March of 1999

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Introducing Thimphu city buses

City Corporation

Mar 12, 1999 1 mins read 315 views
1,500 village houses to be electrified

Power

Mar 12, 1999 1 mins read 297 views
Twinning case: rare but not unusual

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Mar 12, 1999 1 mins read 266 views
Towards information technology

Computer/Internet

Mar 12, 1999 2 mins read 313 views
Power production down

Hydro Project

Mar 12, 1999 1 mins read 262 views
Vehicle misuse to be controlled

Government Department

Mar 12, 1999 1 mins read 288 views
His Holiness the Je Khenpo to visit eastern dzongkhags

Religious Personalities

Mar 12, 1999 1 mins read 260 views
Trade fair

Bhutan - Trade

Mar 12, 1999 0 mins read 425 views
Office for park

National Park

Mar 12, 1999 0 mins read 262 views
SAARC

SAARC Summit

Mar 12, 1999 0 mins read 474 views
Adventure tourism

Tourism

Mar 12, 1999 0 mins read 297 views
No plastics

Dzongkhags

Mar 12, 1999 0 mins read 290 views
Flight disrupts tour schedules

Druk Air

Mar 19, 1999 1 mins read 291 views
RSTA warns reckless drivers

Roads

Mar 19, 1999 1 mins read 297 views
The pros and cons of paying for textbooks

Education- Student

Mar 19, 1999 2 mins read 342 views
Slashing machine repair costs by half

Roads

Mar 19, 1999 2 mins read 251 views
Preserving and promoting the Zorig Chusum

Bhutan - Tradition

Mar 19, 1999 2 mins read 311 views
New gups for Merak and Sakten geogs

Home Affairs

Mar 19, 1999 1 mins read 286 views
GEF support on mushroom project

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

Mar 19, 1999 0 mins read 317 views
Ban on plastic in Samdrup Jongkhar

Dzongkhags

Mar 19, 1999 1 mins read 287 views
Education Division to bear stipend increase

Education- Institutions

Mar 19, 1999 1 mins read 297 views
IFAD to increase its support to Bhutan

Agriculture Activities

Mar 19, 1999 2 mins read 285 views
RICB explains the credit card system

Letters to the Editor

Mar 19, 1999 2 mins read 284 views
We need to understand PIT

Letters to the Editor

Mar 19, 1999 2 mins read 300 views
If it was polio, it was an old case

Letters to the Editor

Mar 19, 1999 1 mins read 269 views
Waste "stored", not "disposed"

Letters to the Editor

Mar 19, 1999 0 mins read 242 views
Gloom and hope

Editorial

Mar 19, 1999 2 mins read 267 views
Trashigang head teachers' meet

Education-Policy/Planning/Conference Workshop

Mar 19, 1999 1 mins read 299 views
Assessing students more correctly

Education- Student

Mar 19, 1999 2 mins read 310 views
RBA boxers bring home medals

Sport

Mar 19, 1999 1 mins read 273 views
Taped lessons to counter teacher shortage

Education- CAPSS

Mar 19, 1999 2 mins read 273 views
Wind causes havoc in Trashigang

Meteorology-Climate/Weather

Mar 19, 1999 1 mins read 241 views
It is climate, not smoke

Meteorology-Climate/Weather

Mar 19, 1999 1 mins read 272 views
Forests on fire

Forest Fire

Mar 19, 1999 1 mins read 293 views
Urban housing underway

Housing

Mar 19, 1999 2 mins read 280 views
The nation honours a Monarch

Bhutan is celebrating the Silver Jubilee of His Majesty the King’s formal Coronation, in 1974, to honour and to express the appreciation of the nation to the fourth Druk Gyalpo.

Mar 20, 1999 2 mins read 265 views
MOU

Health- International Assistance

Mar 19, 1999 0 mins read 364 views
Gunfire

Social Problem (Bhutan)

Mar 19, 1999 0 mins read 282 views
Inflation

Central Statistical Organisation (CSO)

Mar 19, 1999 0 mins read 0 views
Samtse man killed

Crime

Mar 19, 1999 0 mins read 274 views
Lhakhang robbers sentenced

Monasteries

Mar 26, 1999 1 mins read 290 views
A new centre of learning

Centre For Bhutan Studies (CBS)

Mar 26, 1999 1 mins read 319 views
Ministers consolidate SAARC

SAARC Summit

Mar 26, 1999 1 mins read 340 views
Integrity is a must for parliamentarians: minister

SAARC Summit

Mar 26, 1999 1 mins read 318 views
Thimphu Duthroe gets a face-lift

Crematorium

Mar 26, 1999 1 mins read 295 views
A rabdey and crematorium for Phuentsholing town

Crematorium

Mar 26, 1999 3 mins read 317 views
Austrian friends to strengthen ties

Bhutan-Australia

Mar 26, 1999 1 mins read 288 views
Joint fight against air pollution

National Environment Commission (NEC)

Mar 26, 1999 2 mins read 303 views
Traffic police start road safety campaign

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)

Mar 26, 1999 1 mins read 324 views
Rural women learn to cook healthy food

Health Nutrition Programme

Mar 26, 1999 1 mins read 259 views
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Recents

Lessons we dare not forget

The words shared by His Majesty the King on the 70th birth anniversary of Drukgyal Zhipa were more than a son’s remembrance. They were a national awakening. The advice of the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, given to his son and shared with his people, reads like a moral charter for the country, a mirror reflecting both what we have achieved and what we risk losing if we become complacent.

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