December of 1993

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Debt market expected to boost the financial sector

Royal Monetary Authority (RMA)

Dec 03, 1993 2 mins read 400 views
Survey team and a truck robbed

Terrorist

Dec 24, 1993 1 mins read 402 views
Two new hospitals opened in the east

Health-Hospital/JDWNRH

Dec 24, 1993 4 mins read 455 views
Mongar Town to be developed

Less than two years ago when His Majesty the King visited Mongar and spoke with the business community, the town consisted of mostly grocery shops and small bars and tea stalls.

Dec 25, 1993 2 mins read 481 views
Villager robbed and beaten

Terrorist

Dec 24, 1993 1 mins read 523 views
NHPC team begins work on the Kurichu Hydroelectric Project

Hydro Project

Dec 24, 1993 5 mins read 405 views
Phuyum chosen as site for Lhuentse township

Dzongkhags

Dec 24, 1993 2 mins read 484 views
Members urge UNIDO for more action

International Convention

Dec 24, 1993 1 mins read 378 views
Candidates reluctant to join RCI course

Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC)

Dec 24, 1993 1 mins read 411 views
Bhutanese student tops art competition

Competition (A-Z)

Dec 24, 1993 1 mins read 431 views
Vehicles to have new numbers

Revenue and Custom

Dec 24, 1993 2 mins read 524 views
Stock trade dominated by BCCL shares

Royal Stock Exchange Of Bhutan(RSEB)

Dec 24, 1993 1 mins read 464 views
Revenue system improved

Revenue and Custom

Dec 24, 1993 1 mins read 380 views
Phenomenal success in leprosy control

Health Disease

Dec 24, 1993 3 mins read 468 views
WWF gives Nu. I.5 million for protected areas

WWF (World Wildlife Fund)

Dec 24, 1993 1 mins read 493 views
Disabled cry for help

Disabled

Dec 24, 1993 2 mins read 415 views
Telecom, Phase Ill agreement signed

Telecommunication Department

Dec 24, 1993 1 mins read 420 views
SAARC conference discusses the disabled

SAARC Activities

Dec 24, 1993 1 mins read 372 views
Economic boom for the east

Editorial

Dec 24, 1993 3 mins read 671 views
His Majesty celebrates National Day in Mongar

For the people of Mongar, the national day celebration this year was an especially joyous occasion. It was the second time that His Majesty the King celebrate...

Dec 25, 1993 5 mins read 386 views
UNICEF report

UNICEF

Dec 24, 1993 0 mins read 412 views
Boy killed

Crime

Dec 24, 1993 0 mins read 380 views
His Majesty reviews the Seventh Plan with the people of Kurtoe

His Majesty the King concluded the review of the Seventh Plan programmes in the eastern dzongkhags with a m...

Dec 25, 1993 8 mins read 489 views
NIE Silver Jubilee

Education- Institutions

Dec 24, 1993 0 mins read 431 views
Firearms seized

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)

Dec 24, 1993 0 mins read 438 views
Ambassador arrives

Bhutan-Bangladesh

Dec 24, 1993 0 mins read 396 views
India and Bhutan to streamline tax refund process

Bhutan- India

Dec 17, 1993 2 mins read 468 views
Bangladesh celebrates Victory Day

Bhutan-Bangladesh

Dec 17, 1993 0 mins read 0 views
DANIDA to help the print media

DANIDA

Dec 17, 1993 1 mins read 445 views
A traditional celebration on National Day

National Day

Dec 17, 1993 1 mins read 400 views
A slip in the Class VI common exams was corrected in time

Education-BBE

Dec 17, 1993 2 mins read 405 views
3 houses robbed in Samchi

Terrorist

Dec 17, 1993 1 mins read 369 views
His Majesty grants assistance for Zangtopelri

Monasteries

Dec 17, 1993 1 mins read 367 views
Bumdeling declared Black Necked crane sanctuary

His Majesty the King declared Bumdeling in Trashiyangtse as a national sanctuary for the Black-Necked cranes (Grus Nigricollis) during the public meeti...

Dec 18, 1993 3 mins read 385 views
The Trashigang Dzong - a monument to the unification of Bhutan

Dzongs

Dec 17, 1993 4 mins read 447 views
Cruelty in Motithang "zoo"

Letters to the Editor

Dec 17, 1993 3 mins read 369 views
Why not Dzongkha plates?

Letters to the Editor

Dec 17, 1993 1 mins read 423 views
The social menace

Letters to the Editor

Dec 17, 1993 2 mins read 417 views
A heartening experience

Letters to the Editor

Dec 17, 1993 0 mins read 432 views
Institute has trained more weavers

Letters to the Editor

Dec 17, 1993 0 mins read 372 views
National Day

Editorial

Dec 17, 1993 2 mins read 0 views
Jigme Sherubling High School to be upgraded

TheJigme Sherubling High School will be upgraded to a junior college from July 1994. Jigme Sherubling High School to be upgraded.

Dec 18, 1993 3 mins read 448 views
His Majesty speaks with college students

The history of the country's highest seat of learning is synonymous with the history of modern Bhutan. From being the first junior college to the only degree college, Sher...

Dec 18, 1993 11 mins read 383 views
Tashiyangtsi - development boosted as a new dzongkhag

For Trashiyangtsi, the restoration of its historical status as a separate dzongkhag in April last year was in itself the greatest deve...

Dec 18, 1993 9 mins read 367 views
Man stabbed

Crime

Dec 17, 1993 0 mins read 0 views
Common exams

Education-BBE

Dec 17, 1993 0 mins read 0 views
Plantation burnt

Forest Fire

Dec 17, 1993 0 mins read 498 views
Seventh Plan progressing well in Tashigang

The Seventh Plan may be only half way in Its second year, but in Trashigang one cannot help but notice what has been achieved. What was a far flung dzongkhag just a ye...

Dec 18, 1993 8 mins read 400 views
His Majesty's address

National Day

Dec 17, 1993 0 mins read 504 views
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