March of 2004

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Excise returns total Nu 441 million

Revenue and Custom

Mar 19, 2004 2 mins read 235 views
Developing urban Bhutan

Urban Development

Mar 12, 2004 2 mins read 260 views
Mandarin exports increase

Exports

Mar 12, 2004 1 mins read 273 views
Regional media to exchange content

Television (TV)

Mar 12, 2004 1 mins read 209 views
Driving down memory lane

Personalities

Mar 12, 2004 3 mins read 246 views
Bhutanese women and HIV/AIDS

Health/ BHU/ Dispensary/ ORC

Mar 12, 2004 2 mins read 223 views
At home abroad

Education-Scholarships

Mar 12, 2004 2 mins read 256 views
Bhutan on track to achieve millenium development goals

Government Department

Mar 12, 2004 2 mins read 216 views
JICA assistance to local governance

Bhutan- Japan

Mar 12, 2004 2 mins read 232 views
Nu 135 million food aid for schools and road workers

Volunteers

Mar 12, 2004 2 mins read 268 views
Catching the wild boar

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

Mar 12, 2004 4 mins read 223 views
The pollen allergy

Dzongkhags

Mar 12, 2004 1 mins read 212 views
Managing community forests

Forest Planning/Policy Conference/Meeting

Mar 12, 2004 2 mins read 212 views
His Holiness inaugurates Samdrup Jongkhar dratshang

Religious Personalities

Mar 12, 2004 1 mins read 240 views
Change in school management

Education- Schools

Mar 12, 2004 2 mins read 219 views
Rangjung town committee in court

Judiciary

Mar 12, 2004 2 mins read 214 views
7,630 litres of spoilt beer dumped

Business

Mar 12, 2004 2 mins read 249 views
Help pedestrians

Kuensel

Mar 12, 2004 0 mins read 235 views
Care for the aging

Kuensel

Mar 12, 2004 1 mins read 241 views
The TV

Kuensel

Mar 12, 2004 1 mins read 300 views
Education loan

Kuensel

Mar 12, 2004 0 mins read 346 views
School mattresses

Kuensel

Mar 12, 2004 0 mins read 276 views
To blink or not to blink

Letters to the Editor

Mar 12, 2004 1 mins read 219 views
Stuck in traffic

Editorial

Mar 12, 2004 1 mins read 247 views
The government way

Editorial

Mar 12, 2004 2 mins read 248 views
Second round to identify tariff criteria

Power

Mar 12, 2004 1 mins read 264 views
Labour policy revised

Construction Development Board (CDB)

Mar 12, 2004 2 mins read 267 views
Policy needed to promote a drug free society

Narcotics/Drugs

Mar 12, 2004 4 mins read 244 views
Health doing well, doctors needed

Health Activities

Mar 12, 2004 3 mins read 241 views
Strengthening border security

Bhutan- India

Mar 12, 2004 1 mins read 259 views
South Asia behind in UN millennium development goals

Conferences

Mar 05, 2004 3 mins read 287 views
Bhutan to send a 37-member contingent to 9th South Asian Federation games

South Asian Federation Games (SAFG)

Mar 05, 2004 1 mins read 256 views
A clash of national news and Indian serials

BBS (Bhutan Broadcasting Service)

Mar 05, 2004 3 mins read 303 views
Thugs disrupt work on Phuentsholing garbage disposal site

Crime

Mar 05, 2004 2 mins read 229 views
THPA incinerator safe

Hydro Project

Mar 05, 2004 1 mins read 230 views
Munal club of Nepal win Gold Cup

Sport

Mar 05, 2004 1 mins read 243 views
Going back to kerosene

Energy (Solar, Water, Wind)

Mar 05, 2004 3 mins read 274 views
Grant assistance from Japan

Roads

Mar 05, 2004 1 mins read 214 views
Gogona farmers to grow improved pasture on barren government land

Animal Husbandry Livestock

Mar 05, 2004 2 mins read 257 views
Bhutan will not host world fellowship of Buddhists conference

Buddhism

Mar 05, 2004 2 mins read 250 views
The Phuentsholing season

Education- Schools

Mar 05, 2004 2 mins read 253 views
In come the billboards

City Corporation

Mar 05, 2004 1 mins read 257 views
Financial institutions continue to grow

Institutions

Mar 05, 2004 1 mins read 252 views
Winter Vacation too long

Kuensel

Mar 05, 2004 1 mins read 256 views
The trials of night life

Kuensel

Mar 05, 2004 1 mins read 254 views
Crime - inevitable?

Letters to the Editor

Mar 05, 2004 2 mins read 240 views
The urban future

Editorial

Mar 05, 2004 3 mins read 257 views
Accident

Accident

Mar 05, 2004 0 mins read 0 views
Suicide

Crime

Mar 05, 2004 0 mins read 0 views
Missing gup found dead

Diseased Personalities

Mar 05, 2004 1 mins read 261 views
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Recents

Honouring the legacy of the Great Fourth

The story of His Majesty the Fourth King is an extraordinary one in our history. At 16, His Majesty became King, following the untimely passing of his father, the Third Druk Gyalpo. His Majesty inherited a nation in transition, a country taking its first steps toward modernisation, while gradually coming out from years of isolation. Geo-politically, it was a time of turmoil and uncertainty.

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The selfless Warrior-King

The winter of 2003 would forever be etched in Bhutan’s history as the time when a King walked into the jungles of the south, especially in Samdrupjongkhar, not as a ruler commanding from afar, but as a warrior leading from the front. The air was cold, heavy with mist, and beneath the thick canopy of trees lay the sound of tension.  A nation’s patience was stretched to its limit.

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Tribute to His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Druk Gyalpo

Throughout history, the world has seen countless leaders, yet only a few have embodied the rare harmony of wisdom, compassion, and courage that defines true greatness. Bhutan is fortunate to have been blessed by such a leader in His Majesty King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, a visionary Monarch whose reign ushered the nation into an era of peace, progress, and profound transforma

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King who sacrificed his youth to build a future for us

Among the many extraordinary acts of greatness that define the reign of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, what moves the heart most profoundly is something far more silent, far less seen: the quiet, invisible sacrifice of his own youth. It is a story etched deeply in the soul of the nation, for in giving up his own, he gifted a future to us.

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The Vajrayana King

As Bhutan reflects on its journey as the world’s last Vajrayana kingdom, it becomes ever more evident that the reign of His Majesty King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, marks one of the most sacred and transformative eras in our history.

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