May of 2020

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MPs' identification cards to be reprinted after executive's objection

National Assembly

May 31, 2020 2 mins read 638 views
S/jongkhar makes tobacco import easier

Trade

May 31, 2020 2 mins read 632 views
New lifeline for Janphutse villagers

Infra-settlement

May 31, 2020 2 mins read 639 views
Confusion over use of face masks

Letter to the editor

May 31, 2020 2 mins read 598 views
Youth tobacco survey: we need to learn more, and act

Editorial

May 31, 2020 2 mins read 662 views
Popular TashiCell data plans to get more data

Technology

May 31, 2020 1 mins read 703 views
31,257 apply for Druk Gyalpo's Relief Kidu

Kidu

May 31, 2020 3 mins read 615 views
Semester-end exams to be held before September

Education

May 31, 2020 2 mins read 732 views
Tobacco use among youth remains high

Health

May 31, 2020 4 mins read 573 views
Hailstorm leaves farmers distressed

Disaster

May 29, 2020 1 mins read 623 views
Covid-19 and my 24 years of teaching experience

Perspective

May 29, 2020 2 mins read 653 views
Shumar farmers see potential in onions

Agriculture

May 29, 2020 1 mins read 649 views
Watermelon cultivation grows

Agriculture

May 29, 2020 2 mins read 679 views
Needy students get feeding take-home ration

Education

May 29, 2020 2 mins read 594 views
Thrimshing's longest farm road in need of maintenance

Infra-settlement

May 29, 2020 1 mins read 632 views
Resurfacing of Sunkosh-Dagapela road to begin in August

Infra-settlement

May 29, 2020 2 mins read 648 views
Better hand-washing stations at CFM

Health

May 29, 2020 1 mins read 605 views
Four years on, Jigmeling Industrial Estate not ready

Industries

May 29, 2020 2 mins read 634 views
Public service agencies do not have impunity for negligence

Letter to the editor

May 29, 2020 2 mins read 622 views
Time to change gears

Editorial

May 29, 2020 2 mins read 661 views
Finance minister to unveil new budget on Monday

Finance

May 29, 2020 3 mins read 551 views
Covid-19: Health ministry prepared to handle birth and death

Health

May 29, 2020 2 mins read 579 views
Govt. won't meddle in private school fee issue: Education minister

Education

May 29, 2020 3 mins read 711 views
Tax reforms applicable retrospectively from Jan 16

Finance

May 29, 2020 3 mins read 617 views
Covid-19, a blessing for a poultry farmer in Tsaenkhar

Farming

May 28, 2020 1 mins read 643 views
Bark beetle ravage trees along Chelela bypass

Disaster

May 28, 2020 2 mins read 623 views
Robed community observes Red Dot

Health

May 28, 2020 3 mins read 669 views
Gasa PS gets a new female changing room

Education

May 28, 2020 1 mins read 626 views
Why do we feel shy or embarrassed?

Perspective

May 28, 2020 4 mins read 627 views
Local economy bounces back in Phuentsholing

Trade

May 28, 2020 2 mins read 615 views
The university for the 21st century Bhutan

Letter to the editor

May 28, 2020 1 mins read 610 views
Re-opening the schools is dangerous

Editorial

May 28, 2020 2 mins read 665 views
Cleaner's wife alleges drangpon's wife of assault

Crime

May 28, 2020 2 mins read 595 views
Amphan increases Bhutan's energy production

Hydro power

May 28, 2020 3 mins read 563 views
Thimphu highlanders lose 23 animals to Amphan

Disaster

May 28, 2020 1 mins read 607 views
Illegal entry across the International border

Crime

May 28, 2020 1 mins read 659 views
May sees a huge spike in Covid-19 cases

Health

May 28, 2020 3 mins read 593 views
Differences in opinion hold work at the PHPA I

Hydro power

May 28, 2020 2 mins read 599 views
Rainfall and temperature forecast for 2020 summer

Briefly

May 27, 2020 0 mins read 637 views
Demand for Bumthang honey declines

Farming

May 27, 2020 1 mins read 620 views
Civil servants in farming as they maintain physical distancing

Agriculture

May 27, 2020 1 mins read 623 views
`Green' menstruation in Bhutan: for health, climate and beyond

Perspective

May 27, 2020 5 mins read 750 views
DAMC is dissolved for duplication of roles

Royal Civil service Commission

May 27, 2020 2 mins read 685 views
Farmers lose maize to a windstorm in Khaling

Disaster

May 27, 2020 1 mins read 615 views
Identifying systemic loopholes

Letter to the editor

May 27, 2020 1 mins read 640 views
More than dietary and nutritional needs

Editorial

May 27, 2020 2 mins read 579 views
Industrial service centre in Gelephu taking shape

Industries

May 27, 2020 1 mins read 564 views
Man sentenced for voluntary manslaughter

Crime

May 27, 2020 1 mins read 685 views
RUB students confused about semester end exam

Education

May 27, 2020 1 mins read 606 views
Japan and Bhutan sign grant worth 174 million Japanese Yen

Award-Grant

May 27, 2020 0 mins read 642 views
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Amendment to CRPD reservation fails to secure support in NC

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ACC drops cases against former JDWNRH president; family alleges wrongful implication

Family members of former President of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) Lhab Dorji have alleged...

Jun 06, 2026 5 mins read 2,710 views
The gift of children

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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 1,480 views
Bhutan to pilot green finance taxonomy from June

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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 650 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 1,283 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 1,112 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 1,446 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 1,874 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 2,461 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

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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 2,873 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 2,620 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 to imagine what life would be like. Bu...

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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 1,176 views
United for Project 108

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Banks can unlock growth through affordable credit

Financial institutions are the lifeblood of any modern economy. They mobilise savings, allocate capital, manage risk, an...

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A missed opportunity

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May 30, 2026 2 mins read 1,625 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 1,810 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 2,215 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 2,142 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 4,736 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,...

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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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Startups call for support beyond seed funding

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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

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 8,505 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 15,759 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 2,536 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 5,068 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 4,091 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

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The trap of spiritual materialism

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When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 2,679 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 3,695 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...

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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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Recents

Dungkar Dzong-an icon of Bhutan’s transformation

The Dungkar Dzong in Pangbisa, Paro, is a vivid living monument to the era of transformation in Bhutan. The structure represents Bhutan’s architectural splendour at its best. In function, it is an icon of change, an expression of times to come. The concept is an ingenuous demonstration of how a proud past welcomes an exciting future.

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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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