August 2012
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Complete text of JigsNews interview with Kuensel...
JigsNews interview with Gyalsten K Dorji of Kuensel
1. You must have noticed that the number of individuals choosing anonymity on Twitter has spiked recently. In fact, it would be right after the time JigsNews was established. It seemed that anonymity may have been on the decline, with Bhutantimes.com closing shop, and going by the discussions on the Amend the Tobacco Control Act Facebook...
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Exclusive behind the door details from...
Here are exclusive details from the ongoing closed door talks between Bhutan and China in Thimphu. We are publishing the first draft of what was agreed by China to Bhutan and vice versa.
A bridge of River Maokhola in southern Bhutan was promised by the DPT when it came to power. Lack of funds stalled the project. During the ongoing border talks between Bhutan and China in Thimphu, the...
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Why Bhutan cannot win an Olympics medal
Some irresponsible and insensitive Bhutanese have been trolling on why Bhutan cannot win an Olympics medal. But a JigsNews and International Olympic Committee joint study reveals that non-winning has nothing to do with capabilities, but more with the political, social-economic, geographical & cultural conditions.
Archery and shooting: Foreign media has been praising Bhutan for not winning...
July 2012
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5 survival tips for PDP to row into 2013
Dear PDP President, in your interview to Bhutan Observer, you asked DPT not to bother about the deadline given by ECB to repay the 2008 debt. But as the all-knowing, JigsNews understands that you are really worried. Our suggestion; give a post-dated 2013 cheque to all debtors and strictly adhere to the following tips that will make sure PDP wins the next polls.
Have you every realized that by...
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How Buddha and pencil batteries connect India,...
Earlier in this blog, JigsNews has unraveled the other side of ties with China. Adding to that, our research team -without any funding - has discovered that among the three countries a strong love triangle exists. Excerpts from our findings.
1. Lord Buddha who lived and spread his teachings in India has got a statue atop a Bhutanese hill. And who made it? The Chinese.
2. Latest reports say...
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REALNEWS: Bhutanmania spreads across Singapore's...
(The Going Oversease For Advanced Reporting (Go-Far Bhutan) group with the team leader Cherian George. They will be here in the country from July 30 till August 10. Photo 1 courtesy, Go-Far Bhutan’s Facebook page. Photo 2 courtesy: http://gofar.sg/ )
First it was Singapore’s development minister Khaw Boon Wan who talked of Bhutan’s unhappiness, and he got it real bad for saying that...
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Heights of everything in Bhutan; from politics to...
(Height of Politics: MP Sangay Khandu in Lunana at 18,000 feet. Photo courtesy www.sangaykhandu.com )
Height of Democracy – Drivers in ECB selected by a secret ballot of office staffs by Dasho Kunzang Wangdi
Height of Impossibility – Lyonpo Zangley Drukpa nominated for lifelong GNH ambassadorship
Height of Heights – Lyonpo Thinley Gyamtsho, Lyonpo Kunzang Dorji, Lyonpo Dorji Wangdi, Lyonpo Minjur...
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Oh MP, My MP
(JigsNews dedicates the following poem to Punakha MP Tshering Penjore as the 9th Session of parliament comes to a close. During the past one month, not a single day in parliament has passed without him talking. Thanks to his irresponsible remarks during discussions, he is the only MP to have a fake account created in his name on twitter, MPTsheringPenjo. This poem is an expanded version of what...
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Bhutanese handicrafts shopkeepers will oppose any...
(A JigsNews investigation found that a Chinese delegationwho had come to Bhutan took photographs of Bhutanese-made ties from the crafts bazaar to copy the design)
Handicrafts shop owners in Bhutan are reportedly taking Chinese lessons to write to Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabo to immediately drop any plans to introduce ties from China to Bhutan. This comes after the alarmingly clandestine move...
June 2012
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From Adidas to Sherubtse College, new slogans to...
Thousands of companies, foreign and local have been writing to us on how JigNews have been changing the way humans think around the world. To keep up with the times, they asked us to suggest new slogans for them. Here is our compilation.
Kuensel - That the Nation shall be Jigs
Bhutan Times - Your Sunday...
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Trowa cow wants Grass Domestic Product, not...
( I love chewing this film posters: JigsNews talked to a thsethar cow who roams around the Thimphu Trowa Theater who is worried about the owner losing the theater lease land to the government. Aum Cow, who also wants to be resettled to greener pastures has apprehensions whether her application, under the proposed Land Act 2012, will be approved by the cabinet as she follows a political party that...
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“Sentence of the week award goes to Kuensel:
He was found guilty of gang...”
– http://www.kuenselonline.com/2011/?p=32485
May 2012
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What RTI means to 10 Bhutanese ministries & others
Since different agencies have different ideas on what the Right to Information Act means, the Act will not be tabled in the upcoming parliament session. See what ministries, agencies, and people think what RTI is.
Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs: Right To Interrupt.
Ministry of Health: Right To Infect.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Right To Influence.
Ministry of Labour: Right To...
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“Bhutan’s Agriculture Minister says country is self-sufficient in eggs....”
– While officials are optimistic that Bhutan can achieve self-sufficiency in eggs, vegetables and dairy products by the end of the 11th plan, there are apprehensions in case of meat and rice production.
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“Real atsara makes us happy at festivals. Fake atsara @Jigsnews makes us happy on...”
– Dorji_Wangchuk on Twitter
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MULTISECTORAL SOCIAL MEDIA TASK FORCE MEETING:...
