The Moment When the BCSE Exam Results Were Announced

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TOPPERS (GENERAL CATEGORY) The moment when the BCSE exam results were 1st, Kinley Zam 2nd, Sonam Palden 3rd, Pema Seldon announced DZONGKHA CATEGORY Sherubtse graduates dominates top three positions

By Tshering college mate, Sonam Palden, Thimphu from Phongmey Trashigang. I couldn’t believe my The Sociology and Political Kinley Zam was home yes- eyes when I saw my name Science graduate came sec- terday with her Samsung “ ond with 68.84 percent. J7 hooked to the internet. on the top. I hugged Sonam Palden was in the She knew that the Bhutan my dad in excitement. I toilet trying to browse the 1st, Tsheten Dorji 2nd, Ugyen Zam 3rd, Tshewang Dorji Civil Service Examination didn’t expect to top, but RCSC website. The page TECHNICAL CATEGORY (BCSE) result would be out my hard work paid off didn’t load and he switched by 9 am and kept checking to Facebook. He saw a lot her phone. Kinley Zam of congratulatory messages “I couldn’t believe congratulating him on his my eyes when I saw my cited Kinlay last night. “I success. He jumped from name on the top,” said the didn’t expect to top, but my the toilet seat in happi- Sherubtse college graduate hard work paid off,” said the ness. “I wasn’t even sure if I who topped the 2016 BCSE BA English Honours from would make the top 37,” he examination in the general Wangduephodrang. She told Bhutan Today. “I was category. “I hugged my dad scored 69.23 percent. in excitement,” said an ex- Following Kinley was her Continued on Pg. 11 1st, Sandeep Kumar 2nd, Ugyen Choden 3rd, Dorji Gyeltshen Transfer your census to vote from the place of your choice: ECB By Bharat Youngyang prepare. vote or stand as a candidate. constituency without their demkhong of your choice Thimphu In an election advisory is- Without the transfer, an census in the same constitu- for the NC elections in 2018, sued yesterday, the commis- interested candidate can- ency cannot vote or stand in ensure your mitsi is regis- The third parliamentary sion, through an election ad- not vote in the election or the parliamentary lections. tered in the civil registry in elections may be a year and visory, had called people to stand as a candidate. An The advisory was called that demkhong,” states the a few months away, but the transfer their mitsi (census) election commission official for the National Council advisory. Election Commission of to the place or constituency explained that people who elections in 2018. “To be a Bhutan is calling people to from where they want to own property or land in one voter or a candidate at the Continued on Pg. 11 BHUTAN TODAY 02 IDEA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2016 Editorial Shakespeare: flurry of opinion Looking beyond a on it’s way back

government job n the recent articulation. You either learn to coming of write Korean or read Shakespeare; Shakespeare's it will eventually make you more he Bhutan Civil Service Examination result is out 'Merchant of intellectual than obsolete! ending the anxious waiting period for the 2,487 Venice' into Shakespeare brings in human graduates who sat for the exam. There were about classroomO after decades of its last values from a perspective we seven graduates for each vacancy in the civil service. farewell, there has been a flurry of may never learn. We are not opinion on why it’s coming back. I teaching our children to learn This means the number of jobseekers do not know the reason that must to write Shakespearean form of willT increase in the market. Some would have already found be lodged in those people at the essays and letters. A challenging employment, yet the sheer number of graduates in all fields would ministerial offices. classical English child will get an mean more pressure on the labour ministry or the government. There This is what I hear at the tables opportunity to tease, quiz and train are challenges. How will we find employment for those who secured during meetings, workshops and their learning brain in a variety of travels. deep thoughtful activity. below 50 percent, the minimum percentage needed for an entry into 1. Shakespearean language is If it is taught through a the civil service? not at all applicable in the modern total translation it would lose There is only so much the public corporations and the private workplaces. Not even the king its strength and become less sector can take in. Some would have already recruited. We will writes in that euphoric obsolete challenging to impact any cerebral see anxious graduates and parents. Not finding a job is worrying language. growth! 