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INDIAN GOVERNMENT PRO-ACTIVELY EXPANDS AIRPORTS IN REMOTE NORTH-EAST
The government of India is modernising and expanding airports located in the remote north eastern part of the country. They generally generate low levels of civilian passenger traffic, but the region considered extremely sensitive politically and strategically due to several armed insurgencies and its proximity to international borders with China, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Bhutan and Nepal.…
INDIAN GOVERNMENT PRO-ACTIVELY EXPANDS AIRPORTS IN REMOTE NORTH-EAST
The government of India is modernising and expanding airports located in the remote north eastern part of the country. They generally generate low levels of civilian passenger traffic, but the region considered extremely sensitive politically and strategically due to several armed insurgencies and its proximity to international borders with China, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Bhutan and Nepal.…
FINLAND’S SMOKE-FREE QUEST CONTINUES – BUT WILL IT WORK?
WHEN Finland’s Tobacco Act came into force on October 1, 2010, it made news around the world. For the first time a country had stated explicitly it wanted to end smoking on its territory and gave a date: Finland would be non-smoking by 2040.…
BHUTAN TO LIFT ANTI-SMOKING BAN
After five years of trying to maintain a comprehensive and groundbreaking tobacco ban, Bhutan politicians appear to have decided the idea is utopian and unworkable, with the upper house of Bhutan’s parliament agreeing unanimously that the country’s controversial tobacco ban should end – and for good.…
INDIAN AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS ARE CALLING FOR A UNITED STAND TO FIGHT BOOK PIRACY
INDIAN publishers are adopting a smarter more holistic approach to fight book piracy and are focusing on awareness campaigns to tackle the problem.
“Educational authorities like the ministry of human resource development and other stakeholders should join hands with publishers to make people understand that there is some sanctity to copyrighted knowledge, which should be respected,” said Mr Sesh Seshadri, secretary of The Association of Publishers in India (API).…
BEAUTY BUSINESS BOOMING IN BANGLADESH
BANGLADESH’S fast growing economy is developing a robust and booming personal care product market. Mosaddeq Hossain, owner of a general store at the Shagoria Bazaar in Hatiya sub-district, neat Chittagong, recalls 10 years ago, there was almost no demand for his stocks of Sunsilk shampoo.…
NUMBER CRUNCHERS POINT THE WAY TOWARDS HAPPINESS
WHEN the authors of the US declaration of independence said that “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” were goals of their nascent state, they knew what they were talking about. For what is the point of life and the freedom to direct it, if it does not generate happiness?…
BIRD FLU HITS INDIAN POULTRY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INDIAN government agency charged with the development of the national poultry sector has been hit by an outbreak of bird flu on one of its turkey farms, the Office International des Épizooties (OIE), the world animal health organisation has said.…
HELP WANTED IN 'THE GARDEN OF EDEN'
BY TENZING LAMSANG in BHUTAN
HELP WANTED IN ‘THE GARDEN OF EDEN’
The tiny Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan has undergone tremendous changes in the last decade, from opening up to television and the internet in 1999, to the introduction of parliamentary democracy in 2008 by an enlightened monarchy.…
JIGMI RINZIN: CV
BY TENZING LAMSANG in BHUTAN
JIGMI RINZIN: CV
? Currently: Secretary General, ARAPAC (from Dec 2010); MP (from Apr 2008), National Council of Bhutan NCB); Public Accounts Committee, Parliament of Bhutan – member (from Apr 2009) and chairman (Jul 2010 – Jun 2011); Member of Economics Affairs Committee and Chairman, Parliamentary Entitlements Committee, NCB (from Jul 2008).…