October of 1986

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Threatre needs attention

Letters to the Editor

Oct 31, 1986 0 mins read 577 views
Bamboos welcome

Letters to the Editor

Oct 31, 1986 0 mins read 673 views
How about a Sharchhop drama set?

Letters to the Editor

Oct 31, 1986 0 mins read 516 views
A historic landing by Druk Air

Druk Air

Oct 31, 1986 2 mins read 699 views
Bhutan greets ADB chief

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Oct 31, 1986 2 mins read 702 views
Salt import banned

Bhutan - Trade

Oct 24, 1986 0 mins read 585 views
Gaylegphug's new look

Dzongkhags

Oct 24, 1986 1 mins read 511 views
Second test flight from Delhi

Druk Air

Oct 24, 1986 0 mins read 594 views
Bamboos back

Handicraft

Oct 24, 1986 0 mins read 572 views
Sarbhang Marathon

Sport

Oct 24, 1986 0 mins read 664 views
UN Assembly addressed by Foreign Minister

UN Agencies

Oct 24, 1986 1 mins read 544 views
What is Buddhism?

Buddhism

Oct 24, 1986 4 mins read 0 views
Exams Delayed

Education-BBE

Oct 24, 1986 0 mins read 576 views
Electrocuted

Accident

Oct 24, 1986 0 mins read 0 views
50 students in Cheri

Dratshang

Oct 24, 1986 0 mins read 666 views
Initiation

Buddhism

Oct 24, 1986 0 mins read 0 views
Garbage: a new problem

Letters to the Editor

Oct 24, 1986 0 mins read 521 views
Article not applicable here

Letters to the Editor

Oct 24, 1986 1 mins read 500 views
Communication links difficult

Letters to the Editor

Oct 24, 1986 1 mins read 433 views
Overload on doctor

Letters to the Editor

Oct 24, 1986 1 mins read 509 views
NSS to be reduced?

Letters to the Editor

Oct 24, 1986 0 mins read 560 views
FCB retail shop economically located

Letters to the Editor

Oct 24, 1986 0 mins read 476 views
Physical deficiency can be overcome

Viewpoints

Oct 24, 1986 2 mins read 459 views
Possibilities for fisheries

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Oct 24, 1986 2 mins read 522 views
How fish culture came to Bhutan

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Oct 24, 1986 2 mins read 505 views
World Food Day in Gaylegphug

WFP (World Food Program)

Oct 24, 1986 1 mins read 484 views
Sixth plan discussion

Home Affairs

Oct 24, 1986 0 mins read 521 views
Workshop to control stray dogs

Animal Husbandry Activities

Oct 24, 1986 1 mins read 483 views
Sheep husbandry training for Bumthang

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Oct 24, 1986 0 mins read 578 views
Review

Dzongkhags

Oct 24, 1986 0 mins read 0 views
Blind Students tour

Disabled

Oct 24, 1986 1 mins read 525 views
Students encouraged

Institutions

Oct 24, 1986 0 mins read 498 views
Loan approved for Bhutan

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Oct 24, 1986 1 mins read 494 views
Ambassador opens centre

Agriculture Activities

Oct 24, 1986 1 mins read 562 views
Ministerial visit a success

Foreign Affairs

Oct 24, 1986 2 mins read 527 views
Japanese ambassador presents credentials

Bhutan- Japan

Oct 24, 1986 2 mins read 0 views
New football ground

Education- Schools

Oct 31, 1986 0 mins read 546 views
Bamboo bows attract more participants

Sport

Oct 31, 1986 1 mins read 473 views
What is Buddhism?

Buddhism

Oct 31, 1986 4 mins read 0 views
Shoes for monks

Dratshang

Oct 31, 1986 0 mins read 505 views
Transferred

Dratshang

Oct 31, 1986 0 mins read 0 views
Dratshang delayed

Dratshang

Oct 31, 1986 0 mins read 478 views
Chhume Duchhoe: an important historical ceremony

Festival (A-Z)

Oct 31, 1986 1 mins read 515 views
How Buddhist values compare and modern scientific values

Viewpoints

Oct 31, 1986 4 mins read 571 views
Annual Telecom meet

Telecommunication Department

Oct 31, 1986 0 mins read 544 views
Bhutanese peak unconquered

Tourism

Oct 31, 1986 0 mins read 492 views
Thimphu is Malaria free

Health Malaria Control

Oct 31, 1986 1 mins read 517 views
Diplomatic ties with Maldives

Foreign Affairs

Oct 31, 1986 0 mins read 534 views
Narrow escape by dentist

Accident

Oct 31, 1986 1 mins read 555 views
Korea-Bhutan friendship blooms

Bhutan - Korea

Oct 31, 1986 1 mins read 513 views
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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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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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