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		<title>Gateway security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 17 - Foreign workers with valid work permits will not be issued bus tickets from Phuentsholing to various destinations until May 1 with immediate effect, Phuentsholing road safety and transport authority officials said.
“We received instructions to monitor illegal immigrants entering Bhutan, so we’ve informed all ticket counters not to issue any,” said the senior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funds for centre from US scouts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ March 17 &#8211; The couztion as an independent entity under the scout association of Bhutan (SAB).
This was made possible after the boy scouts of America (BSA) donated USD 50,370 (Nu 2.2 mn) to SAB. The education minister Thakur S Powdyel received it on SAB’s behalf.
With the government’s approval to allocate a 27-acre land in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banks to go public</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 17 &#8211; There will be several opportunities to invest in shares of financial institutions this year, with royal monetary authority (RMA) regulations requiring all commercial banks, old and new, to be public limited companies.
The two new banks, Druk PNB and T Bank, and the Bank of Bhutan will have to float at least 30 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RBA soldiers and Bodo militants exchange fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 16: A group of seven RBA soldiers, while returning from an outpost, encountered Bodo Militants armed with AK rifles and exchanged fire. The incident occurred on Sunday near Sukun Taklai River in Sarpang.
The Bodo militants opened fire on the RBA soldiers and ran towards the forest. The RBA soldiers took cover and returned fire.
According [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese expertise solicited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[14 March - Almost a year after the major flood last May washed away the Gasa tsachu, the once popular hot spring is still awaiting rehabilitation. The home minister Lyonpo Minjur Dorji said the country lacked the expertise to explore and study the possibility of rebuilding the hot spring.
“We want to reconstruct the tsachu as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GNH Seminar Next round in New Delhi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[14 March - The first ever seminar between Bhutan and India on GNH concluded on March 12, with participants from both sides acknowledging the need for more discussion and study for the development philosophy to be successfully implemented.
Dasho Karma Ura, the president for the centre for Bhutan studies (CBS), said that the “rich dialogue” had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>T-Bank fourth commercial bank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[14 March &#8211; T-Bank, Bhutan’s fourth commercial bank, which opened its Thimphu office for business yesterday, will target small and medium scale businesses, according to one of its promoters.
“We can’t run after the big clients initially,” said Wangchuk Dorji, vice chairman of the Tashi group, who owns 20 percent of the Nu 220 mn bank. [...]]]></description>
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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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