May of 1989

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Speed limits not observed

Letters to the Editor

May 26, 1989 0 mins read 701 views
Forestry day<br>

Forest Social/Project/ Afforestation

May 26, 1989 0 mins read 529 views
Basketball league begins

Sport

May 19, 1989 1 mins read 626 views
Inter-Primary School tournament<br>

Sport

May 26, 1989 1 mins read 684 views
Uniforms discourage parents

Letters to the Editor

May 26, 1989 1 mins read 572 views
Moral education important

Letters to the Editor

May 26, 1989 0 mins read 581 views
Encourage young sportsmen<br>

Letters to the Editor

May 26, 1989 1 mins read 514 views
Danger from careless driving<br>

Letters to the Editor

May 26, 1989 0 mins read 541 views
Water supply not regular<br>

Letters to the Editor

May 26, 1989 0 mins read 561 views
Reduce house rent<br>

Letters to the Editor

May 26, 1989 0 mins read 585 views
BOD needed<br>

Letters to the Editor

May 26, 1989 0 mins read 599 views
Need for fixed fares<br>

Letters to the Editor

May 26, 1989 0 mins read 526 views
Smoking is not a status symbol, but a lethal label<br>

Narcotics/Drugs

May 26, 1989 3 mins read 593 views
Women in a tobacco-free society

Health Mother and Child Programme

May 26, 1989 2 mins read 635 views
Bhutan to observe "No Tobacco Day"<br>

International Day

May 26, 1989 2 mins read 582 views
Bhutan attends World Health Assembly<br>

WHO (World Health Organisation)

May 26, 1989 1 mins read 510 views
"Valuable" to have bigger and fewer projects says FAO representative<br>

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)

May 26, 1989 1 mins read 503 views
Course on electrical wiring<br>

Power

May 26, 1989 0 mins read 488 views
Kingdom to celebrate Social Forestry Day<br>

Forest Social/Project/ Afforestation

May 26, 1989 1 mins read 549 views
Door to door milk delivery<br>

Animal Husbandry Livestock

May 26, 1989 1 mins read 493 views
Graduates to undergo teachers' training

Education-Teacher

May 26, 1989 1 mins read 516 views
Militia training begins in Wangdiphodrang

His Majesty the King recently visited the Military Training Centre in Tencholing to meet with the first batch of students undergoing a course in militia training, which b...

May 27, 1989 3 mins read 497 views
DSC workshop<br>

Training/Workshop/Seminar/Country

May 26, 1989 0 mins read 565 views
Chirang-Wangdi road closed<br>

Roads

May 26, 1989 0 mins read 468 views
Investigation<br>

Druk Air

May 26, 1989 0 mins read 529 views
Annual conference<br>

Agriculture Activities

May 26, 1989 0 mins read 509 views
New driving school for Sarbhang

Road Safety and Transport Authority (RSTA)

May 19, 1989 1 mins read 526 views
Late HM's birth anniversary<br>

Letters to the Editor

May 19, 1989 1 mins read 517 views
Heartfelt thanks<br>

Letters to the Editor

May 19, 1989 0 mins read 500 views
New Post Box Number<br>

Letters to the Editor

May 19, 1989 0 mins read 466 views
No electricity<br>

Letters to the Editor

May 19, 1989 0 mins read 552 views
Lost<br>

Letters to the Editor

May 19, 1989 0 mins read 0 views
Found <br>

Letters to the Editor

May 19, 1989 0 mins read 516 views
No smoking<br>

Letters to the Editor

May 19, 1989 0 mins read 532 views
Public safety in drivers' hands<br>

Letters to the Editor

May 19, 1989 0 mins read 505 views
Sabji bazaar in Tsimalakha<br>

Letters to the Editor

May 19, 1989 0 mins read 508 views
How to improve bank services

Letters to the Editor

May 19, 1989 0 mins read 521 views
Bhutanese Civics<br>

Letters to the Editor

May 19, 1989 0 mins read 532 views
Graduates to double with new Programme<br>

Institutions

May 19, 1989 1 mins read 454 views
YHS land PMS selected for Maggi Wiz Quiz

Education- Schools

May 19, 1989 1 mins read 476 views
Workshops on AIDS and STDS held<br>

Health-HIV/AIDS

May 19, 1989 1 mins read 457 views
Bhutan to have first fashion show<br>

Fashion Show

May 19, 1989 1 mins read 530 views
International Cooperation: ITU theme<br>

International Day

May 19, 1989 1 mins read 524 views
Workshop on conifers<br>

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)

May 19, 1989 0 mins read 523 views
Japanese herbicide to rid farmers of weed menace<br>

Agriculture Activities

May 19, 1989 1 mins read 524 views
Serving Bhutanese interests<br>

Bhutan-European Countries

May 19, 1989 0 mins read 548 views
Daga Jr. High School holds essay contest<br>

Competition (A-Z)

May 19, 1989 1 mins read 516 views
Bhutan participating in ITU conference

Telecommunication Department

May 19, 1989 1 mins read 516 views
Senior Executive Training on IRD

Training/Workshop/Seminar/Country

May 19, 1989 3 mins read 531 views
National Assembly postponed

National Assembly

May 19, 1989 0 mins read 521 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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