May of 2004

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Preparation of national adaptation plan of action begun

Lake

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 427 views
Screening in schools draws complaints

Education- Student

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 351 views
On elections and democracy

Kuensel

May 21, 2004 1 mins read 0 views
Four more infected with HIV

Health-HIV/AIDS

May 14, 2004 0 mins read 514 views
Villagers build own farm road

Roads

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 362 views
Yarn makers optimistic markets will bounce

Handicraft

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 377 views
Power tiller tracks, a better option to provide rural access

Agriculture Activities

May 28, 2004 3 mins read 486 views
Develop SMEs, create more jobs

Labour and Human Resource

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 383 views
Planned township for Lhuentse

Dzongkhags

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 411 views
YDRC successful in rehabilitating juveniles

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 389 views
Towards sharing a common pool of tourists

Tourism

May 28, 2004 3 mins read 462 views
Work on the east-west highway behind time

Roads

May 28, 2004 4 mins read 423 views
Vehicle accessory thieves caught

Crime

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 390 views
Foundation provides free surgery

Health Disease

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 406 views
Quality assurance plan needed for construction

Ministry of Work & Housing

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 402 views
HIV/AIDS dominate WHO assembly in Geneva

Health-HIV/AIDS

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 314 views
Building ties with Singapore

Bhutan-Asia

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 401 views
A matter of height

Druk Air

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 330 views
Honourary consul visits Bhutan

Visitors

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 329 views
Need for search and rescue team

Kuensel

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 319 views
Ura tshechu

Kuensel

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 337 views
Safe travel

Kuensel

May 28, 2004 0 mins read 361 views
Privatise health service

Letters to the Editor

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 371 views
Closer to the people

Letters to the Editor

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 352 views
Streamline Phuentsholing

Letters to the Editor

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 378 views
Tackling corruption

Editorial

May 28, 2004 3 mins read 0 views
Bhutan needs to strengthen relations with northeast India

Bhutan- India

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 410 views
Ban lifted on import of poultry from India

Agriculture Activities

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 357 views
Bribery trial completed, verdict awaited

Crime

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 364 views
Hard drugs seized

Crime

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 362 views
Investigation underway in Paro election

Royal Advisory Council (RAC)

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 314 views
Trashigang to re-elect councillor candidate

Royal Advisory Council (RAC)

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 342 views
Rapist sentenced

Crime

May 21, 2004 1 mins read 0 views
Encouraging shitake cultivation

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 301 views
Double laning Thimphu -Phuentsholing highway

Roads

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 374 views
Bringing the world's largest book to Bhutan

Books

May 21, 2004 1 mins read 384 views
Expressway to be ready next year

Roads

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 354 views
Urban Trashigang skips stray sterlisation campaign

City Corporation

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 310 views
Yedzin club leads in A division national league tournament

Sport

May 21, 2004 1 mins read 364 views
Jobs created but employment slow

Labour and Human Resource

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 371 views
No legal teeth to enforce basic food standards

Consumers

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 320 views
Matsutake export picks up again

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

May 21, 2004 3 mins read 339 views
Farmers welcome timely rain

Agriculture/Horticulture

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 390 views
45 teams competing in Coronation Cup tournament

Sport

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 331 views
Environmental education through participation

Education- Schools

May 21, 2004 1 mins read 325 views
The spider and the piglet

Centre For Bhutan Studies (CBS)

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 473 views
Paddy cultivation reintroduced in Bumthang

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 336 views
Supposed tax evasion questioned

Royal Audit Authority (RAA)

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 335 views
Professionalising Bhutanese guides

Tourism

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 404 views
Audit objects to embassy payments

Royal Audit Authority (RAA)

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 337 views
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The country’s plan to restore 50,000 hectares of degraded forests, farmlands, and urban lands is not simply an environmental initiative. It is a national ultimatum. We are standing at a point where the land that defines our identity is weakening under our watch.

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