September of 2020

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Tigers win first Paro derby of the season

Sports

Sep 30, 2020 1 mins read 546 views
Bhutan and Japan hold consultations on economic cooperation

Economy

Sep 30, 2020 1 mins read 574 views
Poor chilli yield worries farmers

Agriculture

Sep 30, 2020 1 mins read 554 views
Three youth pursue commercial vegetable farming

Farming

Sep 30, 2020 2 mins read 556 views
Gangtey tshechu ends today

Culture

Sep 30, 2020 1 mins read 595 views
Commercial paddy production in Gelephu takes a dip

Agriculture

Sep 30, 2020 1 mins read 589 views
Farmers need more support to produce dairy products

Letter to the editor

Sep 30, 2020 1 mins read 576 views
Saving Paro from another planning disaster

Editorial

Sep 30, 2020 2 mins read 556 views
Ridhawo will receive sufficient irrigation water

Water

Sep 30, 2020 1 mins read 581 views
Security guard held for murder

Crime

Sep 30, 2020 1 mins read 599 views
Sergithang farmers hope to reduce consumption of imported rice

Agriculture

Sep 30, 2020 1 mins read 488 views
Covid-19 sends food prices ratcheting up

Health

Sep 30, 2020 2 mins read 587 views
Opposition Party questions govt. on CFM closure

Politics

Sep 30, 2020 2 mins read 590 views
Residents unhappy with Paro valley development project

Dzongkhag

Sep 29, 2020 2 mins read 599 views
Pawo's Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom enters 2021 Oscars

Entertainment

Sep 29, 2020 1 mins read 547 views
An app could do the contact tracing

Letter to the editor

Sep 29, 2020 1 mins read 550 views
Sharing cost

Editorial

Sep 29, 2020 2 mins read 0 views
S/jongkhar schools to resume on October 4

Education

Sep 29, 2020 2 mins read 546 views
Highlanders use technology to survey pastureland

Technology

Sep 29, 2020 2 mins read 502 views
Global Covid-19 death toll touches million mark

Health

Sep 29, 2020 3 mins read 508 views
MoF calls for uniform travel allowances for all agencies

Finance

Sep 29, 2020 5 mins read 622 views
Wholesale traders waiting for SOP to start importing

Trade

Sep 25, 2020 3 mins read 538 views
Netizens on social media are neither an investigating officer nor a judge

Letter to the editor

Sep 25, 2020 2 mins read 531 views
The tobacco dilemma

Editorial

Sep 25, 2020 2 mins read 578 views
Bhutan and Bangladesh to sign preferential trade agreement

Foreign Affairs

Sep 25, 2020 2 mins read 540 views
Bhutan's first govt. bond, worth Nu 3B, well-received

Finance

Sep 25, 2020 2 mins read 491 views
An independent office to address water shortage: PM

Water

Sep 25, 2020 3 mins read 529 views
Tenzin Lekphel is the ideal candidate for BIMSTEC SG: PM

Politics

Sep 25, 2020 3 mins read 683 views
Paro United FC scores first win

Sports

Sep 24, 2020 1 mins read 550 views
Policeman stabs comrade to death

Crime

Sep 24, 2020 1 mins read 502 views
No mandate to give a legal opinion: ACC

ACC-RAA-OAG

Sep 24, 2020 2 mins read 534 views
Solar fence proves effective in Shongphu

Agriculture

Sep 24, 2020 2 mins read 573 views
Phuentsholing truckers are jobless

Labour

Sep 24, 2020 2 mins read 0 views
Phuentsholing truckers are jobless

Labour

Sep 24, 2020 2 mins read 554 views
Online learning needs parents and teachers' effort

Letter to the editor

Sep 24, 2020 1 mins read 526 views
Rethinking education

Editorial

Sep 24, 2020 3 mins read 0 views
Thimphu Thromde ready for a second lockdown

Thromde

Sep 24, 2020 3 mins read 502 views
Thimphu devises measures from the lockdown lessons

Dzongkhag

Sep 24, 2020 3 mins read 0 views
Thimphu devises measures from the lockdown lessons

Dzongkhag

Sep 24, 2020 3 mins read 523 views
Coming together important to fight Covid-19 pandemic: PM at the UNGA

Foreign Affairs

Sep 24, 2020 2 mins read 507 views
12th Plan reprioritisation focuses on social sectors

Finance

Sep 24, 2020 4 mins read 514 views
Trhuebab

Perspective

Sep 20, 2020 3 mins read 0 views
Dagana aims to produce over 270MT of tomato and onion

Agriculture

Sep 20, 2020 1 mins read 495 views
Paro FC routed twice on home ground

Sports

Sep 20, 2020 1 mins read 545 views
Samdrupjongkhar lifts lockdown

Lockdown

Sep 20, 2020 2 mins read 0 views
Samdrupjongkhar lifts lockdown

Lockdown

Sep 20, 2020 2 mins read 504 views
To safeguard our national heritage

Letter to the editor

Sep 20, 2020 1 mins read 523 views
Going abroad to work

Editorial

Sep 20, 2020 2 mins read 593 views
Tashi Air redeploys its employees

Transport

Sep 20, 2020 2 mins read 526 views
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Where the Migoi still roams

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Foreign workers now require Bhutanese bank accounts for work permit approval

All foreign workers employed in the country for more than a month are required to open Bhutanese bank accounts.

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Startups call for support beyond seed funding

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A memoir of hustle and heartache

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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 1,320 views
Between Homes

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The true wealth of Dzambhala

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May 02, 2026 4 mins read 1,285 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 and warmth by devoted grandparents can fare well, separation from parents at this age generally causes...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 3,519 views
You’re not what you think you are

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Apr 18, 2026 4 mins read 2,626 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a relaxed four-hour setting to reconnect with family and friends.

Apr 13, 2026 3 mins read 2,549 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

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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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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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National debt to rise by 26%, reaching Nu 380 billion in June

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Feb 18, 2026 4 mins read 6,175 views
Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

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Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

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Living hand to mouth

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A call for shared responsibility

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Culture under threat?

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Promises and performance

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Recents

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, business, education, entertainment, and entrepreneurship.

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