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Posted on 2010/03/25 by Prakash Poudel GUNA MAJHI AND DEVI GHIMIRE: Bhutanese Community in Australia Inc(BCA) from Albury, Wodonga and Melbourne participated in a number of functions to celebrate the Cultural Diversity Week and Harmony Day on 21st March 2010. Victoria is the only State in Australia which celebrates and promotes the rich cultural values and traditions on Harmony Day by organising hundreds of activities across the state. The mega event on the Cultural Diversity week and Harmony Day is annual Premier’s Gala Dinner. The event was hosted by Victorian Premier Hon John Brumby. Among the VIP guests, Opposition Leader of Victoria, Mr. Ted Baillieu, other ministers, politicians, and senior government and non government representatives, and the community leaders from across the state attended the function. Continue reading → Filed under: blogs news | Tagged: bca, bhutanese in Australia | 14 Comments » Posted on 2009/12/10 by Prakash Poudel By Damber Kumar Dhungel Dec.10( Sydney)The Sydney chapter of the ABA(Association of Bhutanese in Australia) have recently formed a football club comprising the resettled Bhutanese youths of Sydney and its suburb areas. Formation of the Druk FC was officially announced on December 8 at the meeting conducted by the Bhutanese youths resettled in this part of the continent-country. Continue reading → Filed under: Bhutanusa News | Tagged: bhutanese in Australia | 12 Comments » Posted on 2009/12/07 by Prakash Poudel By Bhuwaneshor Sharma Adelaide, Australia. December 6: Nepalese Cultural Society launched the first Nepali radio show in Adelaide, first of its kind in southern Australia. The weekly one hour show “Voice of Shangri-La” went on air on Sunday night from Radio Adelaide’s 101.5 FM Band, Australia’s first community and multicultural radio, established in 1970. Several well wishers gathered in Adelaide studio office to support the program. Continue reading → Filed under: blogs news | Tagged: bhutanese in Australia, nepali prog @radio adelaide | 7 Comments » Posted on 2009/11/03 by Prakash Poudel Devi Ghimire and Guna Majhi (Oct. 3) Three members of BCA (Bhutanese community in Australia Inc.) attended the two-day county conference organized by Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Council of Australia (FECCA) on October 29. Parsuram Sharma Luitel, President and Teju Chauhan, spokesperson and media coordinator of BCA from Melbourne and Albury, with one member from Bhutanese community in Northern Territory, Ms Bhakti Mainaly represented the resettled Bhutanese of Australia in the conference held at East bank Centre, Shepparton in Victoria. Continue reading → Filed under: blogs news | Tagged: bhutanese in Australia | 2 Comments » Posted on 2009/10/23 by Prakash Poudel By Guna Majhi and Devi Ghimire. One of the cultural orientation facilitators for the resettlement of Bhutanese in Australia Miss. Neera Chaulagai has arrived in Melbourne today. Speaking at