February of 2004

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Wood Monkey Year

Astrological College

Feb 20, 2004 4 mins read 621 views
Gold Cup kicks off in Phuentsholing

Sport

Feb 20, 2004 1 mins read 523 views
Je Khenpo to visit southern and eastern dzongkhags

Dratshang

Feb 20, 2004 1 mins read 596 views
330 power tillers as grant assistance

Agriculture Activities

Feb 20, 2004 1 mins read 532 views
Two suicide deaths in Trashigang

Crime

Feb 20, 2004 1 mins read 535 views
Auditing information should be submitted on time : RAA

Royal Audit Authority (RAA)

Feb 20, 2004 1 mins read 562 views
Sports week in Phuentsholing

Sport

Feb 20, 2004 1 mins read 558 views
Robbed and tied to a tree

Crime

Feb 20, 2004 1 mins read 590 views
US $100,000 to promote Dzongkha

Dzongkha Development Commission (DDC)

Feb 20, 2004 1 mins read 549 views
Recovering "excess payment"

Royal Audit Authority (RAA)

Feb 20, 2004 2 mins read 577 views
Addressing climate change

National Environment Commission (NEC)

Feb 20, 2004 1 mins read 570 views
Punakha Domchhoe to begin Feb 25

Festival (A-Z)

Feb 20, 2004 2 mins read 613 views
Lhadakhi's visit Bhutan

Visitors

Feb 20, 2004 1 mins read 505 views
Growing misuse of government property

Kuensel

Feb 20, 2004 1 mins read 595 views
Time wasted is better than losing money

Letters to the Editor

Feb 20, 2004 1 mins read 614 views
A disturbing article

Kuensel

Feb 20, 2004 1 mins read 538 views
Addressing sex issues requires sensitivity

Kuensel

Feb 20, 2004 1 mins read 439 views
Another moment in time

Editorial

Feb 20, 2004 3 mins read 522 views
From the astrologer

Astrological College

Feb 20, 2004 1 mins read 0 views
Operationalising Gross National Happiness

Government Department

Feb 20, 2004 4 mins read 531 views
Water Sheep

Wrap Up News

Feb 20, 2004 21 mins read 589 views
More money for cricket in Bhutan

Sport

Feb 13, 2004 2 mins read 490 views
Enough funds but no time for EC project

European Economic Community

Feb 13, 2004 2 mins read 513 views
Talking about happiness

Gross National Happiness (GNH)

Feb 13, 2004 3 mins read 476 views
Six months prison for damaging pool vehicle

Crime

Feb 13, 2004 1 mins read 521 views
NEC monitors industries and mines

National Environment Commission (NEC)

Feb 13, 2004 1 mins read 535 views
Productivity, accessibility and market: goals of the RNR sector

Agriculture Activities

Feb 13, 2004 2 mins read 470 views
Viable projects will get collateral free loan

Private Sector

Feb 13, 2004 2 mins read 493 views
Preserving the Zhey

Bhutan - Tradition

Feb 13, 2004 4 mins read 495 views
Federation archers confident

Sport

Feb 13, 2004 1 mins read 476 views
RBIT: its widening role

Institutions

Feb 13, 2004 3 mins read 503 views
A preference for the PF housing loan scheme

National Pension Board (NPB)

Feb 13, 2004 2 mins read 602 views
FM radio transmission to go nationwide

BBS (Bhutan Broadcasting Service)

Feb 13, 2004 2 mins read 501 views
A Bhutanese lesson

Bhutan-Thailand

Feb 13, 2004 1 mins read 575 views
Look beyond Bollywood

Letters to the Editor

Feb 13, 2004 1 mins read 0 views
Look beyond Bollywood

Letters to the Editor

Feb 13, 2004 1 mins read 508 views
Location watch

Letters to the Editor

Feb 13, 2004 0 mins read 527 views
Bhutanese should work harder

Letters to the Editor

Feb 13, 2004 1 mins read 535 views
Discotheques need security

Letters to the Editor

Feb 13, 2004 1 mins read 0 views
Discotheques need security

Letters to the Editor

Feb 13, 2004 1 mins read 498 views
Luck and merit selection

Letters to the Editor

Feb 13, 2004 1 mins read 504 views
Are we happy ?

Editorial

Feb 13, 2004 3 mins read 543 views
Class VIII results declared

Education-BBE

Feb 13, 2004 1 mins read 519 views
75 year old woman raped

Crime

Feb 13, 2004 1 mins read 541 views
Bhutan calls for early investigation on attack on Bhutanese officials

Bhutan - Nepal Refugee Issue

Feb 13, 2004 1 mins read 560 views
Thimphu structural plan ready

Dzongkhags

Feb 13, 2004 3 mins read 554 views
Pension investments rebound

National Pension Board (NPB)

Feb 13, 2004 2 mins read 517 views
60 percent and above qualify for class XI

Education-BBE

Feb 13, 2004 3 mins read 740 views
Bhutan becomes member of BIMST-EC

European Economic Community

Feb 13, 2004 2 mins read 545 views
Property survey to streamline collection of service charges

Survey

Feb 06, 2004 2 mins read 500 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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