'Brain have style' and this 2. Shakespearean dialogues is why we need to provide unique for parents some of whom must have spent their entire savings or are lengthy, built-round-the-bush opportunity to learn. borrowed money to ensure their children complete university. What poetic language and deeply It will imbibe morality must the government do? What must the parents and the graduates philosophical, while modern stories and values. The philosophical do? in class have shorter dialogues statements in the dialogues will A more relevant question would be should we find jobs for them? with direct exposure of values and teach children how to think in information. a richer way. The music of the Or should we encourage them to create jobs. Both the government 3. Unless the play is translated language shall compensate the and the graduates know that the government can only take in only to modern English it will be a beauty of challenges children may a few hundred graduates. The need outside the civil service is even mammoth challenge to students face initially. fewer. It is therefore time to see what opportunities are there. who already a mostly handicapped Our dzongkha teachers are There is a good focus on the private sector with the government at even writing a sentence right. considered rich in the knowledge 4. Modern world is a racing of philisophical debates and in encouraging jobseekers to look beyond the saturated civil service. world. People must be taught poetic expressions comparing to We hear, often, of entrepreneurship skill training, seminars and to think and act fast. But me who is good in dzongkha but workshops. This is a good idea and should receive more attention. Shakespearean play come from the not learned the classical dzongkha. Among the 2,487 graduates, a good number are technical time when people and time were If learning classical dzongkha in graduates like engineers, lawyers, IT graduates and so on. These slow, and dialogues between men Rigzhung can imbibe morality, can be almost a poetic narration. enhance philosophical thought and graduates should be able to look beyond the civil service, for 5. Shakespearean plays portray poetic expression, Shakespearean that matter starting business or consultancy themselves. Start religious and traditional cultures of play can do the parallel for other up is difficult without experience and capital. This is where the the western Christian world. While students. Isn't it good that the government should come in. our is an absolute Buddhism driven play comes in not to teach the Our agriculture sector needs educated people. They can employ a culture. English but to deepen and enhance lot. For instance, the recent chilli experience is a good opportunity to 6. The events and humane richness of thought? values are not totally relevant to The play will prove that some look farming as a lucrative job. With support, not necessarily money, our future generation. humane values are timeless and government could encourage through policies and initiatives, to 7...... universal be it from the medieval encourage graduates to return to farm. It is my responsibility to provide times or from the time of Buddha If a group of business, IT, agriculture-science and management my view in a way I think should or the Zhabdrung. graduates can start a business on winter crops, especially chillies, help people understand and accept The lengthy dialogue is a big the rich merchant. And I opined: advantage for a growing brain they will be in a lucrative business creating jobs for others. It will Shakespearean English may be and for those who take time to have other direct benefits like helping the rupee crunch problems. obsolete but it is not Korean. Many encapsulate morale and meaning It would be too much to expect a young graduate to start children and parents even watch from otherwise a quick dialogue. something. Therefore, relevant authorities and agencies should step Korean movies and have adapted To teach for instance on Mercy in. The number of graduates in the market should be seen as a good to its culture. The focus of learning Shakespeare delve delicately with is not on culture but the ingrained other values and bring on to the sign. It indicates that we have educated workforce. beauty of expression, thinking and Continued on Pg. 11

Chairman: Nawang Dorji, Managing Director: Tenzin Dorji , Dy. Managing Director/Marketing Head: Bharat Youngyang, Chief Editor: N Norbu, Graphic & Design Head: Kinley Namgay, Adm & Finance: Sonam Choki, Circulation Incharge: Dawa...... Published by Bhutan Today Private Ltd., License # 303000004, Post Box 1532, Industrial Area, Chamzamtog, Thimphu, Printer: Kuensel Corporation Tel # 02-336804/06, Fax # 02-336805, Email: [email protected]/[email protected]/[email protected] BHUTAN TODAY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2016 NATION 03 Identifying shared priorities in global environment change research South Asian organisations meet in Bhutan to explore effective approaches

