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BHUTAN'S HYDRO-POWER SECTOR SURGES, BUT MOST VILLAGERS ARE LEFT IN THE DARK
BY KENCHO WANGDI
HYDRO-ELECTRIC power is of critical importance to the tiny landlocked nation Bhutan, hidden deep in the folds of the Himalayas, with economic and military giants China to the north and India to the south. Indeed, its government regards hydropower energy as being instrumental in shifting the country from being recognised by the United Nations as a least developed into an emerging developing country in the south-east Asia.…
BHUTAN: Future higher education hub of Asia
Kencho Wangdi
The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is renowned for its untouched mountainous beauty. It is also known for its political innovation: it tobacco sales ban and use of ‘gross national happiness country’ as a yardstick for development. But it may soon become known as a higher education hub of Asia, if current plans go well.…
SECOND BHUTAN SMOKING BAN RAISES FRESH CONTROVERSY
BY KENCHO WANGDI
THE HIMALAYAN Kingdom of Bhutan recently passed its most rigorous Tobacco Control Bill yet in what some commentators say is a desperate attempt to salvage the country’s image as a tobacco-free nation. The first bill, endorsed in 2004, failed.…
RELIGION AND SMOKING DON'T ALWAYS MIX WELL
BY PAUL COCHRANE, AHMAD PATHONI, GAVIN BLAIR, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, WANG FANGQING, HELEN FLUSFELDER, KARRYN MILLER, KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN
THE BRITISH writer Oscar Wilde wrote: "A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.…
COMMERCIAL CRIMES ON THE CLIMB IN REMOTE BHUTAN
BY KENCHO WANGDI
NESTLED against the Himalayas, Bhutan was one of the last oases of isolation, untouched by commercialism and capitalism. But in the last decade, things have changed, and Bhutan has embraced all the joys of the modern world – and the crime.…
India will be test-bed for emerging market countries fighting Maoist insurgencies
By Raghavendra Verma, in New Delhi
India is the latest example of a country struggling against a Maoist insurgency fuelled by rural inequality, showing how emerging market governments worldwide risk harbouring violent rebel groups while promoting economic development.
In Peru, the notorious Maoist guerrilla group ‘The Shining Path’ continue operations, funded by the illicit drug trade, after a major insurgency in the 1980s and 1990s failed to achieve its political ends. In Nepal, an armed insurgency was successful, ending with a peace accord in 2006, its Communist Party of Nepal (Unified-Maoist) (CPN-UM) joining the country’s parliament and briefly leading its government.…
India will be test-bed for emerging market countries fighting Maoist insurgencies
By Raghavendra Verma, in New Delhi
India is the latest example of a country struggling against a Maoist insurgency fuelled by rural inequality, showing how emerging market governments worldwide risk harbouring violent rebel groups while promoting economic development.
In Peru, the notorious Maoist guerrilla group ‘The Shining Path’ continue operations, funded by the illicit drug trade, after a major insurgency in the 1980s and 1990s failed to achieve its political ends. In Nepal, an armed insurgency was successful, ending with a peace accord in 2006, its Communist Party of Nepal (Unified-Maoist) (CPN-UM) joining the country’s parliament and briefly leading its government.
Other Maoist groups continue to operate in pockets worldwide, for instance in The Philippines, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Sri Lanka. But it is maybe in India where the phenomena has most prominence today. The Indian government, for its part, has identified the Maoist insurgency as a leading domestic security concern and it is unclear how this insurgency will end.…
BHUTAN'S TOBACCO SALES BAN UNDER THREAT AFTER IMPLEMENTATION FAILURES
BY KENCHO WANGDI
THE IMPLEMENTATION of the much vaunted sales and public place smoking ban in Bhutan, the tiny Himalayan kingdom, has not been easy. And now the country’s newly minted parliament is considering lifting the sales ban, while providing for tougher enforcement of the public place ban and fighting tobacco smuggling.…
INDIA'S PAINT AND COATINGS SECTOR EMERGING QUICKLY FROM GLOBAL RECESSION
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA
THE INDIAN paint and coating industry is currently passing through a significant transitional phase – being forced to shift its production from solvent-based to water-based products. The high crude oil prices in 2008 so increased the cost of raw materials that despite the fall in prices from last summer, many paint manufacturers have had little option but to move away from oil-based coatings.…
UNDERSTAFFING MAKES BHUTANESE NURSES' DAILY TOIL A REAL GRIND
BY KENCHO WANGDI
LIKE other nurses in the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, religion played a part in convincing Dechen Om that she should become a nurse.
A Buddhist, like most of her co-patriots, she believed that by becoming a nurse she would get the chance to serve ill people and earn good karma so in the next life she would be born into a good family.…