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A NHK Japan investigation uncovers how the ‘Learn and Earn’ program suffers from fundamental flaws that leads to exploitation of foreign students by Japanese language schools The LEP program was originally and mainly meant for Chinese and Korean students who use similar Kanji scripts used by the Japanese A NHK …

Apart from formal charges by ACC, the vast majority of around 700 students under the Bhutan Employment and Overseas ‘Learn and Earn (LEP)’ program had joined legal complaints and lawsuits in Thimphu and Japan against BEO and its Japanese partner SND. BEO and SND stand charged and accused for a …

A 49-year-old mother and 22-year-old daughter lost their lives to a flood in Lhuentse on the mid-night of 25 July 2019. The deceased daughter was seven months pregnant. The incident took place at Gangzur gewog, Lhuntse when the flooded Lingbi river hit the house of the deceased. During the time …

GNHC evaluation found program to be 77 percent effective and recommended its continuation but funding was an issue Minister says govt will come up with a YELP program but it will not be a direct employment program The biggest youth employment scheme of the former PDP government, the Direct Employment …

Villagers had planted hybrid avocado trees in the forests for elephants but humans had eaten all the produce You may have heard of elephants attacking and eating fruit trees and crops, but starting this year, wild elephants in Tashichholing Gewog under Samtse Dzongkhag have developed a new habit of attacking …

“If I lose hope, then how will I bring back my daughter”: Dhan Maya Tamang Coma patient Sonam Tamang’s mother Dhan Maya Tamang and her elder son Pasang Tamang and her younger son Yanas Tamang met with the Minister for Labour and Human Resources, Lyonpo Ugyen Dorji on Friday, 19th …

The Ministry of Health has come up with a draft concept paper that is looking at the issue of taxing alcohol to reduce the usage or abuse of alcohol. The concept paper, which was worked on by the Health Minister Lyonpo Dechen Wangmo herself, is a first and important step …

Nu 1.9 mn raised till date A lot of prayers for the recovery of coma patient Sonam Tamang in Japan, and an online fundraising campaign is going on in full swing for her mother Dhan Maya, who will be leaving for Japan soon. Large numbers of people are showing their …

Says it is a worrying political development and that neither DPT or PDP governments ever did something like this Opposition says it also also an attempt to muzzle a vocal parliamentarian and the opposition Of all the questions at the Opposition press conference, the issue that had most resonance and …

‘I will be staying back even if I have to eat minimal food everyday. I will do anything to recover my daughter’: Mother 27-year-old Sonam Tamang was a hardworking, understanding and loveable daughter to her family. According to her family, throughout her schooling, she suffered but that made her stronger …