Newsletter & Mailing

    Mailing 2 / 2024 (Click here for full version)

    (August 2024)

    Coming Events

    • Saturday, 7.9.2024: Invitation Barbecue for SSB Members and the Bhutanese Community in Switzerland
    • Friday, 20.9.24, 19:30: Climate Change in Bhutan

    Projects supported by SSB

    • Improve Quality of Milk - Khemdro Milk Processing Unit (Phobjikha)
    • Journalist Association of Bhutan - Training Multimedia Journalism
    • Ogyen Choling Foundation

    Past Events

    • Saturday, 23.3.24: SSB General Assembly 2024
    • Thursday, 1.8.24: Bhutan-Switzerland Society (BSS): Annual General Meeting, & Swiss National Day Celebration 2024
    • Friday, 31.5.24: BUELWA – An Offering (Bhutan, 2023) by Charmi Chheda
    • Thursday, 6.6.24: Lhaki Dolma: “My Experience as a Politician and the Future of Women in Politics in Bhutan”
    • Saturday, 29.6.2024: Excursion to Wyssen Skyline Cranes at Reichenbach im Kandertal

    Bhutanese Visits in Switzerland

    • Vice-Chancellor Nidup Dorji of the Royal University of Bhutan
    • Bhutan meets Switzerland at the Hotel Belvedere (English / German)

     News from Bhutan

    • An Excellent Overview of the Most Significant Developments in Bhutan
    • Gelephu Mindfulness City
    • 13th Five Year Plan 2024-2029
    • Bhutan Innovation Forum 1. - 3.10.2024
    • Two Films - A Bhutanese Success Story

     Other Events

    • 18.8.2024 Besuch der Yaks am Gotthard
    • Ausgetanzt - Georg Gessler Jubiläumsausstellung 

    Mailing 1 / 2024 (Click here for full version)

    (January 2024)

    • A new Government for Bhutan
    • Obituary Martin Menzi (30.1.1929 – 6.1.2024)
    • Migration of Bhutanese Talk by Dasho Karma Ura (President Centre of Bhutan & GNH Studies)
    • Save the Date
    • Window on Bhutan 2023

    Mailing 3 / 2023 (Click here for full version)

    (December 2023)

    Mailing 2 / 23 (Click here for full version)

    (November 2023)

    • Coming Events in Switzerland
    • Performance of the Royal Academy of Performing Arts Bhutan at the International Percussion Festival in Lausanne 18.11.2023
    • Musicians unite to celebrate classical music at Swiss-Bhutanese musical concert in Thimphu 19.10.23
    • Cheesemakers in Switzerland 10.8. - 23.9.2023
    • Obituary Urs Dürsteler (28.9.1951 – 29.5.2023)
    • Obituary Lyonpo Chenkyab Dorji (1943 – 2023)
    • Sustainable Development Fee (SDF) reduced to USD 100 per day
    • Bhutanese PhD Students in Switzerland

    Mailing 1 / 23 (Click here for full version)

    (May 2023)

    • Developments in Bhutan – Recent Topics in the Bhutanese Media
    • Looking back at the General Assembly 2023
    • Visits to Bhutan by Ambassador Ralf Heckner
    • Coming Events
    • Current Projects by SSB and SSB Members
    • Collaboration Royal Government of Bhutan and the Government of the Canton of Zurich
    • Watch online on YouTube
    • Readings

    Mailing 3 / 22 (Click here for full version)

    (December 2022) 

    • Commemoration of 20 Years of Bhutan Switzerland Society (BSS)
    • Cooperation with Loden Foundation - Best Entrepreneur Award 2022 supported by SSB
    • SSB Events
    • Bhutan Meetings President SSB
    • Looking for Bhutanese Textiles in Europe - Exhibition in Corfu in 2024
    • Order again Products from Bhutan Blossoms / Drachukha Flower Group!
    • Insights into Projects by SSB and SSB Members
    • Looking back at previous Events
    • Publications

     

