January of 2004

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Kurichhu to start paying back

Hydro Project

Jan 23, 2004 2 mins read 738 views
The healing waters of Gasa

Hot Spring

Jan 09, 2004 4 mins read 556 views
Economy doing well, RMA reports

Royal Monetary Authority (RMA)

Jan 09, 2004 3 mins read 532 views
Buddhist meet<br>

International Convention

Jan 08, 2004 0 mins read 626 views
Orientation<br>

Education-Teacher

Jan 08, 2004 0 mins read 681 views
Kurichhu to back

Hydro Project

Jan 23, 2004 2 mins read 706 views
No decision yet on closed Buna quarry

Dzongkhags

Jan 30, 2004 2 mins read 559 views
Conserving History

Handicraft

Jan 30, 2004 2 mins read 592 views
A website for PF members

National Pension Board (NPB)

Jan 30, 2004 2 mins read 668 views
The Bhutanese Development Story

Centre For Bhutan Studies (CBS)

Jan 30, 2004 7 mins read 0 views
Dwindling demand for yak butter

Animal Husbandry Activities

Jan 30, 2004 2 mins read 701 views
FDI : long road ahead

Bhutan - Trade

Jan 30, 2004 5 mins read 523 views
Second gas agent in Trashigang

Bhutan Oil Distributor (BOD)

Jan 30, 2004 1 mins read 647 views
First winter football tournament in Thimphu

Sport

Jan 30, 2004 1 mins read 618 views
Teachers upgrade qualifications

Education-Teacher

Jan 30, 2004 2 mins read 569 views
Heron sighted as early as 1975 in Bhutan

Royal Society for the Protection of Nature (RSPN)

Jan 30, 2004 2 mins read 621 views
NHDC to look after government housing

Housing

Jan 30, 2004 2 mins read 499 views
EC cooperation extends beyond projects

European Economic Community

Jan 30, 2004 2 mins read 554 views
Collateral free loan for 18 school leavers

Education-Policy/Planning/Conference Workshop

Jan 30, 2004 1 mins read 639 views
Bhutan & Bangladesh share "excellent" trade

Bhutan-Bangladesh

Jan 30, 2004 2 mins read 512 views
B-Mobile too expensive

Letters to the Editor

Jan 30, 2004 1 mins read 522 views
Study loan

Letters to the Editor

Jan 30, 2004 0 mins read 579 views
Rigsar : cheap imitation

Letters to the Editor

Jan 30, 2004 1 mins read 658 views
Adulterated rice

Letters to the Editor

Jan 30, 2004 0 mins read 544 views
Word to word translation not possible

Letters to the Editor

Jan 30, 2004 2 mins read 651 views
A small voice

Editorial

Jan 30, 2004 3 mins read 637 views
Indian community celebrates Republic Day

Indian National Day Celebration

Jan 30, 2004 2 mins read 678 views
Bhutan takes measures to prevent Avian flu

Animal Husbandry Disease

Jan 30, 2004 2 mins read 526 views
Reviving Dungsam

Penden Cement Authority Ltd. (PCAL)

Jan 30, 2004 2 mins read 642 views
First BIMST-EC Summit postponed

Bhutan and other Countries

Jan 30, 2004 1 mins read 513 views
BIFA launches local chapters in border towns

Bhutan- India

Jan 30, 2004 2 mins read 638 views
Economic growth 6.7% (not 7.7%)

Royal Monetary Authority (RMA)

Jan 30, 2004 3 mins read 485 views
Discussions begin on Tala tariff

Hydro Project

Jan 30, 2004 2 mins read 521 views
Mangmi candidates investigated

Dzongkhags

Jan 23, 2004 1 mins read 493 views
Hawking : not by choice

City Corporation

Jan 23, 2004 2 mins read 470 views
Lhuentse bank officials acquitted in fake notes case

Judiciary

Jan 23, 2004 1 mins read 472 views
No regrets says angry employee

Crime

Jan 23, 2004 2 mins read 565 views
Truckers grumble

Road Safety and Transport Authority (RSTA)

Jan 23, 2004 2 mins read 555 views
The Bhutanese development story

Centre For Bhutan Studies (CBS)

Jan 23, 2004 6 mins read 716 views
Transporting Dorokha's oranges

Agriculture/Horticulture

Jan 23, 2004 3 mins read 502 views
Truck topples on expressway

Accident

Jan 23, 2004 1 mins read 520 views
The Traditional Day of Offering

Bhutan - Tradition

Jan 23, 2004 2 mins read 649 views
Second IT ministers' summit adopt Hyderabad declaration

Conferences

Jan 23, 2004 2 mins read 528 views
Running on faith

Lost and Found

Jan 23, 2004 1 mins read 498 views
Printing jobs to be done in the country

Bhutan - Trade

Jan 23, 2004 2 mins read 531 views
Grant: an important source of revenue

Royal Monetary Authority (RMA)

Jan 23, 2004 1 mins read 713 views
Connect SMS overseas

Kuensel

Jan 23, 2004 0 mins read 559 views
Translation not accurate

Kuensel

Jan 23, 2004 1 mins read 500 views
Teenage pregnancy and its implications

Kuensel

Jan 23, 2004 1 mins read 572 views
Finish work first

Kuensel

Jan 23, 2004 1 mins read 618 views
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Where the rivers run through, youth find reasons to stay

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Nationwide drug prevention campaign “Yes, We Care” begins in Samtse

"Yes, We Care" launches a nationwide outreach to shield its youth from substance abuse.

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Startups call for support beyond seed funding

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National debt to rise by 26%, reaching Nu 380 billion in June

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A memoir of hustle and heartache

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From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

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Café by the waterfall

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May 02, 2026 2 mins read 1,415 views
Where tradition meets treatment

In Bhutan, healing is not a choice between past and present but a collaboration between the two. Across the country, patients move between modern clinics and traditional medicine units with ease, guided as much by...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 1,079 views
Between Homes

When I first arrived in Australia last year, I thought I was prepared. I had spoken to people, watched videos, and tried to imagine what life would be like. Bu...

May 02, 2026 1 mins read 5,316 views
The true wealth of Dzambhala

The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his role as a symbol of abundance and generosity. There are five principal forms of the...

May 02, 2026 4 mins read 1,069 views
No amount of money can replace you

The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency and warmth by devoted grandparents can fare well, separation from parents at this age generally causes...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 3,266 views
You’re not what you think you are

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Apr 18, 2026 4 mins read 2,387 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

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The trap of spiritual materialism

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins read 2,705 views
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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When will we feed ourselves?

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Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

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May 02, 2026 3 mins read 1,745 views
Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

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Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 4,092 views
A bumper harvest shouldn’t brew a bumper crisis

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Unshackling the state

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The environmental toll of wars

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A costly fiasco

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Living hand to mouth

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Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

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Feb 18, 2026 2 mins read 6,337 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

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Dorjilung hydropower to raise GDP by 2.4%, generate 5,000 jobs

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ESP Steering Committee to review Nu 575 million in unspent, recovered funds

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Compassion in practice: Building a win-win healthcare system

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Happiness with Mr Bhutan

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When Words Create Worlds

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Where to find the best momos in Thimphu

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A call for shared responsibility

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When the watchdog has no teeth

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Culture under threat?

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Promises and performance

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Policy versus ground reality

The conflict in the Middle East, coupled with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, has forced many Bhutanese to adju...

Mar 21, 2026 2 mins read 3,744 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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