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DAMAK, Nepal : The Jesuit Refugee Service(JRS) has stepped in to break a cycle of violence, drug and sexual abuse that had been plaguing thousands of ethnic Nepali youths from Bhutan living in refugee camps in East Nepal. Read more »

( Nov. 27) On the occasion of the World AIDS Day 2009, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Caritas Nepal are jointly hosting a grand Cultural Program in Damak. The popular Nepali Rock and Pop band, 1974 AD is going to rock the show which is primarily organized to bring awareness among the Bhutanese refugees on HIV AIDS and other sexual diseases. Read more »

“But, because we are true to our work and vision, our efforts and mission shall never get withered by such an arrogant, illogical and non-sense blabbering. We work days and nights with our full strength despite our hectic work schedules to bring out fresh stuffs in the blog without expecting any thing in return as such.”

Bhutanusa.com, a non-commercial but volunteered blog managed by a team of resettled Bhutanese in different countries, has been blamed of pocketing funds by selling the privacy of their fellows. On 26 November at around 4.0PM a man who called himself a resettled Bhutanese in the eastern US State of Massachusetts threatened our correspondent in California over telephone saying that he was soon closing the Bhutanusa.com citing a mad reason that this site has been selling the privacy of the resettled Bhutanese thereby mobilizing a large resources. Read more »

By Biren Dulal:
It’s been a long time since the Salt Lake City(SLC) guys had posted their news of progress on Bhutanusa.com. What are they doing? What is going on in SLC? Are they passing some dormant stages or in the state of hibernation during this beautiful snowy season? These were some good questions of curiosity raised in the mind of some well-wishers of Utahans, who love to read the progressive stages the Utahans are passing in their new homeland through our common network,  Bhutanusa.com. Read more »

Bhutan recently has successfully bagged the best immunisation award in its enviable performance in scaling almost 95 percent of coverage in child health and immunisation after three decades long battle to secure an international recognition that held on November 19, 2009, in Hanoi, Vietnam awarded by the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunisation (GAVI) to amongst fourteen low-income group countries categorizing them into six different groups. Bangladesh, Congo, Djibouti, Gambia and Eritrea also were awarded for the best performance in immunization. Read more »

Prime Minister of Bhutan, Lyonchhen Jigmi Y. Thinley delivered the keynote address at the opening of the Fifth International Conference on Gross National Happiness(GNH) at Iguacu, Brazil, on November 20,Friday, according to the Kuenselonline. Read more »

(A senior Nepalese reporter reviews the book, ‘Torture killing me softly‘, written by the exiled Bhutanese  leader and Human rights activist, Mr. Tek Nath Rijal.)

By Deepak Adhikari:
Repressive regimes everywhere employ torture on political prisoners to both extract information and to weaken the dissent. From the notorious Abu Ghraib in Iraq to Guantanamo in Cuba, the contemporary politics is replete with torture chambers of many kinds. It’s ironic that a country, which conjures up an image of the Himalayan paradise in the Western psyche, can indulge in such bizarre yet brutal practices of punishment. Read more »

By Promod Rizal
Continuing the tradition as initiated by the English Puritans through Mayflower in 1620 AD, a good deal of people from around the world have chosen the United States as their final home. Bhutanese are among those who are the youngest to migrate to the States in the present context. Upon arriving in the land so different with its new culture, heterogeneous social composition, unprecedented economic boom and downturns , educational complication and competency and the language of different accent, Bhutanese are faced with  new sets of challenges in the US labor market. Their skills and education are hard-to-be-considered tools for the education and skills they have attained overseas in their homestead and in Nepal are feeble to meet the US standard. However, people from Bhutan are still lucky as they have some amount of English requirements unlike some for whom English has been a totally new language and still a far cry. Read more »

Guna Majhi and Devi Ghimire:
(Nov.20) Three resettled Bhutanese kids, Mr. Nobin Bhattarai, Miss Thagi Maya Adhikari and Miss Jamuna Bhattarai from Wodonga, Victoria, got an exclusive chance to take part in a  tour to Canberra, Capital city of Australia. Read more »

(विद्यपती मिश्र)
नेपालमा प्रजातन्त्र आए लगत्तैको सन् १९९० को समय भूटानको प्रजातान्त्रिक आन्दोलनको एक महत्वपूर्ण समय थियो । त्यतिखेर भूटानले आफ्नै नागरिकहरूलाई देशभित्र बसेर बोल्न त दिएन नै; देशमा बस्न पनि दिएन । नागरिकहरू शरणार्थी हुन बाध्य भए । भूटानमै छँदा सुरु गरेको ‘बोल्न पाऊँ’ अभियानको धुक्धुकी शरणार्थी बन्दा पनि मेटिएन । फलतः शरणार्थी बनेको करिब एक दशकपछि भूटानी शरणार्थी समुदायमा पत्रकारिता फस्टाउन थाल्यो- बोल्न पाउने अधिकारको खोजी गर्दै ।

आज भूटानी शरणार्थीहरू मध्येबाटै पाँच दर्जनभन्दा बढी पत्रकार जन्मेका छन् । साधन स्रोतको सीमितता अनि अवसरको अभावका कारण उनीहरूले आफ्नो क्षमतालाई तिखार्न सकिरहेका छैनन् । करिब दुइ दर्जन पत्रिका शरणार्थी समुदायको पहलमा उदाए पनि आर्थिक समस्याका कारण लामो समय टिक्न सकेनन् । त्यसो त उदाउँदो कालमा झापाको स्थानीय प्रशासनले पनि शरणार्थी पत्रकारमाथि कुदृष्टि नै राख्यो । Read more »

(Nov.18) Bhutan stands on the 49th position in the Corruption Perception Index(CPI) table, 2009, according to the report of the Transparency International,a global civil society Organization fighting against corruption.The tiny south Asian nation has scored 5.0 point this year where ‘0′ is the most corrupted and 10, the least, slipping four notches down from its position in 2008. Bhutan was ranked 45th with 5.2 score last year. Read more »

The total number of Bhutanese refugees resettled in the third countries has crossed 23.000, according to the UNHCR. Of the total of 107,O17(2007) refugees living in the seven UNHCR administered camps in eastern Nepal, 23,214 have now left for third countries to begin entirely new lives. Read more »

(Nov.15)Prime Minister of Bhutan Lyonchhoen Jigme Y.Thinley is scheduled to leave for Brazil to attend the 5th International conference on Gross National Happiness (GNH) tomorrow. Thinley is leading a 20 members Bhutanese delegation. Read more »