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:
  • SSB Loden Annual Report 2021
  • Loden turns 22
• 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)

• SSB General Assembly postponed to 11.6.2022
• Living in Quarantine and Lockdown in Bhutan
• Time between Quarantine and Lockdown
• Good News for our Sister Organization Bhutan Switzerland Society (BSS)
• Foreign Secretary Pema Choden in Switzerland
• Don’t miss: Interview with Gerald Daly
• Foreign Policy of Bhutan
  • Window on Bhutan 2021
  • Interview with HE Ambassador Tenzin R Wangchuk in DIVA – International Diplomat No. 2 / 2021

Mailing 3 / 21 (Click here for full version)

October 2021

• When will Bhutan open its borders for tourists?
• Next SSB Events
  • Flyer: Religiöse Praktiken in Bhutan der siebziger Jahre
  • Flyer: The Treasures of the Temple of Ogyen Choling and Dzongkha Spelling: Tradition vs. Modernity
• Impressions Event Nomadic Health Camp and Cordyceps
• Project Support since June 2021
• In Memoriam Heinz Bürgin and Johann Cantieni
• Congratulations to Dr. Sonam Wangchuk!
• Online Meetings with the Bhutanese Embassies in Geneva and Brussels
• Suggestions for reading, viewing and listening
  • Chidrel Tawaa

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
  • Message by Ambassador Tenzin Rondel Wangchuk, Permanent Mission of Bhutan in Geneva
  • Message by Ambassador Dr. Ralf Heckner, Embassy of Switzerland in 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

• 4.8.2000: Foundation Day of SSB
  • Minutes of the founding meeting 4.8.2020
  • Congratulation letter of the German “Pro Bhutan” Society
• 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
  • 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