Bhutanese launch awareness campaign in Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia (Nov. o9)  Some five resettled Bhutanese representing their fellows from different countries here in Melbourne launched a three-day campaign as an effort to inform Bhutanese to help them assimilate to the new locality . The program was organized by AMES settlement agency of Australia in view of interacting  and sharing the cultural diversities among different communities resettled in this part of this continent country. Read more »

Australia helps feed Bhutanese refugees in Nepal.

(Nov. 09) The Australian government´s Overseas Aid Program (AusAID) has donated US$460,000 to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in Nepal to feed  the Bhutanese refugees living  in two  eastern Nepalese  districts of Jhapa and Morang. This  donation  alone is expected to cover the food needs for the entire  Bhutanese refugee population in the refugee camps  for atleast 20 days, according to the statement of the WFP. Read more »

Tasmanian Bhutanese form a Provisional committee

By Devi Ghimire and Guna Majhi:
Across the  Bass Strait, off  the southern coast of   Australian mainland and to the other side of Melbourne, there stands a small island of Tasmania which is now home for a small number of Bhutanese from the refugee camps in Nepal. First of November, 2009  came as a good day for Bhutanese at Hobart, the capital, on which they assembled to discuss the possible formation of an organization of the Bhutanese resettled there.  This left them with a temporary member committee that will work to formulate constitution and give the group  a permanent entity. Read more »

साहित्यिक सनिबार

“I SALUTE THEM”

Thugten Dorjee Drukpa
(Nykobing Mors, Denmark)

I salute the talents of the scarifying hearts

For wasting their noteworthy time,

To end the disgrace of the tyranny;

To un-turn the yoke of wild;

To bring the spring in the barren land,

And to raise the head up- to be human, Read more »

साहित्यिक सनिबार

“तीन हाइकू

मोहन पहाडी
(सभाना ,जर्जिया)
मेरो हिमाल
पग्लिएर झर्दा त
रगत बग्यो
************
मन सिएर
जिएको छु अचेल
एैया नभनी Read more »

Bhutan to launch its first entertainment Magazine

Front page of Druk Trowa

(Nov. 07 ) Bhutan is going to launch the first issue of its first film and entertainment magazine on Monday, Oct. 9. Edited by Yagchen Dukpa, this biannual magazine, ‘Druk Trowa’ is expected  to promote and propagate the uniqueness of  the Bhutanese culture to a wider sphere. Read more »

Hasina accorded a red carpet reception in Thimpu.

(Nov. 06) Bangladeshi prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed was granted a red carpet reception  at Thimpu, the capital city of Bhutan. Hasina reached  Paro International Air port today at 1:15PM(BST) by the Druk Air, the national flag carrier of Bhutan for four days official visit to this tiny Himalayan nation. She was received at the air port by the Bhutanese premier Lynpo Jigme Y. Thinley and his  spouse and was  later driven to the capital city. Read more »

Puja performed in Bumthang for quake victims

Government and private sector employees in Bumthang came together at the Wangdichholing Hospital ground to perform a three-day Puja, coinciding with the Coronation of 5th Druk Gyalpo.
Three pandits performing the three-day puja read prayers from the Bhagawat, Bedh, Chandi and Rudri mantras, which was followed by the lighting of 1,000 butter lamps. Read more »

BCA Inc. Attends FECCA Conference.

Devi Ghimire and Guna Majhi
(Oct. 3) Three members of BCA (Bhutanese community in Australia Inc.) attended the two-day county conference organized by Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Council of Australia (FECCA) on October 29. Mr.Parsuram Sharma Luitel, President and Teju Chauhan, spokesperson and media coordinator of BCA from Melbourne and Albury, with one member from Bhutanese community in Northern Territory, Ms Bhakti Mainaly represented the resettled Bhutanese of Australia in the conference held at East bank Centre, Shepparton in Victoria. Read more »

Earth Quake Damages Hundred Houses

(Oct., 31) Around hundred houses were reported to have been damaged in Eastern districts of Trashigang and Mongar by Thurday’s earth quake in Bhutan.Though reported to have claimed no lives, it is said to have further weakened the structures damaged by the September 21 quake that shook Narang some 15 k.m. north of Monger. Read more »

Bhutanese in Tucson Attend free Health Fair

(Nov.01) Resettled Bhutanese in Tucson, Arizona attended historical Refugee health fair sponsored by more than a dozen local organizations and agencies in the region, Saturday. Read more »

साहित्यिक सनिबार

“भो अब एक्लै जिउन देउ मलाई
डम्बर बस्नेत
(कलिफोर्निया)
तिम्रो प्रेम मलाई हात कडी झै हुनु छ भने
रात दिन यसरि नै रुनु छ भने
के गर्छौ प्रिय यो गरीबको भलाई
भो अब एक्लै जिउन देउ मलाई

Read more »

साहित्यिक सनिबार

“मेरो नया इतिहाश”

सपन पाठक
(न्यू हेम्साएर)

मनभित्र गहिरो चोट बोकीमाया, ममता र सामीप्यताको प्यासी म,
म खोज्दैछु छु मेरो दसमीको टिकाहरु
म खोज्दैछु छु मेरो दसमीको जमाराहरू
रंगीचंगी दलदले दारीहरुमा, ए़कलॉसको अँगारे बारीहरु मा,
बिबसता अनि कंकालताका प्रतिमूर्तिहरु हो
किन खोजदैनु चिमोटीयाको तिम्रा इतिहाशहरु

Read more »

Nepal, Bhutan all for trade cooperation

KATHMANDU: Bhutanese Economic Affairs Minister Lyonpo Khandup Wangchuk and Nepali entreprenuers discussed the issue of cooperation in trade and economic sectors in Kathmandu, Nepal. Minister Wangchuk and members of the Federation of Nepalese Commerce and Industries (FNCCI) discussed several aspects of cooperation here today. Read more »

BMS voice reaches again in all camps.

(Oct.31) Bhutan Media Society(BMS) has started relaying its  radio broadcast ‘Saranarthi Sarokaar’ to  the eastern parts of Nepal. According to a press release by the Society, this weekly program is now on air in 95.1 MHz of Ganatantra F.M. Dharan,beginning October 18.  Read more »

Dakaman arrested for dacoit.

(Oct.30) Nepal Police has arrested a Bhutanese refugee in connection with the robbery at the Damak branch of Laxmi Bank Limited. The arrested has been identified as Dakaman Bhujel,22, a resident of Beldangi-1 refugee camp, sector G, who was nabbed from the Beldangi Bus park, Damak on Friday. Read more »