High in the mist-shrouded Himalayas, a winding mountain road opens to a clearing in the pine forested valley, revealing rows of uniform Tibetan-style houses, each topped with a Chinese flag.
Construction is booming in this remote place. Piles of (...)
RIYADH — Asian women's football is gearing up for a new chapter with the launch of the preliminary rounds for the first-ever AFC Women's Champions League, marking the latest step in the Asian Football Confederation's efforts to develop women's (...)
While the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been staggering, the full impact on health has been far greater, according to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).
The agency said fear, isolation, grief, economic stress and shuttered support services (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) has temporarily banned the import of poultry meat, eggs, their products and equipment from five more regions in the United States because of the spread of severe bird flu disease there. The regions (...)
ZURICH — Bhutan jumped 46 places from the foot of the FIFA rankings to 163rd Thursday after recording its first ever World Cup qualifying victories. The Himalayan nation beat Sri Lanka 1-0 in Colombo and 2-1 in Thimphu last month to advance to the (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi begins on Sunday his first visit abroad since taking office, arriving in Bhutan to launch a drive to reassert Indian influence in the region, offering financial and technical help and the lure of a huge market, (...)
Tens of thousands of people in Bhutan voted Saturday in the second-ever parliamentary elections, which are being seen as a verdict on five years of democracy in the tiny Himalayan nation.
Three of five political parties were eliminated in an earlier (...)
The final round of Bhutan's second-ever
parliamentary elections began Saturday, according to dpa.
An estimated 400,000 voters are eligible to choose between the
incumbent Druk Phuensum Tshogpa and the People's Democratic Party for
the 47-member (...)
AlHijjah 24, 1432, Nov 20, 2011, SPA -Four Himalayan nations facing the threat of weather changes have agreed to collaborate on ways to adapt to climate change. The deal was struck at a summit in Bhutan, the Associated Press reported.
India, Nepal, (...)
Pakistan called on Member States of The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to benefit from the wisdom of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah Ibn Abdulaziz Al Saud for dialogue between the followers of religions (...)
The 4th conference of the member countries of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) started in the Kingdom of Bhutan's capital of Thimphu.
The conference aims at tackling the security challenges facing the region, led by (...)
Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (L) and his fiancee Jetsun Pema pose in Bhutan in this undated handout released May 20, 2011. (Reuters)
GAUHATI, India: Their thunder may have been stolen by Prince William and Kate Middleton, but the (...)
Awwal 26, 1432 / April 30, 2011, SPA -- A helicopter carrying the chief minister of the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh went missing Saturday in bad weather during what should have been a 75-minute flight, AP quoted officials as (...)
n Modest gain but a step forward
THAT Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart Yousaf Raza Gilani met at Mohali Wednesday in an environment enlivened by what by any standards was a carnival is itself an achievement, said (...)
n India, Pakistan should show maturityINDIAN Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's invitation to President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to watch the Cricket World Cup semi-final between the two countries is not quite a googly – (...)
The words ‘composite dialogue' are not there. However, for all practical purposes Pakistan and India have agreed to pursue the peace process that began so hopefully in January 2004 but fell victim to the rude shock that Mumbai was, says the daily (...)
NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD: India and Pakistan said Thursday they would resume formal peace talks but issues such as militancy and the disputed Kashmir region are likely to slow any progress toward defusing tensions.
The talks, expected to start by July, (...)
THERE is nothing to mourn, just as there is hardly anything to rejoice about the outcome of Sunday's meeting in Thimphu between the Pakistani and Indian foreign secretaries, the Dawn newspaper in Pakistan says in an editorial. Excerpts:
Salman (...)
Awwal 04, 1432, Feb 07, 2011, SPA -- The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan met in Bhutan for the first high-level talks in more than six months.
India's Nirupama Rao met with her Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir on the margins of a South (...)
Awwal 03, 1432 H/Feb 06, 2011, SPA -- The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan have met in the Bhutanese capital, but failed to set any dates for the resumption of peace talks between the hostile neighbors, according to AP.
The peace talks (...)
India and Pakistan must try to
resolve the "core issue" of Kashmir and other outstanding
problems to start a "new era" of trust, amity and friendship
in the region, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said.
Addressing the third Conference (...)
India and Pakistan took a significant step toward resuming their frozen peace dialogue Thursday as their prime ministers held direct talks for the first time in nine months.
During the discussions in the Bhutanese capital Thimphu, which both (...)
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his
Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani are scheduled to hold talks
on the sidelines of a regional summit in Bhutan Thursday raising
hopes of a thaw in relations, according to dpa.
India broke off (...)
Bhutan crowned its new King Thursday after a two-year wait for the precise moment deemed most auspicious for a successful
reign, Associated Press reported.
At exactly 8:31 a.m., former King Jigme Singye Wangchuck,
52, placed the Raven Crown on (...)
For years, the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan boasted that it was mostly concerned with Gross National Happiness -- and now it's really going to try to actually measure it.
The idea of focusing on Gross National Happiness (GNH) rather than (...)
