December of 1993

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Fire

Accident

Dec 17, 1993 0 mins read 0 views
Ambassadors change

Bhutan-Bangladesh

Dec 17, 1993 0 mins read 383 views
SAARC Games

Sport

Dec 17, 1993 0 mins read 428 views
Highway robberies on the rise

Terrorist

Dec 10, 1993 1 mins read 412 views
RMA's sale of bill, a success

Royal Monetary Authority (RMA)

Dec 10, 1993 0 mins read 407 views
SAPTA: core area of economic cooperation

Bhutan - Trade

Dec 10, 1993 1 mins read 371 views
One killed, two injured

Accident

Dec 10, 1993 0 mins read 443 views
Feeder road to link Sibsoo-Tendu

Roads

Dec 10, 1993 1 mins read 394 views
International Volunteers' Day celebrated

International Day

Dec 10, 1993 1 mins read 399 views
Bhutan elected as ICIMOD Chairman

International Organisations

Dec 10, 1993 2 mins read 460 views
The boar is not a new problem

Letters to the Editor

Dec 10, 1993 3 mins read 409 views
A Buddhist perspective on the wild boar

Letters to the Editor

Dec 10, 1993 2 mins read 371 views
Air safety threatened

Editorial

Dec 10, 1993 3 mins read 443 views
Terrorists resort to kidnapping

Terrorist

Dec 10, 1993 1 mins read 374 views
His Majesty reviews Seventh Plan in Samdrup Jongkhar

Addressing a meeting with over 5000 people representing the 11 gewogs of Samdrup Jongkhar, His Majesty the King announced that two major...

Dec 11, 1993 9 mins read 349 views
Forest plantation plundered

Forest Damages

Dec 10, 1993 0 mins read 404 views
Man drowned

Accident

Dec 10, 1993 0 mins read 0 views
The people of Pemagatsel ask for resettlement

The fact that Pemagatsel has one of the lowest landholdings in the country, rendered all the more difficult by its rugged and unproductive nature, made the re...

Dec 11, 1993 8 mins read 414 views
Victory Day

Bhutan-Bangladesh

Dec 10, 1993 0 mins read 0 views
Suicide

Crime

Dec 10, 1993 0 mins read 0 views
Man killed

Accident

Dec 10, 1993 0 mins read 0 views
Postal services

Bhutan-Post

Dec 10, 1993 0 mins read 387 views
Power sub-station handed over

Power

Dec 03, 1993 1 mins read 417 views
Handicrafts corporation adds a new sales touch

The Handicrafts Development Corporation, also known as the National Emporium, has given a neat and more professional touch to its handicrafts sales by open...

Dec 03, 1993 2 mins read 362 views
Geological Survey of India staff robbed

Terrorist

Dec 03, 1993 0 mins read 371 views
Bhutan committed to fighting AIDS

Health-HIV/AIDS

Dec 03, 1993 2 mins read 382 views
Terrorists pose as policemen

Terrorist

Dec 03, 1993 0 mins read 376 views
Former Drabi Lopon passes away

Diseased Personalities

Dec 03, 1993 0 mins read 547 views
Lyonpo Tobgyel presents credentials

Bhutan-Bangladesh

Dec 03, 1993 1 mins read 351 views
Terrorist caught

Terrorist

Dec 03, 1993 0 mins read 0 views
Self help is the best help

Letters to the Editor

Dec 03, 1993 1 mins read 543 views
Alcohol addiction

Letters to the Editor

Dec 03, 1993 1 mins read 395 views
Help save the planet: a collective responsibility

Letters to the Editor

Dec 03, 1993 3 mins read 397 views
Thimphu's garbage problem

Editorial

Dec 03, 1993 3 mins read 407 views
Five houses robbed in Sarbhang

Terrorist

Dec 03, 1993 1 mins read 377 views
His Majesty holds meetings with Thimphu students

Today's students will be the citizens of tomorrow. They will inherit the sovereign and independent kingdom of Bhutan which has not only survived exte...

