Special Mailing 4.8.2020: Foundation Day of SSB (full version)
August 2020
- 4.8.2000: Foundation Day of SSB
- New Ambassador Tenzin R. Wangchuk at the Permanent Mission of Bhutan to the United Nations in Geneva
- Embassy of Switzerland to India and Bhutan online on the Swiss National Day
- TIGER AND CLOUD: A HIMALAYAN FICTION - The new book of the Bhutan Tiger Trilogy written by our member Erik Allgoewer
Mailing 2 / 20 (Click here for full version)
July 2020
- Save the dates 2020
- The New Board of SSB
- Opposition Leader Dr. Pema Gyamthso new Director General of ICIMOD (Article by E. Werner Külling)
- New electrical wiring at Taktsang funded and installed by our member Emanuel Flückiger
- Bhutanese projects to tackle the economic crisis due to COVID-19
- The Build Bhutan Project
- Wobthang Farm
- SRF Radio: Dem Himmel so nah? Bhutan zwischen Tradition und Moderne
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 AND YOU: Personal experiences of an elderly Bhutanese citizen (Interview with Lyonpo Kinzang Dorji, President BSS)
- COVID-19 AND YOU: Personal experiences of a Bhutanese travel agent (Interview with Tashi Rabgyel, Member Board Bhutan-Switzerland Society)
- Personal Message from a Hotel Manager in Thimphu
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
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Visitors from Bhutan in Switzerland: Two Bhutanese visitors from the KGUMSB to get acquainted with General Medicine in Switzerland
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Thank you very much HELVETAS Namgyel!
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News from BSS: Bhutan-Switzerland Society elects new Board members
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Activities of SSB Members: 8th meeting of the European-Bhutan Societies in Greece
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György Hetényi: "History books help geophysics to describe big Bhutan earthquake in 1714"
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Benedetta Dini: "Swiss researchers on the tracks of rockslides in the Himalaya of Bhutan"
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Alain Dössegger : "My secondment to the Bhutan Olympic Committee (BOC)"
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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