August of 1999

Archives

India's 46th Independence Day celebrated

Bhutan- India

Aug 20, 1999 1 mins read 369 views
Bhutanese team unsuccessfull

Olympics

Aug 13, 1999 1 mins read 419 views
Training referees

Sport

Aug 13, 1999 1 mins read 535 views
Olympic Solidarity: supporting sports

Olympics

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 569 views
Golf : Back to Back victory

Golf

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 451 views
Efforts continue to protect Matsutake

Agriculture/Horticulture

Aug 06, 1999 2 mins read 402 views
Tourism industry: major developments expected

Tourism

Aug 06, 1999 2 mins read 488 views
Apple prices fixed

Agriculture/Horticulture

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 427 views
Driver education important for road safety

Road Safety and Transport Authority (RSTA)

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 509 views
Learning new skills

Education- Student

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 452 views
Teachers take oath of allegiance

Religion

Aug 06, 1999 0 mins read 421 views
IT sector on the road to development

Computer/Internet

Aug 06, 1999 6 mins read 435 views
His Holiness appoints two new lams

Appointed

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 445 views
Health awareness through music

Health Policy

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 433 views
NRTI graduates: contributing to the workforce

Institutions

Aug 06, 1999 2 mins read 610 views
Druknet trudges on

Computer/Internet

Aug 06, 1999 2 mins read 342 views
Entrepreneur of the Year

Private Sector

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 495 views
Her Majesty Ashi Sangay meets students in Thimphu schools

Education- Student

Aug 06, 1999 2 mins read 358 views
Alternative for unclaimed lottery prize

Letters to the Editor

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 413 views
Bhutan's development commendable

Letters to the Editor

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 353 views
Support for dog pound

Letters to the Editor

Aug 06, 1999 0 mins read 401 views
What a visitor saw

Letters to the Editor

Aug 06, 1999 2 mins read 381 views
Unemployment... now ?

Editorial

Aug 06, 1999 3 mins read 366 views
Model bridge underway

Bridges

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 364 views
Expertise for vital power sector

Bhutan-Australia

Aug 06, 1999 1 mins read 389 views
77th session of the National Assembly concludes

National Assembly

Aug 06, 1999 3 mins read 371 views
Monastic school

Monastic School

Aug 06, 1999 0 mins read 404 views
Young ambassadors

Bhutan-Embassies

Aug 06, 1999 0 mins read 357 views
Burglary

Crime

Aug 06, 1999 0 mins read 508 views
Road block

Roads

Aug 06, 1999 0 mins read 512 views
Condolence

Bhutan- India

Aug 06, 1999 0 mins read 446 views
Glacial expedition leaves for Lunana

Lake

Aug 13, 1999 1 mins read 399 views
Multi-sectoral approach to population control

Health Family Planning

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 346 views
Change in tourism trends

Tourism

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 428 views
Police officers educated on new chargesheet

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)

Aug 13, 1999 1 mins read 446 views
Lhadrip Ugen Lhendrup: between religion and art

Bhutan - Tradition

Aug 13, 1999 5 mins read 400 views
Wangdue villages electrified

Power

Aug 13, 1999 1 mins read 375 views
Phuentsholing's truck frenzy: where will it end?

State Trading Corporation of Bhutan (STCB)

Aug 13, 1999 3 mins read 363 views
Dead body found

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)

Aug 13, 1999 1 mins read 639 views
Location important for bridges

Bridges

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 486 views
Burglary and theft cases drop

Crime

Aug 13, 1999 1 mins read 389 views
Improving reading habits in children

Education- Student

Aug 13, 1999 1 mins read 498 views
Standardising genetic records

National Plant Protection Centre (NPPC)

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 432 views
Jaigaon gets a face lift

Bhutan- India

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 345 views
The problems of urbanisation

Letters to the Editor

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 390 views
Educating our youth

Letters to the Editor

Aug 13, 1999 3 mins read 388 views
Media momentum

Editorial

Aug 13, 1999 3 mins read 397 views
Timber prices still high

Forest Timber/ Firewood

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 401 views
Tashi lays off workers

Tashi Commercial Corporation

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 507 views
Developments for Thimphu & Phuentsholing

Housing

Aug 13, 1999 2 mins read 441 views
Browse Archives
Bhutanese diaspora gifts sacred Thongdrols

Bumthang—For many Bhutanese living abroad, physical distance from home has only deepened their sense of belonging and their desire to give back.

Jan 17, 2026 3 mins read 2,676 views
ESP funds exhausted, no second phase

Jan 17, 2026 3 mins read 3,336 views
RGoB services in GMC subject to GST

Jan 17, 2026 2 mins read 2,645 views
From forest corridors to community lives

Jan 17, 2026 5 mins read 2,284 views
New FDI regime offers wider access to foreign investors in agriculture

The agriculture and livestock sector is seeing an increased investor interest following major reforms in foreign direct investment (FDI) policy that liberalised ownership rules and eased approvals.

