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... Paresh Baruah, had been responsible for triggering violence and killing innocent people in Assam by coordinating the outfit's operations in the state from their bases in Bhutan, Myanmar and particularly in Bangladesh. "During the last three ...  
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The grin on my face is as wide as the Bhutanese suspension bridge I'm flying across is long. And it defies all logic. I'm terrified of heights and way out of my comfort zone. But I'm cycling in Bhutan, the Land of the Thunder Dragon, a wonderful ...  
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Glaciers in the Himalayas, close to areas like Pakistan, India, China, Nepal and Bhutan, provide water for Asia's nine biggest rivers, necessities for the 1.3 billion people who live around them. Temperatures in the area have risen between 0.27 and 1 ...  
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Riding on Kasan Jayasuriya's brilliant hattrick, Sri Lanka almost confirmed their semifinal berth in the Bangabandhu 6th SAFF Championship crushing lowly Bhutan by 6-0 goals in the group B match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) here on ...  
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Davaram, President, TNAA, said all the member countries — India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan — are participating in the tournament. “The Maldives team has already started practising here,” Mr.  
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Sri Lanka books a place in the semi finals after beating the minnows, Bhutan by 6-0 in the group B match played in Bangabandhu stadium today. The goals were scored by Channa and Kasun and Gunaratne. Kasun scored the first hat trick of the tournament ...  
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... a press conference here today, Tamil Nadu Athletic Association(TNAA) President W I Davaram announced that 350 athletes from eight SAF countries - India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Maldives - will vie for ...  
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SWANSEA, DEC 03 - Dozens of Bhutanese refugees resettled in Europe are scheduled to protest against Thimpu’s atrocities against ethnic minorities in front of the UN office in Geneva on Friday. Bhutan presents its human rights report for Universal ...  
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7 December, 2009 - On the request of the members of parliament the Secretary of International Boundaries, Dasho Pema Wangchuk, presented the updated status report on the Bhutan-China boundary negotiations on December 4. Dasho Pema Wangchuk informed ...  
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In Nepal and Bhutan, the receding glaciers have formed vast lakes that threaten to burst, devastating villages downstream. Nepalese mountaineer and environmental campaigner Dawa Steven Sherpa said he first became interested in climate change after a ...  
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Glaciers in the Himalayas, a 2,400-kilometre range that sweeps through Pakistan, India, China, Nepal and Bhutan, provide headwaters for Asia’s nine largest rivers, lifelines for the 1.3 billion people who live downstream. But temperatures in the ...  
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Welcome to Bhutan, Himalayan mountain kingdom extraordinaire -- "druk yul," the land of the thunder dragon. Tucked in between Tibet (China) to the north and India on the three other borders, Bhutan has a population of about 690,000. Some two-thirds ...  
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Ghana, 26, and his brothers Siva, 19, and Tika, 18, represent a new wave of Minnesota immigrants. They and their family are Bhutanese and when they arrived in St. Paul this fall, they had no relatives here to rely on for help. In the immigration ...  
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HATTRICK HERO: Sri Lanka striker Kasun Jayasuriya is flying high after scoring his third goal against Bhutan in the SAFF Championship at the Bangabandhu National Stadium yesterday. Photo: STAR Sports Reporter Kasun Jayasuriya slammed the first ...  
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Glaciers in the Himalayas, a 2,400-kilometre range that sweeps through Pakistan, India, China, Nepal and Bhutan, provide headwaters for Asia's nine largest rivers, lifelines for the 1.3 billion people who live downstream. But temperatures in the ...  
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Poudyel wrote:"You must be a Tibetan, then, because you are Tibetan origin." classic (and totally erroneous) argument of the refugee camp. Totally forgetting that the first tibetan migrants to bhutan came more than a thousand years ago, while the nepalese who are being targeted for deportation came in the 1960s and 1970s. FYI, Tibetan and Dzongkha are mutually incomprehensible, unlike your nepali and Kathmandu Nepali. The only real...  
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Kathmandu, Dec 6 (IANS) Nepal’s former Maoist guerrillas Sunday allowed their former arch enemy, deposed king Gyanendra, to travel to the Kathmandu airport unhindered to board a flight to India despite a general strike called by them. This is the ...  
