Bhutan becomes world's newest democracy

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Updated March 25, 2008 21:27:19

Voters in Bhutan's first democratic elections have delivered what could best be described as a ringing endorsement of the status quo.

Presenter: Joanna McCarthy
Speaker: Kinley Dorji, editor in chief of Bhutan's Kuensel newspaper

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