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		<title>ADB grant for southern roads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December 15 &#8211; The building of the 790 km southern highway, from Sipsoo in the west to Daifam (Jomotsangkha) in the east, took a step forward yesterday with the Asian development bank (ADB) committing USD 38.76 million, its largest grant assistance to Bhutan so far. The grant to road network project (RNP-II) will be used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thimphu among top 15 vulnerable cities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December 15 &#8211; Thimphu is amongst 15 cities of the world most vulnerable to the impact of climate change, according to a report released in Copenhagen at the climate summit. The book ‘Climate Change and the Urban Poor’ was released by the international institute for environment and development (IIED), an international research organisation based in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 b dollar bid for Education City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December 15 &#8211; A Kolkata-based company Infinity infotech parks limited has proposed to invest a billion dollars or Nu 47 billion in creating an ‘Education/Knowledge City’ in Bhutan. The project, by far the largest FDI investment proposal, aims to bring in the branches of around 15 to 30 top universities, along with 40,000 foreign students, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s the thinking that counts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December 15 &#8211; A professor of liberal arts emeritus at St Mary’s college in the USA, Dr Henry Rosemont Jr., who is trained in analytical philosophy, logic and linguistics, participated in the recent educating for GNH workshop. Also a professor of religious studies at the Brown University, he spoke to Kuensel on December 12 on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Bank to open country office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December 11 &#8211; The first World Bank (WB) representative to Bhutan, Mark F LaPrairie, presented credentials to the minister of foreign affairs, Lyonpo Ugyen Tshering, on December 4, 2009 at the Gyalyong Tshokhang. The presentation of a letter of credentials was accompanied by zhugdrel and marchang ceremonies. The World Bank will open a country office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GNH workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December 8: We spent some years shying away from the responsibility of presenting Gross National Happiness (GNH) in acceptable terms and translating it sufficiently into practical actions. Speaking at the opening of the workshop on Educating for GNH, the Prime Minister Lyonchhen Jigmi Y. Thinley said this option does not exist anymore. The workshop will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last chance to check climate change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December 8 &#8211; Setting targets for controlling global-warming emissions and agreeing on how much rich countries should pay for poor nations’ clean energy technology and other projects to counter a changing climate are two key building blocks of a framework that is expected to take shape in the 2-week Copenhagen conference, which began yesterday. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bhutan in global choir against AIDS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December 8 &#8211; Despite some technical glitches, Bhutan yesterday joined a global choir of 196 countries to sing the Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love” at 8:00 pm as a sign of unity to fight against AIDS in Africa. The singing was broadcast live in London, where singers in each of the 196 countries were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A book on a special relationship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December 4 &#8211; The close cooperation between Switzerland and Bhutan for the cause of socio-economic development in this country has been documented in a book titled “Far Apart and Close Together”, which will be distributed to the secondary schools. Yesterday, on the occasion of strengthening cooperation between the sister organisations, the society Switzerland-Bhutan (SSB) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BhutanInfo website launched</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December 4 &#8211; With the launch of BhutanInfo yesterday, the first comprehensive information centre for Bhutan’s socio economic development goals at various levels is now only a click away. BhutanInfo, which is available in both desktop and online version at www.bhutanInfo.gov.bt, is a customised version of DevInfo (development information), a tool to monitor millennium development [...]]]></description>
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