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Lets visit the Honolulu Academy of Arts Arts After Dark event. The last Friday of each month they have a different event. At this event the exhibit of Bhutanese Sacred objects are on display. Unfortunately, I was not allowed to video tape in any of the galleries. The show has monks from Bhutan who perform a cham with horns, drums and cymbals. In one gallery a monk was working on a mandalla. It was an incredible to watch the monk place grains of colored sand, a few at a time to make this beautiful pattern. In in outside area one monk was painting surfboards. Local restaurants come out and have specialty food available for sale For more information about the Honolulu Academy of Arts, goto their website at www.honoluluacademy.org

Royalist party makes a clean sweep in the country's first parliamentary elections as Bhutanese officials declare the polls a resounding success. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Bhutan Elections Al Jazeera Tony Birtley Added: April 3, 2008

Bhutan, the world's newest democracy, is hoping to boost its economic prospects by harnessing its major natural resource - water. The Tala hydro-electric dam in southern Bhutan is already making $175 million a year by exporting electricity to India. As Tony Birtley reports, another six big hydro-electric projects are in the pipeline. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Al Jazeera aljazeera Bhutan hydroelectricity plant development Added: March 30, 2008

Inside Story looks at Bhutan's future as the country starts their democratic journey. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Inside Story al jazeera aljazeera Bhutan kingdom democracy elections Added: March 28, 2008

Inside Story looks at Bhutan's future as the country starts their democratic journey. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Inside Story al jazeera aljazeera Bhutan kingdom democracy elections Added: March 28, 2008

More than 100,000 Bhutanese of Nepali origin were exiled to Nepal in the early nineties on orders of Bhutan's monarchy. But several thousand have recently been given new hope.  They've been offered resettlement in third-party countries.  However leaving the camps ais proving more difficult than they had anticipated. Subina Shrestha has their story. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Al Jazeera Nepal Bhutan Refugees Added: March 25, 2008

Bhutan United Party, which places emphasis on Gross National Happiness, has taken the majority of seats in Bhutan's election. Author: bbcworldnews Keywords: BBC News Happiness tops Bhutan agenda Added: March 25, 2008

Voting taking place in Bhutan's first democratic elections heralds the end of royal rule. Author: bbcworldnews Keywords: BBC News Election ends Bhutan rule Added: March 24, 2008

Ballots are being cast in Bhutan's first parliamentary elections, ending over a century of royal rule. Author: bbcworldnews Keywords: BBC News Bhutan votes in landmark poll Added: March 23, 2008

Rush hour in the border town of Phuentsholing in southern Bhutan and one of the main crossing points with India. Every day thousands of people pass through here into the Himalayan kingdom. Some enter for a better job with higher pay some hoping for a better future. Most are Indian or Nepalese. But do they really have a future as refugees in Bhutan? Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Bhutan Tony Birtley Al Jazeera English refugees Indians Nepalis Added: March 23, 2008

Landmark elections are to be held in Bhutan, with the king ceding much of his power to parliament. Author: bbcworldnews Keywords: BBC News Democracy comes to Bhutan Added: March 22, 2008

Fire has ripped through a refugee camp in Nepal destroying the homes of more than 10,000 people from nearby Bhutan. More than 100,000 refugees from Bhutan have been living in Nepal after being forced to flee their Himalayan home in the 1990s. Last year a deal was struck to resettle 60,000 of the refugees in the United States. But that controversial process is yet to begin. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: Al Jazeera aljazeera Nepal Bhutan refugees Added: March 8, 2008

The nation of Bhutan has replaced Gross Domestic Product as the measure of national well being with what they call the Gross National Happiness standard. Can you measure national happiness? What are the happiest places on Earth? NPR Reporter and self described grump Eric Weiner documents his search in the new book the Geography of Bliss. What makes a place happy? Can't you be unhappy in a happy place, and vice versa? How can you make a place happier? We'll learn what Weiner's investigation reveals. What's the happiest place on earth you have found? Give us a call (206) 543 5869. Also today, a BusinessWeek ethicist tells us why we should muzzle our views on presidential politics while we're at work.

Chongshol Dolma - Out of the HimalayaAuthor: canadianbangladeshi Tags: Tibet China Chinese Bangladesh India Nepal Bangladeshi Indian Mandarin Tibetan Bengali Nepalese Bhutan Buddhist Lama Song Music Fun Asia Asian People Country Tradition culture dance fusion nature Posted: 11 January 2008 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

(January 10, 2008) Right now most U.S. media is focused on the drama of the presidential primary elections. But in several other countries the drama of the electoral process has risen to violent and chaotic levels. Kenya is struggling to quell the violence that has turned into ethnic cleansing. Georgia is dealing with a dissolved government only to have the same president elected again, and Bhutan has experienced for the first time the right to vote. Watch as Global Pulse presents a round-up of international elections and the literal fight for a democratic world.nSources: TV5, France; Russia Today, Russia; Al Jazeera English, Doha; ABC News, U.S; NBC News, U.S; Fox News, U.S.

Drinking alcohol is an integral part of life in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. But now it's become the country's number one killer.   And as the reclusive nation opens up to modern influences, many of the country's adults are having to battle alcohol abuse and drug addiction. Al Jazeera's Jane Dutton reports. Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Keywords: bhutan alcohol abuse alcoholic jane dutton Added: November 2, 2007

"chakravhuh" Cast: nidhik, Kaushal Karkhanis, Prateek Deo , Siddhanta Pinto and Shruti Keerti

Greetings GNN fans! We continue with our series on stories from the frontlines of mission. We look today at what God is doing in Bhutan, one of the most closed countries in the world. But it isn't... Are you tired of listening to what the big news agencies are feeding you? Then check out, God News, and find out what He is doing in the world today. You won't hear this on CNN!