Dec 04, 1993 6 mins read 382 views
Man killed in accident

Accident

Dec 03, 1993 0 mins read 0 views
JICA President happy with cooperation

Volunteers

Dec 03, 1993 2 mins read 392 views
Young Dudjom Rimpoche visits Bhutan

Religious Personalities

Dec 03, 1993 2 mins read 357 views
His Majesty leaves for eastern tour

His Majesty - National Tour

Dec 03, 1993 0 mins read 338 views
Bank counter

Bank of Bhutan (BOB)

Dec 03, 1993 0 mins read 467 views
Plantations set on fire

Forest Fire

Dec 03, 1993 0 mins read 423 views
Sungtruel Rimpoche to head Dramitse Monastery

Religious Personalities

Dec 03, 1993 1 mins read 397 views
Poisoned arrow

Accident

Dec 03, 1993 0 mins read 436 views
SAARC Council of Ministers meet

SAARC Countries

Dec 03, 1993 0 mins read 384 views
ICIMOD anniversary

International Day

Dec 03, 1993 0 mins read 436 views
Attacks on villagers continue

Terrorist

Dec 31, 1993 2 mins read 465 views
Participatory planning for school and institution heads

Education-Policy/Planning/Conference Workshop

Dec 31, 1993 1 mins read 434 views
Workshop on quality of steel imports

State Trading Corporation of Bhutan (STCB)

Dec 31, 1993 1 mins read 374 views
Police arrest killer

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)

Dec 31, 1993 0 mins read 413 views
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CCTV cameras to monitor Mongar town

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Where the rivers run through, youth find reasons to stay

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Nationwide drug prevention campaign “Yes, We Care” begins in Samtse

"Yes, We Care" launches a nationwide outreach to shield its youth from substance abuse.

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Startups call for support beyond seed funding

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Mar 21, 2026 3 mins read 4,754 views
National debt to rise by 26%, reaching Nu 380 billion in June

The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.

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A memoir of hustle and heartache

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From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

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Café by the waterfall

About six kilometres before Trongsa town, just past the Bjee Zam Bridge, a traditional one-storey house appears on the left of the highway. It is not easy to miss. This modest structure...

May 02, 2026 2 mins read 1,446 views
Where tradition meets treatment

In Bhutan, healing is not a choice between past and present but a collaboration between the two. Across the country, patients move between modern clinics and traditional medicine units with ease, guided as much by...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 1,112 views
Between Homes

When I first arrived in Australia last year, I thought I was prepared. I had spoken to people, watched videos, and tried to imagine what life would be like. Bu...

May 02, 2026 1 mins read 5,348 views
The true wealth of Dzambhala

The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his role as a symbol of abundance and generosity. There are five principal forms of the...

May 02, 2026 4 mins read 1,096 views
No amount of money can replace you

The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency and warmth by devoted grandparents can fare well, separation from parents at this age generally causes...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 3,298 views
You’re not what you think you are

You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness, which is precisely what it does not mean. A more precise term might be: empty of inherent existence.

Apr 18, 2026 4 mins read 2,417 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a relaxed four-hour setting to reconnect with family and friends.

Apr 13, 2026 3 mins read 2,358 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins read 2,739 views
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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When will we feed ourselves?

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Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

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May 02, 2026 3 mins read 1,778 views
Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country could see as few as 2,000 births by 2028.

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 4,158 views
A bumper harvest shouldn’t brew a bumper crisis

This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...

Apr 25, 2026 2 mins read 2,281 views
Unshackling the state

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The environmental toll of wars

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A costly fiasco

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Living hand to mouth

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Economy uncoils for strongest growth in years

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Feb 18, 2026 4 mins read 5,971 views
Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

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Feb 18, 2026 2 mins read 6,366 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

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Dorjilung hydropower to raise GDP by 2.4%, generate 5,000 jobs

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Jan 31, 2026 3 mins read 9,317 views
ESP Steering Committee to review Nu 575 million in unspent, recovered funds

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Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 8,087 views
Compassion in practice: Building a win-win healthcare system

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Happiness with Mr Bhutan

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When Words Create Worlds

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Where to find the best momos in Thimphu

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A call for shared responsibility

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When the watchdog has no teeth

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Apr 01, 2026 2 mins read 2,982 views
Culture under threat?

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Promises and performance

As the government undertakes the mid-term review (MTR) of 13th Plan activities across dzongkhags, its performance must b...

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Policy versus ground reality

The conflict in the Middle East, coupled with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, has forced many Bhutanese to adju...

Mar 21, 2026 2 mins read 3,773 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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