August of 2002

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"Mt. Everest is next"

Personalities

Aug 30, 2002 1 mins read 511 views
Import licensing procedure improved

Bhutan - Trade

Aug 30, 2002 2 mins read 586 views
Dasho Dorji Tenzing passes away

Diseased Personalities

Aug 30, 2002 1 mins read 536 views
Driver missing

Accident

Aug 30, 2002 0 mins read 0 views
PM to address summit on September 3

Lhengye Zhungtsho

Aug 30, 2002 1 mins read 511 views
Water for Semtokha, Babesa

Water Supply Scheme

Aug 30, 2002 1 mins read 518 views
Health & education minister to visit Thailand

Visitors

Aug 30, 2002 1 mins read 500 views
Food inspectors trained

Agriculture Activities

Aug 30, 2002 1 mins read 482 views
Standardisation of mask dances underway

Tshechu

Aug 30, 2002 1 mins read 545 views
Another film rejected by board

Feature Film

Aug 30, 2002 1 mins read 545 views
Machinery unit "centralised" in Bumthang

Agriculture Activities

Aug 30, 2002 1 mins read 494 views
GE loan increased to 1,00,000

Bhutan National Bank (BNB)

Aug 30, 2002 2 mins read 522 views
BNB updates banking software

Bhutan National Bank (BNB)

Aug 30, 2002 1 mins read 574 views
Archer sets record

Sport

Aug 30, 2002 1 mins read 587 views
New rice varieties: bigger yield, higher income

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

Aug 30, 2002 3 mins read 571 views
Honey producers told to improve quality

Bee-Keeping

Aug 30, 2002 2 mins read 464 views
The new Wangdue town: at what cost?

Dzongkhags

Aug 30, 2002 2 mins read 503 views
Garbage lead to cattle death in suburban Thimphu

Dzongkhags

Aug 30, 2002 2 mins read 506 views
Fungicide to combat apple leaf fall identified

Agriculture/Horticulture

Aug 30, 2002 2 mins read 458 views
Decentralising

Editorial

Aug 30, 2002 3 mins read 435 views
Tshechus and Atsaras

Kuensel

Aug 30, 2002 1 mins read 512 views
Addiction and alcoholism - what parents can do

Letters to the Editor

Aug 30, 2002 5 mins read 506 views
Salt: no problem

WFP (World Food Program)

Aug 30, 2002 2 mins read 473 views
SAARC to form regional police body

SAARC Activities

Aug 30, 2002 2 mins read 473 views
His Majesty emphasises the important role of the judiciary

His Majesty the King reminded the drangpons (judges), rabjams, and the dungpas of the Bhutanese judicial system that th...

Aug 31, 2002 4 mins read 0 views
Ministerial visit strengthens bilateral ties

Bhutan-Sri Lanka

Aug 30, 2002 1 mins read 475 views
Burimari closed, apples stranded

Exports

Aug 30, 2002 1 mins read 495 views
Ap Namgay Wangchuk: a village genius

Personalities

Aug 23, 2002 3 mins read 518 views
Are pre-school teachers paid less ?

Education-Teacher

Aug 23, 2002 1 mins read 475 views
Cyclists in Bhutan

Visitors

Aug 23, 2002 1 mins read 495 views
Bad potato seeds, poor yield

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

Aug 23, 2002 2 mins read 469 views
Inching closer to insouciant reality

Bhutan - History

Aug 23, 2002 2 mins read 464 views
SAARC follow up meet

SAARC Activities

Aug 23, 2002 1 mins read 505 views
Biography of Phajo Drugom published

Books

Aug 23, 2002 1 mins read 486 views
Viewers to lose in cable TV row

Television (TV)

Aug 23, 2002 2 mins read 455 views
Audio visuals: "cultural bridge maker"

Special Commission For Cultural Affairs/ Bhutan Music/ RAPA

Aug 23, 2002 2 mins read 460 views
Volunteerism: "selflessness, not cheap labour"

Volunteers

Aug 23, 2002 1 mins read 480 views
Phuentsholing Thrimkhang

Judiciary

Aug 23, 2002 0 mins read 473 views
Chang Jiji: yet another delay

Housing

Aug 23, 2002 1 mins read 505 views
"Health walk" raises Nu 10 million

Health Activities

Aug 23, 2002 1 mins read 471 views
Farmer pioneers Punakha's vegetable boom

Agriculture Activities

Aug 23, 2002 3 mins read 526 views
Kuenselonline sees drastic surge in viewership

Kuensel

Aug 23, 2002 2 mins read 471 views
The same old story

Editorial

Aug 23, 2002 2 mins read 490 views
Private rental buildings ignored

Letters to the Editor

Aug 23, 2002 1 mins read 552 views
Of yawning drains and potholes

Kuensel

Aug 23, 2002 2 mins read 456 views
Dzongkhag restructuring: Wasn't it a mad rush?

Kuensel

Aug 23, 2002 3 mins read 514 views
School children buried in Tsirang landslide

Landslides and Floods

Aug 23, 2002 1 mins read 816 views
Bhutan's national flag designed during first Asian Conference

Centre For Bhutan Studies (CBS)

Aug 23, 2002 1 mins read 595 views
Is the tenancy act finally coming?

Act

Aug 23, 2002 4 mins read 506 views
Bhutan contributes to Nepal's flood relief

Landslides and Floods

Aug 23, 2002 1 mins read 489 views
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The environmental toll of wars

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