(LandCommission says now they will have stricter rules for FarmVille holdings)
Last week a high level meeting, comprising Ministers, MPs, senior government officials and participants from other sectors met to discuss the fast evolving Bhutanese social media. Without existing laws in the country, the agenda of the meet was focused on relevancy of social media to all sectors and all participants...
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REALNEWS: Haa voter says his MP threatened him on...
Ok, first of all we would like to thank blogger, teacher and most importantly a JigsNews follower on twitter, Mr Passang Tshering, for leading us to this important Facebook Discussion.
Today he blogged about a discussion between Haap Wangchuk and National Council MP from Haa, Tshering Dorji, on a Facebook group called Haap Dorros (Don’t this Haaps have any other work). The MP’s...
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Bhutan PM's exclusive interview on him being...
Honorable Prime Minister Lyonchen Jigmi Y Thinley consented to talk to our cabinet correspondent Jigdrel Woodward following a raging twitter controversy regarding PM’s remarks on the vegetable ban controversy.
(Apples are not vegetables and we have enough apples. I propose all Bhutanese eat an apple a day to keep the crunch away)
Q Senior Kuensel reporter Kezang Dema tweeted today quoting...
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REALNEWS: Bhutan to fight rupee crunch by taking...
( I hope its not as cheesy as Bush :US President Barack Obama tries a a rotten cheese burger as he prepares to taste Bhutan’s national dish Ema Datsi at the upcoming re-election fundraising party at NY)
Thousands of Bhutanese cows and farmers are gearing for an increasing export demand for cheese and chilles following the announcement that President Barack Obama will launch his...
April 2012
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WatchThe department of culture authorized JigsNews to create a rap song to make people happy during times of the rupee crunch. So the song is ‘Give Jigs a Chance’. An adulterated version of this was sung by one guy called John Lennon.
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DPT steals Druk Meser Tshogpa’s campaign idea to...
(They first stole my ideas in 2008 and abandoned me, now again)
With just 10 days away for the vegetable import ban to come into effect, the JYT government has directed the Bhutan Olympic Committee (BOC) and 20 dzongkhags to organize ‘survivor groups’ who will have to survive in forests on roots, berries and orchids for a month.
The plan in to organize 100 survivor groups, five groups of 10 from...
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Bumthang bees deny incest allegation
(An infuriated Dorjibee, media focal person of Jigsbee Tshogpa responds to inbreeding allegations among bees in Bumthang )
Bees from Bhutan’s biggest honey production unit has denied allegations by the chairman of the beekeeping association, Tekh Bhadhur Pulami, that the drop in nectar production is caused by inbreeding. In an interview with national newspaper, Kuensel, he said that...
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Complete text of Business Bhutan interview with...
What made you start this?
Traditionally, Bhutanese are fun loving people. But of late, with the proliferation of the media, we felt our journalists and readers have lost their funny bone, and we have started becoming too intolerant. We were becoming too serious as a nation. We talk about GNH as if we are preparing for a life-and-death examination. As Phurba Thinley, one of our patrons said, “ Do...
Story Behind Bhutan's only Mindblasting... →
The following news item is based on Business Bhutan reporter Yiwang Pindarica’s interview with us.
REALNEWS: Ethically shitty day for Kuensel...
The Scandalous Media Cartoon: The front page cartoon published by The Journalist newspaper was lambasted by the information secretary as he was depicted as the one trying to destroy the private media by introducing a GNH advertisement policy and circulation audit that favored Kuensel. Then Bhutan Observer also supported the ad policy. But the paper, conspicuously withdrew from being audited this...
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REALNEWS: Media trainer in Thimphu to lead ethics...
JigsNews found that the main resource person for the media ethics conference for local journalists that starts in Thimphu on April 18 was accused of unethical practices at the university where she teaches now. In 2010, Teresa Allen from Cal Poly State University in California planned a for-profit online magazine that would compete with the students newspaper of the campus and also changed her...
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REALNEWS: Education Secretary silent on PM’s...
(Sometimes our kids need a knock on their heads)
Bhutan’s education ministry announced stricter discipline rules to address the increasing cases of indiscipline among students in the country but ruled out the use of corporal punishment. The education secretary Aum Sangay Zam’s said this despite the prime minister calling not to spare the rod when it is necessary.
“We’re not allowed to beat but...
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Show some love to our policemen
Police Chief on BBS, yesterday, pleaded with the public to consider a small request from him and the RBP.
He said policemen/women at the checkpoints on the highways are there to serve our interest. They spend their time away from home to see that we reach our destination safely.
Police Chief requested all travelers to take along something for the cops whenever they travel. A put of doma pan, a...
Parent exchange program in Bhutan to increase GNH
(Aum Dorji Bidha, a farmer from Trashiyangtse will exchange her humble home for a bungalow in Paro )
Since family bond and neighborly love are values which describe our society, the Gross National Happiness Commission in collaboration the home ministry is planning a parent exchange program to substantially increase the happiness quotient among the population
“We are losing our culture,...
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Bhutan's Election Commission comes up with...
(Election Commission prepares a synthetic track for aspiring parties that could contest in athletics)
So as not to put financial pressure on the country’s economy by asking citizens to vote, Bhutan’s election commission has asked the four political parties to contest the 2013 elections in 10 disciplines, a commission press release said. Of the disciplines, two shall be chosen by...