By Kinley Yonten opment Training Workshop Thimphu will be held from 14-16 De- cember 2016. The workshop Driven by the shared un- is organised by APN annu- derstanding that sustained ally to develop the capacity coordinated regional collab- of young and early-career oration is the key in ensur- scientists to prepare coming the resilient and sustain- petitive regional research able future, twelve national proposals to access research and regional policy and re- funding and to effectively search institutions of South manage project activities Asia Organization met in and communicate their re- Bhutan to explore effective search results to various approaches to collectively types of audiences. enhancing global change re- The Proposal Develop- search and capacity development Training Workshop ment in South Asia. 2016 is jointly funded by The meeting was organ- APN and the PAGES (Past ized by Asia-Pacific Network Global Changes) project, an for Global Change Research international project that (APN) and hosted by the aims to coordinate and pro- National Environment Com- mote research on past global mission Secretariat, as part change in order to make pre- of a partnership-building activities to address these proach was initiated as a These include water resourc- dictions for the future. initiative conceptualised issues. result of the sixth meeting es management, sustainable The Asia-Pacific Network and implemented by APN’s The goals of the collabo- of APN’s South Asia Sub- agriculture, monsoon vari- for Global Change Research sub-regional committee for rative approach are to better Regional Committee in 2015, ability, and gender issues (APN) is a network of 22 South Asia. Representa- support South Asian coun- where the committee decid- within these domains. The Member Country govern- tives from twelve policy and tries to identify and assess ed to reach out to organisa- meeting is expected to iden- ments that promotes global research institutes and or- shared priority needs and tions in the sub-region that tify key problems, objec- change research in the re- ganisations based in Bang- to develop the capacity of share a similar vision and tives, outputs and expected gion, increases developing ladesh, Bhutan, India, Ne- scientists, practitioners and interest with APN. outcomes of potential joint country involvement in that pal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka the public to collaborate, Before the meeting, a activities. research, and strengthens were invited to take charge communicate and take ac- questionnaire survey and Back-to-back with the col- interactions between the in jointly mapping out re- tion to adapt to and mitigate a series of teleconferences laborative approach meeting science community and pol- gionally-relevant issues of global climate change in were conducted and several and the seventh South Asia icy makers. APN was estab- common interest and formu- South Asia. pressing issues of common Sub-Regional Committee lished in 1996. lating the designs of joint This collaborative ap- concern were identified. meeting, a Proposal Devel- Bhutan State of Park Report 2016 Launched

story of Bhutan’s protected area system in a big way by highlighting the conservation significance and management performance by individual protected areas including the only Royal Bo- tanical Park in Bhutan. Acknowledging due importance attached by the Foreign Minister Lyonpo Damcho Dorji met H.E. Dr. Martin Ney, Ministry to work of such Ambassador of Germany in New Delhi. During the meeting, nature, the Department of Lyonpo Damcho Dorji thanked Germany for honouring His Forest and Park Services Majesty the King, the People and the Royal Government of is henceforth required to Bhutan by awarding the German Sustainability Award 2016 to measure all Protected Areas Hon’ble Lyonchhen. The Award was a befitting recognition of the on five yearly basis to allow leadership of Bhutan’s successive Monarchs, the people and the By Staff Reporter Tobgay and Hon’ble Lyonpo the Government to track Thimphu Royal Government in ensuring sustainability in every aspect of Yeshey Dorji, Minister for progress of conservation Ministry of Agriculture and Bhutan’s development. management over time and Lyonpo Damcho also discussed bilateral relations between Bhutan To commemorate the 10th Forests launched the first enable adaptive manage- coronation anniversary of ever report on Bhutan State and Germany, and the possibility of enhancing cooperation ment prescriptions for sus- between the two countries including through employment of His Majesty’s glorious reign, of Park 2016. tainable interventions. Hon’ble Lyonchen Tshering The report unfolds the Bhutanese in Germany. BHUTAN TODAY 04 NATION THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2016

