January of 2012

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New town, old problem

Housing

Jan 26, 2012 2 mins read 291 views
Orong students almost recovered

Education-School

Jan 26, 2012 2 mins read 332 views
By the bottle, instead of pegs

Letter to the editior

Jan 26, 2012 1 mins read 343 views
Disease of civilisation

Editorial

Jan 26, 2012 2 mins read 307 views
Only one bids to build education city

Education

Jan 26, 2012 2 mins read 272 views
In search of a giant panda

Wildlife

Jan 26, 2012 1 mins read 283 views
Private papers want Dzongkha out

Media

Jan 26, 2012 3 mins read 338 views
Lifeline project claims 20 so far

Dantak

Jan 26, 2012 2 mins read 272 views
Poor response for Infosys training

Computer

Jan 25, 2012 1 mins read 353 views
Decade-long construction freeze lifted

Gelephu

Jan 25, 2012 2 mins read 317 views
Register instead of calling it illegal

Letter to the editior

Jan 25, 2012 1 mins read 306 views
The medical university

Editorial

Jan 25, 2012 2 mins read 331 views
2012 living standard survey starts in March

National Statistical Bureau's (NSB)

Jan 25, 2012 2 mins read 304 views
Tourist guide held for knifing incident

Crime

Jan 25, 2012 1 mins read 291 views
Bird fecal tests negative of H5N1

Animal Husbandary Disease

Jan 25, 2012 2 mins read 274 views
Kudung of Dungse Rinpoche to arrive on February 1

Diseased Religious Personalities

Jan 25, 2012 2 mins read 308 views
Rhododendrons burning up in Chajeyna

Environment

Jan 24, 2012 2 mins read 356 views
Celebrating Chunipai Losar

Celebration

Jan 24, 2012 1 mins read 379 views
Devotees kill fish with kindness

Compassion

Jan 24, 2012 2 mins read 309 views
Lifestyle diseases creep into rural areas

Health-Diseases

Jan 24, 2012 3 mins read 288 views
Lessons to take from the tobacco Act

Editorial

Jan 24, 2012 2 mins read 321 views
Setting records straight in Lauri

Land

Jan 24, 2012 3 mins read 294 views
Not yet happy more than happy

GNH

Jan 24, 2012 2 mins read 305 views
Questions abound about medical university

Medical College

Jan 24, 2012 5 mins read 308 views
A decade after, land acquired for Motanga

Land

Jan 23, 2012 2 mins read 329 views
More than half repatriated

Labour Ministry

Jan 23, 2012 2 mins read 312 views
Cross check and verify facts

Letter to the editior

Jan 23, 2012 1 mins read 331 views
Under the scanner

Editorial

Jan 23, 2012 2 mins read 283 views
Businesswoman detained for child battery

Crime

Jan 23, 2012 1 mins read 324 views
Australia reaffirms support to endorse Bhutan to UNSC

Bhutan-Australia

Jan 23, 2012 2 mins read 341 views
Bird flu detected in wild birds

Animal Husbandary Disease

Jan 23, 2012 2 mins read 351 views
New tobacco Act will benefit 19

Act

Jan 23, 2012 2 mins read 299 views
Government must control spread of bird flu from infected dzongkhags

Animal Husbandary Disease

Jan 22, 2012 2 mins read 336 views
Maya's leg saved

Compassion

Jan 22, 2012 3 mins read 292 views
Bird flu contained, surveillance stepped up

Animal Husbandary Disease

Jan 22, 2012 1 mins read 311 views
Devotee attacked, suffers superficial cut on neck

Crime

Jan 22, 2012 1 mins read 306 views
Need something more serious than "professional help"

Letter to the editior

Jan 22, 2012 2 mins read 267 views
The mining policy paradox

Editorial

Jan 22, 2012 2 mins read 299 views
Australia committed to its scholarship programs

Bhutan-Australia

Jan 22, 2012 2 mins read 303 views
Speaker can stand for assembly's proposals

National Assembly

Jan 22, 2012 2 mins read 299 views
Dignity kits yet to reach the affected

RENEW

Jan 22, 2012 3 mins read 263 views
Nine bills adopted in 13 days

National Assembly

Jan 20, 2012 2 mins read 290 views
60 days wang, 40,000 devotees, an odd couple

Wang

Jan 20, 2012 1 mins read 295 views
Satellite monitoring recommended

Lake

Jan 20, 2012 2 mins read 264 views
Keep an eye on Karma

Lake

Jan 20, 2012 1 mins read 314 views
A long hard look at happiness (in all its shapes and sizes)

PERSPECTIVE

Jan 20, 2012 3 mins read 340 views
Mutig Choegho - The Pearl Cloak

Textile

Jan 20, 2012 3 mins read 271 views
House constructed without approval

Housing

Jan 20, 2012 2 mins read 304 views
Poultry owners cluck for a chicken feed mill

Animal Husbandary

Jan 20, 2012 2 mins read 367 views
Bhutan establishes diplomatic relations with Mongolia and Vietnam

Diplomatic relations

Jan 20, 2012 0 mins read 280 views
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Stop the outflow of young talents

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