an interaction program organized by the AMES settlement agency here in Melbourne, Miss. Chaulagain said that she was sent here by the office of the International Organization for Migration(IOM), Damak, to know the current situation of the Bhutanese resettled in Melbourne. Around 10 resettled Bhutanese attended the program that was organized basically to figure out the difficulties being faced by the Bhutanese after their settlement in this new country. Continue reading → Filed under: blogs news | Tagged: bhutanese in Australia, IOM staff | 2 Comments » Posted on 2009/10/21 by Prakash Poudel D.N. Kafle (Adelaide, Australia) (Oct. 20) Resettled Bhutanese paid their homage and prayed for the heavenly peace of late Mon Maya Ghimirey [Biswakarma], bidding her eternal farewell at the final funeral procession held today at Folland Chapel, Enfield Memorial Park in Adelaide, South Australia. The ritual was held almost two weeks after she breathed her last committing suicide at her house of residence at Darlington Street, Marion. Continue reading → Filed under: blogs news | Tagged: bhutanese in Australia, mon maya ghimire | Leave a comment » Posted on 2009/10/07 by Prakash Poudel BREAKING NEWS: Mon Maya Bishwokarma, a Bhutanese refugee resettled in Adelaide in southern Australia committed suicide on Tuesday, the 6th Oct. hanging herself from the ceiling of an empty house near by her apartment,according to our correspondents Devi Ghimire and Guna Majhi in Australia. 29 years old Bishwokarma was resettled from Bhutanese refugee camp,Sanischare, in Nepal on March 18,2009. Continue reading → Filed under: Breaking News | Tagged: bhutanese in Australia | 6 Comments »
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Posted on 2009/10/26 by Prakash Poudel Jain Thapa Oakland, CA(Oct. 26) — About 40 seniors from the Bhutanese community hustled together at the waiting room of the Oakland Unified School District office in Oakland on Sunday, where they were educated on various health related issues as part of the seniors program, sponsored by Bhutanese American Community Center (BACC) in partnership with the Oakland School District. The seniors program, now continuing on its sixth month since its inception, is a program founded by BACC, as a way to better connect the elderly population of the Bhutanese community. Continue reading → Filed under: blogs news | Tagged: BACC, bhutanese in oakland california | 2 Comments » Posted on 2009/08/25 by Prakash Poudel क्यालिफोर्नियाका भूटानीहरुको संघठन भूटानी अमेरिकी समुदाय केन्द्र(बी.ए.सी.सी.) द्वारा आयोजित पहिलो फण्ड रेजिंग डी.