In Pursuit of Gross National Happiness
Accident 26 August, 2010 – Visitors to the Thimphu referral hospital are keeping a safe distance from its elevators after a 57-year old woman was seriously injured and is still “struggling” to recover at the intensive care unit (ICU).
At least 65 people are dead, and hundreds are missing, following landslides in a rain-soaked area of northwest China, the country’s state-run media reported. Continue reading →
One of Scotland Yard’s most wanted men has been arrested in Bangladesh in connection with a double murder in 2003.
Police want to question Ayub Khan, 27, in Continue reading →
August 9: It’s been more than a year since the Institute of Electrical Engineering in Khuruthang, Punakha was flooded by the Punatshang Chu last year. Government has approved the Institute’s proposal to build a retention wall to protect the Institute but it is yet to be implemented. Continue reading →
July 25: “Dzomyue” or the equivalent of the third eye relic was embedded in 
the Buddha Statue in the capital today. The Dzomyue was consecrated by His Holiness the Je Khenpo. With design made of platinum embedded with gold and diamond, the Dzomyue was bought with personal contribution from devotees within and outside Bhutan. The Dzomyue costs nearly 50 million dollars.
