May of 2012

Archives

For more Rupee

Rupee Crunch

May 31, 2012 0 mins read 577 views
Senior civil servants reshuffled

RCSC

May 31, 2012 1 mins read 583 views
Law Enforcement Agencies : Crime's gone high tech in the 21st century

Crime - CBI

May 31, 2012 3 mins read 595 views
Task Force Recommendations : Raised duty may not reduce demand

Taxation

May 31, 2012 2 mins read 625 views
"World No Tobacco Day Observed

BNCA

May 31, 2012 0 mins read 528 views
Right to Information : To wait could mean to miss the bus

RTI Bill

May 31, 2012 3 mins read 576 views
Gutted house cleans out four families

Disaster - Fire

May 31, 2012 1 mins read 560 views
Fourth Thromde Meeting : Some respite soon to housing crunch

Phuentsholing Thromde

May 31, 2012 2 mins read 547 views
Drain the pool

My Say

May 31, 2012 1 mins read 586 views
In lieu of wheels

Editorial

May 31, 2012 2 mins read 629 views
Update : It's Orong all over again

Education - Nutrition

May 31, 2012 1 mins read 700 views
Press Conference : `Pledged' dollars can't be sold

Rupee Crunch

May 31, 2012 2 mins read 538 views
Pedestrian's Day : Tuesday - Time to reduce your carbon footprint

Pedestrian Day

May 31, 2012 4 mins read 533 views
ACC Annual Report : Land-related complaints rife.

ACC

May 31, 2012 3 mins read 615 views
Trade between Bhutan and Bangladesh

Trade

May 30, 2012 0 mins read 581 views
Minor Rape : Traditional healer sentenced to nine years plus

Crime - Rape

May 30, 2012 1 mins read 532 views
Dry Spell : Near drought conditions in Trashigang

Agriculture - Weather

May 30, 2012 1 mins read 552 views
Yangchenphug Assault Case : Students receive various sentences

Assult - Yangchenphu

May 30, 2012 2 mins read 560 views
Youth Centre Division : Young people learn how to apply for a job

Employment

May 30, 2012 1 mins read 523 views
Excise Duty : GoI to reimburse Nu 3B

GOI - Exercise Refund

May 30, 2012 2 mins read 568 views
Thimphu TechPark : Genpact backs out . for now

Thimphu Tech Park

May 30, 2012 2 mins read 583 views
A practical paradigm for our education system

My Say

May 30, 2012 2 mins read 613 views
Wrong about right to information

Editorial

May 30, 2012 2 mins read 537 views
SAARC News Agencies : Crying need for a common platform

SAARC News Agency

May 30, 2012 1 mins read 564 views
Online Visa System : How safe is it, actually?

Visa

May 30, 2012 2 mins read 574 views
2-Day Awareness Seminar : Are we ready for RTI yet?

RTI

May 30, 2012 3 mins read 520 views
Lhuentse Higher Secondary School 8 students admitted to hospital

Education - Nutrition

May 30, 2012 2 mins read 607 views
Fourth Thromde Tshogdue : Bid to hike water tariff

Thronde - Phuentsholing

May 29, 2012 2 mins read 514 views
Bhutan's reserves ought to be in Rupee

Rupee Crisis

May 29, 2012 2 mins read 578 views
Bon Festival : Chali kharpu in terminal decline

Heritage

May 29, 2012 2 mins read 597 views
Samphel Construction Case : HC upholds lower court verdict

Crime - Contractors

May 29, 2012 1 mins read 557 views
Business News Stories : Keeping it simple, stupid

Media

May 29, 2012 2 mins read 606 views
RSTA, please ease license issue in Samtse

My Say

May 29, 2012 1 mins read 551 views
A manageable `crisis'

Editorial

May 29, 2012 2 mins read 537 views
INR Crunch : Hoarding Dollars and bleeding Rupees

Rupee Crunch

May 29, 2012 2 mins read 546 views
Yangchenphug Caretaker Attack : OAG indicts four students .

Crime - attack

May 29, 2012 1 mins read 588 views
Rupee Outflow : A substantial wage bill leaves the country

Rupee - Labour

May 29, 2012 2 mins read 561 views
Rupee Crunch : Nobel laureate certifies it's not crisis

Rupee Crunch - Nobel Laureate

May 29, 2012 1 mins read 567 views
Thimphu Open Archery: Enters into semifinals

Thimphu Open Archery

May 28, 2012 0 mins read 625 views
Thimphu League Drukstar reigns over Motithang FC

Football

May 28, 2012 1 mins read 532 views
Drujeygang, Dagana : Man held for rape of minor

Crime - Rape

May 28, 2012 0 mins read 542 views
Phuentsholing, Chukha : The lonely abandoned bull

Tsethar

May 28, 2012 2 mins read 537 views
MOU Between Election Commision of Bhutan and Australia

Diplomacy

May 28, 2012 0 mins read 586 views
Visa Forgery : Blame game goes back and forth .

Crime - Visa Forgery

May 28, 2012 3 mins read 618 views
When disobedience can be dangerous

My Say

May 28, 2012 1 mins read 585 views
Browse Archives
Where the rivers run through, youth find reasons to stay

May 06, 2026 2 mins read 2,436 views
Nationwide drug prevention campaign “Yes, We Care” begins in Samtse

"Yes, We Care" launches a nationwide outreach to shield its youth from substance abuse.

May 06, 2026 2 mins read 1,306 views
Ancient remedy finds new life as rhododendron wine

Trashigang—In the high-altitude village of Merak in Trashigang, where spring transforms the hillsides into a sweep of bl...

May 06, 2026 2 mins read 1,804 views
Startups call for support beyond seed funding

The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support beyond seed funding remains limited, making it difficult for existing startups to scale and sustain operations.

