July of 1999

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Brigadier Dhendup takes first major title

Golf

Jul 16, 1999 2 mins read 597 views
RSPN outshoots Pawos in archery finals

Archery

Jul 16, 1999 1 mins read 545 views
Kanglung & Wing 6 football champs

Sport

Jul 30, 1999 1 mins read 603 views
Understanding basketball

Sport

Jul 30, 1999 2 mins read 623 views
Women: a growing presence in the National Assembly

National Assembly

Jul 02, 1999 2 mins read 552 views
Changlimithang bombers arrested

Explosives (Bomb)

Jul 02, 1999 1 mins read 545 views
Two men being tried for dzi theft

Crime

Jul 02, 1999 1 mins read 591 views
Boy found dead from drug overdose

Narcotics/Drugs

Jul 02, 1999 1 mins read 549 views
The 20 dzongkhags felicitate His Majesty the King

National Assembly

Jul 02, 1999 7 mins read 559 views
National budget : heading towards self reliance

National Assembly

Jul 02, 1999 12 mins read 599 views
Foundation laid for new High Court building

Judiciary

Jul 02, 1999 1 mins read 619 views
Contracts follow procedures

Letters to the Editor

Jul 02, 1999 1 mins read 582 views
The city services must be supported

Letters to the Editor

Jul 02, 1999 1 mins read 497 views
TV will reinforce Bhutanese culture and tradition : an optimistic hypothesis ?

Letters to the Editor

Jul 02, 1999 1 mins read 629 views
Wealth and merit

Editorial

Jul 02, 1999 2 mins read 564 views
Lhengye Zhungtshog Chairman submits first annual report

National Assembly

Jul 02, 1999 11 mins read 501 views
A special bond between a Monarch and his people

National Assembly

Jul 02, 1999 2 mins read 481 views
Sergi Khorlo : a special offering to His Majesty the King

In a sacred moment of prayer during the inauguration of the 77th session of the National Assembly on June 29, the people o...

Jul 03, 1999 2 mins read 465 views
Environment walk

Personalities

Jul 02, 1999 0 mins read 666 views
Arrested

Crime

Jul 02, 1999 0 mins read 903 views
Archery

Archery

Jul 02, 1999 0 mins read 0 views
Technical graduate

Institutions

Jul 02, 1999 0 mins read 505 views
New Lopon

Dratshang

Jul 02, 1999 0 mins read 558 views
Tenure for gups and chimis will not be extended

National Assembly

Jul 09, 1999 2 mins read 479 views
Lhengye Zhungtshog to discuss Mongar-Nganglam road

National Assembly

Jul 09, 1999 4 mins read 554 views
Resettlement programme has a positive impact

National Assembly

Jul 09, 1999 2 mins read 516 views
A unanimous agreement on the importance of Driglam Namzha

National Assembly

Jul 09, 1999 6 mins read 562 views
Dzongkha must be promoted and developed

National Assembly

Jul 09, 1999 4 mins read 499 views
Ngolops responsible for robbery of monasteries

National Assembly

Jul 09, 1999 5 mins read 492 views
Youth problem: a joint responsibility

Letters to the Editor

Jul 09, 1999 1 mins read 576 views
Curbing lhakhang robberies

Letters to the Editor

Jul 09, 1999 0 mins read 526 views
The impact of salary revision

Letters to the Editor

Jul 09, 1999 1 mins read 696 views
Rights of the child

Letters to the Editor

Jul 09, 1999 0 mins read 700 views
Taxis not profitable anymore

Letters to the Editor

Jul 09, 1999 1 mins read 539 views
Plastic, an environment hazard

Letters to the Editor

Jul 09, 1999 1 mins read 550 views
The deeper values

Editorial

Jul 09, 1999 3 mins read 608 views
Climate change awareness workshop

Meteorology-Climate/Weather

Jul 09, 1999 2 mins read 499 views
Bhutan-China boundary talks make good progress

National Assembly

Jul 09, 1999 6 mins read 499 views
Rongthong Kuenley must be punished

National Assembly

Jul 09, 1999 3 mins read 530 views
The people do not trust relatives of ngolops

National Assembly

Jul 09, 1999 5 mins read 537 views
SAARC Chairperson visits Bhutan

Visitors

Jul 09, 1999 2 mins read 516 views
Poisoning

Poisoned File

Jul 09, 1999 0 mins read 623 views
Sports

Sport

Jul 09, 1999 0 mins read 0 views
Robbers arrested

Crime

Jul 09, 1999 0 mins read 536 views
Monk killed

Dratshang

Jul 09, 1999 0 mins read 526 views
Degree at Semtokha

Semtokha Rigney School

Jul 09, 1999 0 mins read 556 views
Barma bus bombed

Explosives (Bomb)

Jul 16, 1999 0 mins read 558 views
Crown Prince addresses RIM graduates

Royalties

Jul 16, 1999 1 mins read 500 views
25 years of health and happiness

Health Family Planning

Jul 16, 1999 2 mins read 536 views
His Majesty concerned about people's well being

National Assembly

Jul 16, 1999 4 mins read 552 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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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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