Officials carry a screen to Sakteng gewog in Trashigang to install a video conference equipment. Since May 2014, UNDP Bhutan initiated this facility to enable parliamentarians connect with their constituents via videoconference. (Photo UNDP) DHR, MoLHR facilitate Village Skill Development Program for Lunana Communities upon Royal command A total of 43 individuals (19 His Majesty’s Secretariat women & 24 men) from the upon the Royal command highland communities of of His Majesty The King, Lunana Gewog will undergo issued during recent Royal skills development training visit to the Lunana gewog to in various trades such as tra- make the communities self- ditional painting, tailoring, reliant in all the necessary weaving, carpentry, solar skills, an opportunity to earn home system and cooking livelihood through skills ac- for maximum period of two quisition and enhance in- months. The training com- come generation capacity to menced on 13th December, supplement their income, 2016 in Technical Training help in alleviating poverty Institute (TTI) Khuruthang, through skills acquisition Punakha. and positive engagement The skills development during seasonal migration training under Village Skill by learning new skills. The Development Program Department of Human Re- (VSDP) for Lunana commu- sources, Ministry of Labour nities is implemented by Of- and Human Resources fa- fice of the Gyalpoi Zimpon, cilitated the training.

Write-shop for Gender Mainstreaming and Knowledge Management Strategy Development Report and the Aide Mem- oire of recently completed IFAD’s Supervision Mission. It was facilitated by the Resource Person from NCWC, PPD of MoAF, ARDC and OPM. Sector heads of six Eastern Dzongkhag (DLO and DAO), Extension Agents (each from Livestock The VHWs of Samtse Dzongkhag are undergoing Interpersonal and Agriculture division Communication (IPC) Skills Training at Tendru BHU from 13 - 19 from each Dzongkhag) and December. The training is being conducted by HPD, DoPH, with representatives from RLDC, support from Samtse Dzongkhag Health Sector and UNICEF A write-shop on strategy de- the importance of gender ARDC and RAMCO are par- Bhutan Country Office. Samtse is the 11th dzongkhag to be velopment for Gender Main- mainstreaming and knowl- ticipating in the write-shop. provided with such training. With 42 VHWs attending the training streaming and Knowledge edge management in the In addition to sensitizing in First batch, the total trained VHWs on IPC is 418 as of date. Management for the CAR- programme. stakeholders and develop- Second batch will be trained subsequently. The main objective of LEP programme is being Apart from recognising ing the two strategies, the the training is to enhance the communication skills of the VHWs organized for a week long the importance of Gender work-shop will also draft and to improve their interpersonal interactions with the families at Lingmethang ARDSC, Mainstreaming and Knowl- the Action Plan for gender in the communities with main focus on maternal, newborn, child Mongar. The write-shop also edge Management in the mainstreaming and Knowl- health and nutrition. VHWs are one of the main partners in health sensitized the implement- Programme, it is in line with edge Management. promotion and disease prevention in the communities as they are ing partners of CARLEP on CARLEP Project Design the point of first contact for the families. BHUTAN TODAY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2016 ADVERTS 05

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BHUTAN TODAY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2016 WORLD 07 Briton jailed over Trump death plot A British man has been sen- ments, Sandford, who was tenced to 12 months and one homeless and living in the day in prison over his at- US illegally having over- tempt to grab a gun in a bid stayed his visa, told the to kill Donald Trump. Secret Service that he had Michael Sandford, 20, driven from California to pleaded guilty in September Nevada with the goal of to being an illegal alien in shooting Mr Trump. possession of a firearm and The papers detail how he disrupting an official func- had been plotting the attack tion. for around a year and had He was accused of grab- gone to a gun range in Las bing a policeman’s gun at a Vegas the day before the at- rally in Las Vegas in order to tack to learn how to shoot, shoot at the candidate. firing 20 rounds from a 9mm His mother says “he is re- Glock pistol. morseful over what he did”. He reportedly told an of- Sandford, of Dorking, ficer that he had expected Surrey, had faced up to 10 to die in the attack but that years in prison over the al- he also had tickets for a leged assassination plot. later Trump rally in Arizona The court heard that he Mr Sandford was dramatically arrested during a Las Vegas rally for Mr Trump in case he needed a second could be eligible for release chance. in four months’ time, at mouthed: “I love you.” ford, also addressed the didate. Judge James C Mahan which point he will be de- Sandford then broke judge, saying her son was He failed to pull the weap- described the incident as “a ported to the UK. down in tears as he apolo- “cherished and adored”. on from an officer’s holster, crazy stunt”. The defence team said gised for what he had done “It breaks my heart to see the court heard. “You have a medical their client is autistic and and for taking up time and him in this environment,” His mother said that