September of 1989

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His Majesty addresses the ninth Non-Aligned Summit

Since the Harare Summit, many positive changes have taken place in the international environment, the most notable being the tremendous improve...

Sep 16, 1989 5 mins read 549 views
NAM outlines issues in a moderate declaration

Last week's summit of the non-aligned nations wrapped up on a positive note of unity, adopting a 10-page declaration by consensus in the early hours of Friday...

Sep 16, 1989 6 mins read 600 views
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Letters to the Editor

Sep 01, 1989 0 mins read 0 views
Workshop on religion and health

October 7, 1989 - When the workshop on Religion and Health concluded on Thursday, six representatives of the participants, from various religious institutions, hailed it as an unprecented success.

Sep 07, 1989 1 mins read 536 views
Sports in Dalim

Sport

Sep 29, 1989 1 mins read 681 views
Tennis more popular

Sport

Sep 29, 1989 0 mins read 603 views
Inter-school knock-out tournament underway

Sport

Sep 29, 1989 1 mins read 622 views
Paro High School holds marathon

Sport

Sep 29, 1989 1 mins read 691 views
Bhutanese team wins in disabled games

Sport

Sep 29, 1989 1 mins read 572 views
Murals and frescoes impressive

Letters to the Editor

Sep 29, 1989 0 mins read 579 views
In-service course

Letters to the Editor

Sep 29, 1989 0 mins read 0 views
National language important

Letters to the Editor

Sep 29, 1989 1 mins read 577 views
In-service trainees face problems

Letters to the Editor

Sep 29, 1989 0 mins read 708 views
Meat prices high in Thimphu

Letters to the Editor

Sep 29, 1989 1 mins read 561 views
Religious festivities to begin for Thimphu public

Tshechu

Sep 29, 1989 2 mins read 585 views
Education officers review their roles

Education-Policy/Planning/Conference Workshop

Sep 29, 1989 2 mins read 508 views
Store keepers trained

Health Activities

Sep 29, 1989 1 mins read 479 views
New chief for WFP

WFP (World Food Program)

Sep 29, 1989 1 mins read 551 views
Bhutan in the right direction

Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC)

Sep 29, 1989 2 mins read 627 views
Bhutan strengthens civil aviation

Civil Aviation

Sep 29, 1989 1 mins read 548 views
Mid level administrators trained

Institutions

Sep 29, 1989 1 mins read 489 views
DANIDA mission in Bhutan to discuss conservation

DANIDA

Sep 29, 1989 2 mins read 558 views
ONGC India to start initial hydrocarbon surveys

Geology & Mines

Sep 29, 1989 1 mins read 529 views
Austrian delegation to visit

Visitors

Sep 29, 1989 1 mins read 544 views
No AIDS found in Bhutan but precautions being taken

Health-HIV/AIDS

Sep 29, 1989 2 mins read 531 views
Militia training

Volunteers

Sep 29, 1989 1 mins read 0 views
Entrepreneurs trained in BDFC seminar

Bhutan Development Finance Corporation (BDFC)

Sep 29, 1989 1 mins read 532 views
Japanese ambassador receives audience

Bhutan- Japan

Sep 29, 1989 1 mins read 537 views
Government employees awarded

Dzongkha Development Commission (DDC)

Sep 29, 1989 0 mins read 525 views
Fire crackers banned

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)

Sep 29, 1989 0 mins read 591 views
Bhutan at Woodmac Asia

Exhibition

Sep 29, 1989 0 mins read 520 views
Travellers warned

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)

Sep 29, 1989 0 mins read 508 views
YHS sports intervened by showers

Sport

Sep 22, 1989 1 mins read 486 views
Computer acronyms - what they mean

Letters to the Editor

Sep 22, 1989 4 mins read 652 views
Dear Mother

Letters to the Editor

Sep 22, 1989 2 mins read 489 views
Teachers appreciate upgradation

Letters to the Editor

Sep 22, 1989 0 mins read 564 views
Work is worship

Letters to the Editor

Sep 22, 1989 0 mins read 496 views
Ticket sale needs control

Letters to the Editor

Sep 22, 1989 0 mins read 506 views
Wireless should replace telephone

Letters to the Editor

Sep 22, 1989 0 mins read 530 views
Wrong place for lunch

Letters to the Editor

Sep 22, 1989 0 mins read 478 views
Good potential for fodder development

Animal Husbandry Activities

Sep 22, 1989 1 mins read 580 views
Yak theft in Paro

Crime

Sep 22, 1989 0 mins read 575 views
Bhutan attends WHO meetings

WHO (World Health Organisation)

Sep 22, 1989 1 mins read 480 views
Bondey farm to try out new products

Agriculture

Sep 22, 1989 1 mins read 572 views
Plumber electrocuted

Accident

Sep 22, 1989 0 mins read 582 views
Field officers leave for Nepal

Helvetas

Sep 22, 1989 0 mins read 574 views
Gedu to float shares

Bhutan - Trade

Sep 22, 1989 0 mins read 573 views
New Sunday market

Sunday market/Vegetable market

Sep 22, 1989 0 mins read 545 views
First single digit lottery draw

Lottery

Sep 22, 1989 1 mins read 554 views
Paro prepares for Domchoe

Tshechu

Sep 22, 1989 2 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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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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