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Calcutta TelegraphWork from homeCalcutta TelegraphHow many miles must one travel from home before feeling “homesick”? None at all, and the answer seems to be blowing in the cold December wind in Bengal. ...and more »  
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Goal.com12th Pakistan-Bangladesh clash todayThe Nation, PakistanLAHORE – The 12th Pakistan-Bangladesh clash in international soccer arena will be recorded when both the teams will collide with each other in the 8th SAFF ...2009 SAFF Cup: Hosts Bangladesh Open By Thrashing BhutanGoal.comFormer champions India , hosts Bangladesh and Sri Lanka won their respective ...The Official Home of Asian FootballBangladesh rout BhutanThe Daily...  
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Some of the other insurgent groups working in North-East with hideouts in neighbouring Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal apart from ULFA are NLFA (National Liberation Front of Arunachal Pradesh), NDFB ( National Democratic Front of Bodoland), BLTFS (Bodo ...  
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Eight South Asian countries -- defending champion Maldives, India, Afghanistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bhutan and hosts Bangladesh -- are taking part in the South Asian biggest football carnival to be held on December 4-13. On the opening ...  
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Bangladesh beat Bhutan 4-1 in the their first match of the Bangabandhu sixth SAFF Championship on Friday with Bhutan netting the only goal from a penalty. The match started at 7:00pm after the first match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan at the ...  
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ULFA is firm on its demand for sovereignty despite the arrest of its top leaders, the group's 'vice chairman' Pradip Gogoi said on Friday and accused the Bangladesh government of betraying it. "After Bhutan (referring to the operations of Royal ...  
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Do you think Bhutanese refugees had trust on this leaders?. No!, majority(you may know what majority does in democracy) of this peoples didn't trust them that is why they option third country resettlement;the only way they used to rely on, there were no alternatives except to believe this.But what brings my attention is that you guys are still giving legitimacy of what Bhutan did in past. If you mean Bhutan had not violated human right...  
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He has been out of India since 1992 and is said to have lived in places including Bangladesh, Myanmar and Bhutan. Two other top ULFA leaders, self-styled finance secretary Chitrabon Hazarika and Foreign Secretary Sasha Choudhury had been arrested in ...  
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The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an association of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka. He said cut in infrastructure and transport costs have the same effect as tariff ...  
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Pardon me, but I did not label you "stupid" or a "liar". I said, IF you are trying to convince someone that black is white or an apple tree is a peach tree. IF you accept that allegation - then I guess you are guilty *Your father leaving you unattended to work the roads and your walking miles to go to shop is still the story of many Bhutanese today. *If you were working the roads then I presume you were illegal because we still have many...  
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We have three international frontier interfaces, 1,200 kilometres with China, 440 kilometres with Myanmar and 160 kilometres with Bhutan. China is our good neighbour, but its claim over territory of Arunachal Pradesh is wrong," Khandu said. "  
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We’ve written about Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness before, but now that the new policy has been in place in a while, it’s a good time to revisit the topic. First, Bhutan has very nicely posted all their research online. Second, the good news is that Bhutan’s research is being applied elsewhere, within the rubric of the burgeoning [...]  
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VAC What gives you the right to judge us more ? Firstly- don’t add your usual "package " of “southern Bhutanese and Eastern Bhutanese” because it won’t work. In the past and still now, people like you think that including people from Eastern Bhutan in your cause will gain you support and sympathy. That is a wishful thinking. I am from Eastern Bhutan and the only Sharchop who betrayed our country is the infamous, Rongtong Kinley. Secondly...  
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SAFTA was launched under South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) which is an eight-nation body consisting of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives ... with a total stock of 243,000 tonne contributed by all member states.  
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I came across this video on Canoe & Kayak Magazine's website earlier, and had to share. It's part one of a new series that will follow kayaker Ben Stookesberry as he paddles his way through the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. As you would expect, the scenery is amazing, the mountains spectacular, and the white water is rough and challenging. Some of these locations have probably never been paddled before, and the remote Himalayan setting...  
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5th International GNH Conference 30 November, 2009 - The concept of gross national happiness (GNH) may have originated in Bhutan but, when it came to its implementation, Bhutan was falling behind other countries. This is what the Bhutanese delegation ...  