जे नाईट अत्यन्तै सफलतापूर्वक सम्पन्न भएको आयोजक माफर्त बुझिएको छ। बे एरिया स्थित बर्कली सहरको डाउन टाऊनमा रहेको भिसरॉय होटलको सम्मलेन कक्षामा गत शनिबार राती करीब ६ बजे बाट सुरु भएको कार्यक्रममा भूटानी, नेपाली,केही बिदेशी गरि कुल २५० जति दर्शक रहेका थिए। कार्यक्रममा केही बिशिस्ट ब्याक्तित्वहरुको पनि उपस्थिति रहेको जानकारी एक सहभागी भूटानी कलाकारले बताए। Continue reading → Filed under: blogs news | Tagged: BACC, bhutanese in oakland california | 3 Comments » Posted on 2009/08/21 by Prakash Poudel (Prakass Poudel) California Bhutanese American Community Center(BACC), a non-political organization of the Bhutanese residing in the SF Bay Area is organizing a DJ Night and Dinner program tomorrow in Berkeley, Calif. on the eve of Popular Hindu Festival Teej. ‘It is a fund raising program, we are inviting all the Bhutanese and Nepalis as well as the foreigners at the show’, said of the founder members of the Organization. Continue reading → Filed under: blogs news | Tagged: BACC | 2 Comments » Posted on 2009/06/25 by Prakash Poudel (Theoakbook)You already know this. Oakland,California, where about half a million people speak more than 80 languages, is a magnet for immigrants. We’ve got people from Ethiopia, Japan, India, Mexico, Mongolia, Nigeria, Vietnam… the list goes on. There’s a new addition. The latest arrivals are from Bhutan, a small (less than 15,000 square miles) south Asian country neighboring India. If you’ve been following the news, then you probably know that about 60,000 Bhutanese of Nepali origin are being settled in the U.S. These Bhutanese have been living in refugee camps in Nepal for close to two decades due to an internal conflict in Bhutan. Six other countries — Australia, Canada, Norway, Netherlands, New Zealand and Denmark — are also taking in 10,000 refugees each. Continue reading → Filed under: blogs news | Tagged: BACC | Leave a comment » Posted on 2009/05/27 by Prakash Poudel नबगठित नेपाल सरकारको साझा न्युनतम कार्यक्रममा भुटानि शरणार्थी समस्या सम्बन्धी पनि उल्लेख गरिएको छ। केही दिन अघी मात्रै गठन नयाँ नेपाल सरकारको साझा न्युनतम कार्यक्रममा शरणार्थी बिषय एकदम नै सम्बेदनसिल र जटिल भएकाले भारत र भुटान सरकारसँग बार्ता गरेर नै यसको हल निकालिनु पर्ने उल्लेख छ ।उक्त साझा न्युनतम कार्यक्रम सम्बन्दी छलफलमा भुटानि शरणार्थी कुनै तेश्रो देश नभइ आफ्नै देशनै फर्कनु पर्नेमा जोड दिनु पर्ने बताइएको थियो। सरकारको यो कदम पुर्बी नेपालको सिबिरहरुमा बसी रहेका भुटानि शरणार्थीहरुलाई त्यस्तो प्रभाव पारेको देखिएन। बिगत उनाइस बर्ष देखी पुर्बी नेपालको झापा अनी मोरङ लगायतका सातवटा शरणार्थी सिबिरहरुमा बस्दै आएका भुटानि शरणार्थीहरुले हरेक नयाँ सरकारबाट यस्तो शान्तावना पाउने गरेका छन। माओवादी प्रतिपक्ष, एमालेको सरकार र कांग्रेस लगायत अन्य साना दलको सहयोगका बाब्जुत पनि प्रधानमन्त्री नेपाल रहेको एमालेको सरकार धेरै टिक्छ भनेर सोच्ने शायदै कम छन। माओबादीले यो सरकारको समय तीन महिना रहेको बताएको छ भने एमालेका झलनाथ खनाल स्वयम यो सरकार धेर नटिक्ने बताइसकेका छन।त्यसैले पनि होला भुटानिहरुलाई यो बिषयले कुनै प्रभाव पारेको देखिएन । तर प्रधानमन्त्री नेपालले आफ्नै देशका लागि भने केही राम्रा काम भने गर्न थालिसकेका छन Continue reading → Filed under: Breaking News | Tagged: BACC, bhutan and refugee america | 2 Comments » Posted on 2009/05/12 by Prakash Poudel वास्तवमा नै भर्खरै भेला हुन सफल भुटानिहरु अनी जुटेको भुटानि समाज। बे एरियामा बस्ने केही भुटानि समाजद्वारा पहिला नै खोलिएको एक संस्था “बिएसिसि” ,ततपस्चात भुटानिहरुको आगमनलाई बिचार गर्दै खोलिएको अर्को संस्था “बासको”। पार्टी भन्दा पनि अतियुक्ती हुन्न