SSB-Mailing 1 / 2020 (full version)

April 2020

• Editorial by the President
• Announcement Special Mailing "Bhutan in Times of COVID-19"
• Events 20 Years Society Switzerland - Bhutan
  • Main event 13.9.20 "Sports, Health and Happiness" Magglingen
  • Main event 6. - 8.11.20 Bhutan Culture Days, Ethnographic Museum Zurich
  • Main event: 11. – 22.11.2020 Exhibition Bhutanese Artists, Altstadthalle Zug
  • Organizing Commitee
• Good News from Bhutan
  • Second Royal Child of Their Majesties The King and Queen
  • Tenzin Rondel Wangchuk new Ambassador in Geneva
• Projects in Bhutan
  • SSB Partnership with Loden Foundation
  • Bjoka Rainwater Harvesting
  • School Uniforms – Delayed because of COVID-19
  • Bhutan Transparency Initiative
• Red Flower Rice from Bhutan ready for export to Switzerland!
• Nado Dukpa celebrated his 30th anniversary with HELVETAS Bhutan
• Meeting of European Bhutan Friendship Associations Thimphu and Haa November 20 – 29, 2019
• Obituaries
  • Christian Rohrbach
  • Adrienne Oltramare
• Visitors to Switzerland

October 2019 Mailing 3/19 (full version)

Content:

• “Swiss Films on Wheels” with the movie “Heidi” was touring through Bhutan
• Annual General Meeting of the Bhutan – Switzerland Society (BSS) 1.8.2019, Thimphu
• Annual Excursion Swiss Alpine Herbs SAH in Därstetten 22.8.2019
• Dorji Dhradhul Director General TCB studying Tourism in Switzerland 15. - 20.9.2019
• The sudden death of Annemarie Huber – Hotz came as a terrible shock for all of us
  • Obituary by E. Werner Külling
  • Obituary by Dragyel Tenzin Dorjee
• Kinga Singye, former Ambassador in Geneva new Foreign Secretary
• Training of three Instructors from the Technical Training Institutes in Bhutan in Switzerland
• Visitors from Bhutan in Switzerland

July 2019 Mailing 2/19 (full version)

Content:

• Annual Excursion: Swiss Alpine Herbs Därstetten and its collaboration with Bhutan
• HE Ambassador Kinga Singye leaves Geneva for Bhutan
• Focus Newsletter 2019 – Hydropower in Bhutan
• Former Prime Minister Dasho Tshering Tobgay in conversation with Dr. Hugo Bigi «The Challenges facing Bhutan»
• HELVETAS General Assembly (GA) 2019 at the “Kultur- und Kongresshaus” in Aarau
• First ever Swiss business delegation trip to Bhutan from 04 - 08 June 2019
• “Helvetas Namgyel” is no more! In memoriam of a great friend
  
  • Obituary by E. Werner Külling
  • Obituary by Ernst Reinardt
• Uri Peter Trier the father of Swiss - Bhutanese collaboration in Education passed away
• Visitors from Bhutan in Switzerland
• Two Swiss medical students for internship in Bhutan

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

> 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

Additional Information:

• Bhutan and Switzerland: From development cooperation to people-to-people cooperation, and more? By Lyonpo Dr Kinzang Dorji, President Bhutan Switzerland Society
• Wangduephodrang Dzong Reconstruction Project – Aspects of cultural heritage and safety By Andreas Galmarini, WaltGalmarini AG, Zürich and Nagtsho Dorji, Division for Conservation of Heritage Sites, Thimphu