August of 2005

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Bhutan out of U-17 ACC tournament

Sport

Aug 12, 2005 1 mins read 372 views
Pemagatsel township ponders relocation

Dzongkhags

Aug 12, 2005 2 mins read 331 views
Interview with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

Religious Personalities

Aug 12, 2005 6 mins read 450 views
The person in me

Personalities

Aug 12, 2005 1 mins read 0 views
The Bey Blade mania

Business

Aug 12, 2005 2 mins read 360 views
Telecommunication network project reviewed

Telecommunication Department

Aug 12, 2005 2 mins read 458 views
More subscribers, less usage

Bhutan- Telecom

Aug 12, 2005 2 mins read 377 views
Black out hampers judiciary process in Wamrong

Power

Aug 12, 2005 2 mins read 355 views
Regarding PCS

Kuensel

Aug 12, 2005 1 mins read 544 views
Qualification for translators

Kuensel

Aug 12, 2005 1 mins read 439 views
Tigers above Tango

Letters to the Editor

Aug 12, 2005 1 mins read 342 views
Down with the billboards ?

Editorial

Aug 12, 2005 2 mins read 384 views
Man stabs wife to death

Crime

Aug 12, 2005 1 mins read 411 views
Eviction postponed to December 31

City Corporation

Aug 12, 2005 1 mins read 372 views
"Cow vs car"

Accident

Aug 12, 2005 1 mins read 383 views
Bear mauls mushroom collector

Accident

Aug 12, 2005 2 mins read 366 views
BIMSTEC meeting ends amid much hope

Bhutan-Thailand

Aug 12, 2005 2 mins read 352 views
Veteran football

Sport

Aug 09, 2005 0 mins read 396 views
Audit visit

Royal Audit Authority (RAA)

Aug 09, 2005 0 mins read 403 views
Training

Agriculture Activities

Aug 09, 2005 0 mins read 0 views
Minimum market price for apple fixed at US $ 450 a MT

Imports

Aug 09, 2005 2 mins read 372 views
Good beginning for Trashigang's first dairy village

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Aug 09, 2005 2 mins read 401 views
Monsoon disrupts water supply in eastern Bhutan

Landslides and Floods

Aug 09, 2005 3 mins read 349 views
Jumja: the cancer spot on the Thimphu-Phuentsholing highway

Landslides and Floods

Aug 09, 2005 3 mins read 405 views
Transport Utd retains title

Sport

Aug 09, 2005 1 mins read 359 views
Know the law to protect your rights

Judiciary

Aug 09, 2005 1 mins read 340 views
Enhancing trade relations a priority

Bhutan-Thailand

Aug 09, 2005 2 mins read 329 views
Cervical cancer common

Health Disease

Aug 09, 2005 2 mins read 312 views
Media development is important

JICA

Aug 09, 2005 2 mins read 359 views
Bhutanese handicrafts?

Kuensel

Aug 09, 2005 1 mins read 416 views
The dog dilemma

Kuensel

Aug 09, 2005 1 mins read 382 views
Are former monks (geteys) good teachers?

Kuensel

Aug 09, 2005 1 mins read 337 views
Change: more on the inside

Editorial

Aug 09, 2005 2 mins read 355 views
Jarung Khashor Chhorten consecrated

Consecration

Aug 09, 2005 2 mins read 379 views
Task force will verify illegal dwellers

City Corporation

Aug 09, 2005 2 mins read 345 views
Thimphu to remove billboards, banners and posters

City Corporation

Aug 09, 2005 1 mins read 375 views
Tigers sighted above Tango

National Park

Aug 09, 2005 2 mins read 365 views
Bhutanese students conned

Education- Student

Aug 09, 2005 2 mins read 366 views
Information on position classification launched

Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC)

Aug 09, 2005 3 mins read 382 views
Global health conference

International Convention

Aug 05, 2005 0 mins read 389 views
Senior civil servants promoted

Promotion

Aug 05, 2005 0 mins read 361 views
Construction workers questioned for assault

Crime

Aug 05, 2005 1 mins read 337 views
Waiting for victory

Sport

Aug 05, 2005 1 mins read 353 views
`Egg-cellent' business

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Aug 05, 2005 2 mins read 335 views
How long will it last

Business

Aug 05, 2005 5 mins read 396 views
"Enjoy gardening!"

National Park

Aug 05, 2005 2 mins read 0 views
Zhiwa Ling nearing completion

Companies

Aug 05, 2005 2 mins read 332 views
Review Board to be reconstituted

Telecommunication Department

Aug 05, 2005 1 mins read 348 views
Druk Air's new routes to take time

Druk Air

Aug 05, 2005 1 mins read 399 views
Deputy speaker of German parliament visits

Bhutan - Germany

Aug 05, 2005 2 mins read 356 views
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ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་མ་ལང་མི་དེ་ སྲིད་བྱུས་དང་ ཁྱིམ་བཟོ་ག་གི་འཐུས་ཤོར་ཨིན་ན།

༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ལངམ་སྦེ་མེད་པའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་ ས་མཚམས་ཕྱི་ཁར་ ཇའེ་སྒང་ལུ་སྡོད་དགོཔ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ འདི་བཟུམ་གྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དེ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཐོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཐབས་ལམ་ཚུ་ འདི་དང་འདི་ཟེརཝ་ཅིག་ ག་ནི་ཡང་ མ་འགྲིགས་པར་ ལུས་ཏེ་འདུག།

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ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་མ་ལང་མི་དེ་ སྲིད་བྱུས་དང་ ཁྱིམ་བཟོ་ག་གི་འཐུས་ཤོར་ཨིན་ན།

༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ལངམ་སྦེ་མེད་པའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་ ས་མཚམས་ཕྱི་ཁར་ ཇའེ་སྒང་ལུ་སྡོད་དགོཔ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ འདི་བཟུམ་གྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དེ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཐོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཐབས་ལམ་ཚུ་ འདི་དང་འདི་ཟེརཝ་ཅིག་ ག་ནི་ཡང་ མ་འགྲིགས་པར་ ལུས་ཏེ་འདུག།

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