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		<title>He Married him, She Married her</title>
		<description><![CDATA[9 March: Picture ourselves looking for a needle amidst a stack of hay and finding not one, but scores of them. We will be baffled.
And baffled we are, learning that there are several gays, lesbians and heterosexuals amidst us.
It is the diffusion of western life, which Globalization ferried to Bhutan. This is what most of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bhutanese gay and lesbian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[9 March: Behind the curtains of conventions, homosex­uality is fast rearing its controversial head.
Though gay and lesbian relationships are considered a taboo in Bhutan, there is an increasing number of them, thriving behind closed doors.
“I want to be free” says Sengkey, a young man with a normal career and friends. He has the same interests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bhutanese Fashion Theme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[8 March: Bhutanese textiles wowed the crowd at the Lakme Fashion Week 2010.
Inspired by her recent visit to Bhutan, Indian designer Babita Malkani showcased a variety of Bhutanese textiles at the Summer Resort 2010 – Lakme Fashion Week.
Keeping Bhutan as her theme, Babita Malkani’s Boho Chic line was an ode to the monasteries and architecture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Standardising tourist hotels starts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 5: A six-member team led by TCB started a countrywide hotel standardization and classification assessment yes­terday. The assessment is in line with the government’s decision which requires all hotels catering to tourists to be upgraded to a minimum of three star category.
The month-long exercise will assesses tourist hotels and accommodations reg­istered with the Tourism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian cabinet secretary in Bhutan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[5 March &#8211; The cabinet secretary of the government of India, Mr K.M Chandrasekhar is on a three-day visit to the country starting today.
Tomorrow, the Mr Chandrasekhar will deliver a talk on “Functions of Cabinet, Committee of Secretaries and Relationship between Bureaucracy and Politicians” at the Tarayana conference hall at Chubachu, Thimphu.
While in the country, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BUS RUNS AMOK DAMAGES 13 CARS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 3, 2010: A brand new Chinese man­ufactured bus lost control at the Debum Lam in Hon­gkong market yesterday and crashed unto motor vehicles parked by the roadside, leaving behind a trail of damaged cars.
The accident that took place around 2.15 pm left altogether 13 vehicles damaged, of which an alto taxi, a Maruti 800 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cabinet approves 1,000-acre land</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ February 18 &#8211; The cabinet on Tuesday approved a grant of about 1,000 acres of land to Druk holding and investments (DHI) to be used as an equity in the proposal to build a knowledge city in Bhutan by the Indian-based company, Infinity techno parks.
The land will enable DHI to partner in the project, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education, Labour checklists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 18 &#8211; The education and labour ministries signed performance compacts with the prime minister yesterday on 17 key initiatives to be undertaken by 2013, which will bind them to their targets.
The education ministry committed to raise the percentage of teachers satisfied with the profession from 24 in 2009 to 70 percent in 2013 through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intel donates 200 laptops to Bhutanese schools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 13 &#8211; Intel, the multinational corporation that manufactures central processing units (CPU) or microprocessors, will donate 200 laptops for Bhutanese schools.
Known as ‘Classmate PC’, the laptops or rather netbooks are Intel’s response to the one laptop per child (OLPC) XO computer, also known as the US$ 100 laptop.
The donation comes four months after the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian tour operators interested in Bhutan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 13 &#8211; In what is known to be India’s largest tourism fair network, Bhutan was among the more than 50 countries participating in the fair held in Mumbai, which drew 186,000 visitors from February 6-8.
The annual event offered opportunity for tourism destinations and companies around the world to exhibit their products to travel industries [...]]]></description>
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