होला किन कि म यहाँ भित्र भएको र भइरहेको स्थितीलाई राम्ररी अवलोकन गर्ने गर्छु ,कहिले काही राजनीतिको गन्धको आभास हुन्छ यहाँ भित्र । हुदो पनि रहेछ यस्तो नत्र हाम्रा बुढा पाकाहरु तेसै कहाँ उखान बनाउथिए होला र “हावा नचली पात हलिन्न” के यो सही होल र? जुट्नु पर्ने बेलामा फुटेर काम गर्न मन पराउने केही त्यस्ता तत्वहरु,लाग्छ यिनीहरु पक्कै सामाजिक छैनन। प्रतिस्पर्दा एक बेजोड,कुनै परिक्ष्यमा भएको होइन यो प्रतिस्पर्दा,भएको त पूर्ण रुपमा एक समाज भित्र राजनीतिक रुपमा। आखिर प्रतिस्पर्दा कै त छ यो संसार पनि,प्रीथ्बीको बनावट नै यस्तै, जस्तो कि उ आँफै पनि अरुसँग घाम वरीपरी घुम्ने प्रतिस्पर्दामा उत्रीएको छ तर अज्ञात छ त्यो आखिर जित्दै छ या हार्दै त्यो ? प्रसँग नै बद्लिन्छ भुटानि समाजसरी, जो बद्लिएको छ ,फुटेको छ अनी राजनीतिमया भएको छ। के का लागि हो यो राजनीति ?के उदेस्य लिएर छिरेको छ यो राजनीति समाज भित्र ? आफ्नो स्वार्थ कि समाजको भलाईको लागि हो यो राजनीति ?अनुतरित छन यस्त कयौ प्रश्नहरु जो एक लङगडो सरी मनलाई बैसाखी बनाएर बसेको छ यो ह्रेदय भित्र उथुलपुथुल। कबी भए त कबिताका मध्यामबाट यी प्रश्नहरुको बिगुलकै फुटाइ दिन्थे तर बिबस म एक राष्ट्रहिन भुटानि कहाँ लगेर फोरी दिउ यो प्रश्नको भन्डार ? लाचार म आँफैलाई प्रश्न गर्न सिवाय केही गर्न सक्दिन, हुन त भुटानि समाज बडो गजबको भइसक्यो हालमा । यो संस्थाको निती भनु या उदेस्य हो,यसले पुरै भुटानिहरुलाई फुटाउन सफल भएको छ ।केही घर भुटानिहरु एउटा संस्थालाई विश्वाश गर्छन् अनी केही अर्को । बिचमा कहाँबाट कस्तो कुरा हुन्छ त्यो अद्रिस्य छ तर त्यस्ले एक । यो भुटानि समाज भित्र एक अर्को भुटानिको खुट्टा तान्ने या त कुरा काट्ने प्रबिती उत्पन्न गराइएको छ । एक भुटानि समाज तर यहाँ त दुई भइसकेका छन । आखिर यसरी टुक्र्याउनमा कसको हात छ?नया भुटानिहरुको ?या त संस्थाद्वारा राजनीति अनी बिभाजन ल्याउने परीचितहरुको ?बिल्कुलै प्रश्नहरु घुमिरहन्छन मस्तिस्कमा । नयाँ उदेस्य होइन यो संस्थाहरुको ,यो त पुरानै त्यो उदेस्य हो जसलाई पुर्ती गर्न लागिपरेकाहरु शरणार्थी बनेका छन र १९ बर्ष देखी कस्टकर जीवन बिताउन वाध्य झापा अनी मोरङका सात सिबिरहरुमा छन त कती शरणार्थीको बिल्ला भिरेर नै अमेरिका लगायतका देशहरुमा पुनर्बास भइसकेका छन। आखिर के नै पाए र त्यो राजनीति र स्वार्थ पुर्तीको लडाईंमा। पुरस्कार मिल्यो सबै योधा अनी नेताहरुलाई”शरणार्थी”,यो त एकदम नै ठुलो पुरस्कार हो अनी उपलब्दी।शरणार्थी सिबिर भित्र संघर्ष बिच जीवन यापन गरेर १९ बर्ष सम्म त्यही पट्यार लाग्दो नेताहरुको भाषण अनी मास्क लगाइ संस्था खोलेर बस्नेहरुबाट दिक्क भुटानि शरणार्थीहरु। १९९९ सम्म त ताली बज्थियो गड्गडाहट ताली ति खोक्रा भाषणहरुका लागि पनि तर बिस्तारै सचेतना जागेर होला उठ्नै छोडे ती हातहरु। राष्ट्र फिर्तीका लागि गरिएका सबै आन्दोलनहरु बिफल,धर्ना अनी नाराबाजीहरु, कुनै पहलहरु निर्णायक भएनन अन्तत भुटानिहरु देशको सम्झना लिएर बस्न वाध्य भए अन्धकार भबिस्य लिएर। लामो शरणार्थी समस्यालाई हल गर्न अमेरिका,अष्ट्रेलिया लगायतका देशहरुद्वारा गरिएको पुनर्बास प्रकृयाबाट आइपुगेका छन कोही अमेरिका , कोही डेन्मार्क अनी अष्ट्रेलिया। अन्धकार बिच पनि शरणार्थीहरु समाज भित्र रहेर बसेका थिए सिबिरमा । यसरी त्यो समाज बाडीएर फेरी कहाँ कहाँ पुग्न थाल्यो। सिबिर भित्रै पनि अपरचित कती अनुहारहरु यहाँ आएर चिन्न पाएकोमा गर्ब लाग्छ मलाई पनि Continue reading → Filed under: New Good Things | Tagged: BACC, BASCO, bhutanese in oakland california | Leave a comment »