January of 2018

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Crack Jacks aim for a final spot at Pepsi B- league

Basketball

Jan 12, 2018 2 mins read 579 views
Minister discusses Bumthang Valley Plan

Bumthang Valley Plan

Jan 12, 2018 1 mins read 412 views
97 black-necked cranes arrive in Bumdeling

Black-necked crane

Jan 12, 2018 2 mins read 391 views
Thromde opens one window bill payment system

Thimphu Thromde

Jan 12, 2018 2 mins read 384 views
Kholongchu project triggers housing crunch in Yangtse

Housing

Jan 12, 2018 2 mins read 397 views
Consultations on to consolidate trade rules and regulations

Trade

Jan 12, 2018 2 mins read 433 views
Local leaders, major beneficiaries of NFE

Non-formal education (NFE)

Jan 12, 2018 3 mins read 421 views
"I feel at home here" Ambassador Kenji Hiramatsu

Q&A

Jan 12, 2018 4 mins read 368 views
Vehicle numbers rise despite measures

Road Safety and Transport Authority (RSTA)

Jan 12, 2018 3 mins read 330 views
RTC graduate to stand as Thimphu's NC candidate

National Council

Jan 12, 2018 1 mins read 331 views
Candidates switch party affiliation

Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB)

Jan 12, 2018 3 mins read 380 views
More coverage on global warming

Letter to the editor

Jan 12, 2018 1 mins read 453 views
50 years on: A tale of two nations

Editorial

Jan 12, 2018 1 mins read 398 views
Ready to lead DNT, says Dr Lotay Tshering

Politics

Jan 12, 2018 2 mins read 378 views
Career progression reformed for Supervisory and Support civil servants

Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC)

Jan 12, 2018 2 mins read 372 views
Bhutan, India celebrate 50 years of diplomatic relations

Bhutan-India

Jan 12, 2018 4 mins read 401 views
Court orders Damphu CS to reinstate cook

Crime

Jan 10, 2018 1 mins read 411 views
Legislative drafting workshop underway

Workshop

Jan 10, 2018 1 mins read 409 views
Fire guts seven huts and a house in Gelephu

Fire accident

Jan 10, 2018 1 mins read 493 views
Knowing Paro is my strength, says NC aspirant

National Council

Jan 10, 2018 1 mins read 351 views
Geo-spatial data for southern dzongkhags completed

National Land Commission Secretariat (NLCS)

Jan 10, 2018 1 mins read 462 views
Former investigating officer to contest for NC from Lhuntse

National Council

Jan 10, 2018 1 mins read 384 views
Regulations for internal house wiring come into effect

Bhutan Standard Bureau (BSB)

Jan 10, 2018 2 mins read 536 views
Chencho Gyeltshen shows the way

Letter to the editor

Jan 10, 2018 1 mins read 364 views
NFE is vital part of Bhutan's education system

Editorial

Jan 10, 2018 1 mins read 465 views
Coaching skills to help youth leaders and counselors

Workshop

Jan 10, 2018 2 mins read 364 views
WHO gifts equipment worth USD 0.3M to health ministry

World Health Organisation (WHO)

Jan 10, 2018 2 mins read 411 views
Bhutan participates in international renewable energy assembly

International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

Jan 10, 2018 1 mins read 402 views
Japan gifts 353 more power tillers

Bhutan-Japan

Jan 10, 2018 3 mins read 366 views
RCSC reforms doctors' career path

Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC)

Jan 10, 2018 3 mins read 362 views
50th anniversary logo launch

Logo

Jan 10, 2018 0 mins read 364 views
Minerva Punjab FC calls two Bhutanese footballers for trial

Football

Jan 09, 2018 1 mins read 453 views
Manmade pond invites black-necked cranes

Black-necked crane

Jan 09, 2018 1 mins read 418 views
PDP's former Drametse-Ngatsang candidate to contest for NC

