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BHUTAN- GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS FEATURE - DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
BY KENCHO WANGDI, in Thimphu, Bhutan
WHAT is happiness, really? In conventional development theory, it equals money and prosperity, as measured by GNP (Gross National Product).
But Bhutan, the famously remote and beautiful Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas, has been trying out a different concept.…
WTO REPORT DOHA DEVELOPMENT ROUND - MODALITIES FOLLOW UP - ROUND CONCLUSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTRODUCTION
THE WORLD’S multilateral food trading system today stands at a crossroads: faced with the suspension of the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round, it can either retreat to protectionism, leavened by a series of competitive bilateral trade deals, or it can grasp the nettle of liberal free trade, slash subsidies and tariffs, and then watch the economic rewards roll in.…
WTO REPORT DOHA DEVELOPMENT ROUND - MODALITIES FOLLOW UP - ROUND CONCLUSION
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTRODUCTION
THE WORLD’S multilateral food trading system today stands at a crossroads: faced with the suspension of the World Trade Organisation’s Doha Development Round, it can either retreat to protectionism, leavened by a series of competitive bilateral trade deals, or it can grasp the nettle of liberal free trade, slash subsidies and tariffs, and then watch the economic rewards roll in.…
BHUTAN SMOKING FEATURE
BY KEITH NUTHALL
Dear Duncan – Bhutan smoking ban follow up feature should be with you tomorrow. Four pix for you to choose from attached. Unlikely, but if you use more than one, please let me know. Pic credit – Kencho Wangdi.…
BHUTAN SALES BAN FEATURE
BY KENCHO WANGDI
THE TINY Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan has never been if great – if any – interest to the tobacco industry, until this January 1, when it became the first country in the world to ban domestic tobacco sales.…
BHUTAN TOBACCO BAN FEATURE
BY KENCHO WANGDI
“NO smoking on the dance floor guys, please,” the DJ screams into the microphone of a nightclub in Thimphu, the capital of the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan.
But the younger members the country’s English speaking elite continue to writhe on the dance floor, fingers gripping half-smoked cigarettes, clouds of smoke wafting through the neon light, even though since March 1 public smoking has been illegal.…
BHUTAN CIGARETTE BAN
BY KENCHO WANGDI
THE BUDDHIST Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has imposed a nationwide ban on the sale of tobacco products starting December 17, 2004, making it the first country in the world to do so. Ban violators will be fined US$227 equivalent and shops and hotels engaged in tobacco sales will lose their business licenses.…
BHUTAN SMOKING
BY KENCHO WANGDI
EVEN as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and some 170 countries work towards implementing a tobacco control convention, Bhutan, the remote and tiny Himalayan kingdom, has taken a step further by banning tobacco sale at all its duty-free outlets.…
BHUTAN WEAVERS
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TRADITIONAL weavers from the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan are being trained in using the Internet to source raw materials from India and advertise their colourful fabrics online. A United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) project is teaching weavers e-business basics as well as subsiding Internet connections in rural areas of this remote country and improved working conditions.…
BHUTAN TOBACCO SALES
BY MONICA DOBIE and KEITH NUTHALL
THE HIMALAYAN kingdom of Bhutan has launched a ‘tobacco free’ programme, aimed at persuading its mostly Buddhist citizens from abiding by a often ignored 1729 law banning them from smoking; indeed 18 of the country’s 20 districts have banned the sale of tobacco, leaving only the capital, Thimphu, as a safe haven for selling tobacco products.…