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The recently concluded 5th conference on Gross National Happiness (GNH) in Brazil raised a debate that the concept is being taken more seriously in places other than Bhutan, its country of origin and the country is falling behind. Sonam Ongmo compiles Bhutanese bloggers' views on this.  
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KATHMANDU (AFP) — An international project that prevented a glacial lake in Bhutan from bursting its banks underlined how climate change can be tackled by adaptation, the environmental group WWF said on Tuesday. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF ...  
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It looks like even after 19 years of atrocities against Southern & Eastern Bhutanese, the Northerners have not change a bit with their mind set. It is same old story in a new package. Remember you have been exposed and there is no way out then to shield your border and stay inside Bhutan with your GNH. Sonam, to be frank I donot think you even deserve to comment on refugee issue cause you are not one of them. Ethnic cleanser or not, ask...  
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Dear Ongmo, I salute you as you are a writer and journalist. I too write a little, sometime, with an ink of my heart. You have proved my understanding of a writer wrong as I used to take a writer as emotional, straight and truth based. Gandhi once said, "a writer writing from his heart is never dishonest." I have no intention to categorize you but I can’t tolerate truth overshadowed by a falsehood. Here are my comments. Hope, god spares you...  
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KATHMANDU (AFP) – An international project that prevented a glacial lake in Bhutan from bursting its banks underlined how climate change can be tackled by adaptation, the environmental group WWF said on Tuesday. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF ...  
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KATHMANDU: Nabil Three Star midfielder Vijay Gurung scored a decider to hand Nepal a 2-1 win over Buutan in a friendly match played as part of their preparation for the SAFF Championship, in Kolkata today. Nepal rallied from a goal down to beat the ...  
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I agree, great job Sonam. It's so helpful to learn a more balanced perspective about the whole situation. And how apt - the title of the article ... nice to finally hear the view expressed that Bhutan is too often characterized (inaccurately) by extremes.  
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Sonam, you were not only badly informed in my case and your accusations, but to state now that these stateless live happily in the north is simply IDIOTIC. I KNOW MANY OF THEM AND THEY SIMPLY HAVE CHOSEN TO SHUT UP OUT OF FEAR OF BEING PUT TO JAIL OR ALSO EXPELLED. SO, CONTINUE TO LIVE IN YOUR LIES, YOU DO WELL.  
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Bangladesh have been drafted in Group B along with Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bhutan while Group B comprises Maldives, India, Afghanistan and Nepal. Bangladesh will play their first match against Bhutan on December 4. They play their second group match ...  
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The photographs have been taken since Luke first ventured to the Himalayan region in 1999 and, as the title suggests, predominately consist of the areas surrounding Tibet including India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Qinghai and Gansu where ...  
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Examiner.comColorado Rockies will travel to the City of Brotherly LoveExaminer.comIs there a more ridiculous nickname for a city in the history of this Earth? The City of Brotherly Love? The city where the bullpens at Citizens Bank Park ...and more »  
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Let the music play, senator says of canceled tripThe Associated PressWASHINGTON — US restrictions on travel to Cuba that led to the New York Philharmonic calling off a trip to the communist country are outrageous and should ...Dorgan says let the music play in CubaReiten Television KXMB Bismarckall 63 news articles »  
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MLB weighs ratings, travel in setting time for Tigers-Twins gameThe Detroit NewsHe said an 8 pm start would be ideal for ratings but the earlier start gives the winning team more time to travel to New York to play the Yankees in one ...and more »  
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The Associated PressAirline fares may be leveling offThe Associated PressGenevieve Shaw Brown, Travelocity's senior editor, checked prices for travel for the period from Labor Day to the weekend before Thanksgiving. ...and more »  
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Israel restricting Arab Americans' travelArab NewsWASHINGTON: Arab Americans have reported difficulties in travel since Israel instituted a new entry visa policy early this spring that restricts them from ...and more »  
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AAA Travel pushing for motorist to put down the cell phoneWTOCMonday, AAA Travel is laying down a challenge to drivers called Heads Up Driving Week, aimed at curbing all vehicular bad behavior. ...and more »  
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Middletown fans travel to support van RiemsdykAsbury Park PressDespite being less than an hour from home, an entire contingency of Middletown hockey fans switched ...and more »  
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