January of 1999

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Tourism reforms

Tourism

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 640 views
Mongar closer to RWSS target

Water Supply Scheme

Jan 15, 1999 1 mins read 562 views
Sheep farm buys Kashmiri stock

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Jan 15, 1999 1 mins read 695 views
ARI: stepping up campaign against no. 1 killer

Health Disease

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 557 views
BNB & RICB to launch Visa and Mastercard

Bhutan National Bank (BNB)

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 551 views
Strengthening Bhutanese culture

Dzongkha Development Commission (DDC)

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 594 views
A new mandate for the CSO

Central Statistical Organisation (CSO)

Jan 01, 1999 3 mins read 616 views
Chhukha MD made Power Advisor

Hydro Project

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 545 views
Mandarin export: the expectations and anxieties

Agriculture/Horticulture

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 571 views
69 graduate from RTI

Institutions

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 586 views
Combining play with treatment: towards a child friendly hospital

Health/Doctors/Patients

Jan 01, 1999 4 mins read 589 views
New Gup

Home Affairs

Jan 01, 1999 0 mins read 635 views
RNR activities: farmers in focus

Agriculture Activities

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 727 views
Transfer

Transfer

Jan 01, 1999 0 mins read 752 views
Two charged with screening pornographic films

Feature Film

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 716 views
Most Narphung accident victims were students

Accident

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 581 views
Power in Trashiyangtse: the task ahead

Power

Jan 01, 1999 2 mins read 507 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 498 views
Television

Editorial

Jan 01, 1999 3 mins read 586 views
PWD rethinks budget strategy

Roads

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 522 views
RSPN first to receive GEF grant

Royal Society for the Protection of Nature (RSPN)

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 544 views
Research centres to step up horticulture development

Agriculture/Horticulture

Jan 01, 1999 2 mins read 495 views
Man beaten up by boys

Crime

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 528 views
Fund to strengthen weaving tradition

National Women Association (NWA)

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 504 views
Foresters fined for illegal timber export & forgery

Judiciary

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 482 views
Officials start work on income tax

Revenue and Custom

Jan 01, 1999 2 mins read 510 views
A killing in Phuentsholing

Crime

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 565 views
Crown Prince awards scout scarves

Education-Scout

Jan 01, 1999 1 mins read 502 views
Mushroom

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

Jan 01, 1999 0 mins read 507 views
Gups and chimis

Home Affairs

Jan 01, 1999 0 mins read 492 views
New Lam Neten

Dratshang

Jan 01, 1999 0 mins read 517 views
Transfers

Transfer

Jan 01, 1999 0 mins read 704 views
Bhutanese robbed

Crime

Jan 01, 1999 0 mins read 533 views
RICB loses court fight over GIS claim

Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan (RICB)

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 551 views
Trade to liberalise bar license

Bhutan - Trade

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 536 views
Resin tapping and the environmental dilemma

Private Sector

Jan 08, 1999 4 mins read 645 views
Labourer killed

Act

Jan 08, 1999 0 mins read 519 views
BOC camp draws 500 participants

Bhutan Olympic Committee (BOC)

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 529 views
Little clue to the identity of man found dead

Diseased Personalities

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 533 views
Drunken brawl leads to death of a relative

Crime

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 513 views
Fire guts Phuentsholing sawmill

Accident

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 565 views
A clarification from the tax authorities

Letters to the Editor

Jan 08, 1999 2 mins read 515 views
Are we being triple - taxed ?

Letters to the Editor

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 481 views
Concerns about the new taxation system

Letters to the Editor

Jan 08, 1999 2 mins read 503 views
(Not so) proud tax payers ?

Editorial

Jan 08, 1999 3 mins read 506 views
Four men arrested in two rape cases

Crime

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 532 views
New gup for Kanglung geog

Home Affairs

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 521 views
DANIDA to fund Centre for Bhutan Studies

Centre For Bhutan Studies (CBS)

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 558 views
Educationists deliberate on bringing value education to schools

Education-Policy/Planning/Conference Workshop

Jan 08, 1999 1 mins read 559 views
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Fighting online scams

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