Bhutanese

Vellore’s CMC Offers Hope for Bhutanese Patient

Thimphu: Sonam Choden, the mother of two-year-old Leki Dorji, never hoped to be happy again. But thanks to the Vellore-based Christian Medical College in India's Tamil// Nadu state, which treated the burn injuries of Dorji and made him "eat, walk and also talk". Choden, an uneducated 23-year...

Indian Chicken Back On Bhutanese Platter

Chicken from India is back in Bhutan - processed, sealed, frozen and selling real fast. // About 3,000 kg of meat, which arrived here from Phuntsholing on the India-Bhutan border, sold out in a few hours to hotels, restaurants and home consumers, a report in the state-run daily Kuensel said. ...

Ferring Donates US$3 Million to the Royal Textile Academy of Bhutan

...auty of its textiles, designed and created along traditional lines by local bhutanese weavers. The Academy will provide educational programmes, research and exhibitions aimed at both raising the international profile of bhutanese textiles and improving the livelihood of the weavers who make them. ...

Bhutan Leads the World in Preserving the Environment

... preserve the environment, according to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). As representatives from 24 nations of Asia gather in the bhutanese capital Thimphu on Tuesday to mark the 20th anniversary of the Montreal Protocol on Ozone, the Bhutan government will clearly create a landmark in the...

HIV/AIDS Epidemic Scare In Bhutan

...he people infected with virus were young, a majority of them women below 29 years of age. "It (HIV) had also touched a whole cross-section of the bhutanese society, business enterprises, armed forces, educated government and corporation employees to farmers and sex-workers including unemployed youth, and ...

India to Revive Exporting of Processed Chicken to Bhutan

... Nearly seven months after banning the import of poultry products following an outbreak of bird flu in India, bhutanese officials are making// arrangements to allow "restricted" processed chicken from the country. A processing unit in India's West Bengal state has...

Beef, Pork Ban Hit Bhutan Restaurateurs

... the ban," said Tushi Zemba, a restaurant owner that specialises in typical bhutanese food. Some clever hoteliers were, however, capitalising on the red meat ...estaurateur. Beef momos or dumplings are a favourite delicacy among most bhutanese and hotels that exclusively cater to such menus are the worst sufferers. "I...