August of 1988

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Future fruit exports discussed

BCCI (Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry)

Aug 26, 1988 0 mins read 561 views
Football date changed

Sport

Aug 26, 1988 1 mins read 612 views
Computer trainees on course

Driglam Namgshag

Aug 26, 1988 0 mins read 676 views
Players from Nepal for tennis Open

Sport

Aug 26, 1988 0 mins read 663 views
A VSO relates her experiences

Letters to the Editor

Aug 26, 1988 4 mins read 630 views
Punakha needs vegetables

Letters to the Editor

Aug 26, 1988 0 mins read 615 views
Rest house wanted

Letters to the Editor

Aug 26, 1988 1 mins read 561 views
All parts of a triangle

Letters to the Editor

Aug 26, 1988 1 mins read 751 views
Agriculture demonstration

Agriculture Activities

Aug 26, 1988 1 mins read 620 views
Sarphue stopped

Dzongkhags

Aug 26, 1988 0 mins read 749 views
Workshop on agricultural statistics

Agriculture Activities

Aug 26, 1988 2 mins read 599 views
Tourism staffs do well

Tourism

Aug 26, 1988 1 mins read 634 views
Japanese volunteers have technical backgrounds

Volunteers

Aug 26, 1988 1 mins read 583 views
Solar fence guards plantation

Forest Planning/Policy Conference/Meeting

Aug 26, 1988 1 mins read 593 views
Lhuntshi deals with dogs

Dzongkhags

Aug 26, 1988 0 mins read 677 views
Goats causing problems

Forest Planning/Policy Conference/Meeting

Aug 26, 1988 1 mins read 570 views
Dzong rules reinforced

Dzongs

Aug 26, 1988 1 mins read 567 views
People participation emphasised

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)

Aug 26, 1988 1 mins read 604 views
Electricity exports boost growth

Power

Aug 26, 1988 2 mins read 618 views
Bhutan escapes earthquake damage

Natural Calamities

Aug 26, 1988 1 mins read 671 views
India's president to visit for Chukha inauguration

Bhutan- India

Aug 26, 1988 1 mins read 639 views
Banned

Forest Planning/Policy Conference/Meeting

Aug 26, 1988 0 mins read 0 views
Foreign Minister to attend Olympics

South Asian Federation Games (SAFG)

Aug 26, 1988 0 mins read 564 views
First apples for Bangladesh

Exports

Aug 26, 1988 0 mins read 604 views
Schools table tennis tournament results

Sport

Aug 19, 1988 0 mins read 595 views
Geylegphug JHS team wins

Sport

Aug 19, 1988 0 mins read 567 views
Basketball match helps hospital

Sport

Aug 19, 1988 0 mins read 634 views
Kharbandi takes football trophy

Sport

Aug 19, 1988 1 mins read 613 views
Community development projects made dramatic impact

Letters to the Editor

Aug 19, 1988 2 mins read 605 views
Cure for AIDS

Letters to the Editor

Aug 19, 1988 0 mins read 582 views
More facts wanted on solar power

Letters to the Editor

Aug 19, 1988 0 mins read 657 views
Good experience for students

Letters to the Editor

Aug 19, 1988 1 mins read 619 views
Orange numbers needed

Late Majesty King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk

Aug 19, 1988 1 mins read 562 views
Parents and teachers share responsibilities

Letters to the Editor

Aug 19, 1988 0 mins read 627 views
Girls welcome to attend

Letters to the Editor

Aug 19, 1988 1 mins read 550 views
Paro teachers attend workshop

Education-Policy/Planning/Conference Workshop

Aug 19, 1988 0 mins read 683 views
Livestock wander town

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Aug 19, 1988 1 mins read 621 views
Artificial insemination record achieved

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Aug 19, 1988 1 mins read 718 views
Teachers share skills

Education-Teacher

Aug 19, 1988 1 mins read 578 views
Cheese sells well

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Aug 19, 1988 0 mins read 625 views
WFP to buy maize

WFP (World Food Program)

Aug 19, 1988 1 mins read 619 views
A simple `hullo' - not quite enough

Bhutan-Post

Aug 19, 1988 1 mins read 562 views
Farmers field day

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

Aug 19, 1988 0 mins read 580 views
SAARC 'needs to expand activities'

SAARC Activities

Aug 19, 1988 1 mins read 577 views
Power thresher popular

Agriculture Activities

Aug 19, 1988 1 mins read 589 views
More applications

Druk Air

Aug 19, 1988 0 mins read 691 views
Forestry plans ahead

Forest Social/Project/ Afforestation

Aug 19, 1988 1 mins read 610 views
RBA recruits congratulated

Royal Bhutan Army (RBA)

Aug 19, 1988 0 mins read 601 views
Independence Day celebrated

Bhutan- India

Aug 19, 1988 1 mins read 577 views
RCSC announces new rules regarding leave

Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC)

Aug 19, 1988 2 mins read 600 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་ཁ...

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Recents

Dungkar Dzong-an icon of Bhutan’s transformation

The Dungkar Dzong in Pangbisa, Paro, is a vivid living monument to the era of transformation in Bhutan. The structure represents Bhutan’s architectural splendour at its best. In function, it is an icon of change, an expression of times to come. The concept is an ingenuous demonstration of how a proud past welcomes an exciting future.

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