Bhutan
- Bhutan, ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Nepal, South and Central Asia, Trump administration, US immigration, US news, World news
‘I feel like a ghost’: new father deported by ICE to Bhutan that exiled his family
Mohan Karki – one of many people ICE has deported to countries with which they have little connection – leaves…
- Bhutan, Climate crisis, Cop30, Environment, Green economy, Greenhouse gas emissions, South and Central Asia, World news
Bhutan PM on leading the first carbon-negative nation: ‘The wellbeing of our people is at the centre of our agenda’
Exclusive: Tshering Tobgay says his country is doing ‘a lot more than our fair share’ on climate and west must…
- Bhutan, ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Idaho, Migration, Refugees, South and Central Asia, US immigration, US news, World news
A refugee’s deportation rattles a deeply conservative town: ‘What Trump has done is not Christlike’
Binod Shah, a refugee from Bhutan, went to church, got married and started an auto shop in Twin Falls, Idaho. …
- Bhutan, Pennsylvania, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Trump administration, US immigration, US news, US politics
A US haven for refugees was divided over Trump – now immigration crackdown has left a ‘community breaking’
Pennsylvania hosts one of the largest clusters of Bhutanese refugees in the US. Families are unsettled as Trum…
- Bhutan, Democrats, Nepal, Republicans, South and Central Asia, Trump administration, US immigration, US news, US politics, World news
Bhutan tried to erase us. Now, Trump’s America is helping | Lok Darjee
The administration has deported over two dozen refugees back to the very nation that tried to erase us. Democr…
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Bhutanese Nepalis fled ethnic cleansing for the US. Trump is returning them to the refugee camps
They lost their Nepalese citizenship years ago and are now living in a ‘stateless limbo’ amid Trump’s deportat…
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Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees in limbo after deportation from US
Human rights experts voice alarm as refugees expelled by the US, not welcomed by Bhutan and rejected by NepalW…
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An audience with the ‘dragon king’ of Bhutan, from 1984
A meeting with the youngest ruler of the world’s most impenetrable country resulted in some very modern observ…
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What happened to Bhutan’s ‘kingdom of happiness’?
The Himalayan country is facing unprecedented emigration and high youth unemployment, casting doubt on its fam…
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Agent of Happiness review – Bhutan surveyors attempt to analyse joy
Two assessors ask questions but it’s the detail and nuance that is so compelling in this gently absorbing docu…
- Bhutan, Climate crisis, Climate science, Education, Environment, Glaciers, Mountaineering, Mountains, South and Central Asia, World news
Bhutan Mountain Man: video diaries from a lone glaciologist
Phuntsho Tshering is Bhutan’s glacier specialist and the only person authorised to climb the Himalayan country…
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Bhutan Mountain Man: video diaries from a lone glaciologist
Phuntsho Tshering is Bhutan’s glacier specialist and the only person authorised to climb the Himalayan country…
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Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom review – heart and feet-warming tale of a Bhutan village
A trainee teacher’s dreams of becoming a singer are interrupted when he is posted to the world’s remotest scho…
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‘They’d never seen sliced bread’: how a tiny film about Himalayan yak-herders conquered the world
Filmed in a remote Bhutan village, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom captures a way of life that is rapidly vanis…
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‘Felt like a bullet’: Bhutan prime minister mourns rare Covid death
The remote Himalayan nation of around 800,000 people has recorded fewer Covid fatalities than almost any other…