August of 1998

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Women in archery

Sport

Aug 21, 1998 1 mins read 257 views
Pasakha connected by new bridge

Bridges

Aug 21, 1998 0 mins read 236 views
Cable manufacturer buoyed by market prospects

Television (TV)

Aug 21, 1998 1 mins read 269 views
Matsutake prices down this year

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

Aug 21, 1998 2 mins read 229 views
Ugyen Pelri drubdey to expand

Monasteries

Aug 21, 1998 1 mins read 268 views
Sarpang agriculture staff fight rice pest

Agriculture/Insecticide/Disease

Aug 21, 1998 1 mins read 242 views
Y2K: how damaging will the millennium bug be to Bhutan?

Computer/Internet

Aug 21, 1998 3 mins read 229 views
Police arrest prostitutes

Social Problem (Bhutan)

Aug 21, 1998 1 mins read 251 views
India concludes 50th anniversary celebrations

Bhutan- India

Aug 21, 1998 2 mins read 246 views
Hotel blast shocks Phuentsholing

Explosives (Bomb)

Aug 21, 1998 1 mins read 248 views
Flashflood

Landslides and Floods

Aug 21, 1998 0 mins read 254 views
Bleak market brings down apple floor price

BCCI (Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry)

Aug 21, 1998 2 mins read 225 views
Cholera: three cases detected, hospital takes action

Health Disease

Aug 21, 1998 1 mins read 226 views
Road blocks

Roads

Aug 21, 1998 1 mins read 0 views
Woman drowned

Accident

Aug 21, 1998 0 mins read 245 views
Fund to strengthen engineering capacities

Bhutan Trust Fund (BTF)

Aug 14, 1998 1 mins read 235 views
Police kept busy by bodies

Accident

Aug 14, 1998 1 mins read 243 views
Laying the foundation for eco-tourism in Bhutan

National Park

Aug 14, 1998 4 mins read 237 views
Viral fever unusually high in Phuentsholing

Health Disease

Aug 14, 1998 1 mins read 259 views
PWD committed to clean corruption

Letters to the Editor

Aug 14, 1998 1 mins read 236 views
Films are important

Letters to the Editor

Aug 14, 1998 2 mins read 237 views
Do we not care ?

Letters to the Editor

Aug 14, 1998 1 mins read 270 views
New challenges

Editorial

Aug 14, 1998 3 mins read 278 views
Bhutanese music industry develops unhealthy trends

Special Commission For Cultural Affairs/ Bhutan Music/ RAPA

Aug 14, 1998 13 mins read 283 views
Paddy "yellowing" caused by low temperature

Agriculture/Insecticide/Disease

Aug 14, 1998 1 mins read 270 views
Government announces changes

Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC)

Aug 14, 1998 2 mins read 279 views
Tournaments

Sport

Aug 14, 1998 0 mins read 375 views
Rain affects national road network

Roads

Aug 14, 1998 1 mins read 252 views
Farmer robbed

Anti-National (Ngolops)

Aug 14, 1998 0 mins read 241 views
Family attacked

Anti-National (Ngolops)

Aug 14, 1998 0 mins read 0 views
Safe drinking water

Health- IECH

Aug 14, 1998 0 mins read 313 views
Karma's Chair: traditional sensibility versus change

Feature Film

Aug 07, 1998 3 mins read 242 views
Archers seeded to invigorate game

Sport

Aug 07, 1998 2 mins read 276 views
Two die after eating a poisonous mushroom

Accident

Aug 07, 1998 1 mins read 300 views
How about trying a compound bow made of wood?

Archery

Aug 07, 1998 3 mins read 272 views
Cold storage is important

Letters to the Editor

Aug 07, 1998 2 mins read 272 views
Mileage is too low

Letters to the Editor

Aug 07, 1998 1 mins read 242 views
Teachers must be encouraged

Letters to the Editor

Aug 07, 1998 3 mins read 227 views
The priorities

Editorial

Aug 07, 1998 3 mins read 292 views
Obstinacy against adversity

Health Activities

Aug 07, 1998 2 mins read 252 views
189 join teaching cadre, but shortage continues

Education-Teacher

Aug 07, 1998 5 mins read 253 views
SAARC reaffirms commitment to regional cooperation

SAARC Activities

Aug 07, 1998 3 mins read 232 views
Nature Study Centre

WWF (World Wildlife Fund)

Aug 07, 1998 0 mins read 252 views
New Survey building inaugurated

Survey

Aug 07, 1998 1 mins read 263 views
Independence Day

Bhutan- India

Aug 07, 1998 0 mins read 0 views
Declaration

Conferences

Aug 07, 1998 0 mins read 244 views
Road cleared

Roads

Aug 07, 1998 0 mins read 289 views
Anti-poaching

Forest Poaching

Aug 07, 1998 0 mins read 251 views
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Recents

Honouring the legacy of the Great Fourth

The story of His Majesty the Fourth King is an extraordinary one in our history. At 16, His Majesty became King, following the untimely passing of his father, the Third Druk Gyalpo. His Majesty inherited a nation in transition, a country taking its first steps toward modernisation, while gradually coming out from years of isolation. Geo-politically, it was a time of turmoil and uncertainty.

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The selfless Warrior-King

The winter of 2003 would forever be etched in Bhutan’s history as the time when a King walked into the jungles of the south, especially in Samdrupjongkhar, not as a ruler commanding from afar, but as a warrior leading from the front. The air was cold, heavy with mist, and beneath the thick canopy of trees lay the sound of tension.  A nation’s patience was stretched to its limit.

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Tribute to His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Druk Gyalpo

Throughout history, the world has seen countless leaders, yet only a few have embodied the rare harmony of wisdom, compassion, and courage that defines true greatness. Bhutan is fortunate to have been blessed by such a leader in His Majesty King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, a visionary Monarch whose reign ushered the nation into an era of peace, progress, and profound transforma

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King who sacrificed his youth to build a future for us

Among the many extraordinary acts of greatness that define the reign of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, what moves the heart most profoundly is something far more silent, far less seen: the quiet, invisible sacrifice of his own youth. It is a story etched deeply in the soul of the nation, for in giving up his own, he gifted a future to us.

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The Vajrayana King

As Bhutan reflects on its journey as the world’s last Vajrayana kingdom, it becomes ever more evident that the reign of His Majesty King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, marks one of the most sacred and transformative eras in our history.

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