October of 2019

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Green number plate for green cars

Transport

Oct 31, 2019 2 mins read 685 views
Winter Parliament session deferred

Parliament

Oct 31, 2019 1 mins read 596 views
Works to resurface the Sunkosh-Damphu highway to begin soon

Transport

Oct 31, 2019 1 mins read 636 views
Women empowerment through waste a good initiative

Letter to the Editor

Oct 31, 2019 0 mins read 591 views
Communication breakdown?

Editorial

Oct 31, 2019 1 mins read 662 views
Only locals can promote local produce

Trade

Oct 31, 2019 2 mins read 731 views
Addressing climate-induced risks along Thimchhu and Pachhu basins

Disaster

Oct 31, 2019 2 mins read 752 views
Tsenkari residents complain of dust pollution from DCCL

Industry

Oct 31, 2019 2 mins read 654 views
350 trucks stranded in Changrabandha

Trade

Oct 31, 2019 2 mins read 615 views
BCAA delinked

Briefly

Oct 31, 2019 0 mins read 574 views
Emerging socials issues call for improved counselling services

Youth

Oct 30, 2019 2 mins read 569 views
Empowering women through waste

Entrepreneur

Oct 30, 2019 2 mins read 619 views
MoE must buckle up and govt. must give priority too

Letter to the Editor

Oct 30, 2019 1 mins read 545 views
Sustaining the free health care system

Editorial

Oct 30, 2019 2 mins read 584 views
TCB removes flagship focus group

Tourism

Oct 30, 2019 2 mins read 633 views
Drukair starts flying across the equator

Transport

Oct 30, 2019 2 mins read 606 views
Making infrastructure disable-friendly

Transport

Oct 30, 2019 3 mins read 728 views
Steel export to India plummets

Trade

Oct 30, 2019 2 mins read 552 views
Govt. to revisit the non-hydro debt ceiling

Economy

Oct 30, 2019 2 mins read 623 views
Media Council

Briefly

Oct 30, 2019 0 mins read 0 views
Bhutan bags 12 medals at international taekwondo competition

Sports

Oct 29, 2019 2 mins read 565 views
White-bellied Heron spotted in Thimphu

Wild Life

Oct 29, 2019 2 mins read 587 views
Fire guts hut in Martsala

Disaster

Oct 29, 2019 1 mins read 575 views
Cabinet goes slow on meet-the-press

Cabinet

Oct 29, 2019 2 mins read 582 views
Sex education an essential component of child protection

Letter to the Editor

Oct 29, 2019 1 mins read 646 views
COP25 and LDCs

Editorial

Oct 29, 2019 2 mins read 575 views
Up in the North, flush toilets are useless

Health

Oct 29, 2019 2 mins read 567 views
All courts to have mediation unit

Judiciary

Oct 29, 2019 2 mins read 615 views
Illegal sand business continues

Crime

Oct 29, 2019 3 mins read 571 views
Bhutan gets its first eye hospital

Health

Oct 29, 2019 3 mins read 579 views
Bhutan Premier League

Briefly

Oct 29, 2019 0 mins read 0 views
Denchi dzong to be ready by June 2020

Pemagatshel Dzongkhag

Oct 28, 2019 1 mins read 602 views
HRH attends IPC general assembly

Sports

Oct 28, 2019 1 mins read 519 views
Should Laya Run be only for highlanders?

Festival

Oct 28, 2019 2 mins read 604 views
LDC ministerial meeting endorses stronger climate action

Environment

Oct 28, 2019 2 mins read 629 views
Bad roads need fixing!

Letter to the Editor

Oct 28, 2019 1 mins read 542 views
Are we prepared?

Editorial

Oct 28, 2019 2 mins read 0 views
Doma chewing bad for alcohol consumers

Health

Oct 28, 2019 2 mins read 591 views
Towards delivering innovative health care services

Health

Oct 28, 2019 3 mins read 618 views
No regulatory changes in ease of doing business

Trade

Oct 28, 2019 4 mins read 617 views
Bhutan Premier League

Briefly

Oct 28, 2019 0 mins read 651 views
Mobile app to ease blood donation

Technology

Oct 27, 2019 2 mins read 629 views
Seeking happiness the Bhutanese way

Perspective

Oct 27, 2019 4 mins read 577 views
Farmers turn to balm and massage oil in Logchina

Entrepreneur

Oct 27, 2019 3 mins read 591 views
Why the urgent need for efficient public transport system

Letter to the Editor

Oct 27, 2019 1 mins read 669 views
Mental health needs attention

Editorial

Oct 27, 2019 2 mins read 587 views
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NC endorses annual budget as per NA

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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.

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Ask Mr Bhutan: “Money can’t buy happiness.” Is it true, when everything is dependent on money?

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The virus, the fear, and the freedom beyond both

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May 24, 2026 4 mins read 1,399 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.

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A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 2,415 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

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Café by the waterfall

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Where tradition meets treatment

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May 02, 2026 3 mins read 2,576 views
Between Homes

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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 1,026 views
United for Project 108

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Banks can unlock growth through affordable credit

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Jun 03, 2026 3 mins read 1,818 views
A missed opportunity

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May 30, 2026 2 mins read 1,563 views
Chain-link fencing: somebody’s gain, another’s loss

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May 27, 2026 2 mins read 1,735 views
Fixing and fine-tuning GST regime

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May 23, 2026 2 mins read 2,156 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 2,081 views
GMC was a masterstroke

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May 16, 2026 2 mins read 4,674 views
Fighting online scams

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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

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Feb 18, 2026 4 mins read 8,001 views
Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

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Feb 18, 2026 2 mins read 8,412 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 15,669 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 2,496 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 5,018 views
You’re not what you think you are

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Apr 18, 2026 4 mins read 4,042 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 2,625 views
Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

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May 02, 2026 3 mins read 3,636 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 6,751 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 4,032 views

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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