July of 2006

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SAARC session

SAARC Summit

Jul 28, 2006 0 mins read 708 views
Consultation

National Environment Commission (NEC)

Jul 28, 2006 0 mins read 676 views
Frost hampers potato yield

Agriculture/ Crops/Mushroom

Jul 28, 2006 1 mins read 577 views
Sherubtse begins RUB degree programmes

Royal University of Bhutan

Jul 28, 2006 2 mins read 646 views
BBCL not in good health?

Companies

Jul 28, 2006 2 mins read 589 views
Private commercial banks on the horizon

Royal Monetary Authority (RMA)

Jul 28, 2006 3 mins read 526 views
Dog's best friend

Animal Husbandry Activities

Jul 28, 2006 2 mins read 585 views
Thimphu swimming pool to open in July 2007

Education-Youth/Counselling/Deliquence

Jul 28, 2006 2 mins read 593 views
Asian Cricket Council Trophy

Sport

Jul 28, 2006 1 mins read 664 views
High court overrules defamation judgment

Judiciary

Jul 28, 2006 1 mins read 688 views
Regarding the education loan scheme

Letters to the Editor

Jul 28, 2006 1 mins read 689 views
Clarification

Letters to the Editor

Jul 28, 2006 1 mins read 0 views
Quotation rule needs change

Letters to the Editor

Jul 28, 2006 1 mins read 585 views
To speak, or to talk?

Editorial

Jul 28, 2006 3 mins read 586 views
Hydropower: tapping a vast resource

Bhutan- India

Jul 28, 2006 3 mins read 659 views
Towards greater heights in economic development

Bhutan- India

Jul 28, 2006 2 mins read 556 views
On the verge of a dengue outbreak

Health Disease

Jul 28, 2006 0 mins read 498 views
Tala commissioned today

Hydro Project

Jul 28, 2006 2 mins read 556 views
Building friendship on strong historical ties

Welcoming His Majesty the King to India the President of India, Mr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, expressed his admiration for the Constitutional changes that His Majes...

Jul 29, 2006 2 mins read 504 views
Royal visit

His Majesty - Foreign Tour

Jul 25, 2006 0 mins read 0 views
Donation

Bhutan- Japan

Jul 25, 2006 0 mins read 0 views
CMU to hire out machinery

Private Sector

Jul 25, 2006 1 mins read 558 views
Company listing rules

Royal Stock Exchange Of Bhutan(RSEB)

Jul 25, 2006 1 mins read 601 views
All listed companies to go scriptless

Royal Stock Exchange Of Bhutan(RSEB)

Jul 25, 2006 2 mins read 615 views
To Kathmandu for Nu. 5

Business

Jul 25, 2006 2 mins read 531 views
The row over the Changzamtog workshops

City Corporation

Jul 25, 2006 2 mins read 527 views
The Person in Me

Personalities

Jul 25, 2006 2 mins read 0 views
A meaningful break

Education- Student

Jul 25, 2006 1 mins read 616 views
Police nab thieves

Crime

Jul 25, 2006 2 mins read 574 views
Husband assaulted

Social Problem (Bhutan)

Jul 25, 2006 1 mins read 541 views
Convention to ease goods clearance

Revenue and Custom

Jul 25, 2006 1 mins read 556 views
BBC World yet to come back

Television (TV)

Jul 25, 2006 2 mins read 532 views
It's the driver not the vehicle

Kuensel

Jul 25, 2006 1 mins read 534 views
Regarding PCS

Kuensel

Jul 25, 2006 1 mins read 0 views
Is it enough?

Kuensel

Jul 25, 2006 1 mins read 520 views
Expectations too high

Kuensel

Jul 25, 2006 1 mins read 548 views
Quality, not qualification

Editorial

Jul 25, 2006 2 mins read 538 views
Man dies of suspected overdose

Crime

Jul 25, 2006 0 mins read 518 views
Rules for employ-ment agencies

Labour and Human Resource

Jul 25, 2006 2 mins read 492 views
Land kidu for illegal dwellers

City Corporation

Jul 25, 2006 1 mins read 497 views
Tourism could earn US $ 24 million

Tourism

Jul 25, 2006 3 mins read 574 views
Arrest warrant for former Tang gup

Dzongkhags

Jul 25, 2006 1 mins read 579 views
Murder in Sha Ngawang

Crime

Jul 25, 2006 1 mins read 604 views
Missing

Accident

Jul 21, 2006 0 mins read 0 views
Statues

Dratshang

Jul 21, 2006 0 mins read 668 views
Micro trade popular

Bhutan - Trade

Jul 21, 2006 2 mins read 657 views
Where are the investors ?

Companies

Jul 21, 2006 3 mins read 614 views
Tenant crunch worry builders

Housing

Jul 21, 2006 3 mins read 557 views
Harvesting clover honey

Bee-Keeping

Jul 21, 2006 2 mins read 529 views
Private buildings to house government offices

Ministry of Work & Housing

Jul 21, 2006 2 mins read 614 views
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BTF signs Nu 2.5 million grant for elephant corridor in GMC

The Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation (BTF) yesterday signed a Nu 2.5 million grant agreement to support elephant habitat enrichment and ecological corridor restoration in Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC), marking the first grant signed from its newly established regional office at ChoeGo, GMC.

