Monthly Archives: December, 0

As the west Bengal state of India went to the polls yesterday, Phuentshogling town wore a deserted look. Business was unusually slow, as most of the shops and other business entities in the main town remained closed.

To implement the overseas employment programme effectively and efficiently, a regulation on Bhutanese Overseas Employment Agent 2013 was launched, today.

After losing their crops to wild animals for years, the farmers of Langchenphu Toe village in Samdrup Jongkhar are expecting a good harvest finally. A solar electric fencing has been installed with assistance from the Wild Life Protection of Bhutan to keep wildlife at bay.

Hundreds of youth have applied to the Overseas Employment Agencies to work abroad. There are four licensed agencies in Thimphu, who are exploring job opportunities overseas. The Global Recruitment Overseas Employment Agency has been able to send 6 Bhutanese to work in Doha earlier, this month.

His Majesty the King granted an Audience to the De Suung volunteers, who are undergoing the 11th batch De Suung training programme in Tencholing, Wangdue Phodrang yesterday.

In what could be a major educational reform, the Prime Minister, Tshering Tobgay, says he has a vision to reduce the number of schools across the country to few quality schools.

A second consignment of illegal sandalwood has been confiscated in Paro in just two days. More than 50 pieces of smuggled sandalwood was seized from Tsento Gewog in Paro at around 6am yesterday.

Under the project KR II, Grant Aid Agreement for the, “Food Security Project for underprivileged farmers”, was signed at the Gross National Happiness Commission office in Thimphu, yesterday.

From now on, 13 Goenpas which were identified as Gyanzin Dratshang in 2009, will function as any other monastic schools. The first ever meeting between His Holiness the Je Khenpo and the principals of 13 Gyanzin Dratshangs was held on Monday, in Autsho under Lhuentse.

Awareness alone will not do. A more stringent drug law is needed to tackle the country’s rising drug related problem, said Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay. He was responding to the students of Sherubtse College who asked him on how the government plans to deal with the problem.