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Mountain Echoes 2012 explores and celebrates the literary traditions and cultural nuances of both India and Bhutan. It’s springtime in Bhutan and the Land of the Thunder Dragon is gearing up to host one of the fastest growing literary festivals in the world. Mountain Echoes is an annual literary and cultural festival set in the serene surroundings of [...]

AFC President’s Cup Qualifiers: Police sideline Bhutan’s Yeedzin FC Nepal Police Club (NPC) defeated Bhutanese League Champions Yeedzin Football Club 4-0 in their last match of the AFC President’s Cup Qualifiers 2012 Football Tournament played at National Olympic Stadium, Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Wednesday. Bhola Silwal scored two goals while Yogesh Shrestha and Parbat Panday [...]

Kokrajhar, May 8: A Bhutanese vehicle was torched on National Highway 31(C) at Batabari on the second day of the 36-hour Assam general strike called by the People’s Joint Action Committee for Boroland Movement. The strike, called to demand a separate state of Bodoland, paralysed life in most of lower Assam, especially the Bodo belt. [...]

Thimpu (Kuensel/ANN) – Bhutan Innovation Technology Centre: The Bhutan Innovation and Technology centre (BITC), accommodated within the country’s IT park in Thimphu, and launched yesterday, will serve as a hub for entrepreneurship, innovation, and enterprise creation in Bhutan. It is made up of three components: a business incubator, a data centre, and a shared technology [...]

see photos Click for full photo gallery: Bhutan: Land Of The Mountain Gods This story appears in the May issue of ForbesLife magazine, dated May 21, as a feature entitled “Land Of The Mountain Gods.” By Richard Nalley Bhutanese Prime Minister Jigme Y. Thinley’s anecdotes from staid international conferences often carry punch lines. There was [...]

Thimpu (Kuensel/ANN) – The import of all kinds of motor vehicles, furniture, juice and energy drinks, alcohol, chips, wafers, waffles, snacks and cakes will not be permitted from third countries, according to a notification from Bhutan’s trade department. Issued on April 6, it follows the notification issued on March 23 that indefinitely suspended import of [...]

Thimpu (Kuensel/ANN) – While some have not heard of it, others are experiencing rising food prices and, in some cases the rupee shortage, in the remote villages of the western district of Haa in Bhutan. For instance, it is normally a two-hour walk from Sangbay Ama to Mochu, two villages in Sombaykha and Gakiling gewogs [...]

What kind of solo traveler would a poppy safari in Bhutan attract? In other words, who else might you meet in a hidden, ultra exotic, miles-high Himalayan kingdom?  Someone for whom the lack of oxygen, the pummeling monsoons and the little leeches that appear would be fine?  Someone who yearns to see, feel, taste and [...]

SENTINEL ENTERPRISE / BRETT CRAWFORD Representing Cushing Academy in Ashburnham on a recent visit to Bhutan were, from left, Peter Clarke, history teacher, sophomores Shaylah O’Connor of Princeton, Alex Jost of Dresden, Germany, Jordan Comeau of Winchendon and Taylor Greene of Hollis, N.H., and Gisele Zangari, mathematics chair. ASHBURNHAM — A team of four students [...]

ASHBURNHAM —  A small group of Cushing Academy students embarked on a 21-day educational expedition last month to the Buddhist nation of Bhutan. The experience brought about a paradigm shift in each that they say will alter the rest of their lives. The students lived with Bhutanese families, attended Bhutanese schools, explored the culture and met [...]