July of 2018

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World Ranger Day honours women rangers

World Ranger Day

Jul 31, 2018 1 mins read 639 views
Denchi town in Pemagatshel gets a fuel depot

Bhutan Oil Corporation (BOC)

Jul 31, 2018 1 mins read 629 views
Fire safety measures in place in new Wamrong town

Fire safety measures

Jul 31, 2018 2 mins read 700 views
LG budget allocation and salary pledge fulfilled

Politics

Jul 31, 2018 1 mins read 632 views
Boosting agro-ecological and organic production

Letter to the editor

Jul 31, 2018 1 mins read 583 views
Address the housing issue

Editorial

Jul 31, 2018 2 mins read 695 views
Bhutan for Life Secretariat Office opened

Inauguration

Jul 31, 2018 0 mins read 648 views
Gelephu and Tsirang hospitals inaugurated

Hospitals

Jul 31, 2018 1 mins read 681 views
Commuters advised to use old Damchu-Chukha road

Road

Jul 31, 2018 0 mins read 625 views
Opposition disheartened by PM's remarks

Politics

Jul 31, 2018 2 mins read 596 views
Has the foreign currency reserve improved?

Currency Reserve (CC)

Jul 31, 2018 3 mins read 615 views
Weekly startup sessions

Weekly startup sessions

Jul 31, 2018 0 mins read 713 views
National Assembly dissolves today

National Assembly

Jul 31, 2018 0 mins read 713 views
BFF Academy FC wins UTH Women's Super League 2018

Football

Jul 30, 2018 2 mins read 599 views
Improving health of women, children and adolescents

World Health Organisation (WHO)

Jul 30, 2018 1 mins read 538 views
Lack of budget halts national assessment for technical trainees

Technical Training Institutes

Jul 30, 2018 3 mins read 534 views
Saving the environment

National Environment Commission (NEC)

Jul 30, 2018 3 mins read 0 views
Towards better unity and benefit of the hospitality industry

Hotel and Restaurant Association of Bhutan (HRAB)

Jul 30, 2018 2 mins read 544 views
Mother charged for voluntary manslaughter in P'ling baby case

Crime

Jul 30, 2018 2 mins read 635 views
Primary education needs a major overhaul

Letter to the editor

Jul 30, 2018 1 mins read 652 views
Youth unemployment: what and where is the truth?

Editorial

Jul 30, 2018 1 mins read 594 views
Falling boulders block Damchu-Chukha bypass

Road

Jul 30, 2018 1 mins read 586 views
Corporatisation of JDWNRH issue injure achievements in health sector

Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH)

Jul 30, 2018 3 mins read 603 views
High Court slams company for commercial fraud

Judiciary

Jul 30, 2018 3 mins read 595 views
Mangdechhu project to begin pre-commissioning test in October

Hydropower

Jul 30, 2018 2 mins read 622 views
Essential medicines

Health

Jul 30, 2018 0 mins read 636 views
Serving regional Tourists

Editorial

Jul 29, 2018 2 mins read 586 views
Two projects on land use certificate inaugurated in Trashigang

Inauguration

Jul 29, 2018 1 mins read 647 views
Saving the environment

National Environment Commission (NEC)

Jul 29, 2018 4 mins read 0 views
Non-subsidised LPG unpopular

Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)

Jul 29, 2018 1 mins read 563 views
Ninth construction expo hosts over 60 participants

Construction Expo

Jul 29, 2018 1 mins read 564 views
RMA approves CSI bank regulation

Royal Monetary Authority (RMA)

Jul 29, 2018 3 mins read 557 views
Women choosing to have less children: health officials

Health

Jul 29, 2018 3 mins read 567 views
Housing project inaugurated in P'ling

Inauguration

Jul 29, 2018 2 mins read 587 views
Sovereignty, security and self-sufficiency our priorities: DPT

