January of 2012

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New town, old problem

Housing

Jan 26, 2012 2 mins read 249 views
Orong students almost recovered

Education-School

Jan 26, 2012 2 mins read 289 views
By the bottle, instead of pegs

Letter to the editior

Jan 26, 2012 1 mins read 301 views
Disease of civilisation

Editorial

Jan 26, 2012 2 mins read 252 views
Only one bids to build education city

Education

Jan 26, 2012 2 mins read 228 views
In search of a giant panda

Wildlife

Jan 26, 2012 1 mins read 235 views
Private papers want Dzongkha out

Media

Jan 26, 2012 3 mins read 283 views
Lifeline project claims 20 so far

Dantak

Jan 26, 2012 2 mins read 229 views
Poor response for Infosys training

Computer

Jan 25, 2012 1 mins read 307 views
Decade-long construction freeze lifted

Gelephu

Jan 25, 2012 2 mins read 268 views
Register instead of calling it illegal

Letter to the editior

Jan 25, 2012 1 mins read 271 views
The medical university

Editorial

Jan 25, 2012 2 mins read 289 views
2012 living standard survey starts in March

National Statistical Bureau's (NSB)

Jan 25, 2012 2 mins read 268 views
Tourist guide held for knifing incident

Crime

Jan 25, 2012 1 mins read 251 views
Bird fecal tests negative of H5N1

Animal Husbandary Disease

Jan 25, 2012 2 mins read 237 views
Kudung of Dungse Rinpoche to arrive on February 1

Diseased Religious Personalities

Jan 25, 2012 2 mins read 270 views
Rhododendrons burning up in Chajeyna

Environment

Jan 24, 2012 2 mins read 302 views
Celebrating Chunipai Losar

Celebration

Jan 24, 2012 1 mins read 316 views
Devotees kill fish with kindness

Compassion

Jan 24, 2012 2 mins read 263 views
Lifestyle diseases creep into rural areas

Health-Diseases

Jan 24, 2012 3 mins read 252 views
Lessons to take from the tobacco Act

Editorial

Jan 24, 2012 2 mins read 283 views
Setting records straight in Lauri

Land

Jan 24, 2012 3 mins read 258 views
Not yet happy more than happy

GNH

Jan 24, 2012 2 mins read 260 views
Questions abound about medical university

Medical College

Jan 24, 2012 5 mins read 267 views
A decade after, land acquired for Motanga

Land

Jan 23, 2012 2 mins read 287 views
More than half repatriated

Labour Ministry

Jan 23, 2012 2 mins read 267 views
Cross check and verify facts

Letter to the editior

Jan 23, 2012 1 mins read 275 views
Under the scanner

Editorial

Jan 23, 2012 2 mins read 238 views
Businesswoman detained for child battery

Crime

Jan 23, 2012 1 mins read 271 views
Australia reaffirms support to endorse Bhutan to UNSC

Bhutan-Australia

Jan 23, 2012 2 mins read 299 views
Bird flu detected in wild birds

Animal Husbandary Disease

Jan 23, 2012 2 mins read 307 views
New tobacco Act will benefit 19

Act

Jan 23, 2012 2 mins read 253 views
Government must control spread of bird flu from infected dzongkhags

Animal Husbandary Disease

Jan 22, 2012 2 mins read 277 views
Maya's leg saved

Compassion

Jan 22, 2012 3 mins read 247 views
Bird flu contained, surveillance stepped up

Animal Husbandary Disease

Jan 22, 2012 1 mins read 270 views
Devotee attacked, suffers superficial cut on neck

Crime

Jan 22, 2012 1 mins read 258 views
Need something more serious than "professional help"

Letter to the editior

Jan 22, 2012 2 mins read 229 views
The mining policy paradox

Editorial

Jan 22, 2012 2 mins read 254 views
Australia committed to its scholarship programs

Bhutan-Australia

Jan 22, 2012 2 mins read 266 views
Speaker can stand for assembly's proposals

National Assembly

Jan 22, 2012 2 mins read 260 views
Dignity kits yet to reach the affected

RENEW

Jan 22, 2012 3 mins read 223 views
Nine bills adopted in 13 days

National Assembly

Jan 20, 2012 2 mins read 254 views
60 days wang, 40,000 devotees, an odd couple

Wang

Jan 20, 2012 1 mins read 257 views
Satellite monitoring recommended

Lake

Jan 20, 2012 2 mins read 218 views
Keep an eye on Karma

Lake

Jan 20, 2012 1 mins read 272 views
A long hard look at happiness (in all its shapes and sizes)

