March of 2000

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Professionalism needed on Druk Air

Letters to the Editor

Mar 17, 2000 1 mins read 458 views
Our standards

Editorial

Mar 17, 2000 3 mins read 507 views
Official level talks in Kathmandu

Bhutan - Nepal Refugee Issue

Mar 17, 2000 1 mins read 503 views
High dividends announced

BCCL (Bhutan Carbide and Chemical Ltd.)

Mar 17, 2000 2 mins read 471 views
Japanese grant lights up museum

Bhutan- Japan

Mar 17, 2000 2 mins read 469 views
Bhutanese vehicles fail emission test

Road Safety and Transport Authority (RSTA)

Mar 17, 2000 2 mins read 387 views
Speed breakers

Road Safety and Transport Authority (RSTA)

Mar 17, 2000 0 mins read 790 views
New project

Projects

Mar 17, 2000 0 mins read 512 views
Gypsum

Companies

Mar 17, 2000 0 mins read 529 views
Religious festivals

Festival (A-Z)

Mar 17, 2000 0 mins read 514 views
"Agents" destroying cultural properties identified to Konyers

Crime

Mar 31, 2000 2 mins read 530 views
Explosion raises the issue of occupational safety

Explosives (Bomb)

Mar 31, 2000 1 mins read 476 views
Strengthening South Asian legal fraternity

SAARC Activities

Mar 31, 2000 1 mins read 439 views
"Seed capital" for bee-keeping

Bee-Keeping

Mar 31, 2000 1 mins read 461 views
Man under trial for killing

Crime

Mar 31, 2000 1 mins read 483 views
Kerosene, LPG price increase

Energy (Solar, Water, Wind)

Mar 31, 2000 1 mins read 478 views
Environment: Layaps draw attention

National Environment Commission (NEC)

Mar 31, 2000 2 mins read 468 views
Internet facility, gift shop from Bhutan Post

Bhutan-Post

Mar 31, 2000 1 mins read 428 views
What does WTO membership mean for Bhutan?

WTO (World Trade Organisation)

Mar 31, 2000 2 mins read 493 views
Bhutan prepares for employment challenges ahead

National Employment Board (NEB)

Mar 31, 2000 3 mins read 428 views
Man commits suicide in Phuentsholing hotel

Crime

Mar 31, 2000 1 mins read 525 views
Ethanol (cause of three deaths lately) widely prevalent

Poisoned File

Mar 31, 2000 2 mins read 459 views
Meat vendors to move to vegetable market

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Mar 31, 2000 2 mins read 487 views
TV culture and Bhutanese lifestyle

Television (TV)

Mar 31, 2000 7 mins read 477 views
Bumps needed

Letters to the Editor

Mar 31, 2000 0 mins read 477 views
Low standard of road construction

Letters to the Editor

Mar 31, 2000 1 mins read 505 views
Radio: good for Bhutan

Letters to the Editor

Mar 31, 2000 2 mins read 445 views
Sudden change in Grade

Letters to the Editor

Mar 31, 2000 1 mins read 488 views
The support cadre is important for administrative efficiency

Letters to the Editor

Mar 31, 2000 1 mins read 494 views
Towards a skilled workforce

Editorial

Mar 31, 2000 3 mins read 493 views
Is environment conservation over-emphasised?

Agriculture Policy

Mar 31, 2000 3 mins read 453 views
Bangladesh celebrates Independence Day

Bhutan-Bangladesh

Mar 31, 2000 1 mins read 747 views
Film Review Board established

Feature Film

Mar 31, 2000 1 mins read 449 views
Bhutan's construction industry should be mechanised: CDB

Construction Development Board (CDB)

Mar 31, 2000 3 mins read 469 views
Australian aid

Bhutan-Australia

Mar 31, 2000 0 mins read 552 views
Tobacco banned in Phuentsholing

Narcotics/Drugs

Mar 31, 2000 1 mins read 608 views
Laya Forum

National Park

Mar 31, 2000 1 mins read 511 views
Browse Archives
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The National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM), in partnership with the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), has installed the country’s first high-altitude black carbon monitoring station near the benchmarked Shodug Glacier in the headwaters of  Thim Chu.

