November of 1988

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Training workshop for instructors

Training/Workshop/Seminar/Country

Nov 25, 1988 1 mins read 539 views
Pasture training concludes

Animal Husbandry Disease

Nov 25, 1988 1 mins read 526 views
Know about AIDS it may save your life

Health-HIV/AIDS

Nov 25, 1988 2 mins read 569 views
No information to fix oven

Letters to the Editor

Nov 25, 1988 0 mins read 563 views
A chance to learn English

Letters to the Editor

Nov 25, 1988 0 mins read 575 views
Anthem a little out of tune

Letters to the Editor

Nov 25, 1988 0 mins read 556 views
Village calls for BHU

Letters to the Editor

Nov 25, 1988 0 mins read 601 views
Sports hall becomes store

Letters to the Editor

Nov 25, 1988 1 mins read 677 views
Wisely preserving the forest

Letters to the Editor

Nov 25, 1988 0 mins read 583 views
No women BLTs

Letters to the Editor

Nov 25, 1988 0 mins read 583 views
Breath deeply in the morning

Letters to the Editor

Nov 25, 1988 1 mins read 558 views
Women in science debated all over the world

Letters to the Editor

Nov 25, 1988 1 mins read 528 views
Bhutan's first movie comes to the video screen

Feature Film

Nov 25, 1988 2 mins read 572 views
Workshop to highlight nutrition needs and solutions

November 26, 1988 - A one-day workshop on nutrition will be held at the Motithang Hotel on Monday for chimis, dzongdags, central ministry an...

Nov 26, 1988 2 mins read 1,134 views
NWAB sells woollen products at market

National Women Association (NWA)

Nov 25, 1988 0 mins read 504 views
Screenplay competition follows school health drama

Competition (A-Z)

Nov 25, 1988 1 mins read 499 views
Sales going well, says British Aerospace

Druk Air

Nov 25, 1988 2 mins read 506 views
An aircraft cockpit, two boys, a pilot and lots of questions

Druk Air

Nov 25, 1988 2 mins read 530 views
Eight Rabjam Wogma's selected

Promotion

Nov 25, 1988 1 mins read 486 views
Hospital ceremony

Health-Hospital/JDWNRH

Nov 25, 1988 0 mins read 566 views
Bhutan's first jet aircraft makes inaugural flight

Druk Air

Nov 25, 1988 1 mins read 546 views
Kathri to be held

Dratshang

Nov 25, 1988 0 mins read 499 views
Royal Advisory Councillor

Royal Advisory Council (RAC)

Nov 25, 1988 0 mins read 525 views
Youth representative returns enthusiastic

Training/Workshop/Seminar/Country

Nov 18, 1988 1 mins read 553 views
Pasture development

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Nov 18, 1988 0 mins read 581 views
Training course for headmasters

Education-Policy/Planning/Conference Workshop

Nov 18, 1988 1 mins read 516 views
World AIDS Day December 1, 1988

Health-HIV/AIDS

Nov 18, 1988 2 mins read 504 views
Rafter dropped during fire

Letters to the Editor

Nov 18, 1988 0 mins read 505 views
Trees burned for cooking

Letters to the Editor

Nov 18, 1988 0 mins read 587 views
Let's accumulate knowledge

Letters to the Editor

Nov 18, 1988 1 mins read 482 views
Clarifications

Letters to the Editor

Nov 18, 1988 1 mins read 528 views
Big rush for seats

Letters to the Editor

Nov 18, 1988 0 mins read 506 views
More institutes needed

Letters to the Editor

Nov 18, 1988 1 mins read 558 views
Power supply erratic

Letters to the Editor

Nov 18, 1988 0 mins read 513 views
School dancers need tuition

Letters to the Editor

Nov 18, 1988 0 mins read 539 views
She still looked young

Letters to the Editor

Nov 18, 1988 0 mins read 532 views
School offers sympathy

Letters to the Editor

Nov 18, 1988 0 mins read 505 views
Teachers find contentment despite physical hardships

Education-Teacher

Nov 18, 1988 1 mins read 502 views
Indigenous medicine: surrounded by an air of mystery

Indigenous Hospital

Nov 18, 1988 4 mins read 468 views
Restorer sees possibility of demolishing and reusing dzong wall

Dzongs

Nov 18, 1988 2 mins read 510 views
Canada announces school projects

Bhutan-Canada

Nov 18, 1988 1 mins read 581 views
Pemagatshel to launch sterilisation programme

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Nov 18, 1988 1 mins read 523 views
Training towards self sufficiency

Agriculture Activities

Nov 18, 1988 2 mins read 566 views
Dutch company orders broom handles and advises on other products

State Trading Corporation of Bhutan (STCB)

Nov 18, 1988 1 mins read 494 views
Singapore market

State Trading Corporation of Bhutan (STCB)

Nov 18, 1988 0 mins read 575 views
Bhutan meets donors

International Assistance

Nov 18, 1988 0 mins read 7,548 views
Special guest for Tongsa

Religious Personalities

Nov 18, 1988 0 mins read 494 views
School dates

Education- Schools

Nov 18, 1988 0 mins read 586 views
BRTF chief inspects projects

DANTAK/IMTRAT/BRTF

Nov 18, 1988 1 mins read 547 views
Royal allowance given for patients

Health/Doctors/Patients

Nov 18, 1988 1 mins read 553 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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