she problem,” the judge told suffers seizures and obses- costing the taxpayer money. she said, as she appealed had lost contact with her son Sandford, adding that it is sion-compulsion anxiety. “I just feel terrible about for a lenient sentence on the after he left home to travel “nothing to be ashamed or Michael Sandford ap- it,” he said. basis that her son needed around the US in 2015. embarrassed about.” peared in court in orange The judge James Mahan treatment and the support He had previously shown “I don’t see you as evil or prison garb, looking pale appeared sympathetic, tell- of his family. no interest in politics, and a sociopath,” the judge said, and slight, his ankles shack- ing Sandford: “I don’t think After Sandford was ar- she was unable to explain wishing Sandford luck as he led. you harboured malice in rested, he told officers he why he would want to shoot rose to leave the courtroom. He smiled as members of your heart.” had planned to shoot the Mr Trump. BBC his family waved to him and His mother, Lynne Sand- billionaire Republican can- According to court docu- Why are Indians being Philippines' Duterte admits arrested for sitting during personally killing suspects the national anthem? ping and rape in Davao. But just hours before his latest comments, he insist- ed “I am not a killer”, in a speech for The Outstanding Filipino Awards 2016. Nearly 6,000 people are said to have been killed by police, vigilantes and mer- cenaries since Mr Duterte launched his drug war after being elected in May. He has expressed no regrets about Mr Duterte is still very popular with Filipino voters the policy, once saying: “Hit- Some cinemagoers refused to stand on Sunday, before the ler massacred three million arrests a day later Philippines’ President Rod- of controversial and some- Jews... There’s three million rigo Duterte has admitted times contradictory com- drug addicts. I’d be happy to Twelve people were arrest- noyance to others”. he personally killed criminal ments by Mr Duterte. slaughter them.” ed on Monday evening at a And at a cinema in Chen- suspects as mayor of Davao. In his latest remarks Since the admission, he cinema in India, after they nai on Sunday, eight people He ran the southern city he said he used to cruise has visited Cambodia and remained seated while the who did not stand for the for two decades, earning a around Davao on a motor- will be in Singapore on national anthem played. anthem were assaulted and reputation for cutting crime, bike at night, looking for Thursday. The cinemagoers, who abused, police said. The and criticism for allegedly confrontations where he Mr Duterte has repeat- were attending an inter- eight were later charged supporting death squads. could kill suspects, to dem- edly said he does not care national film festival in with showing disrespect to Mr Duterte was speak- onstrate to police that they about human rights and the city of Trivandrum in the anthem. ing to business leaders in too could use lethal force. has suggested that lawyers Kerala, were later freed but The arrests and reports of the Philippines on Monday It echoed comments he defending drug suspects they face charges of “fail- assault follow last month’s before going on an overseas made in 2015, where he ad- might also be targeted in his ure to obey an order issued Supreme Court ruling that trip. mitted killing at least three campaign, says the BBC’s by a public servant, thereby It is the latest in a series men suspected of kidnap- Jonathan Head. BBC causing obstruction or an- Continued on Pg. 11 轼་፼་ ༩ པ荲་䍼ན་譲མ་ ༩༨ པ། འ杴ག་ ད་譲ས།སྤྱི་轼་ ༢༠༡༦ ་ ༡༢ པ荲་歺ས་ ༡༥ 轴།

སྤྱི་轼་༢༠༡༦ 轼荲་筲་ག蝼ག་辷ན་歼གས་ཀྱི་᭼ས་རྒྱུགས་ཀྱི་གྲུབ་ འ宲ས་གསལ་བསྒྲགས་འབད་蝼དཔ།

བཙན་སྐྱོགས་བཟང捼། ཚད་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༦༦་༥༠་䍼བ་སྟེ་ཨང་ ཨང་ག❲ས་པ་ཡང་鮟ག་རྩེ་鮐ད་ ན་ལས་魲་譲་ལ᎐་轴་蝼ད་པ荲་ རྒྱལ་蝼ངས་ནང་པ荲་ག魼་譲ག་ ག魴མ་པ་䍼བ་蝼དཔ་ꍲན་པས། 蝲ག་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ་མ䍼་譲མ་ 蝴་佲་孱ར་魲་ཊི་ནང་ꍼཕ་ͱོ་轼མ་ སྤལ་ཁང་ལས་འ䍼ར་འཁྱོལ་捲་རྡོ་ 筲་ག蝼ག་辷ན་歼གས་ཀྱི་ཁ་ཙ་ ཨང་དང་པ་䍼བ་捲་དང་ག❲ས་པ་ སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ལས་རང་ꍼ་རྒྱན་ 孱ོ་ནང་ལས་མཐར་འཁྱོལ་捲་ རྫེ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ག읲ས་ སྐུགས་ཚད་ སྤྱི་轼་༢༠༡༦་轼荲་筲་ག蝼ག་ དང་ག魴མ་འ䍼ན་捲་ཆ་མཉམ་ བཟང捼་୲ས་ སྐུགས་ཚད་བརྒྱ་ 魱ན་㍲བ་ཀཱུ་མར་魱ན་ཡ་魲་୲ས་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༧༢་༧༥ 䍼བ་སྟེ་ཨང་ 辷ན་歼གས་ཀྱི་᭼ས་རྒྱུགས་རྐྱབ་ 鍺ས་རབ་རྩེ་མ䍼་譲མ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ན་ ཆ་ལས་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༦༧་༣༤ 䍼བ་ སྐུགས་ཚད་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༧༥་༠༡ 䍼བ་ ག魴མ་པ་འ䍼ན་蝼དཔ་ꍲན་པས། 蝼ད་捲་歴荲་གྲུབ་འ宲ས་གསལ་ ལས་འཐར་འཁྱོལ་蝼དཔ་ꍲན་ སྟེ་ཨང་ག❲ས་པ་འ䍼ན་蝼དཔ་ སྟེ་ཨང་དང་པ་འ䍼ན་蝼དཔ་ꍲན་ རྒྱལ་ག筴ང་筲་ག蝼ག་辷ན་ བསྒྲགས་འབད་蝼དཔ་ꍲན་པས། པས། མ་ཚད་ཨང་ག魴མ་པ་འ䝲་ཡང་ པས། 歼གས་ཀྱི་᭼ས་རྒྱུགས་བͼད་捲་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་୲་᭼ས་ཚན་ན་ལས་ 䝺་ལས་རྫོང་ཁག་ན་轴་᭼ས་ 鮟ག་རྩེ་鮐ད་蝲ག་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ་ 䝺་ལས་ཨང་ག❲ས་པ་འ䝲་ཐིམ་ མ䍼་譲མ་鍺ས་ཚད་འཐར་འཁྱོལ་ ཨང་དང་པ་ʹན་轺གས་བཟང捼་ རྒྱུགས་བͼད་捲་ནང་འݼད་ལས་ མ䍼་譲མ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ན་ལས་歺་དབང་ 坴་ཀ་ཝང་གངས་ས་轴་蝼ད་པ荲་ 捲་སློབ་ཕྲུག་蝼ངས་བསྡོམ་སྟོང་ ୲ས་སྐུགས་ཚད་བརྒྱ་ཆ་ལས་བརྒྱ་ ཨང་དང་པ་འ䝲་鮟ག་རྩེ་鮐ད་蝲ག་ བཀྲིས་ཀྱི་ སྐུགས་ཚད་བརྒྱ་ཆ་ རྒྱལ་蝼ངས་ནང་པ荲་ག魼་譲ག་ ޲་༢༤༨༧ ୲ས་བͼད་蝼དཔ་ ཆ་༦༩་༢༣ 䍼བ་སྟེ་ཨང་དང་པ་ དང་ལམ་སྲོལ་མ䍼་譲མ་སློབ་ ལས་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༦༦་༢༥ 䍼བ་སྟེ་ སྤལ་ཁང་ནང་ལས་ꍼ་རྒྱན་᭼ས་ ꍲན་པས། 䍼བ་蝼དཔ་ད་魼་ནམ་དཔལ་སྒྲོན་ གྲྭ་ནང་ལས་歺་བསྟོན་རྡོེ་୲ས་ ཨང་ག魴མ་པ་འ䍼ན་蝼དཔ་ꍲན་ སྒྲོན་ག읲ས་ སྐུགས་ཚད་བརྒྱ་ཆ་ ᭼ས་རྒྱུགས་䝺་ཡང་སྤྱི་羳་༩ པ荲་ ག읲་ སྐུགས་ཚད་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༦༨་༨༤ སྐུགས་ཚད་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༦༨་༨༢ 䍼བ་ པས། ༧༣་༠༨ 䍼བ་སྟེ་ཨང་ག❲ས་པ་ སྤྱི་歺ས་༣༠ ལས་སྤྱི་羳་༡༠་པ荲་ 䍼བ་སྟེ་ཨང་ག❲ས་པ་䍼བ་蝼དཔ་ སྟེ་ཨང་དང་པ་འ䍼ན་蝼དཔ་ꍲན་ འཕྲུལ་譲ག་୲་᭼ས་ཚན་ན་轴་ འ䍼ན་蝼དཔ་ꍲན་པས། སྤྱི་歺ས་༢་歴ན་འ୼་འདྲེན་འཐབ་ ད་པ䞨་གསལ་སྒྲོན་ག읲་ སྐུགས་ པས། ᭼ས་རྒྱུགས་བͼད་捲་ནང་འݼད་ 䝼་譴ང་ཨང་ག魴མ་པ་འ䝲་ཡང་ 蝼དཔ་ꍲན།

ཁྲིམས་སྲུང་འགག་པ་୲ས་ཨམ་སྲུ་གᝲག་ 捲་དབང་མ᭼ག་୲ས་捲་魺ར་༡༡༢༧༤༩་ འ潲ན་བ罴ང་འབད་蝼དཔ། བཙན་སྐྱོགས་བཟང捼། སྤྱི་歺ས་༥་པ荲་᭴་歼ད་༧་轴་འ潲ན་ 轴་ས荲་སྐྱིད་བསྡུ་གནང་蝼དཔ། བ罴ང་འབད་蝼དཔ་ད་筲བ་འ歼ལ་ བཙན་སྐྱོགས་བཟང捼། 荼ག་བརྒྱད་ཀྱི་捲་魺ར་སྟོང་޲་ དང་འ宲ལ་མངའ་བདག་譲ན་卼་ བརྩི་མ་བཤམ་ག읲་ཁྲིམས་སྲུང་ འབད་བ荲་鮐བས་魴་䝼གས་པ་ ༢༧༠༣་轴་魺མས་སྟོག་ཁ་རྫོང་ན་ ᭺་མ᭼ག་୲ས་ད་ལྟོ་歴ན་歼ད་ འགག་པ་୲ས་སྐྱེ་轼་༢༦་ ཅན་ལས་ꍺས་卲་ꍺས་༤༠༠༠ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་辔་པ་མ᭼ག་ག魺ར་ 轴་སྦེ་ས荲་སྐྱིད་བསྡུ་གནང་蝼དཔ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ན荲་捲་魺ར་蝼ངས་ འབད捲་ཨམ་སྲུ་ᝲག་བཀག་དམ་ 䍼བ་蝼དཔ་ꍲན་པས། ཁྲི་འ୴་坺བས་㽺་捲་轼་༡༠་འݼར་ ꍲན་པས། བསྡོམ་༡༡༢༧༤༩ 轴་ས་ꍺ་ འབད་蝼ད་པ荲་སྨྱོས་ཟས་འབག་ གནད་䝼ན་འ䝲་ད་ལྟོ་ཁྲིམས་སྲུང་ བ荲་བརྟེན་འབྲེལ་དང་འ宲ལ་捲་ 捲་魺ར་སྟོང་޲་༢༧༠༣ 䝺་ ཀར་༡༣༢༧༧ 䝺་ᝲག་སྐྱིད་བསྡུ་ བ荲་鍴ལ་ལས་འ潲ན་བ罴ང་འབད་ འགག་པ་୲ས་荼ག་轴་筲བ་ དབང་མ᭼ག་୲ས་ཐིམ་坴་རྫོང་ ᝲག་轴་ས荲་སྐྱིད་བསྡུ་ꍺ་ཀར་ གནང་蝼དཔ་ꍲན་པས། 佴ག། ཁྲིམས་སྲུང་འགག་པ་ འ歼ལ་འབད་བ荲་བ鮒ང་蝼དཔ་ ཁག་୲་荼ག་轴་蝼ད་པ荲་རྒེད་ ༨༡༠༢༦༤་གནང་蝼དཔ་པ荲་ ୲ས་ཨམ་སྲུ་འ䝲་སྤྱི་羳་༡༢་པ荲་ ꍲན་པས། 筴ན་དག་པ་གཙོ་འཛིན། ༔ བསོད་ནམས་རྡེ། 筴ན་དག་པ་འོག་མ། ༔ བཙན་鮐ྱགས་བཟང་མོ། ʹན་ལེགས་ཡོན་ཏན། BHUTAN TODAY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2016 VANITYFAIR 09 Behind the lens Angelina Jolie wants to cut Brad Pitt out of their children’s lives

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Your partner isn’t likely to Misell’s patent was issued on January 10, 1899. This portable light was designed for something you had no part of. While shopping you may tend to in the now familiar tube-shape and used three D batteries laid out in a line, with a share the same ideas as you do. Try to be honest and open or you will spend more than necessary, do a price check before you decide to have difficulty coming to terms with problems that arise. lightbulb at one end of the tube. make a purchase. WATER SIGN EARTH SIGN Taurus 20th April - 20th May Pisces 19th Feb. - 20th March HISTORY This week’s scenario is highlighted by your involvement in fund- This week’s scenario is highlighted by your ability to blend into the raising or family enterprise. Don’t blow recent situations out of background. You can get ahead by using your insight into future proportion, use your intuition to lead you into the right direction. John Lennon trends. Your greatest limitation this week, will be yourself. Don’t If you try to use emotional blackmail, it’ll backfire on you. If you hesitate to become involved in a new business venture, but be sure John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) put your energy into physical outlets, you’ll avoid confrontations. to get promises in writing. Partnerships will be favorable, and you Follow your intuitive instincts for best results. was an English singer and songwriter who co-founded the Beatles, the most will come up with sound ideas. commercially successful band in the history of popular music. With fellow Virgo 23rd August - 22nd Sept. member Paul McCartney, he formed a celebrated Cancer 21st June - 22nd July songwriting partnership. Born and raised in This week’s scenario is highlighted by your ability to put your This week’s scenario is highlighted by your ability to take hold of the situation you’re in. Someone may try to curtail your freedom, Liverpool, Lennon became involved in the skiffle priorities in order. You need to complete your tasks on time. Financial difficulties due to poor investments will be depressing. don’t hesitate to negotiate. Set them straight on how things are. craze as a teenager; his first band, the Quarrymen, Listen to the advice of respected friends. Use your discipline to You will be emotional about money matters if you let cash slip evolved into the Beatles in 1960. When the group make the changes necessary. You let your paperwork pile up and through your fingers. You need to put your finances in order once disbanded in 1970, Lennon embarked on a solo now’s the time to clear your desk. and for all. You must set and stick to a budget. career that produced albums including John Lennon/ Plastic Ono Band and Imagine, and songs such as Scorpio 23rd Oct. - 21st