    Mailing 2 / 22 (Click here for full version)

    • Bhutan at the Crossroad: Big Changes not only in Tourism and the Civil Service
    • Looking back at the General Assembly 2022
    • Interview with Ambassador Tenzin R. Wangchuk
    • Reopening of Tourism in Bhutan
    • Bhutanese Visitors in Switzerland
    • Bhutanese Association in Switzerland
    • Coming Events
    • Collaboration with Loden Foundation:
    • Get a free e-book download: Erik Allgöwer: Tiger and Cloud
    • Miscellaneous
      • Bhutan and the UN
      • Lunana in Open-Air Cinemas
      • Tashi Delek July-August 2022

    Mailing 1 / 22 (Click here for full version)

    Mailing 3 / 21 (Click here for full version)

    October 2021

    Mailing 2 / 21 (Click here for full version)

    June 2021

    • Looking back at the General Assembly 2021
    • Please order Red Flower Rice from Bhutan - now!
    • TCB and SSB promoting Post-COVID Tourism to Bhutan before screenings of Lunana
    • SSB Loden Foundation Window could choose from 31 Proposals
    • Support Ogyen Choling Foundation
    • COVID - 19 Situation in Bhutan
    • Next SSB Events­­
    • Asia Society Switzerland presents: A Closer Look at Bhutan
      Enjoy Bhutanese Culture Online

    Mailing 1 / 21 (Click here for full version)

    Febrary 2021

    1.     Losar Tashi Delek from the Bhutan Mission in Geneva and the Presidents of BSS and SSB
    2.     General Assembly 2021 postponed to 5.6.2021
    3.     Save the date: Online interview with Nado Dukpa 27.3.2021
    4.     Lockdown 2.0 - Bhutan Red Cross Operation (Dec 20th 2020 to Feb 5th 2021) by Dragyel T Dorjee
    5.     Partnership Loden Foundation – SSB: Report 2020
    6.     Video: Walking with Michael Rutland through Thimphu, exploring recent developments in Bhutan
    7.     Magazine: Window on Bhutan
    8.     SSB Profile 2020

     

    Mailing 3 / 20 (Click here for full version)

    November 2020

    • Welcome Addresses by the new Ambassadors in Geneva and Delhi
    • 27 March 2021: General Assembly 2021
    • Big Response for the SSB Window Loden Foundation Fall Call 2020
    • The Red Flower Rice from Bhutan arrived 
    • COVID-19 Test Kits for Bhutan donated by the Swiss Government
    • “Chidrel Tawaa” – A Publication about Bhutan’s Foreign Relations 2020
    • Films from Bhutan online!
    • Tourism in Bhutan will never be the same - An Inverview with DG Tourism Council Dorji Dhradhul
    • Keeping Connected while Staying Apart: Social Media and Lockdown in Thimphu By Dolma Choden Roder (Royal Thimphu College) 19.11.2020
    • Postponed Events

     

    Special Mailing 4.8.2020: Foundation Day of SSB (full version)

    August 2020

     

    Mailing 2 / 20 (Click here for full version)

    July 2020

    Special Mailing April 2020: Solidarity with Bhutan in Times of COVID-19 (full version)

    April 2020

    • SSB Call for Donations till 4.5.2020
      • Project 1: Supply of medical overalls and masks
      • Project 2: Loden-UNDP Bhutan Covid-19 Response Fund
      • Project 3: HM’s Kidu Relief Fund for COVID-19
    • Letter freom Dr. Karma Phunthso (President Loden Foundation)
    • Our Friends from Bhutan telling their stories about the impact of COVID-19
    • COVID-19 News from Bhutan
      • Translation of His Majesty’s Address to the Nation, 10th April 2020
      • Press Release of HE the Prime Minister (April 11, 2020)
      • From Coronavirus to Corona Victory (April 6, 2020 - Kuensel)
      • Anxious wait for Bhutan for lifesaving medical equipment and supplies with raging global demand (April 4, 2020 - The Bhutanese)
      • COVID-19 Situation Bhutan 17.4.2020

