October of 1999

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Golf: are prizes lowering its standard?

Sport

Oct 29, 1999 1 mins read 496 views
Bhutan's Football team routed out of SAF Games

Sport

Oct 01, 1999 2 mins read 467 views
IMTRAT promotes sports on Raising Day

Sport

Oct 01, 1999 0 mins read 411 views
14 medals for Bhutan at SAF Games

South Asian Federation Games (SAFG)

Oct 08, 1999 1 mins read 559 views
Taekwondo: Gold at last

Sport

Oct 15, 1999 1 mins read 477 views
Crime spate, students behind car theft

Crime

Oct 01, 1999 1 mins read 450 views
0 positive is dominant blood group : survey

Health Policy

Oct 01, 1999 1 mins read 432 views
Phuentsholing-Gedu road to be improved

Roads

Oct 01, 1999 1 mins read 456 views
Lhuntse might receive electricity by December

Power

Oct 01, 1999 1 mins read 390 views
GEF environmental project in Tsirang

National Environment Commission (NEC)

Oct 01, 1999 1 mins read 463 views
Work on engineering college under way

Institutions

Oct 01, 1999 2 mins read 456 views
Entrepreneurs want to cash in on mineral processing

Companies

Oct 01, 1999 3 mins read 428 views
Serbithang to produce vaccine against poultry killer

Animal Husbandry Disease

Oct 01, 1999 2 mins read 418 views
Surveillance to determine HIV/AIDS trends

Health Disease

Oct 01, 1999 1 mins read 515 views
Goshing becomes Zhemgang's eighth geog

Home Affairs

Oct 01, 1999 1 mins read 474 views
Bhutan at G 77 meet

UN Agencies

Oct 01, 1999 1 mins read 431 views
RWSS : imbibing a sense of ownership

Water Supply Scheme

Oct 01, 1999 1 mins read 356 views
RTI under pressure from demand for technical graduates

Institutions

Oct 01, 1999 3 mins read 411 views
Bhutan one of top 25 travel destinations: National Geographic

Bhutan - Geological Survey

Oct 01, 1999 1 mins read 439 views
Driver shortage hits truck owners hard

Private Sector

Oct 01, 1999 2 mins read 422 views
Film Gukor : comic relief through intrigue, duplicity and greed

Feature Film

Oct 01, 1999 2 mins read 407 views
Bringing agriculture services closer to farmers

Agriculture Activities

Oct 01, 1999 1 mins read 363 views
Chorten Robber Caught

Crime

Oct 01, 1999 1 mins read 406 views
News not correct

Letters to the Editor

Oct 01, 1999 2 mins read 595 views
We can save money

Letters to the Editor

Oct 01, 1999 1 mins read 375 views
People must help

Letters to the Editor

Oct 01, 1999 2 mins read 446 views
Too close ?

Editorial

Oct 01, 1999 3 mins read 382 views
Sports

Sport

Oct 01, 1999 0 mins read 0 views
Volunteers' Day

Volunteers

Oct 01, 1999 0 mins read 422 views
Two killed, 49 injured in Gelephu accident

Accident

Oct 01, 1999 1 mins read 452 views
Rules out on use, misuse of pool vehicles

Government Department

Oct 01, 1999 1 mins read 394 views
Foreign Minister addresses UN General Assembly

Foreign Affairs

Oct 01, 1999 1 mins read 511 views
Ashi Sangay presents medical equipment

Health-Hospital/JDWNRH

Oct 01, 1999 1 mins read 388 views
Barber shops

Private Sector

Oct 01, 1999 0 mins read 388 views
Prayers

Wang

Oct 01, 1999 0 mins read 0 views
Reckless driving

Accident

Oct 01, 1999 0 mins read 451 views
Students introduced to media technology

Education- Student

Oct 08, 1999 2 mins read 383 views
Man dies from drug overdose

Narcotics/Drugs

Oct 08, 1999 1 mins read 413 views
Cable TV legalised

Television (TV)

Oct 08, 1999 2 mins read 388 views
RSTA comes down hard on motorists

Road Safety and Transport Authority (RSTA)

Oct 08, 1999 2 mins read 389 views
Engineers share technology, experiences

Housing

Oct 08, 1999 1 mins read 379 views
Environment management: the contradiction?

National Environment Commission (NEC)

Oct 08, 1999 1 mins read 400 views
Flood in India inflates potato prices

Agriculture/Horticulture

Oct 08, 1999 2 mins read 415 views
Women challenged by gender gaps, study finds

Centre For Bhutan Studies (CBS)

Oct 08, 1999 4 mins read 396 views
New markets behind Bangladesh apple export slump

Agriculture/Horticulture

Oct 08, 1999 2 mins read 386 views
ISBN for Bhutan

Centre For Bhutan Studies (CBS)

Oct 08, 1999 1 mins read 0 views
Missing students traced to Phuentsholing

Lost and Fund

Oct 08, 1999 1 mins read 448 views
Bhutan's financial system has to be computerised: World Bank

World Bank

Oct 08, 1999 2 mins read 406 views
Anti-rabies campaign stepped up

Animal Husbandry Disease

Oct 08, 1999 2 mins read 381 views
Helvetas supports heritage museum

Helvetas

Oct 08, 1999 1 mins read 425 views
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