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IT park plans see horizon |
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June 21, 2009: The IT park project that has been surfing the approval documents is finally inching toward realization with nine IT companies responding to the global tender floated by the Department of Information Technology. Five Indian, one Canadian, and three Bhutanese IT companies are among the ten companies that have already purchased the bidding documents. |
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Medical kidu at the doorstep |
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June 21, 2009: His weak and malnourished body reminded of images from famine-struck Sub-Sahara. When His Majesty’s medical team reached Nawang’s house in Zunglen in Mongar, the 22-year-old was on the verge of dying. After three abdominal surgery and having spent two months at Mongar hospital, he was discharged. But no sooner, he developed infections that went untreated for a long time. |
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June 14, 2009: Bhutanese youth topping the list as offenders of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances (NDPS) is deeply worrisome, say policymakers concerned. And while many cases go undetected, the Annual Report 2008 of the Bhutan Narcotics Control Agency (BNCA) states, that of the 418 people apprehended last year for trafficking and abusing drugs, students and jobseekers comprise 312, compared with 37 in 2001. 75% of those apprehended for drug abuse are youth |
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Urban absurdity and social cost |
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At a glance, Phuentsholing has no room for expansion. But a closer scrutiny reveals huge swaths of mismanaged and under-utilized land. When the finance ministry inaugurated its new five-storey regional revenue and customs office in Phuentsholing on April 17 this year, it was another tight slap to the choking landscape of Bhutan’s business capital. The humungous air-conditioned structure, built at Nu 57.9 million, stares straight up into the vast open sky. One may say it’s a government response to the Nu 52.3-million shopping mall built by the central monk body recently. |
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Commerce, the subject rated lowest in Commerce stream! |
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Sangay Choden, who passed Class XII in 2004, said it was her high marks in Commerce that decided her admission in a good college. “It helped my percentage go up,” she said. But that was long ago. The subject that gives the stream its name is facing a major identity crisis. And the Royal University of Bhutan’s ability rating for admissions to tertiary institutes is the villain here. |
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