PERSPECTIVE

Jan 20, 2012 3 mins read 297 views
Mutig Choegho - The Pearl Cloak

Textile

Jan 20, 2012 3 mins read 232 views
House constructed without approval

Housing

Jan 20, 2012 2 mins read 252 views
Poultry owners cluck for a chicken feed mill

Animal Husbandary

Jan 20, 2012 2 mins read 318 views
Bhutan establishes diplomatic relations with Mongolia and Vietnam

Diplomatic relations

Jan 20, 2012 0 mins read 238 views
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Court judgements still out of public reach

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Study records over 200 native fodder species in highland rangelands

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Gedu college targets 100 percent internship placement by December

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Sacred Buddha relics from India to arrive for Global Peace Prayer Festival

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Drukair: History of Bhutan’s national airline

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Devotion knows no bounds

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National symposium explores AI as catalyst for 10X growth

The Royal Thimphu College (RTC) organised a national symposium yesterday, gathering the nation’s leading educators, poli...

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Amochu quarriers call for flood walls after millions in losses

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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 urgency of civil service transformation

none existed, electrified homes, and carried the nation through crises, including the recent Covid-19 pandemic. These ac...

Nov 10, 2025 3 mins read 2,344 views
Should we control social media?

The news of Australia passing a social media ban for children under 16 has sent ripples across the globe, igniting similiar conversations amongf Bhutanese parents. Some are talking if Bhutan should follow suit.

Nov 08, 2025 2 mins read 1,269 views
Need bold reforms to advance women in leadership roles

Bhutan has always taken pride in being a fairly egalitarian society. In many communities, women are heads of households,...

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Fraudulent businesses must be punished

The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority is on high alert, not only investigating complaints but also penalising businesses that try to make easy money at the expense of consumers.

Nov 06, 2025 2 mins read 2,155 views
Safe spaces, unsafe realities

The opening of three new Safe Spaces for Women and Girls in Mongar, Pemagatshel, and Samdrupjongkhar marks a significant step forward in our effort to protect women and children from violence.

Nov 05, 2025 2 mins read 523 views
A small kingdom’s great prayer for the world

Beginning today, the Changlimithang ground in Thimphu will be transformed into a sanctuary of peace and hope as the Glob...

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Why agile governance and policy innovation matter

Public policy is often imagined as a fixed compass, steady and unbending. But in a rapidly changing world, governance mu...

Nov 03, 2025 2 mins read 675 views
One health, one future

Our greatest strength has always been our capacity to look beyond the moment and plan for balanced progress. The recent national workshop on integrating livestock production with environ...

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Preparing Bhutan for the AI era

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept. It is rapidly becoming a key component of organisational life, transforming how businesses operate, governments function, and societies interact. In...

Oct 31, 2025 2 mins read 913 views
Happiness with Mr Bhutan

Our global culture has conditioned us to spend the best of ourselves in the pursuit of a “decent living” whatever that m...

Sep 22, 2025 4 mins read 2,719 views
Ask Mr Bhutan

Aug 26, 2025 2 mins read 6,914 views
Ask Mr Bhutan

In a world that constantly advertises, applauds, and sells consumption, acquisition and growth at all costs, cultivating...

Aug 18, 2025 2 mins read 4,032 views
Bhutanese youth must prepare for GMC jobs

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Oct 30, 2025 2 mins read 2,942 views
Making ESP education loan more accessible

The goal of the Economic Stimulus Programme’s (ESP) education loan is, at its core, both forward-looking and noble. It h...

Oct 29, 2025 2 mins read 1,237 views
A teacher’s gift to the nation

It is not often that a Bhutanese citizen receives a prestigious award from abroad. Yet, a teacher from Samtse, Chimi Dem...

Oct 28, 2025 2 mins read 1,859 views
Walking for those who cannot walk

There are journeys that test strength, and there are those that reveal the heart. Ani Pema Deki’s 400-kilometre walk acr...

Oct 27, 2025 2 mins read 770 views
Are we hoarding alcohol and cigarettes?

To make up for slow business, a shopkeeper in Changzamtog, Thimphu, sacrificed her puja holidays to stay open. If busine...

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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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