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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Passu Diary discusses how the works of the hydro-electric power project at Punatshangchhu (Punakha) River in bhutan has made an impact on the local lives. There are no homes available for rent for the low income ordinary people and the blogger urges “we want our homes back. Please don’t buy away our living…”
NHatky (Free subscription) | yesterday
New Delhi: India and Bhutan will hold a meeting of the Empowered Joint Group to fast-track implementation of hydropower projects next month. The first meeting of this group was held in New Delhi in March 2009 after the signing of the Protocol to the 2006 Agreement on Cooperation in Hydropower. During his recent visit to India, Bhutan [...]
The Laughorist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Why wait till 2010? Let's do a dry run now; see what works; or doesn't. I hope this starts a movement. What would we call it? The Pre-New Year's Post-Last Year's Quasi-Resolute Resolutions? 1. Run the Bhutan Marathon 2010. 2. Do the dishes every day. Maybe every other day. 3. Give up cigarettes. (Wait. I'd have to start!) 4. Meditate. Especially if someone is yelling at me; go into a deep trance. 5....
The centre due to open on Wednesday (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
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Ultrabrown (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
In the first sentence of Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”, one of the founding stories of modern literature, we see the travelling salesman Gregor Samsa wake up one morning to find himself transformed into a huge insect. “Companion”, one of the stories in Mridula Koshy’s debut collection If It Is Sweet , offers us a similarly strange prospect, although it is not announced...
geo2web.com (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
How would you eliminate almost half the planet by subtracting just 5% from it? This map shows you how: delete the countries that constitute the bottom 5% of global GDP contributors, and you scrap almost 3 billion people from the equation. Those people mainly live in Africa and South East Asia, as demonstrated by the disappearance of those areas beneath the waves. This map was first shown on the political...
geo2web.com (Free subscription) | 02/07/2009
A new digital terrain map for the planet is now available. Based on imagery from the Japanese ASTER instrument on NASA ’s Terra satellite, the new global digital elevation model covers 99 percent of the Earth’s landmass to a resolution of 30 metres; the previous digital elevation model, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, covered 80 percent of the Earth’s surface. The data itself...
rubber hose (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
i always find rankings like these to be both fascinating and completely suspect. it's hard to argue that somalia or zimbabwe aren't basket cases and the ones listed as "most stable" clearly are pretty stable places.but, for example, is iran really more stable than bhutan and less stable than georgia? bhutan? seriously? has there ever been serious strife there? and georgia has two regions...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
The world food program (WFP), in collaboration with Bhutan post, launched yesterday a series of postal stamps, which reflect their support to various sectors in Bhutan. The stamps were launched in Thimphu as WFP celebrated its 35th anniversary. (..) School feeding has been a major activity since the start of WFP assistance in 1974, with increased enrollment and attendance as their main goals. In 2008,...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
The authorities in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan say that they are increasingly worried about a recent spate of suicides.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
The authorities in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan say that they are increasingly worried about a recent spate of suicides.
NHatky (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
New Delhi: Bhutan Prime Minister Jigme Yoser Thinley will hold bilateral discussions with Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh at Hyderabad House here today. Both leaders will look for ways to take the bilateral relations forward. Thinley, who is on a four-day visit to India, will also hold talks with External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna. He will also [...]
Urban Sketchers (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
Its a old timber cantilevered bridge in paro.it acted as an entry toll point to go to then government offices,300 years ago.The form of toll was Salt,as bhutan didnot have salt and chinese and tibetians had to pay salt as a trade.
Musings of The Global Traveller (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009
For those interested here is the full listing of the Flight Connectivity Index (FCI) as at 30 June 2009. Flight Connectivity Index as at 30 June 2009 Country FCI Rank Afghanistan 13 112= Albania 12 116= Algeria 27 60 Andorra 0 189= Angola 21 72= Antigua and Barbuda 15 102= Argentina 24 66= Armenia 19 86= Australia 30 55= Austria 61 14 Azerbaijan 20 79= Bahamas 5 159= Bahrain 31 51= Bangladesh 16 97=...
A little about .... (Free subscription) | 30/06/2009
New Delhi, June 30 - ANI: Bhutan Prime Minister Jigmi Y Thinley will arrive here today on a four-day visit to strengthen ties between the two countries.
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