Mar 21, 2026 3 mins read 4,686 views
National debt to rise by 26%, reaching Nu 380 billion in June

The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.

Feb 25, 2026 2 mins read 5,989 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 84 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 130 views
Café by the waterfall

About six kilometres before Trongsa town, just past the Bjee Zam Bridge, a traditional one-storey house appears on the left of the highway. It is not easy to miss. This modest structure...

May 02, 2026 2 mins read 1,389 views
Where tradition meets treatment

In Bhutan, healing is not a choice between past and present but a collaboration between the two. Across the country, patients move between modern clinics and traditional medicine units with ease, guided as much by...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 1,050 views
Between Homes

When I first arrived in Australia last year, I thought I was prepared. I had spoken to people, watched videos, and tried to imagine what life would be like. Bu...

May 02, 2026 1 mins read 5,288 views
The true wealth of Dzambhala

The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his role as a symbol of abundance and generosity. There are five principal forms of the...

May 02, 2026 4 mins read 1,044 views
No amount of money can replace you

The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency and warmth by devoted grandparents can fare well, separation from parents at this age generally causes...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 3,224 views
You’re not what you think you are

You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness, which is precisely what it does not mean. A more precise term might be: empty of inherent existence.

Apr 18, 2026 4 mins read 2,358 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a relaxed four-hour setting to reconnect with family and friends.

Apr 13, 2026 3 mins read 2,309 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins read 2,679 views
ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་མ་ལང་མི་དེ་ སྲིད་བྱུས་དང་ ཁྱིམ་བཟོ་ག་གི་འཐུས་ཤོར་ཨིན་ན།

༉ 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་ཁར་ ཇའེ་སྒང་ལུ་སྡོད་དགོཔ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ འདི་བཟུམ་གྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དེ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཐོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཐབས་ལམ་ཚུ་ འདི་དང་འདི་ཟེརཝ་ཅིག་ ག་ནི་ཡང་ མ་འགྲིགས་པར་ ལུས་ཏེ་འདུག།

May 11, 2026 6 mins read 59 views
When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 736 views
Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

Recent developments in the Middle East crisis suggest that a return to normalcy is still far away. Even if the war ends and the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly one-quarter of the world’s oil flows to markets, reopens, the discuss...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 1,703 views
Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country could see as few as 2,000 births by 2028.

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 4,041 views
A bumper harvest shouldn’t brew a bumper crisis

This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...

Apr 25, 2026 2 mins read 2,216 views
Unshackling the state

Apr 22, 2026 2 mins read 2,166 views
The environmental toll of wars

The deafening sounds of missiles and gunfire in the Middle East have briefly faded under a ceasefire, offering a much-needed respite that eases global anxieties over spiraling economic and geopolitical crises....

Apr 18, 2026 2 mins read 1,946 views
A costly fiasco

Apr 11, 2026 2 mins read 3,311 views
Living hand to mouth

Apr 08, 2026 2 mins read 2,678 views
Economy uncoils for strongest growth in years

The Year of the Snake became a defining moment for the country’s economy, as growth accelerated sharply following severa...

Feb 18, 2026 4 mins read 5,915 views
Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

The Wood Female Snake Year brought major tax reforms in the country with the passage of the Income Tax Act of Bhutan 202...

Feb 18, 2026 2 mins read 6,311 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 12,894 views
Dorjilung hydropower to raise GDP by 2.4%, generate 5,000 jobs

The 1,125MW Dorjilung Hydroelectric Power Project (DHPP) is expected to boost the country’s economy, raising gross domes...

Jan 31, 2026 3 mins read 9,217 views
ESP Steering Committee to review Nu 575 million in unspent, recovered funds

The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) Steering Committee will review how to reallocate Nu 574.73 million in unspent and...

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 8,003 views
Compassion in practice: Building a win-win healthcare system

Taking care of all members of society is a characteristic of a mature and compassionate nation; therefore, I strongly ad...

Apr 04, 2026 4 mins read 2,229 views
Happiness with Mr Bhutan

Studies and end of life accounts consistently show that many of us leave this world with the same stinging regrets: not...

Apr 01, 2026 4 mins read 3,189 views
When Words Create Worlds

Mar 30, 2026 4 mins read 2,354 views
Where to find the best momos in Thimphu

Mar 16, 2026 1 mins read 4,141 views
A call for shared responsibility

The government’s directive to prudently use scarce public resources, fossil fuels (petrol and diesel) is a timely interv...

Apr 04, 2026 2 mins read 3,309 views
When the watchdog has no teeth

The Bhutan Media Forum concluded yesterday, bringing together media professionals, policymakers, and civil society membe...

Apr 01, 2026 2 mins read 2,929 views
Culture under threat?

Mar 28, 2026 2 mins read 4,337 views
Promises and performance

As the government undertakes the mid-term review (MTR) of 13th Plan activities across dzongkhags, its performance must b...

Mar 25, 2026 2 mins read 3,471 views
Policy versus ground reality

The conflict in the Middle East, coupled with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, has forced many Bhutanese to adju...

Mar 21, 2026 2 mins read 3,716 views

Recents

ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་མ་ལང་མི་དེ་ སྲིད་བྱུས་དང་ ཁྱིམ་བཟོ་ག་གི་འཐུས་ཤོར་ཨིན་ན།

༉ 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་ཁར་ ཇའེ་སྒང་ལུ་སྡོད་དགོཔ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ འདི་བཟུམ་གྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དེ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཐོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཐབས་ལམ་ཚུ་ འདི་དང་འདི་ཟེརཝ་ཅིག་ ག་ནི་ཡང་ མ་འགྲིགས་པར་ ལུས་ཏེ་འདུག།

Read More

No data available