National Council

Jan 09, 2018 1 mins read 373 views
An entrepreneur declares his candidature from Doonglagang gewog

National Council

Jan 09, 2018 1 mins read 396 views
Selling pilgrim tickets to buy school necessities

Students

Jan 09, 2018 1 mins read 379 views
For sustainable use of project output

Letter to the editor

Jan 09, 2018 1 mins read 378 views
Job creation will come only when private sector grows

Editorial

Jan 09, 2018 2 mins read 407 views
Mobile phone theft on the rise: Police

Crime

Jan 09, 2018 1 mins read 429 views
RCSC reconsiders one BCSE candidate who tested +ve for drugs

Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC)

Jan 09, 2018 2 mins read 432 views
Delay in budget could hamper ongoing works

Budget

Jan 09, 2018 2 mins read 348 views
Legislative drafting workshop

Workshop

Jan 09, 2018 0 mins read 384 views
Drukair ATR resumes its domestic commercial flights

Drukair

Jan 08, 2018 1 mins read 447 views
Thromde and YDF sign eco park MoU

Memorandum of understanding (MoU)

Jan 08, 2018 1 mins read 377 views
Students show interest in religious programmes

Religion

Jan 08, 2018 1 mins read 408 views
Former DPT MP to contest for Trashigang NC

National Council

Jan 08, 2018 2 mins read 430 views
Phuentsholing police looking for murder suspect

Crime

Jan 08, 2018 1 mins read 404 views
Burden of election on nation and the people

Letter to the editor

Jan 08, 2018 1 mins read 446 views
Tackling climate change will be a challenge

Editorial

Jan 08, 2018 1 mins read 363 views
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NC revisits reservations to the CRPD

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National Council refers Livestock Bill back to Committee for review

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PM takes responsibility for fiscal deficit coordination failure

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Stop recording, start living

Like television, the internet, and AI, TikTok can be a force for good or bad. It entirely depends on how it is used.

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Ask Mr Bhutan: “Money can’t buy happiness.” Is it true, when everything is dependent on money?

Once born into a physical body, there are certain absolute necessities without which most of us are incapable of experie...

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Duchen Nga Zom: What a butter lamp and a few flower petals can teach us

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The virus, the fear, and the freedom beyond both

Hantavirus is not a single virus but a family of rodent-borne viruses that occasionally spill over into humans, sometime...

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Whose face are you wearing?

The desire for happiness is universal, and beauty, prestige, and wealth have always been seen as pathways to achieve it. In that sense, this is nothing new.

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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 2,692 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 2,441 views
Between Homes

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United for Project 108

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Banks can unlock growth through affordable credit

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A missed opportunity

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Chain-link fencing: somebody’s gain, another’s loss

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May 27, 2026 2 mins read 1,511 views
Fixing and fine-tuning GST regime

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May 23, 2026 2 mins read 1,959 views
Insolvency law, a long overdue

Bhutan’s economy has changed dramatically since the Bankruptcy Act of 1999 was enacted. Back then, the private sector was small, cross-border trade was limited, and the financial system was far less complex.

May 20, 2026 3 mins read 1,890 views
GMC was a masterstroke

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Fighting online scams

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༉ 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་ཁ...

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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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Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

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Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

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The true wealth of Dzambhala

The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his...

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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...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 4,844 views
You’re not what you think you are

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Sundays at Le Méridien

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The trap of spiritual materialism

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Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

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Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country coul...

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A bumper harvest shouldn’t brew a bumper crisis

This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...

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Unshackling the state

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Recents

ACC drops cases against former JDWNRH president; family alleges wrongful implication

Family members of former President of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) Lhab Dorji have alleged wrongful implication and institutional failure after the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) closed two long-running investigations into the handling of private donations and the establishment of a radiotherapy facility at the national referral hospital.

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The gift of children

Punakha—When Karma Namgay and Dechen Lhaden’s daughter turned four, the questions from relatives and friends became increasingly awkward to answer – why had they not had another child?

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