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Shawl bags only Bhutanese award

Karma Yangchen’s natural dyed cotton shawl proved a worthy symbol of Bhutanese craftsmanship. The shawl was among the 13 handicrafts Bhutan had submitted in the South Asia UNESCO award of excellence for handicrafts in September in Chennai, India this year. ‘Handicrafts’ here is defined as products that are produced either completely by hand or with the help of tools. A total of 167 entries from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Nepal were judged by an internatio...

Bhutan bows out

Bhutan thrashed Kuwait by 53 runs in their final league match of the ACC U-19 women’s championship on December 19, yet failed to qualify for the quarter-finals because of a low net run-rate. Bhutan’s Anju Gurung was named woman of the match for her four wickets for three runs. So far in the tournament, Bhutan defeated China, Singapore and Kuwait and lost to Malaysia and Nepal. Playing for the 6th and 7th position on December 21, Qatar beat Bhutan by 38 runs on December 22 at Prem c...

Bhutanese take divorce in their stride

It may sound like a comment from Scandinavia - but this is Bhutan and the speaker is a young artist, Barun Gurung. His own parents divorced 10 years ago, when he was 13 and his brother a little older. "I think during their marriage they used to have small fights which, you know, used to have bad impact on us," he told the BBC. "They used to fight and you know my father used to put hands on my mother. So it was quite bad to see that." We meet in the studio where Barun works - a collectiv...

Nepal humble Bhutan

Nepali bowlers showed the same discipline that won them their previous match against Malaysia to take Nepal to a comfortable nine-wicket victory over lowly Bhutan in the ACC U-19 Women's Cricket Tournament, at Gym Khana ground, on Sunday. Batting first, Bhutan batted the allotted 25 overs losing nine wickets. Thanks to Sonu Khadka's excellent bowling, Nepal restricted Bhutan to 34 runs. In reply, Nepal completed the chase in 9.3 overs losing just a wicket. Opener Maya Rawat posted an u...