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Oscar nominees 'grateful' to be back in the ballroom
AFP, Published on 08/03/2022
» LOS ANGELES - Oscar nominees from Steven Spielberg and Will Smith to first-time Bhutanese director Pawo Choyning Dorji gathered at a Los Angeles ballroom Monday, as Hollywood's award season enters its final stretch.
A yak at the Oscars: first nomination for Bhutanese film
AFP, Published on 01/03/2022
» THIMPHU (BHUTAN) - Filmed in one of the remotest corners in one of the world's most inaccessible countries, "Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom", is the first Bhutanese film ever nominated for an Academy Award.
In happy Bhutan, the PM is a doc on Saturdays
AFP, Published on 09/05/2019
» THIMPHU (BHUTAN) - It's Saturday in Bhutan and Lotay Tshering has just completed urinary bladder repair surgery on a patient at the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital.
'Carbon sink' Bhutan counts cost of plans for green future
AFP, Published on 10/10/2018
» PUNAKHA (BHUTAN) - The gentle whirring of the wind turbine speaks volumes of Bhutan's record as the world's only carbon negative country, but major challenges stand in the way of the Himalayan kingdom's decision to follow a green path over rampant economic expansion.
Living by the bow and arrow in Bhutan
AFP, Published on 08/10/2018
» THIMPHU (BHUTAN) - Every weekend Bhutanese Pema Dorji channels his inner Robin Hood and aims for the bull's-eye, but not without generous sips of the local brew and a leg-kicking dance and song routine.