The Department of Immigration (DoI) has decided to deport four Bhutanese refugee youths, who were deported by the United ...

The resettlement effort brought the Bhutanese population at refugee camps in Nepal down from 108,000 in 2007 to under 18,000 in 2015. Yet, as the recent scandal shows, the resettlement effort had ...

A Bhutanese refugee in Beldangi Camp in Nepal, October 27, 2007. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Alemaugil Nepal is reeling from a corruption scandal involving some of the country’s top political ...

By late 1990, Nepali speakers began to flee Bhutan and within two years about 90,000 Bhutanese refugees were in camps in Nepal. Over the ensuing two decades this population expanded.

Other Bhutanese refugees choose to remain, with the hope of returning to Bhutan or living in Nepal," the agency told DW in an email statement.

HARRISBURG — Six former Bhutanese refugees from central Pennsylvania who hold legal status in the United States were detained by ICE, as President Donald Trump’s administration moves into a ...

FILE - Bhutanese refugees wait to leave for resettlement abroad at a transit facility of International Organization for Migration in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010.

Even Bhutanese Nepali refugees from Hindu and Buddhist backgrounds would show up at the church seeking donations and support, and Rai would use the opportunity to share the gospel with them.

In Harrisburg, Pa., a former school was repurposed into a Hindu temple for the Bhutanese community. The region has welcomed some 40,000 refugees from Bhutan over the past two decades.

This is the second of a two-part series. Read the first here. The government in Kathmandu has provided shelter to the lakh-plus Lhotshampa refugees ousted by Bhutan between 1988 and 1992 and ...

The Bhutanese government maintained that the refugees left voluntarily. In 2006, an important breakthrough occurred when Bhutan and Nepal signed a joint statement on the Bhutanese refugee issue.