The Bhutan News Service (BNS) has created a new public forum where everyone in the Bhutanese diaspora/refugee community is now able to share their experiences and voice their concerns. It’s completely free to join and is intended to be THE place for the Bhutanese community to meet in order to discuss the big issues of the day. The new BNS...

The Bhutanese Stambha Nirman Samiti which was announced in 2020 for the purpose of constructing a Bhutanese Memorial Tower at Kotihome, Jhapa Nepal has announced its dissolution on April 16, 2022. This committee, constituted of select members of the Bhutanese diaspora under the convenorship of Dr. Bhampa Rai was to collaborate with the local Nepalese...

Devi Bhakt, also famously known as DB Lamitare who was one of the founding members of the Bhutan State Congress, has died. He was 87. Lamitare, who claimed himself as the ‘Hidden Hero of Bhutan’ for raising voices against the Bhutanese regime since the 1950s, had been in exile in India since his youth. Unable to witness the regime’s cruelty in the...

Non-Resident Nepali (NRN) versus Non-Resident Bhutanese (NRB) status has been trending on social media recently after a group of resettled Bhutanese American entrepreneurs proposed that the Government of Nepal designate NRN status to the resettled Bhutanese diaspora. As an economist, public policy analyst, and a political leader, I have been...

It has been a long time since the government of Bhutan washed its hands off the refugees it created, and their future. Most refugees who spent nearly two decades in camps in Nepal have been resettled in western countries, but there are still about 7,000 of us left in Nepal who are in limbo. The government of Nepal is renewing their refugee identity...