May of 2000

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Editorial

May 05, 2000 1 mins read 634 views
Growth of rare medicinal plants encouraged

Indigenous Hospital

May 19, 2000 2 mins read 589 views
Bhutan - Bangladesh to strengthen economic relations

Bhutan-Bangladesh

May 19, 2000 2 mins read 601 views
Nu 4.3 million to be spent from Youth Fund

Youth Development Fund

May 05, 2000 1 mins read 761 views
Chainsaw logging for sustainability

Forest Social/Project/ Afforestation

May 05, 2000 2 mins read 624 views
Accident in Panbang

Accident

May 05, 2000 1 mins read 584 views
ISBN useful for writers, publishers

Books

May 05, 2000 2 mins read 627 views
Golfers battle new course in year's first tournament

Golf

May 05, 2000 2 mins read 567 views
RSTA firm on the taxi meter rule

Road Safety and Transport Authority (RSTA)

May 05, 2000 2 mins read 564 views
City Corporation ups stakes to keep Thimphu clean

City Corporation

May 05, 2000 2 mins read 535 views
Big return for investors in Bhutan Polymers

Companies

May 05, 2000 2 mins read 605 views
Traditional bow archery: why very little support?

Archery

May 05, 2000 2 mins read 586 views
Nu 500 counterfeit notes detected

Counterfeit

May 05, 2000 1 mins read 641 views
Stuck on "dendrite"

Narcotics/Drugs

May 05, 2000 2 mins read 536 views
Budding authors preserve Bhutanese story-telling tradition

Bhutan - Tradition

May 05, 2000 2 mins read 652 views
Table tennis: picking up but exposure needed

Tennis

May 05, 2000 2 mins read 501 views
Health draws up draft policy on breast feeding

Health Mother and Child Programme

May 05, 2000 2 mins read 574 views
Queen's Birthday celebrate

Royalties

May 05, 2000 0 mins read 526 views
RSTA to start 24-hour taxi service in Thimphu

Road Safety and Transport Authority (RSTA)

May 05, 2000 1 mins read 572 views
Bhutan's pavilion among top ten at World Expo 2000

Exhibition

May 05, 2000 5 mins read 529 views
Think about our actions

Letters to the Editor

May 05, 2000 1 mins read 523 views
WWF on television

Letters to the Editor

May 05, 2000 1 mins read 537 views
Wrongs and rights of publicity

Letters to the Editor

May 05, 2000 1 mins read 503 views
Licence restrictive

Letters to the Editor

May 05, 2000 1 mins read 583 views
The changes: unfairly, fair

Letters to the Editor

May 05, 2000 1 mins read 561 views
Need for legislation

Editorial

May 05, 2000 2 mins read 520 views
Bengal tiger sighted at Thrumshingla

National Park

May 05, 2000 2 mins read 624 views
Verdict on kerosene black-marketeers expected this month

Energy (Solar, Water, Wind)

May 05, 2000 1 mins read 533 views
Swiss ambassador presents credentials

Bhutan-Switzerland

May 05, 2000 1 mins read 607 views
Bhutan committed to bilateral process on refugee problem

Bhutan - Nepal Refugee Issue

May 05, 2000 3 mins read 553 views
Lecture series

Sherubtse College and Graduates

May 05, 2000 0 mins read 663 views
Computer virus

Computer/Internet

May 05, 2000 1 mins read 591 views
RBA officers punished

Royal Bhutan Army (RBA)

May 05, 2000 0 mins read 542 views
Enabling decision-making at the grassroots

Projects

May 12, 2000 2 mins read 547 views
Private sector issues under discussion

Private Sector

May 12, 2000 1 mins read 540 views
"Only goodwill will endure": Rao

Personalities

May 12, 2000 2 mins read 564 views
Bumthang sports body calls for local participation

Sport

May 12, 2000 1 mins read 565 views
What's in store this football season?

Sport

May 12, 2000 3 mins read 487 views
CHPC take on finance in archery finals today

Archery

May 12, 2000 2 mins read 540 views
New strategies to improve research into Bhutanese language, culture

Languages

May 12, 2000 1 mins read 570 views
Two winning lottery numbers

Lottery

May 12, 2000 1 mins read 540 views
Learning environmental management

Tourism

May 12, 2000 3 mins read 531 views
Changzamtog expressway to begin in October

Roads

May 12, 2000 2 mins read 522 views
Private firm trains people on decentralisation

Private Sector

May 12, 2000 2 mins read 514 views
RNR centre

Agriculture Activities

May 12, 2000 1 mins read 543 views
Crime spate in the capital

Crime

May 12, 2000 2 mins read 557 views
Smoking ban provokes controversy

Narcotics/Drugs

May 12, 2000 3 mins read 610 views
Man betrays trust and sells car in Siliguri

Crime

May 12, 2000 1 mins read 589 views
Livestock increasingly threatened by wild animals

Animal Husbandry Livestock

May 12, 2000 1 mins read 564 views
Three killed in car accident

Accident

May 12, 2000 1 mins read 624 views
Browse Archives
The house that must never be empty

It has been less than a month since Rinchen Yangzom moved into the Bjarpa community house beside Ngangla Lhakhang in Ngangla Trong. For the next three years, this is her home. She cannot leave it for a single day.

