Posted on 2009/11/09 by Admin
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 »
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Posted on 2009/11/09 by Admin
(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 »
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Posted on 2009/11/08 by Admin
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 »
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Posted on 2009/11/07 by Admin
“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 »
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Posted on 2009/11/07 by Admin
“तीन हाइकू“
मोहन पहाडी
(सभाना ,जर्जिया)
मेरो हिमाल
पग्लिएर झर्दा त
रगत बग्यो
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मन सिएर
जिएको छु अचेल
एैया नभनी Read more »
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Posted on 2009/11/07 by Admin
(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 »
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Posted on 2009/11/06 by Admin
(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 »
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Posted on 2009/11/04 by Admin
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 »
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Posted on 2009/11/03 by Admin
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 »
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Posted on 2009/11/02 by Admin
(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 »
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Posted on 2009/11/02 by Admin
(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 »
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Posted on 2009/11/01 by Admin
“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
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Posted on 2009/11/01 by Admin
“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
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Posted on 2009/10/31 by Admin
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 »
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Posted on 2009/10/31 by Admin
(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 »
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Posted on 2009/10/30 by Admin
(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 »
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