October of 2004

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Students clean Paro

Education- Schools

Oct 15, 2004 2 mins read 345 views
Five years of cable television

Television (TV)

Oct 15, 2004 7 mins read 428 views
Durga Puja

Festival (A-Z)

Oct 15, 2004 1 mins read 0 views
Vegetable market sheds benefit villagers

Agriculture Activities

Oct 15, 2004 1 mins read 366 views
Establishing a pest surveillance system

Agriculture

Oct 15, 2004 2 mins read 402 views
Ila Arun performs in Bhutan

Drama

Oct 15, 2004 1 mins read 358 views
Food prices up by 6.03% in September quarter

Central Statistical Organisation (CSO)

Oct 15, 2004 2 mins read 367 views
Gasa farmer wins award

Awards

Oct 15, 2004 2 mins read 381 views
Prince Claus Award for archery federation

Awards

Oct 15, 2004 1 mins read 384 views
Balancing diploma and degree courses

Royal University of Bhutan

Oct 15, 2004 2 mins read 408 views
Designers showcase innovative collections

Exhibition

Oct 15, 2004 2 mins read 366 views
Construction timing?

Kuensel

Oct 15, 2004 0 mins read 430 views
Excess land

Kuensel

Oct 15, 2004 0 mins read 465 views
Samtse land holdings under buffer zone

Letters to the Editor

Oct 15, 2004 1 mins read 350 views
The judiciary is doing its best

Kuensel

Oct 15, 2004 3 mins read 384 views
Watching change

Editorial

Oct 15, 2004 3 mins read 401 views
Police await DNA results

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)

Oct 15, 2004 1 mins read 383 views
Potato farmers gain

Food Corporation of Bhutan (FCB)

Oct 15, 2004 2 mins read 389 views
Tala tunnel excavation nearing completion

Hydro Project

Oct 15, 2004 2 mins read 407 views
Seven more HIV cases detected

Health-HIV/AIDS

Oct 15, 2004 3 mins read 425 views
Crown Prince to be appointed Chhoetse Penlop

Royalties

Oct 15, 2004 0 mins read 364 views
Indian foreign minister visits Bhutan

Bhutan- India

Oct 15, 2004 3 mins read 445 views
Eastern highways blocked

Roads

Oct 08, 2004 2 mins read 400 views
Of classroom challenges

Education-Teacher

Oct 08, 2004 3 mins read 398 views
French language manual for tour guides

Tourism

Oct 08, 2004 2 mins read 367 views
Asian soccer needs the media's attention

South Asian Federation Games (SAFG)

Oct 08, 2004 2 mins read 389 views
Draktsho observes Foundation Day

Disabled

Oct 08, 2004 2 mins read 341 views
RSPCA needs support and funds

Animal Husbandry Activities

Oct 08, 2004 2 mins read 384 views
Tarayana village youths complete crafts training

Armed with skills in traditional pottery making and paper crafts four girls and eight boys from some of the remotest places in the country will soon...

Oct 09, 2004 2 mins read 388 views
Shopping in Bangkok

Business

Oct 08, 2004 6 mins read 465 views
First IBF meeting adopts general by-laws

Associations

Oct 08, 2004 1 mins read 348 views
Rehabilitating the roosting ground

Dzongkhags

Oct 08, 2004 2 mins read 380 views
The Thrumsingla stretch: difficult to maintain

Roads

Oct 08, 2004 2 mins read 371 views
Phurpai Drubchen

Festival (A-Z)

Oct 08, 2004 1 mins read 420 views
Bhutan's first five star hotel

Private Sector

Oct 08, 2004 2 mins read 365 views
Ambassador on a farewell visit

Bhutan-Australia

Oct 08, 2004 2 mins read 343 views
Traditional archery tournament reaches quarter final

Sport

Oct 08, 2004 1 mins read 349 views
Literature on GNH

Government Department

Oct 08, 2004 2 mins read 380 views
Mileage claim rules not understood

Kuensel

Oct 08, 2004 1 mins read 407 views
Wasting time and resource

Letters to the Editor

Oct 08, 2004 1 mins read 391 views
The Motithang and Serbithang park

Kuensel

Oct 08, 2004 2 mins read 404 views
Law not clear to people

Kuensel

Oct 08, 2004 2 mins read 389 views
Economising

Editorial

Oct 08, 2004 3 mins read 387 views
Tero Sasana face MMC club in King's Cup finals

Sport

Oct 08, 2004 2 mins read 418 views
School curriculum to be revised

Education- CAPSS

Oct 08, 2004 2 mins read 367 views
Government scales down 2004-2005 budget

Bhutan - France

Oct 08, 2004 2 mins read 371 views
Third textile festival

Handicraft

Oct 08, 2004 2 mins read 445 views
Government agencies directed to review security measures

Home Affairs

Oct 08, 2004 1 mins read 374 views
Eastern command chief visits Bhutan

Bhutan- India Defence

Oct 08, 2004 1 mins read 0 views
Airbus 319 will reach Paro next month

Druk Air

Oct 01, 2004 2 mins read 412 views
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BTF signs Nu 2.5 million grant for elephant corridor in GMC

The Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation (BTF) yesterday signed a Nu 2.5 million grant agreement to support elephant habitat enrichment and ecological corridor restoration in Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC), marking the first grant signed from its newly established regional office at ChoeGo, GMC.

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Former Phuentsholing Thrompon reflects on a decade of urban transformation, eyes third term

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Jun 06, 2026 7 mins read 728 views
Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen graces inauguration of Her Expression Festival at VAST

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Lowland cordyceps discovery in India raises questions over Bhutan’s premium fungus economy

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Jun 05, 2026 3 mins read 5,643 views
Riwo Exhibition Unites Himalayan artists in exploration of identity and continuity

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Jun 05, 2026 2 mins read 3,535 views
NC revisits reservations to the CRPD

The National Council today unanimously supported the already adopted reservations on Articles 23, 27, and 29 of the Amendment to the Reservations to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

Jun 04, 2026 3 mins read 1,660 views
National Council refers Livestock Bill back to Committee for review

The National Council continued deliberations on the Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025 today, directing the Economic Affairs...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,546 views
BRCS opens first Branch Emergency Operations Centre in Tsirang

Coinciding with the Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen, the Bhutan Red Cross Society (BRCS) inaugurated its...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,622 views
BTF opens office in GMC to strengthen support for southern region

Coinciding with the 36th Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen Jetsun Pema Wangchuck, the Bhutan Trust Fund for...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,799 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 354 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 3,608 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 395 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 1,136 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 976 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 1,303 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 1,729 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 2,308 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 2,062 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 2,740 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 2,482 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...

May 02, 2026 1 mins read 6,686 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 Mindfulness City (GMC).

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 347 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 1,682 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 1,420 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 1,584 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 2,027 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 1,952 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 4,566 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 2,047 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...

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When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 2,512 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 6,415 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 7,616 views
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Feb 18, 2026 4 mins read 7,808 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 8,222 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 15,466 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 2,404 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 4,905 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 3,932 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 3,644 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins read 4,157 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 3,515 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 6,583 views
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...

Apr 25, 2026 2 mins read 3,910 views
Unshackling the state

Apr 22, 2026 2 mins read 3,963 views

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