Published Date:
12 May 2009
DISTRESSING developments are taking place in Bhutan, the admirably backward-looking Himalayan country 3,000 miles from the Welsh border. As reported previously, the Buddhist enclave eschews Gross National Product in favour of Gross National Happiness (GNH).
Prime minister Jigme Thinley (trans: Jimmy Thingwie) has identified his country's enemy as "greed, insatiable greed", and points to the mess the materialistic nations of the so-called developed world are in now.
You may say: "What mess? I've sti...
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Last Updated:
11 May 2009 8:27 PM
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Source:
The Scotsman
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Location:
Edinburgh
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Related Topics:
Robert McNeil
