June of 2012

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A long haul back to normalcy

Gasa Road

Jun 22, 2012 3 mins read 419 views
Green cabs to go with green tax

Electric Car

Jun 21, 2012 2 mins read 486 views
Summer Solstice: Stones in sync with the sun for world peace

Ritual

Jun 21, 2012 2 mins read 365 views
Nganglam, Samdrupjongkhar: Fishing officially banned to allow research

Nganglam Fishing

Jun 21, 2012 1 mins read 372 views
Water Supply Project: Finally getting their fair share

Thimphu Thromde

Jun 21, 2012 2 mins read 403 views
Gelephu BNB Case: Co-defendants appeal to HC

Gelephu BNB Case

Jun 21, 2012 3 mins read 378 views
One for the charge of three

My Say

Jun 21, 2012 1 mins read 384 views
Roadhouse blues

Editorial

Jun 21, 2012 2 mins read 464 views
Community Centres: One per gewog plan spills over to 11th FYP

Community Centre

Jun 21, 2012 2 mins read 408 views
Thimphu Tech Park: Waiting on Wipro

Thimphu Tech Park

Jun 21, 2012 1 mins read 465 views
Fishes perish in untold numbers

Fish in Punatshangchu

Jun 21, 2012 1 mins read 361 views
UN Conference: Sustainable development means survival, PM

UN Conferance

Jun 21, 2012 2 mins read 356 views
Damji: Flashflood, mudslides cut off Gasa

Gasa Flood

Jun 21, 2012 1 mins read 351 views
Rio+20 Summit: PM speaks at two major side events

UN - Rio + 20

Jun 20, 2012 2 mins read 534 views
Mongar Town: The speed bump Bobcat

MongarTraffic

Jun 20, 2012 1 mins read 364 views
Residents wait in vain (and pain)

Department of Road

Jun 20, 2012 2 mins read 390 views
NSB not paying Enumerators for BLSS

My Say

Jun 20, 2012 1 mins read 370 views
A pound of flesh from the high end

Editorial

Jun 20, 2012 2 mins read 396 views
Not illegal squatters

Jigmecholing - House Demolish

Jun 20, 2012 3 mins read 383 views
Student Suicide: Police to reopen case .

Crime - sucide

Jun 20, 2012 1 mins read 373 views
2012-13 Fiscal Year: Budget slashed to reduce deficit

Budget

Jun 20, 2012 2 mins read 440 views
Tax Revision Bill: Big cars and booze to cost more

Parliament - Tax Bill

Jun 20, 2012 3 mins read 387 views
Search still on for ambulance and driver

Accident

Jun 19, 2012 1 mins read 407 views
Sexual Harassment: One-year sentence for `hitting on' student

Crime - Sexual Harassement

Jun 19, 2012 1 mins read 396 views
Pedestrain day hampers gypsum exports

Pedestrian Day Samdrupjongkhar

Jun 19, 2012 2 mins read 387 views
Two-Day Training Workshop: The HYCOS early warning project

ICIMOD

Jun 19, 2012 2 mins read 392 views
Druk Gyalpo's Relief Fund Bill: Adopted by all with one voice

Relief Fund Bill

Jun 19, 2012 2 mins read 447 views
Drukair's New Routes: Year-end charter flights to South Korea likely

Druk Air

Jun 19, 2012 1 mins read 427 views
Q&A: Who in the government is accountable?

National Assembly

Jun 19, 2012 1 mins read 422 views
The G20, the Advanced Countries & Global Growth

Perspective

Jun 19, 2012 3 mins read 405 views
A disarryed PD

Pedestrian Day Samtse

Jun 19, 2012 1 mins read 384 views
Pedestrian Day: Mostly kudos with some caveats

Pedestrian Day - Paro

Jun 19, 2012 2 mins read 414 views
Royal Initiative: Growing our own red rice

Agriculture - Royal Initiative

Jun 19, 2012 1 mins read 414 views
Bumdeling, Trashiyangtse: Paddy fields parched for rain

Agriculture - Paddy Field

Jun 19, 2012 2 mins read 354 views
Documents withheld, not seized

My Say

Jun 19, 2012 2 mins read 384 views
Food for thought

Editorial

Jun 19, 2012 2 mins read 0 views
Disaster Management Bill: Unanimously passed with 30 changes

Disaster Management Bill

Jun 19, 2012 1 mins read 445 views
Dolomite Mines & Stone Quarries: Auction bid to boost rupee earnings

Geology and Mines

Jun 19, 2012 2 mins read 392 views
Ferro Silicon Industries: Removal from zero list will have little impact

Trade - Ferro Silicon

Jun 19, 2012 2 mins read 485 views
Draft Land Bill of Bhutan 2012: Kasho to set the tone for discourse

Royal Kasho

Jun 19, 2012 3 mins read 425 views
Bhutan lost its final 3-on-3 basketball match

Basketball

Jun 18, 2012 0 mins read 350 views
Twenty20 Tournament:

Sports - Cricket

Jun 18, 2012 1 mins read 438 views
S/J's Old Faithful: 50-year-old well to the rescue

Samdrupjongkhar Thromde

Jun 18, 2012 1 mins read 380 views
Monsoon crossing: Taking services to people.

Mao River

Jun 18, 2012 2 mins read 380 views
Car Hijack Case: Two conmen come clean

Crime - Car Hijack

Jun 18, 2012 2 mins read 388 views
A categorical denial of the statement attributed to self

My Say

Jun 18, 2012 1 mins read 378 views
This land is our land

Editorial

Jun 18, 2012 2 mins read 382 views
Vegetables: Wholesalers hold off

FCB

Jun 18, 2012 3 mins read 360 views
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Triple demographic crisis could undermine 10X national economic vision

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NC reviews progress on healthcare system recommendations

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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 beyond seed funding remains limited, making it difficult for existing startups to scale and sustain operations.

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Whose face are you wearing?

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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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Where tradition meets treatment

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Between Homes

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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 role as a symbol of abundance and generosity. There are five principal forms of the...

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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 and warmth by devoted grandparents can fare well, separation from parents at this age generally causes...

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You’re not what you think you are

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Sundays at Le Méridien

The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a relaxed four-hour setting to reconnect with family and friends.

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Insolvency law, a long overdue

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GMC was a masterstroke

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Fighting online scams

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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་ཁ...

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Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

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May 02, 2026 3 mins read 2,454 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 could see as few as 2,000 births by 2028.

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 5,187 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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Unshackling the state

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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

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

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

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The trap of spiritual materialism

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Compassion in practice: Building a win-win healthcare system

Taking care of all members of society is a characteristic of a mature and compassionate nation; therefore, I strongly ad...

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Happiness with Mr Bhutan

Studies and end of life accounts consistently show that many of us leave this world with the same stinging regrets: not...

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When Words Create Worlds

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Where to find the best momos in Thimphu

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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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A call for shared responsibility

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When the watchdog has no teeth

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Recents

GST debate intensifies as inflation rises, government proposes expanded exemptions

Just five months into the new 5 percent GST regime, food inflation has soared to 6.83 percent, leaving consumers asking: where are the promised savings? While lawmakers push to exempt 22 new essential items like cooking oil and rice to protect the poor , tax officials warn that adding more exemptions will only invite massive tax evasion. Who is really winning here? The consumers or the businesses?

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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.

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