Bhutan
-
China and Bhutan sign a Memorandum of Understanding on Border Talks.
Bhutan and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Thursday for a “Three-Step Roadmap” for speeding Bhutan-China boundary negotiations, which Thimphu claims will give the talks a new momentum and help them reach a successful conclusion acceptable to both parties. The MoU is signed at a time when India’s own discussions with China to end…
-
Flash floods kill 10 people in Bhutan, 7 missing in Nepal
Heavy rains prompted flash floods that washed away a remote mountain camp in Bhutan on Wednesday, killing ten people and wounding five others, while storms in neighboring Nepal left seven others missing, according to authorities. When the floodwaters hit soon after midnight, the Bhutanese villagers who had been collecting cordyceps, a fungus used in medicine,…
-
China Building a Whole Village Violating International Borders
China announced in October 2015 that a new village, named Gyalaphug in Tibetan or Jieluobu in Chinese, had been built in the Tibet Autonomous Region’s south (TAR). Wu Yingjie, the TAR Communist Party secretary, moved over two passes, both over 14,000 feet high, on his way to visit the new village in April 2020. There,…
-
Buddhist Majority Countries Been Spared by COVID-19?
With the countries across the world reeling by the impact of Coronavirus pandemic, Buddhist majority countries are faring well. Has COVID-19 spared these Buddhist majority countries? Is there some Karmic grace to explain the comparative stand out in terms of the impact of the pandemic that has caused the never seen health and economic devastation…