Bhutan News

Launch of Bhutan Swallowtail Travel Company and It's Online Website For a Well Planned and Memorable Trip To Bhutan.

For immediate release / Thimphu, Kingdom of Bhutan - 12th February 2012 The Bhutan Middle Management Hotel Program is a small program for existing personnel of the Bhutanese hotel industry, in and around the country.

The theme of the third PATA Adventure Travel and Responsible Tourism Conference and Mart 2012 was "high value tourism, low impact footprints". More than 184 tour operators from 14 countries including 21 from Bhutan attended the third PATA Adventure Travel and Responsible Tourism Conference in Paro.

All this struggling - climbing with leaden legs and oxygen-sapped lungs up a mountain - will result in much merit, my guide assures me.

Mobile, the wholly owned wireless subsidiary of fixed line incumbent Bhutan Telecom, plans to expand its 3G network to around 40 locations in western and central Bhutan by the end of the year.

To enhance bilateral trade , two new land route s in addition to the present one to Bangladesh through India are expected to open any time this year, Bhutanese trade officials say.

Bhutan Telecom is expanding its 3G network in the small Himalayan country and expects to add 40 more towns by the end of this year.

Research and Markets: Bhutan - Telecoms, Mobile and Internet - 2012 - The Kingdom of Gross National Happiness' Sees Strong Growth in Mobile Phones Research and Markets has announced the addition of the " Bhutan - Telecoms, Mobile and Internet " report to their offering.

WAM Abu Dhabi, Feb 05th, 2012 --Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, received here today at the Presidential Palace Leombo Dago, Special Envoy of Prime Minister of Bhutan Kingdom Jigme Thinley.

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Countries recently wracked by earthquakes, tsunamis and political unrest were the winners in this year's travel awards, voted for by the readers of W anderlust magazine, the bible for independently minded travelers.

The Kudung of late Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche arrived in Paro from New Delhi today.

Newswise - Project Look Sharp, an initiative at Ithaca College that promotes media literacy, will work with the Kingdom of Bhutan as it attempts to enter into modernity in a conscious and thoughtful way that is consistent with its cultural values.

The report, published by Bhutan's Vector-borne Disease Control Programme in the Malaria Journal last month , said malaria cases declined from 40,000 in 1994 to 194 in 2011, and deaths from 42 to one during the same period.

The airlines will operate four flights a week -- on Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays -- between Kathmandu and Varanasi.

The GNH index based on results of the GNH 2010 survey shows that 41 per cent of Bhutanese can be classified as happy, while 59 per cent are "not-yet happy", according to an analytical presentation available on the GNH website.

SPEAKING FREELY Refugees blur Bhutan's image By David Koppers Speaking Freely is an Asia Times Online feature that allows guest writers to have their say.

The 40 poultry owners at Changedaphu, Thimphu would receive Nu 83,916 either Monday or Tuesday for the bird s and eggs that were culled and destroyed to contain the bird fl u outbreak in the Bhutan ese capital.

The 8th session of the first Parliament concluded on Saturday with the offering of tashi moenlam, a tradition that symbolises people's allegiance and loyalty to the Druk Gyalpo.

Bhutanese Prime Minister Jigmi Y. Thinley Sunday said the Himalayan nation would not allow any Indian militant groups to once again set up bases in the country.