May of 2013

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DPT wins Yangtse, PDP is runner-up

National Assembly Election

May 31, 2013 1 mins read 581 views
DPT makes a clean sweep of Zhemgang

National Assembly Election

May 31, 2013 1 mins read 610 views
DPT gets a full hand in S/J, PDP comes second

National Assembly Election

May 31, 2013 2 mins read 557 views
Good turnout in Gelephu

National Assembly Election

May 31, 2013 3 mins read 606 views
Paro split between DPT and PDP

National Assembly Election

May 31, 2013 1 mins read 619 views
The horse gallops through in Haa

National Assembly Election

May 31, 2013 2 mins read 638 views
PDP pips DPT to the Punakha post

National Assembly Election

May 31, 2013 2 mins read 607 views
Sarpang's DNT and DCT candidates will be back in 2018

National Assembly Election

May 31, 2013 3 mins read 597 views
PDP wrench Wangdue from DPT

National Assembly Election

May 31, 2013 2 mins read 618 views
DPT draws a blank in Chukha

National Assembly Election

May 31, 2013 2 mins read 561 views
DPT bag Gasa with PDP a close second

National Assembly Election

May 31, 2013 2 mins read 592 views
Trongsa sticks with DPT .

National Assembly Election

May 31, 2013 2 mins read 576 views
DPT sweeps Thimphu votes

National Assembly Election

May 31, 2013 1 mins read 614 views
DPT dominance in Trashigang

National Assembly Election

May 31, 2013 2 mins read 560 views
We'll have 5 years to plan better: DCT president

National Assembly Election

May 31, 2013 2 mins read 613 views
Ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship

Letter to the editor

May 31, 2013 2 mins read 532 views
Reading the results

Editorial

May 31, 2013 2 mins read 554 views
People choose cranes and horse

National Assembly Election

May 31, 2013 4 mins read 628 views
A convincing second

National Assembly Election

May 31, 2013 1 mins read 528 views
Votes were for the party

National Assembly Election

May 31, 2013 2 mins read 579 views
The state of Tsirang's postal ballots

National Assembly Election

May 30, 2013 1 mins read 602 views
Roadblock at Gathana, Damji

Landslide

May 30, 2013 1 mins read 562 views
What it entails to set up polling stations

National Assembly Election

May 30, 2013 1 mins read 536 views
A homecoming as well for voters

National Assembly Election

May 30, 2013 2 mins read 571 views
Comply or else .

National Assembly Election

May 30, 2013 1 mins read 582 views
Paro postal ballot status

National Assembly Election

May 30, 2013 1 mins read 551 views
Druknet reduces broadband rates across the board

Internet

May 30, 2013 2 mins read 618 views
Candidates unwind before the big day

National Assembly Election

May 30, 2013 1 mins read 591 views
Rainy days but not rainy season

Weather

May 30, 2013 1 mins read 538 views
Rice soelra for Lhuentse farmers

HM the King

May 30, 2013 1 mins read 544 views
Lhuentse receives 2,668 postal ballots

National Assembly Election

May 30, 2013 1 mins read 521 views
130 postal ballots rejected in Bumthang

National Assembly Election

May 30, 2013 1 mins read 555 views
94 postal ballots rejected in Dagana

National Assembly Election

May 30, 2013 1 mins read 545 views
Rain or shine, Haa's primed

National Assembly Election

May 30, 2013 2 mins read 525 views
Paro farmers preoccupied with army worms

Worms

May 30, 2013 1 mins read 513 views
The real power picture

Letter to the editor

May 30, 2013 3 mins read 587 views
Power through the people

Editorial

May 30, 2013 2 mins read 623 views
Nation goes to primary poll for the first time

National Assembly Election

May 30, 2013 2 mins read 488 views
Taking the pulse of the presidents

National Assembly Election

May 30, 2013 7 mins read 544 views
Dagana primed for primaries

National Assembly Election

May 29, 2013 3 mins read 571 views
Punakha's as unpredictable as the rest

National Assembly Election

May 29, 2013 2 mins read 585 views
Money and the monastic body

Religion

May 29, 2013 4 mins read 588 views
Postal votes arrive in thousands

National Assembly Election

May 29, 2013 2 mins read 559 views
Sarpang's postal ballot status

National Assembly Election

May 29, 2013 1 mins read 600 views
High turnout likely for primary

National Assembly Election

May 29, 2013 1 mins read 565 views
Candidates promise water for Laptsakha

Water

May 29, 2013 3 mins read 704 views
Thailand withers as Myanmar rises

Perspective

May 29, 2013 4 mins read 565 views
Samtse's choice is anybody's guess

National Assembly Election

May 29, 2013 2 mins read 576 views
On poll day, no polling representative in polling stations

National Assembly Election

May 29, 2013 2 mins read 590 views
In droves they come to vote

National Assembly Election

May 29, 2013 2 mins read 613 views
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༉ 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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Recents

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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Drayang closure to remain permanent

More than two years after promising to review the closure of drayangs, the government has ruled out the possibility of reviving the entertainment venues, signalling a definitive end to an industry that once formed a significant part of the country’s nightlife economy.

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