Prince Hisahito expected to travel to Bhutan with parents for first overseas trip
Prince Hisahito, second in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne, is expected to travel to Bhutan in August with his parents, Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, in what would be the 12-year-old's first overseas trip, sources close to the matter said Tuesday. The imperial ...
It is a Saturday in Bhutan and Lotay Tshering has just completed urinary bladder repair surgery on a patient at the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital. Tshering is no ordinary doctor. He is prime minister in the Himalayan kingdom, famous for measuring citizens' Gross ...
Not performed for 200 years in Japan, abdication seen recently in monarchies in Europe — and Bhutan
Emperor Akihito on Tuesday became Japan's first monarch in more than 200 years to relinquish the throne, but around the world such moves are not uncommon. Including Commonwealth nations, the world has over 40 countries with some form of monarchy, the structures of which vary ...
Bhutanese exchange students face extortion, threats and hard times in Japan, families say
Many participants say the program is a scam and they are being forced to repay loans by working illegally long hours.
A peep into a Thimphu toy shop shows stacks of Pokemon, all made in China, a testimony to the quiet overtures Beijing is making in Bhutan at rival India's expense. China's annexation of Tibet in 1951 and an unresolved border dispute have long been irritants ...
Japan agrees to train Bhutan's civil servants, seeks support on abductions and sanctions
Japan will help young civil servants from Bhutan receive higher education at Japanese universities as the two countries aim to promote personnel exchanges, Foreign Ministry officials said Saturday. Under a human resource development plan agreed to by both countries, Japan will provide ¥183 million ($1.6 ...
Big lessons for Japan and America from three small countries
Asia and the Pacific will be better off if all nations adopt some small-state ideas offered up by Bhutan, Timor-Leste and Singapore — namely the embrace of a greener, more representative and more transparent future for all their citizens.
Calms: Bringing Bhutan's spicy cheese stew to Yoyogi-Uehara
What are the odds for this? Tokyo now has not one but two restaurants serving Bhutanese food. And not only are they both in the same Uehara neighborhood, they stand face to face on opposite sides of the same street. It's been several years since ...
India took a mature route in defusing the border confrontation with China in the Himalayas.
The risks of a Himalayan war are rising
Only an India fully prepared to counter and defeat aggression can deter China from initiating a military conflict on the Sino-Indian border.
Calling the Chinese bully's bluff in the Himalayas
The more power China has accumulated, the more it has attempted to achieve its foreign policy objectives with bluff, bluster and bullying.
It's high noon on the roof the world
The two nuclear powers have to come to terms with the fact that no one will come out a winner if they resort to military action.