Nov. Capricorn 22nd Dec. - 19th Jan. "Give Peace a Chance", "Working Class Hero", and This week’s scenario is highlighted by your ability to put your This week’s scenario is highlighted by your ability to organize "Imagine". After his marriage to Yoko Ono in 1969, energy into improving your attitude. Spend some quality with your everyone around you. It may be hard for people to accept changes that they didn’t request, but the verbal lashing you receive will he changed his name to John Ono Lennon. Lennon mate. You’ve probably neglected their needs during the last few weeks, so make up for lost time. You can turn things around with make you feel jumpy and unprepared. Catch your breath, count to disengaged himself from the music business in 1975 to raise his infant son a little affection. You’ll be able to stabilize a partnership if you are ten & try another tactic. Laugh at your own mistakes and learn from Sean, but re-emerged with Ono in 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. willing to make a few concessions. them, otherwise you’ll always feel defeated. He was murdered three weeks after its release. By 2012, Lennon's solo album sales in the United States exceeded 14 million and, as writer, co-writer, or WORD WHEEL SUDOKU performer, he is responsible for 25 number-one singles on the US Hot 100 chart. In 2002, a BBC poll on the 100 Greatest Britons voted him eighth and, in Insert the missing letter 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the fifth-greatest singer of all time. to complete eight-letter Answer December 11th, 2016 word reading clockwise or By DAVID anti clockwise OUELLET HOW TO PLAY: All the words listed below appear in the puzzle -- B horizontally, vertically, diagonally, even backward. Find them and CIRCLE D A EACH LETTER OF A WORD. DO NOT CIRCLE THE WORD. Once you've found them all, the leftover letters spell the wonderword! 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RIDDLES What goes up a chimney down but can’t come down a chimney up? Answer, 11th December: FAMILY ...ANSWER, 11th December: Match BHUTAN TODAY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2016 NATION 11 ...Pg. 01 ...Pg. 01 Transfer your census to vote The moment when from the place of choice: ECB the BCSE exam results However, people without applies to all demkhongs. on residential voting. “The household number, proper- Election expert said that best way is to transfer your were announced ty and land cannot transfer people should vote from mitsi to the place where you amazed.” Sandeep who is current- their census wherever they places where they have their have property or land in the Making the lecturers and ly doing his internship at like. For instance, people property or land. “It will be absence of voting from the the college happy, Pema Sel- Jigme Dorji National Refer- owing buildings or land in a loss to not have a say in place you reside,” accord- don from Sherubtse College ral Hospital (JDNRH) said he Thimphu, but their census electing a leader when you ing to a local observer who came third with 66.50 per- was at one of the automobile registered in another dzong- are affected,” said one. “You transferred his wife’s mitsi cent. workshops when his friends khag or constituency can will lose your right even if to Thimphu. “It is a loss to Pema Seldon was on her informed that he topped the transfer their mitsi to Thim- you have property in Thim- not have a say in the election way to Thimphu from Pu- exam. “I did work hard but phu. phu and are voting in Zhem- when we are affected by the nakha for a job interview in the result was a surprise,” While residents of Thim- gang,” he said. “Elected decision parliamentarians one of the private companies said Sandeep. “I am happy phu cannot vote in the leaders should be answer- make,” he said. in Thimphu. She was sleep- and looking forward to serve parliamentary elections of able to the people who voted Meanwhile, the Elec- ing in the bus when her Tsawa-Sum.” Thimphu, those owning them in.” tion Commission of Bhu- friends called and congratu- In the Dzongkha catego- property or land are encour- The advisory comes a year tan would call the National lated her for coming third. ry, graduates from College aged to transfer their mitsi before the election to create Council election, 2018, by “I thought they were jok- of Language and Cultural if they want to have a say or awareness. In the past, po- early next year, 2017. ing,” said Pema Selden. She Studies, Taktse Trongsa chose their leader. The rule litical parties have debated cancelled the job interview. bagged the top three posi- In the technical catego- tions. ry, a MBBS graduate from Tsheten Dorji topped the ...Pg. 07 the University of Colombo, Category with 68.82 percent Sri Lanka, Sandeep Kumar while Ugyen Zam came sec- Sanyasi topped with 75.01 ond with 67.34 percent and Why are Indians being arrested for sitting percent followed by a gradu- Tshewang Tashi stood third ate from National Institute