     

    SSB-Mailing 1 / 2020 (Click for full version)

    April 2020

    October 2019 Mailing 3/19 (full version)

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    Focus Newsletter 2019 > Link

    HYDROPOWER IN BHUTAN

    Content:

    • EDITORIAL (Dieter Zürcher)
    • HYDROPOWER IN BHUTAN: LIGHTS AND SHADOWS (Dr Günter Fischer)
    • INTERVIEW WITH HIS EXCELLENCY LYONPO LOKNATH SHARMA, MINISTER FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
    • MANGDECHHU PROJECT AND EXPORT TARIFF ISSUES (Sangay Chophel)
    • THE FUTURE OF BHUTAN-INDIAN ELECTRICITY TRADE (Himanshu Takkar)

     

    April 2019 Mailing 1/19 > Link

    Content:
    • Looking back at the General Assembly 2019
    • SSB supports Loden Foundation
    • Next Events
    • 2020: Celebrating 20 years Society Switzerland - Bhutan
    • Miscellaneous

     

    Focus Newsletter 2017

    FILM MAKING IN BHUTAN

    > Newsletter August 2017 pdf - 3.7 MB

     

    December 2016 Issue

    content:

    • News from SSB: General Assembly 2017: new date / Dr. Otto Stern resigns as editor of the SSB Newsletter / The new newsletter with key topics / Bhutan Film Days January 27th – 29th, 2017, Ethnographic Museum University of Zurich: A unique opportunity to see films of emerging filmmakers from Bhutan / New SSB Members 
    • Obituaries: In memoriam Küngolt Menzi-Baumann / An immense loss for Bhutan:

      Dasho Pema Wangchuk passed away 

    • Visitors from Bhutan in Switzerland: Two Bhutanese visitors from the KGUMSB to get acquainted with General Medicine in Switzerland

    • Thank you very much HELVETAS Namgyel! 

    • News from BSS: Bhutan-Switzerland Society elects new Board members 

    • Activities of SSB Members: 8th meeting of the European-Bhutan Societies in Greece

    • György Hetényi: "History books help geophysics to describe big Bhutan earthquake in 1714"

    • Benedetta Dini: "Swiss researchers on the tracks of rockslides in the Himalaya of Bhutan"

    • Alain Dössegger : "My secondment to the Bhutan Olympic Committee (BOC)"

    • Interview by Otto Stern: "Werner Baumann (62) – 30 years ago as a Veterinarian in Bhutan"

    > Newsletter December 2016 pdf - 4.9 MB

     

    June 2016 Issue

    content:

    • News from SSB: General Assembly 2016 / Three new SSB Board members / Annual SSB Excursion / Graduation at International School Schaffhausen / Up-coming Events / Pre-Announcement: Bhutan Film Days January 27th – 29th 2017 in Zurich / Invitation of the SSB Board to Geneva / New SSB Members / Bhutan at the Film Festival Locarno August 3 -13, 2016 / A Farewell to a Grand Old Lady of the Zurich Elephant Group
    • Visitors from Bhutan in Switzerland: Chief Justice of Bhutan visits Switzerland
    • A very enthusiastic and successful Swiss training workshop of six Bhutanese firefighters during two weeks in Zürich
    • News from BSS: Summary of the findings of the School evaluation on support to Kaktong & Tradijong Primary Schools, Zhemgang Dzongkhag
    • Lyonpo Dr Kinzang Dorji: «Sustainable social and economic development at the grassroots level in Bhutan needs very active local Civil Society Organisations (CSO)»
    • Activities of SSB Members: Wangdue Phodrang Dzong Reconstruction Project - Aspects of cultural heritage and safety / Mountains and Earthquakes – Fieldwork and results of two geophysics projects in Bhutan / Archery in Bhutan – Update
    • Meeting Point

    > Newsletter June 2016 pdf - 2.8 MB / pdf - 5.5 MB

     

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