May of 2013

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Cabbies pay the price for their high charges

Transport

May 29, 2013 1 mins read 409 views
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Letter to the editor

May 29, 2013 2 mins read 435 views
Over to the voters now

Editorial

May 29, 2013 2 mins read 418 views
Army worms overrun Haa and Bumthang

Worms

May 29, 2013 1 mins read 406 views
Army worms all over Haa wheat crop

Worms

May 29, 2013 2 mins read 404 views
Social media users flout election blackout rule

National Assembly Election

May 29, 2013 2 mins read 398 views
All set for the primary poll

National Assembly Election

May 29, 2013 3 mins read 403 views
Poll officials leave early for remote gewogs

National Assembly Election

May 28, 2013 1 mins read 367 views
Last stop at Drukjegang-Tseza

National Assembly Election

May 28, 2013 1 mins read 395 views
Chirwang's campaign winds up in Haa

National Assembly Election

May 28, 2013 2 mins read 358 views
Hard going, getting to Gong

National Assembly Election

May 28, 2013 1 mins read 406 views
Polling officials en route to duty stations

National Assembly Election

May 28, 2013 2 mins read 426 views
Flare up and blackout at Martshala common forum

National Assembly Election

May 28, 2013 2 mins read 394 views
Phuentsholing seer steers clear of political predictions

Personalities

May 28, 2013 3 mins read 435 views
DNT president keeps her date with Samtse

National Assembly Election

May 28, 2013 2 mins read 420 views
DPT president's wife addresses meeting

National Assembly Election

May 28, 2013 1 mins read 453 views
Late starters make last minute rounds

National Assembly Election

May 28, 2013 1 mins read 396 views
Khar-Yurung common forum minus one

National Assembly Election

May 28, 2013 1 mins read 389 views
The bigger picture

Letter to the editor

May 28, 2013 2 mins read 0 views
Election blackout - a time for reflection

Editorial

May 28, 2013 2 mins read 383 views
Last forum at Lumang an occasion to clarify

National Assembly Election

May 28, 2013 2 mins read 392 views
Bumthang ready for P-Day

National Assembly Election

May 28, 2013 2 mins read 422 views
Wangdue polling team on the move

National Assembly Election

May 28, 2013 0 mins read 420 views
Taking polling stations to the nomads

National Assembly Election

May 28, 2013 2 mins read 353 views
After all the sound and fury .

National Assembly Election

May 28, 2013 2 mins read 396 views
Campaign silence

National Assembly Election

May 28, 2013 0 mins read 421 views
PDP president in home stretch

National Assembly Election

May 27, 2013 3 mins read 431 views
Nanong-Shumar's common forum

National Assembly Election

May 27, 2013 2 mins read 415 views
Convicted contractor yet to submit grounds of appeal

Crime

May 27, 2013 2 mins read 385 views
Education pledges

National Assembly Election

May 27, 2013 4 mins read 433 views
Do away with party workers .

National Assembly Election

May 27, 2013 3 mins read 388 views
2nd business idea competition in June

IT Park

May 27, 2013 1 mins read 479 views
`Peach blossom' president explains her absence

National Assembly Election

May 27, 2013 1 mins read 376 views
Bribery allegation lodged

National Assembly Election

May 27, 2013 2 mins read 404 views
A Global Goal on Gender Equality, Women's Rights and Women's Empowerment

Letter to the editor

May 27, 2013 3 mins read 406 views
Building up to the ballot

Editorial

May 27, 2013 2 mins read 398 views
Thrimshing common forum

National Assembly Election

May 27, 2013 2 mins read 376 views
Forum for clarification

National Assembly Election

May 27, 2013 3 mins read 489 views
Lessons to draw from and share

SAARC

May 27, 2013 3 mins read 460 views
Election team reaches Lunana

National Assembly Election

May 27, 2013 2 mins read 469 views
PDP reprimanded

National Assembly Election

May 27, 2013 0 mins read 393 views
Yeedzin FC on top.

Football

May 26, 2013 1 mins read 439 views
Pazaps, Pamos crowned champions

Basketball

May 26, 2013 1 mins read 371 views
Whose Haa is it anyway?

National Assembly Election

May 26, 2013 3 mins read 362 views
PARTY PLEDGES

National Assembly Election

May 26, 2013 6 mins read 418 views
Mongar voters get forum fatigue

National Assembly Election

May 26, 2013 2 mins read 406 views
Mongar's common forums end

National Assembly Election

May 26, 2013 1 mins read 422 views
His Majesty bestows dhar on councillors

National Council

May 26, 2013 1 mins read 438 views
"Awful" road condition

Letter to the editor

May 26, 2013 1 mins read 381 views
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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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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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