Jun 10, 2026 3 mins read 3,104 views
Empowering women through waste upcycling

After receiving training from Women’s Self-Support Group on Waste Management in 2023 on crafting new products from plastic waste, Jamyang Choden, 44, from Lhuentse, decided to give it a try.

Jun 10, 2026 2 mins read 2,193 views
Educated Tshogpa paves way for younger highlanders

An educated youth has shattered traditional age boundaries to get elected as Tshogpa, completely rewriting what leadersh...

Jun 10, 2026 2 mins read 2,435 views
NA directs talks on reducing high lending rates to ease burden

Banks in the country maintain high lending rates and low returns on deposits, which continue to strain businesses, parti...

Jun 10, 2026 2 mins read 5,767 views
BLDCL at loggerheads with private retail outlets and distributors

Private livestock dealers claim a state-owned corporation lured them into investing, only to turn around and aggressivel...

Jun 10, 2026 5 mins read 2,949 views
DoT spends 85 percent of budget, but key infrastructure projects lag behind

The Department of Tourism spent over 85 per cent of its budget, yet critical tourism infrastructure is still lagging. Wh...

Jun 10, 2026 4 mins read 4,396 views
NC supports Renewable Energy Tax Exemption Bill

Are we giving away massive corporate tax exemptions until 2040 without a fallback plan? While the government pushes forw...

Jun 10, 2026 2 mins read 1,981 views
Finance minister rules out flexible, instalment-based property tax system

The Ministry of Finance rejected a proposal to allow property taxpayers to make payments throughout the fiscal year as a...

Jun 10, 2026 2 mins read 1,736 views
Safety gaps expose industrial workers to occupational cancers

As the country’s industrial sector expands, workers are increasingly being exposed to cancer-causing substances amid low...

Jun 10, 2026 4 mins read 1,605 views
SMCL restores paddy field damaged by mine-related erosion in Samdrupjongkhar

The State Mining Corporation Limited (SMCL) has restored a paddy field in Phuntshothang Gewog, Samdrupjongkhar, that was...

Jun 10, 2026 1 mins read 1,625 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 1,619 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 4,053 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 13, 2026 4 mins read 392 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 748 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 1,345 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 1,177 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 1,514 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 1,940 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 2,528 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 2,281 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 2,933 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 2,689 views
Reform or stay shut

The closure of drayangs (entertainment centres) is an issue that most sensible Bhutanese, except perhaps the operators, have supported. While the current government may have pledged during the campaign to review the previous government’s decision to shut them down, any sane government should not back down from that closure.

Jun 13, 2026 2 mins read 738 views
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 1,301 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 687 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 1,985 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 1,711 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 1,904 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 2,308 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 2,219 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 4,804 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 2,297 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 6,666 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 8,043 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 8,236 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 8,647 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 15,902 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...

May 02, 2026 1 mins read 6,892 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 2,609 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 5,156 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 4,171 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 3,852 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 2,899 views
When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 2,759 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 3,780 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 6,928 views

Recents

RAA uncovers major procurement lapses in the Nu 610M BITS projects

A Special Audit Report by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has identified significant procurement, planning, and governance failures in the Bhutan Integrated Taxation System (BITS 1.0), concluding that the project failed to achieve its intended objectives and resulted in substantial wasteful and avoidable expenditure of public funds.

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What solutions for Amochu project?

Phuentsholing—Erratic climatic conditions combined with changing geological patterns have turned the developing Amochu township area into a recurring flood-prone zone in recent years, with the latest disruption occurring even before the onset of the monsoon.

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RCSC faces growing ‘missing middle’ amid exodus

A widening shortage of mid-career civil servants is creating what officials describe as a “missing middle” across government agencies, raising concerns about leadership succession, institutional continuity and the long-term resilience of the country’s public sector workforce.

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Reform or stay shut

The closure of drayangs (entertainment centres) is an issue that most sensible Bhutanese, except perhaps the operators, have supported. While the current government may have pledged during the campaign to review the previous government’s decision to shut them down, any sane government should not back down from that closure.

Read More