September of 2017

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A strong relationship is based on trust not legal agreements

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Sep 15, 2017 3 mins read 564 views
Professionalising tour guides

k2

Sep 15, 2017 2 mins read 571 views
Life contains both suffering and joy

k2

Sep 29, 2017 3 mins read 519 views
Shedra Monastic College

k2

Sep 22, 2017 3 mins read 545 views
Infusing GNH values for a meaningful life

k2

Sep 22, 2017 4 mins read 546 views
Transport United sealed national league title undefeated

Football

Sep 29, 2017 2 mins read 575 views
Man detained for alleged child molestation

Crime

Sep 29, 2017 0 mins read 758 views
Never give up on troubled youth, says counselor

Youth

Sep 29, 2017 2 mins read 514 views
Lamchey, a village under the river

Lamchey

Sep 29, 2017 1 mins read 554 views
Forms of Address

Perspective

Sep 29, 2017 5 mins read 646 views
Bhutan Airlines signs lease agreement for two aircrafts

Aviation

Sep 29, 2017 1 mins read 546 views
Black-headed Bunting spotted in Gelephu

Bird

Sep 29, 2017 1 mins read 564 views
Bhutan Foundation and Amankora donate for tiger conservation

Donation

Sep 29, 2017 2 mins read 578 views
Local leaders suggest campus swap for convenience of students

Students

Sep 29, 2017 2 mins read 536 views
Nge Tsawailama, a story of hope, aspiration and hard work

Film

Sep 29, 2017 1 mins read 575 views
Best diagnosis for better treatment

Health

Sep 29, 2017 2 mins read 576 views
Counsellors look at communicating and dealing with persons with disability

Disabilities

Sep 29, 2017 2 mins read 536 views
Health ministry revises infant mortality target for 12th Plan

Health

Sep 29, 2017 2 mins read 552 views
Fire incidents can be prevented

Letter to the editor

Sep 29, 2017 1 mins read 511 views
All about numbers?

Editorial

Sep 29, 2017 2 mins read 650 views
Guesthouse opens in Mongar for retired armed force personnel

Guesthouse

Sep 29, 2017 1 mins read 570 views
Counsellors recommend understanding the basics of mental health

Mental health

Sep 29, 2017 2 mins read 516 views
Labour shortage affects agriculture sector

According to the latest agriculture reports, large movement of people from rural to urban centres is hurting the agriculture sector badly. Fifty-three percent of farmi...

Sep 29, 2017 1 mins read 523 views
ACC asks Bhutan Duty Free Ltd. to revoke 10 appointments

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)

Sep 29, 2017 2 mins read 514 views
Export of limestone powder halted for almost two years

Limestone powder

Sep 29, 2017 3 mins read 567 views
Artists perform to celebrate Korea-Bhutan relations

Bhutan-Korea

Sep 28, 2017 1 mins read 593 views
Cattle obstruct traffic in Phongshing

Cattle

Sep 28, 2017 1 mins read 579 views
Man sentenced for stabbing another

Crime

Sep 28, 2017 1 mins read 520 views
Porous border affects rabies control efforts

Rabies

Sep 28, 2017 2 mins read 640 views
Invest more in sports

Letter to the editor

Sep 28, 2017 1 mins read 552 views
Culture and rights

Editorial

Sep 28, 2017 1 mins read 589 views
Man charged for alleged attempt to rape

Crime

Sep 28, 2017 1 mins read 530 views
BICMA suspends licenses of two entertainment centres

Bhutan InfoComm and Media Authority (BICMA)

Sep 28, 2017 3 mins read 512 views
Board certifies 147 counselors for practice

Bhutan Board for Certified Counselors (BBCC)

Sep 28, 2017 2 mins read 500 views
MoWHS seeks dismissal of Gaseb Construction's appeal

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)

Sep 28, 2017 2 mins read 503 views
128 aspiring NC candidates register with ECB

Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB)

Sep 28, 2017 2 mins read 519 views
Bhutan wins fair play trophy at U-18 SAFF championship

Football

Sep 27, 2017 2 mins read 498 views
TCB launches new website and directory

Tourism

Sep 27, 2017 1 mins read 538 views
Stray arrow victim dies

Accident

Sep 27, 2017 1 mins read 568 views
366 students of Khengkhar MSS infected with influenza

Health diseases

Sep 27, 2017 1 mins read 557 views
Farmers deserve better prices

Letter to the editor

Sep 27, 2017 1 mins read 511 views
Health first

Editorial

Sep 27, 2017 2 mins read 584 views
CMIS to make data storage convenient

National Commission for Women and Children (NCWC)

Sep 27, 2017 1 mins read 559 views
Members of Zhung Dratshang attend Durga puja

Festival

Sep 27, 2017 1 mins read 515 views
Fire razes five houses in Haa

Fire accident

Sep 27, 2017 1 mins read 556 views
OAG charges five in 11kg gold smuggling case

Office of the Attorney General (OAG)

Sep 27, 2017 2 mins read 504 views
Counsellor conference in Thimphu

Conference

Sep 27, 2017 0 mins read 494 views
Bhutanese athletes at risk of unintentional doping

Athletics

Sep 26, 2017 2 mins read 603 views
Residents dress up for Dromchoe celebration

Tshechu

Sep 26, 2017 1 mins read 551 views
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Where tradition meets treatment

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The true wealth of Dzambhala

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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 and warmth by devoted grandparents can fare well, separation from parents at this age generally causes...

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You’re not what you think you are

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Sundays at Le Méridien

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The trap of spiritual materialism

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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་ཁར་ ཇའེ་སྒང་ལུ་སྡོད་དགོཔ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ འདི་བཟུམ་གྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དེ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཐོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཐབས་ལམ་ཚུ་ འདི་དང་འདི་ཟེརཝ་ཅིག་ ག་ནི་ཡང་ མ་འགྲིགས་པར་ ལུས་ཏེ་འདུག།

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Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

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Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

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Unshackling the state

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The environmental toll of wars

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A costly fiasco

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Living hand to mouth

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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 6,389 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

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ESP Steering Committee to review Nu 575 million in unspent, recovered funds

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When Words Create Worlds

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Culture under threat?

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As the government undertakes the mid-term review (MTR) of 13th Plan activities across dzongkhags, its performance must b...

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Policy versus ground reality

The conflict in the Middle East, coupled with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, has forced many Bhutanese to adju...

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