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NC forwards Co-operatives and Farmers Groups Bill 2025 to National Assembly

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Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 1,808 views
NC backs designated zones for meat shops, adopts Livestock Bill

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Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 4,690 views
Finance Minister to present revised block grant guidelines in winter Parliament session

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Renovated immigration building to ease congestion at Phuentsholing terminal

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ACC drops cases against former JDWNRH president; family alleges wrongful implication

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The gift of children

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Transforming cancer care: Bhutan Cancer Society’s decade of impact

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Tasha Int. News and members raise Nu 17 million for 108 Jangchub Choeten Project

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NC endorses annual budget as per NA

The National Council yesterday deliberated on the National Budget Report for FY 2026–27, the Budget Appropriation Bill for FY 2026–27, and the Supplementary Budget Appropriation Bill for FY 2025–26.

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Bhutan to pilot green finance taxonomy from June

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May 30, 2026 3 mins read 3,804 views
Stop recording, start living

Like television, the internet, and AI, TikTok can be a force for good or bad. It entirely depends on how it is used.

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Ask Mr Bhutan: “Money can’t buy happiness.” Is it true, when everything is dependent on money?

Once born into a physical body, there are certain absolute necessities without which most of us are incapable of experie...

May 30, 2026 2 mins read 1,214 views
Duchen Nga Zom: What a butter lamp and a few flower petals can teach us

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The virus, the fear, and the freedom beyond both

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May 24, 2026 4 mins read 1,376 views
Whose face are you wearing?

The desire for happiness is universal, and beauty, prestige, and wealth have always been seen as pathways to achieve it. In that sense, this is nothing new.

May 16, 2026 4 mins read 1,812 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 2,387 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

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Café by the waterfall

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May 02, 2026 2 mins read 2,810 views
Where tradition meets treatment

In Bhutan, healing is not a choice between past and present but a collaboration between the two. Across the country, patients move between modern clinics and traditional medicine units with ease, guided as much by...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 2,557 views
Between Homes

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Overseas employment isn’t the solution

The conflict in the Middle East has once again exposed our dependence on overseas employment as a pressure valve for domestic unemployment.

Jun 10, 2026 2 mins read 960 views
United for Project 108

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Banks can unlock growth through affordable credit

Financial institutions are the lifeblood of any modern economy. They mobilise savings, allocate capital, manage risk, an...

Jun 03, 2026 3 mins read 1,788 views
A missed opportunity

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May 30, 2026 2 mins read 1,527 views
Chain-link fencing: somebody’s gain, another’s loss

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May 27, 2026 2 mins read 1,703 views
Fixing and fine-tuning GST regime

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May 23, 2026 2 mins read 2,131 views
Insolvency law, a long overdue

Bhutan’s economy has changed dramatically since the Bankruptcy Act of 1999 was enacted. Back then, the private sector was small, cross-border trade was limited, and the financial system was far less complex.

May 20, 2026 3 mins read 2,054 views
GMC was a masterstroke

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Fighting online scams

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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་ཁ...

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Startups call for support beyond seed funding

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Mar 21, 2026 3 mins read 6,505 views
National debt to rise by 26%, reaching Nu 380 billion in June

The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.

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Economy uncoils for strongest growth in years

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Feb 18, 2026 4 mins read 7,961 views
Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

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Feb 18, 2026 2 mins read 8,374 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 15,629 views
The true wealth of Dzambhala

The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his...

May 02, 2026 4 mins read 2,474 views
No amount of money can replace you

The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 4,995 views
You’re not what you think you are

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Apr 18, 2026 4 mins read 4,018 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

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Apr 13, 2026 3 mins read 3,716 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

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When will we feed ourselves?

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Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

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Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country coul...

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 6,711 views
A bumper harvest shouldn’t brew a bumper crisis

This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...

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Recents

Fourth thromde elections set for July 15

The dhamngoi zomdu (candidate selection meetings) for Thrompon candidates will begin for the fourth local government elections of Thimphu and Phuentsholing Thromde Tshogdes, scheduled for July 15, according to the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB).

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Drayang closure to remain permanent

More than two years after promising to review the closure of drayangs, the government has ruled out the possibility of reviving the entertainment venues, signalling a definitive end to an industry that once formed a significant part of the country’s nightlife economy.

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