May of 2004

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Preparation of national adaptation plan of action begun

Lake

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 697 views
Screening in schools draws complaints

Education- Student

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 595 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 743 views
Villagers build own farm road

Roads

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 592 views
Yarn makers optimistic markets will bounce

Handicraft

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 579 views
Power tiller tracks, a better option to provide rural access

Agriculture Activities

May 28, 2004 3 mins read 826 views
Develop SMEs, create more jobs

Labour and Human Resource

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 608 views
Planned township for Lhuentse

Dzongkhags

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 640 views
YDRC successful in rehabilitating juveniles

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 594 views
Towards sharing a common pool of tourists

Tourism

May 28, 2004 3 mins read 682 views
Work on the east-west highway behind time

Roads

May 28, 2004 4 mins read 676 views
Vehicle accessory thieves caught

Crime

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 596 views
Foundation provides free surgery

Health Disease

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 621 views
Quality assurance plan needed for construction

Ministry of Work & Housing

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 625 views
HIV/AIDS dominate WHO assembly in Geneva

Health-HIV/AIDS

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 528 views
Building ties with Singapore

Bhutan-Asia

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 619 views
A matter of height

Druk Air

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 555 views
Honourary consul visits Bhutan

Visitors

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 545 views
Need for search and rescue team

Kuensel

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 519 views
Ura tshechu

Kuensel

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 590 views
Safe travel

Kuensel

May 28, 2004 0 mins read 587 views
Privatise health service

Letters to the Editor

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 639 views
Closer to the people

Letters to the Editor

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 587 views
Streamline Phuentsholing

Letters to the Editor

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 608 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 634 views
Ban lifted on import of poultry from India

Agriculture Activities

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 620 views
Bribery trial completed, verdict awaited

Crime

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 579 views
Hard drugs seized

Crime

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 585 views
Investigation underway in Paro election

Royal Advisory Council (RAC)

May 28, 2004 2 mins read 615 views
Trashigang to re-elect councillor candidate

Royal Advisory Council (RAC)

May 28, 2004 1 mins read 557 views
Rapist sentenced

Crime

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

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 538 views
Double laning Thimphu -Phuentsholing highway

Roads

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 587 views
Bringing the world's largest book to Bhutan

Books

May 21, 2004 1 mins read 649 views
Expressway to be ready next year

Roads

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 569 views
Urban Trashigang skips stray sterlisation campaign

City Corporation

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 567 views
Yedzin club leads in A division national league tournament

Sport

May 21, 2004 1 mins read 569 views
Jobs created but employment slow

Labour and Human Resource

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 623 views
No legal teeth to enforce basic food standards

Consumers

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 535 views
Matsutake export picks up again

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

May 21, 2004 3 mins read 595 views
Farmers welcome timely rain

Agriculture/Horticulture

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 623 views
45 teams competing in Coronation Cup tournament

Sport

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 543 views
Environmental education through participation

Education- Schools

May 21, 2004 1 mins read 542 views
The spider and the piglet

Centre For Bhutan Studies (CBS)

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 789 views
Paddy cultivation reintroduced in Bumthang

Agriculture/Crops/Mushroom

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 547 views
Supposed tax evasion questioned

Royal Audit Authority (RAA)

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 552 views
Professionalising Bhutanese guides

Tourism

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 631 views
Audit objects to embassy payments

Royal Audit Authority (RAA)

May 21, 2004 2 mins read 545 views
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༉ 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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Recents

BCTA suspends permits of over 20 taxi operators

The Bhutan Construction and Transport Authority (BCTA) cancelled the permits of 25 designated taxis providing pick-up and drop-off services for the ongoing Kathrid empowerment at Kuenselphodrang after operators were found violating transport directives.

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RAA uncovers major procurement lapses in the Nu 610M BITS projects

A Special Audit Report by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has identified significant procurement, planning, and governance failures in the Bhutan Integrated Taxation System (BITS 1.0), concluding that the project failed to achieve its intended objectives and resulted in substantial wasteful and avoidable expenditure of public funds.

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