideas professionally. Our reporter Jigme Wangchuk attends a session An aspiring entrepreneur presents his business idea to the class It is 2.23 pm on Wednesday, April 4. Twelve Bhutanese entrepreneurs are sitting quietly in a small room at Institute of Management [...]

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Few come to hear the birds sing

At 10.31 am on March 26, Allaya Gallery…

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The personality called Dragon

A lesson from the story told by His Majesty the Fifth Druk Gyalpo to the students of Sakuragaoka Elementary School in Japan The Fifth King of Bhutan, His Majesty Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, accompanied by Her Majesty Druk Gyaltshuen Jetsun Pema, visited Japan as state guests in November 2011. Because of the fact that the [...]

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