with 66.25 percent. during the national anthem? of Traditional Medicine, A total of 2487 graduates Ugyen Choden who scored appeared the examination. the national anthem be prison term and/or a fine. warned for not standing up 73.8 percent. Another gradu- 489 slots will fill the vacan- played before every film and But October’s Supreme during the anthem. In Mex- ate of traditional medicine cies in various government that audiences stand while Court ruling gives national ico, a woman was fined for Dorji Gyeltshen came third agencies. it is played - and they make authority to what was previ- mixing up the words. with 72.75 percent. it clear that authorities are ously a rash of loosely-fol- And in the US, the Star- taking the ruling seriously. lowed, state-specific laws. Spangled Banner has a “If we did not sit on The ruling says that the long-standing association ...Pg. 02 chairs, I thought we would anthem must be played in with protest. In September, lose the seats,” one detainee all cinemas, accompanied by American football player Shakespeare: flurry of told the Indian Express. an image of the Indian flag, Colin Kaepernick said he The controversial ruling - and everyone must stand. had received death threats cheered by the ruling Hindu It also stated that the doors over his refusal to stand opinion on it’s way back nationalist BJP - comes at a must remain closed to pre- for the anthem in protest culmination through a poem, of culture, content and time of routine demands on vent people from entering against the treatment of song, debate, criticism and obsolescence of the matter. Indians to display patriot- or leaving. The court later black people by police. a beautiful drama. The child In my opinion we must look ism, and this is not the first amended the ruling to ex- “Some of the right, com- learns not merely what Mercy at what opportunities we can time people have been tar- empt disabled people. mitted to nationalistic poli- geted for not respecting the Critics of the Supreme tics, naturally see the an- accounts for but how it is part give for our children to grow national song. Court ruling have called it them as a vital issue,” Kevin of our whole human value. intellectually in accordance In October, a disabled a case of judicial overreach Kruse, a professor of history Sha may be from another with to the need of the brain. man who had been carried and an attack on freedom of at Princeton University, told historical culture. Remember, if you do not from his wheelchair to a expression. me. “This has been true in With our children barely use the brain we lose it, and seat, described how he was Political scientist Suhas past moments too, especially engaged in deep thought Brain can be used limitlessly. assaulted by other mem- Palshikar said the ruling in times of war - the anthem there is a stagnation of If toddlers become learned bers of the audience for not threatened to turn “citizens being politicised during the intelligence. We write by playing newer toys or by standing for the anthem. into subjects”. Gopalkrishna Vietnam era, for instance, messages in shorter words listening or reading old tales, In the past three years, Gandhi, a former diplomat, leading to the 1968 Olympics than ever before. Children grownups need resources people have been thrown out wrote: “The national anthem protest.” are unable, even graduate, to both from the ancients and cinemas and even charged is not a traffic signal that But what is unsettling in write correctly and completely the modern. with sedition for not stand- has to be respected. It is not India, said political scien- ing up for the anthem. a tax that requires compli- tist Suhas Palshikar, is that letters and essays. The I studied Shakespeare's ' As A 1971 law makes any ance. It is not a test that has state-ministered patriotism content of their writings are you like it' and 'The 12th night' obstruction to the singing to be submitted to.” “often tends to give way to like floating feathers without and read lot of his poems; of the song “or causing dis- National anthems are unruly vigilantism or au- quality of thought to provoke thus: turbances to any assembly seen as tests of patriotism thoritarian state machinery, further questions. It is time engaged in such singing” around the world. In Japan, or both”. we slow down their pace To this man I owe punishable by a three-year school teachers have been BBC at thought and writing. If What thought I nurture; avenues for rich thinking is Thy time cometh well children not provided we shall have To sing the melody unto me. children who cannot think To ADVERTISE with us intellectually on their own. (This write-up is to entice The relevancy of the those who criticize its dial 336804 or Fax to 336805 or Email us at subject people question raises coming) [email protected]/[email protected] more from the perspective Celebrating 10th Anniversary of Ascension to the Golden Throne

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