June of 2018

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Winter chilli production encouraging despite hiccups

Chilies

Jun 08, 2018 4 mins read 400 views
Parties raise concerns over politicisation of civil service

Politics

Jun 08, 2018 4 mins read 481 views
Annual Dzongdags' Conference

Conference

Jun 08, 2018 0 mins read 469 views
Art exhibition held to celebrate Bhutan - India relations

Art exhibition

Jun 07, 2018 1 mins read 471 views
Bangladesh bound trucks complain of problems along the highway

Truckers

Jun 07, 2018 2 mins read 474 views
New parking in Babesa to accommodate about 100 trucks

Parking

Jun 07, 2018 1 mins read 489 views
Bhutan partners with sanitation and water for all

Sanitation and Water for All (SWA)

Jun 07, 2018 1 mins read 457 views
A monk turned entrepreneur manufactures egg trays in Sarpang

Eentrepreneurs

Jun 07, 2018 2 mins read 485 views
Roof urban buildings with solar panel

Letter to the editor

Jun 07, 2018 1 mins read 417 views
Encourage self-employment among youth

Editorial

Jun 07, 2018 1 mins read 460 views
Two vocational institutes recognised with quality in excellence

Institutes

Jun 07, 2018 2 mins read 461 views
Darla windstorm affects 214 households

Department of Disaster Management (DDM)

Jun 07, 2018 1 mins read 437 views
MoH allows private diagnostic clinics to conduct HIV tests

Health

Jun 07, 2018 2 mins read 469 views
44 farm machinery centres to open this month

Farm Machinery Corporation Ltd (FMCL)

Jun 07, 2018 3 mins read 490 views
Thuendrel

Thuendrel

Jun 07, 2018 0 mins read 469 views
Archer from Sikkim overwhelms Bhutanese archers

Archery

Jun 06, 2018 1 mins read 445 views
Sarpang police to forward minor rape case to OAG today

Office of the attorney general (OAG)

Jun 06, 2018 1 mins read 396 views
Recycled plastic waste exhibited in S/jongkhar throm

Waste

Jun 06, 2018 1 mins read 434 views
Fuel prices hiked

Fuel

Jun 06, 2018 1 mins read 0 views
PDP replaces three serving MPs

Politics

Jun 06, 2018 1 mins read 509 views
Rising dog bite cases in Thimphu city calls for a solution

Letter to the editor

Jun 06, 2018 2 mins read 431 views
Students and alcohol

Editorial

Jun 06, 2018 2 mins read 495 views
Chukha court sends businessman to prison for five years for SP+

Crime

Jun 06, 2018 2 mins read 520 views
Former BKK Chancery head appeals to HC

Judiciary

Jun 06, 2018 1 mins read 436 views
Dungsam Polymers suffer sixth consecutive loss

Dungsam Polymers Limited (DPL)

Jun 06, 2018 3 mins read 426 views
PM cautions replaced MPs not to compromise party interests

Politics

Jun 06, 2018 3 mins read 430 views
Quality Excellence Award

Award

Jun 06, 2018 0 mins read 442 views
BCCB T20 Cricket tournament into super four play-off

Cricket

Jun 05, 2018 2 mins read 447 views
Tsirang to plant 40,000 trees in two years

Tree saplings

Jun 05, 2018 1 mins read 452 views
DPT declares two candidates, appoints new secretary general

Politics

Jun 05, 2018 2 mins read 467 views
JDWNRH rules out negligence in patient death

Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH)

Jun 05, 2018 3 mins read 451 views
Need consistency in spellings for dzongkhags

Letter to the editor

Jun 05, 2018 1 mins read 419 views
Weaning ourselves off plastic bags

Editorial

Jun 05, 2018 1 mins read 424 views
Man gets five years for trafficking 241 SP+ capsules

Crime

Jun 05, 2018 2 mins read 475 views
OAG charges eight in Goshing gup's corruption issue

Office of the attorney general (OAG)

Jun 05, 2018 2 mins read 456 views
World Bank supports DMG to reform the mining sector

World Bank

Jun 05, 2018 2 mins read 457 views
Waste recovery center opens in Ngabiphu

Waste

Jun 05, 2018 1 mins read 424 views
Cordycep collectors return to Wangdue from Lunana

Cordyceps

Jun 05, 2018 2 mins read 415 views
Legacy of the Monarchy Lecture Series

Judiciary

Jun 05, 2018 0 mins read 415 views
Stray dogs - whose responsibility?

Editorial

Jun 04, 2018 2 mins read 455 views
BAFRA fines vendor for importing banned chillies in Trashigang

Bhutan Agriculture and Food Regulatory Authority (BAFRA)

Jun 04, 2018 2 mins read 437 views
Samdrupjongkhar plans to become the first plastic-free town

Samdrupjongkhar

Jun 04, 2018 1 mins read 447 views
BKP declares 14 candidates

Politics

Jun 04, 2018 2 mins read 417 views
School in Gelephu initiates sexual abuse awareness programmes

Schools

Jun 04, 2018 2 mins read 552 views
Defendants refute false insurance claim case

Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan (RICBL)

Jun 04, 2018 3 mins read 443 views
Increased vehicle numbers and adverse effects

Vehicles

Jun 04, 2018 3 mins read 394 views
Three vaccines introduced

Health

Jun 04, 2018 4 mins read 484 views
Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen

Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen

Jun 04, 2018 0 mins read 453 views
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A memoir of hustle and heartache

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Where tradition meets treatment

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The true wealth of Dzambhala

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No amount of money can replace you

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You’re not what you think you are

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Sundays at Le Méridien

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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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Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

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Unshackling the state

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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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