Jan 03, 2026 3 mins read 2,666 views
BCCI submits 35 business ideas to govt. for private sector engagement

The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has submitted 35 business proposals from 12 sector associations to th...

Dec 20, 2025 2 mins read 3,138 views
Bhutan attracts major impact finance commitments at SDG forum

During the two-day Bhutan SDG Impact Finance Forum held last week in Thimphu, international and high-level participants...

Dec 20, 2025 3 mins read 1,775 views
Businesses propose action oriented public-private forum to address private sector woes

The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...

Dec 20, 2025 2 mins read 2,027 views
A wintry tale

Jan 22, 2026 1 mins read 376 views
Start small, but be consistent

Jan 22, 2026 1 mins read 813 views
Garuda Bar and Café

Jan 22, 2026 1 mins read 399 views
How Miss Bhutan 2026 is shifting the meaning of beauty

Jan 22, 2026 2 mins read 834 views
Taxes our forefathers paid

Jan 13, 2026 2 mins read 1,700 views
Gym that asks you to grow, not just train

Jan 10, 2026 2 mins read 1,354 views
Happiness with Mr Bhutan

Happiness can be described in countless ways, yet it is always experienced as one. Even if we fail to put it into words, we still recognise it. Sometimes, only when old words fade from the ton...

Dec 18, 2025 4 mins read 1,729 views
Happiness with Mr Bhutan

Happiness can be described in countless ways, yet it is always experienced as one. Even if we fail to put it into words, we still recognise it. Sometimes, only when old words fade from the ton...

Dec 16, 2025 4 mins read 1,269 views
High-value tourism, low-value jobs?

Jan 21, 2026 2 mins read 859 views
Tying the loose ends of GST reform

Jan 17, 2026 2 mins read 1,143 views
GST transition pains need urgent fixes

Jan 14, 2026 2 mins read 1,142 views
Making GST work past early hiccups

The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a major fiscal reform in recent years. These new reforms are part of a broader effort to modernise the country’s tax system to make taxation fairer, more efficient, a...

Jan 10, 2026 2 mins read 1,373 views
The cost of delay

Jan 07, 2026 2 mins read 1,859 views
A new chapter for Kuensel

Two decades ago, in February 2005, Kuensel increased its publication frequency to twice a week. This move was a direct response to our readers’ growing needs and a conscious preparation for the n...

Jan 03, 2026 2 mins read 1,480 views
Strengthening the third sector

Over the years, the civil society sector has quietly assumed a critical role in bridging policy and people. Often referred to as the third sector, CSOs have emerged as indispensable partners in Bhutan’s pursuit...

Dec 31, 2025 2 mins read 1,816 views
Why selective privatisation in healthcare makes sense

The debate on private sector participation in healthcare has reached an unhelpful impasse. This is mainly because it is...

Dec 30, 2025 2 mins read 2,191 views
Agencies must be held accountable for financial irregularities

The Royal Audit Authority’s (RAA) latest annual report is disturbing, to say the least. Financial irregularities reached...

Dec 29, 2025 2 mins read 3,707 views
What about moral and ethical accountability?

The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) investigation into the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) loan was meant to settle...

Dec 27, 2025 2 mins read 2,477 views
Amochu quarriers call for flood walls after millions in losses

Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...

Oct 16, 2025 2 mins read 3,154 views
Sir, your advice to the younger generation?

Choose your environment Your environment is the invisible hand that constantly shapes the way you think, feel, and act....

Nov 19, 2025 1 mins read 1,373 views
Happiness with Mr Bhutan

Our global culture has conditioned us to spend the best of ourselves in the pursuit of a “decent living” whatever that m...

Sep 22, 2025 4 mins read 4,455 views
Ask Mr Bhutan

In a world that constantly advertises, applauds, and sells consumption, acquisition and growth at all costs, cultivating...

Aug 18, 2025 2 mins read 5,853 views
Citizens building a nation’s future

The fourth round of the Gelephu Mindfulness City volunteer programme, which drew a record 10,000 participants, pushing t...

Dec 26, 2025 2 mins read 2,183 views
The promise of Bhutan-Thailand Free Trade Agreement

The parliamentary endorsement of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Thailand marks a watershed moment in Bhutan’s econo...

Dec 25, 2025 2 mins read 2,141 views
Time to open farms to foreign labour

The shortage of farm labour is a real problem faced by farming households across the country.  Over the years, this has...

Dec 24, 2025 2 mins read 1,481 views
Building inclusive sports

For 15-year-old Nima Dema, a student from Tendruk Central School in Samtse, the opportunity to take part in the ongoing...

Dec 23, 2025 2 mins read 1,701 views
Punatsangchhu-I restarts, but at a heavy price

The resumption of works on the 1,200-megawatt Punatsangchhu Hydropower Project I offers a flicker of hope. After all, th...

Dec 22, 2025 2 mins read 2,354 views

No data available