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Former Phuentsholing Thrompon reflects on a decade of urban transformation, eyes third term

Looking back on the past 10 years, I feel deeply grateful, humbled, and proud of what we have achieved together

Jun 06, 2026 7 mins read 755 views
Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen graces inauguration of Her Expression Festival at VAST

Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen on June 4 graced the inauguration of Her Expression Festival and Her Expression Vol. IX, an an...

Jun 06, 2026 1 mins read 432 views
Lowland cordyceps discovery in India raises questions over Bhutan’s premium fungus economy

The discovery of cordyceps in the low-altitude forests of East Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh, India, has sparked c...

Jun 05, 2026 3 mins read 5,664 views
Riwo Exhibition Unites Himalayan artists in exploration of identity and continuity

Riwo: Identity and Continuity, a contemporary art exhibition held at the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology in Gangtok, Sik...

Jun 05, 2026 2 mins read 3,557 views
NC revisits reservations to the CRPD

The National Council today unanimously supported the already adopted reservations on Articles 23, 27, and 29 of the Amendment to the Reservations to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

Jun 04, 2026 3 mins read 1,676 views
National Council refers Livestock Bill back to Committee for review

The National Council continued deliberations on the Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025 today, directing the Economic Affairs...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,560 views
BRCS opens first Branch Emergency Operations Centre in Tsirang

Coinciding with the Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen, the Bhutan Red Cross Society (BRCS) inaugurated its...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,636 views
BTF opens office in GMC to strengthen support for southern region

Coinciding with the 36th Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen Jetsun Pema Wangchuck, the Bhutan Trust Fund for...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,814 views
NC endorses annual budget as per NA

The National Council yesterday deliberated on the National Budget Report for FY 2026–27, the Budget Appropriation Bill for FY 2026–27, and the Supplementary Budget Appropriation Bill for FY 2025–26.

Jun 09, 2026 2 mins read 771 views
Bhutan to pilot green finance taxonomy from June

Bhutan will begin testing its expanded Green Finance Taxonomy 2026 with a six-month pilot from June to November, before...

May 30, 2026 3 mins read 3,624 views
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.

Jun 06, 2026 4 mins read 418 views
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...

May 30, 2026 2 mins read 1,149 views
Duchen Nga Zom: What a butter lamp and a few flower petals can teach us

Duchen Nga Zom is a duzom—an auspicious convergence of sacred time within the Buddhist calendar, marked by the meeting o...

May 30, 2026 4 mins read 986 views
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...

May 24, 2026 4 mins read 1,316 views
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.

May 16, 2026 4 mins read 1,743 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 2,321 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 2,075 views
Café by the waterfall

About six kilometres before Trongsa town, just past the Bjee Zam Bridge, a traditional one-storey house appears on the left of the highway. It is not easy to miss. This modest structure...

May 02, 2026 2 mins read 2,751 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 2,495 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 6,697 views
United for Project 108

Bhutanese, friends of Bhutan, and our well-wishers are willingly answering the call to fulfill the Royal vision of erecting 108 Jangchub Choetens along the Mao Chhu in Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC).

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 371 views
Banks can unlock growth through affordable credit

Financial institutions are the lifeblood of any modern economy. They mobilise savings, allocate capital, manage risk, an...

Jun 03, 2026 3 mins read 1,696 views
A missed opportunity

The Thromde election process has begun, with the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) notifying registered voters in Thimphu and Phuentsholing thromdes who are eligible for postal v...

May 30, 2026 2 mins read 1,436 views
Chain-link fencing: somebody’s gain, another’s loss

Chain-link fencing is perhaps one of the most viable solutions policymakers have managed to narrow down in the long and...

May 27, 2026 2 mins read 1,603 views
Fixing and fine-tuning GST regime

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime was never going to be an easy transition. Major tax reforms rarely are. Introduced in January this year, GST was envisioned as a modern tax system, replacing an outdated framework...

May 23, 2026 2 mins read 2,042 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 1,965 views
GMC was a masterstroke

The conflict in the Middle East, which has disrupted the global economy and fueled uncertainties, has led investors to question whether oil-rich nations remain a safe haven. As the confl...

May 16, 2026 2 mins read 4,581 views
Fighting online scams

The digital age has transformed Bhutanese society in ways unimaginable in just a decade or two. Social media and online platforms have opened enormous opportunities for communication,...

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 2,067 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་ཁ...

May 11, 2026 6 mins read 2,603 views
When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 2,529 views
Startups call for support beyond seed funding

The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support be...

Mar 21, 2026 3 mins read 6,428 views
National debt to rise by 26%, reaching Nu 380 billion in June

The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.

Feb 25, 2026 2 mins read 7,641 views
Economy uncoils for strongest growth in years

The Year of the Snake became a defining moment for the country’s economy, as growth accelerated sharply following severa...

Feb 18, 2026 4 mins read 7,835 views
Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

The Wood Female Snake Year brought major tax reforms in the country with the passage of the Income Tax Act of Bhutan 202...

Feb 18, 2026 2 mins read 8,247 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 15,492 views
The true wealth of Dzambhala

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

May 02, 2026 4 mins read 2,416 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...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 4,921 views
You’re not what you think you are

You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness,...

Apr 18, 2026 4 mins read 3,944 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a rela...

Apr 13, 2026 3 mins read 3,657 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins read 4,170 views
Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

Recent developments in the Middle East crisis suggest that a return to normalcy is still far away. Even if the war ends...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 3,534 views
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...

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 6,604 views
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...

Apr 25, 2026 2 mins read 3,928 views
Unshackling the state

Apr 22, 2026 2 mins read 3,979 views

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