January of 1999

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Tourism reforms

Tourism

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 533 views
Mongar closer to RWSS target

Water Supply Scheme

Jan 15, 1999 1 mins read 439 views
Sheep farm buys Kashmiri stock

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Jan 15, 1999 1 mins read 583 views
ARI: stepping up campaign against no. 1 killer

Health Disease

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 467 views
BNB & RICB to launch Visa and Mastercard

Bhutan National Bank (BNB)

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 463 views
Strengthening Bhutanese culture

Dzongkha Development Commission (DDC)

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 504 views
A new mandate for the CSO

Central Statistical Organisation (CSO)

Jan 01, 1999 3 mins read 495 views
Chhukha MD made Power Advisor

Hydro Project

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 451 views
Mandarin export: the expectations and anxieties

Agriculture/Horticulture

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 437 views
69 graduate from RTI

Institutions

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 472 views
Combining play with treatment: towards a child friendly hospital

Health/Doctors/Patients

Jan 01, 1999 4 mins read 490 views
New Gup

Home Affairs

Jan 01, 1999 0 mins read 515 views
RNR activities: farmers in focus

Agriculture Activities

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 560 views
Transfer

Transfer

Jan 01, 1999 0 mins read 628 views
Two charged with screening pornographic films

Feature Film

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 589 views
Most Narphung accident victims were students

Accident

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 462 views
Power in Trashiyangtse: the task ahead

Power

Jan 01, 1999 2 mins read 404 views
Speed breakers

Letters to the Editor

Jan 01, 1999 0 mins read 0 views
GNH: immeasurable

Letters to the Editor

Jan 01, 1999 3 mins read 399 views
Television

Editorial

Jan 01, 1999 3 mins read 445 views
PWD rethinks budget strategy

Roads

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 428 views
RSPN first to receive GEF grant

Royal Society for the Protection of Nature (RSPN)

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 451 views
Research centres to step up horticulture development

Agriculture/Horticulture

Jan 01, 1999 2 mins read 401 views
Man beaten up by boys

Crime

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 429 views
Fund to strengthen weaving tradition

National Women Association (NWA)

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 389 views
Foresters fined for illegal timber export & forgery

Judiciary

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 388 views
Officials start work on income tax

Revenue and Custom

Jan 01, 1999 2 mins read 402 views
A killing in Phuentsholing

Crime

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 460 views
Crown Prince awards scout scarves

Education-Scout

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 389 views
Mushroom

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

Jan 01, 1999 0 mins read 414 views
Gups and chimis

Home Affairs

Jan 01, 1999 0 mins read 387 views
New Lam Neten

Dratshang

Jan 01, 1999 0 mins read 404 views
Transfers

Transfer

Jan 01, 1999 0 mins read 550 views
Bhutanese robbed

Crime

Jan 01, 1999 0 mins read 423 views
RICB loses court fight over GIS claim

Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan (RICB)

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 424 views
Trade to liberalise bar license

Bhutan - Trade

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 425 views
Resin tapping and the environmental dilemma

Private Sector

Jan 08, 1999 4 mins read 483 views
Labourer killed

Act

Jan 08, 1999 0 mins read 404 views
BOC camp draws 500 participants

Bhutan Olympic Committee (BOC)

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 399 views
Little clue to the identity of man found dead

Diseased Personalities

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 418 views
Drunken brawl leads to death of a relative

Crime

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 408 views
Fire guts Phuentsholing sawmill

Accident

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 439 views
A clarification from the tax authorities

Letters to the Editor

Jan 08, 1999 2 mins read 408 views
Are we being triple - taxed ?

Letters to the Editor

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 375 views
Concerns about the new taxation system

Letters to the Editor

Jan 08, 1999 2 mins read 392 views
(Not so) proud tax payers ?

Editorial

Jan 08, 1999 3 mins read 395 views
Four men arrested in two rape cases

Crime

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 426 views
New gup for Kanglung geog

Home Affairs

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 427 views
DANIDA to fund Centre for Bhutan Studies

Centre For Bhutan Studies (CBS)

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 435 views
Educationists deliberate on bringing value education to schools

Education-Policy/Planning/Conference Workshop

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 443 views
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Recents

Best Class 10 results of the past three years

The Class 10 results declared today are the best of the past five years. This is the first time in five years that the pass percentage of the Bhutan Council for School Examination and Assessment (BCSEA) has increased drastically compared to the previous year.

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