Politics

Jul 29, 2018 3 mins read 568 views
Cabinet meets media

Cabinet

Jul 29, 2018 0 mins read 622 views
Monk teachers attend life skills education in Paro

Monks

Jul 27, 2018 1 mins read 578 views
JICA assists DoR in bridge construction and maintenance

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Jul 27, 2018 2 mins read 592 views
Judiciary prepares to hear environmental litigations

Judiciary

Jul 27, 2018 1 mins read 538 views
Saving the environment

National Environment Commission (NEC)

Jul 27, 2018 4 mins read 0 views
CT scan machine not operational in Mongar hospital

Hospitals

Jul 27, 2018 1 mins read 579 views
Roads sector, a work in progres

Government

Jul 27, 2018 3 mins read 642 views
Dry monsoon hits Dagana farmers

Agriculture

Jul 27, 2018 2 mins read 524 views
Go beyond tracing fake Facebook accounts

Letter to the editor

Jul 27, 2018 1 mins read 582 views
Women candidates few and far between

Editorial

Jul 27, 2018 1 mins read 546 views
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Amendment to CRPD reservation fails to secure support in NC

The amendment to the reservation on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was not adopted at the ongoing National Council (NC) session today as it failed to secure the required simple majority.

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Study to improve road construction in high-altitude passes

Recurrent failures of pavements along Dochula, Pelela, Yotongla and Thrumshingla passes are partly attributed to design...

Jun 09, 2026 2 mins read 3,320 views
Bhutan installs first high-altitude black carbon monitoring station

The National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM), in partnership with the International Centre for Integrated Mo...

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 1,586 views
NC forwards Co-operatives and Farmers Groups Bill 2025 to National Assembly

The Co-operatives and Farmers Groups Bill of Bhutan 2025 has been reviewed by the National Council and forwarded to the...

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 1,926 views
NC backs designated zones for meat shops, adopts Livestock Bill

Meat shops and meat sales outlets will be allowed to operate only from designated locations under the Livestock Bill of...

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Finance Minister to present revised block grant guidelines in winter Parliament session

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New income tax regime reduces TDS deductions, increases take-home pay

Civil servants across all grade levels have seen a significant increase in take-home pay following recent tax reforms, a...

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Renovated immigration building to ease congestion at Phuentsholing terminal

Phuentsholing—Tourists entering the country by road through Phuentsholing will experience faster and more comfortable se...

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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...

Jun 06, 2026 5 mins read 2,633 views
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 ch...

Jun 06, 2026 3 mins read 1,892 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 1,405 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 3,893 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 604 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 1,257 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...

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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...

May 24, 2026 4 mins read 1,421 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 1,851 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 2,434 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 2,183 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 2,851 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 2,595 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...

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Overseas employment isn’t the solution

The conflict in the Middle East has once again exposed our dependence on overseas employment as a pressure valve for domestic unemployment.

Jun 10, 2026 2 mins read 1,096 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 Mindfulnes...

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 549 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 1,847 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 1,591 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 1,762 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 2,186 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 2,107 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 4,699 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 2,193 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...

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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...

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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.

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Economy uncoils for strongest growth in years

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Feb 18, 2026 4 mins read 8,040 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...

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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...

May 02, 2026 4 mins read 2,514 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 5,045 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 4,062 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...

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The trap of spiritual materialism

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When will we feed ourselves?

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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...

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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...

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 6,787 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...

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Recents

Dungkar Dzong-an icon of Bhutan’s transformation

The Dungkar Dzong in Pangbisa, Paro, is a vivid living monument to the era of transformation in Bhutan. The structure represents Bhutan’s architectural splendour at its best. In function, it is an icon of change, an expression of times to come. The concept is an ingenuous demonstration of how a proud past welcomes an exciting future.

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Fourth thromde elections set for July 15

The dhamngoi zomdu (candidate selection meetings) for Thrompon candidates will begin for the fourth local government elections of Thimphu and Phuentsholing Thromde Tshogdes, scheduled for July 15, according to the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB).

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