April of 2013

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Food security for the monastery

Religion

Apr 08, 2013 2 mins read 371 views
Quash trial court decision, dismiss case

Land

Apr 08, 2013 3 mins read 379 views
Tshethar guidelines

Tshethar guidelines

Apr 08, 2013 0 mins read 365 views
"Our final objective is to form the government"

Politics

Apr 07, 2013 5 mins read 353 views
Samtse seven make their pitch .

Election

Apr 07, 2013 2 mins read 388 views
Candidates spell out priorities for dzongkhag

Election

Apr 07, 2013 1 mins read 386 views
Candidates slug it out in Sephu and Phobjikha

Election

Apr 07, 2013 2 mins read 341 views
Security measures come into play at Samtse

Election

Apr 07, 2013 2 mins read 409 views
Not much public or debate

Election

Apr 07, 2013 2 mins read 310 views
Low rates force overloading

Letter to the editor

Apr 07, 2013 2 mins read 405 views
Deliver democracy at doorstep?

Editorial

Apr 07, 2013 2 mins read 396 views
Well on schedule

Hydropower

Apr 07, 2013 3 mins read 428 views
The bill for the NC ballot

Election

Apr 07, 2013 3 mins read 346 views
GNH Lab

GNH Lab

Apr 07, 2013 0 mins read 369 views
Two more for BKP

Election

Apr 05, 2013 1 mins read 388 views
Sharecropper evicted from dratshang wetland

Farming

Apr 05, 2013 2 mins read 420 views
DNT fields eight more candidates

Politics

Apr 05, 2013 3 mins read 415 views
First common forum held in Mongar

Election

Apr 05, 2013 1 mins read 368 views
Mongar's amiable campaign

Election

Apr 05, 2013 2 mins read 365 views
No progress yet on 7-year old case

Missing

Apr 05, 2013 2 mins read 362 views
Clearing at source the excise duty confusion

Perspective

Apr 05, 2013 3 mins read 367 views
Dismiss case, uphold trial court judgment: ACC

Land

Apr 05, 2013 4 mins read 367 views
Gewog authorities will market cordyceps

Cordyceps

Apr 05, 2013 2 mins read 400 views
First batch of Australian volunteers in Bhutan

Bhutan-Australia

Apr 05, 2013 2 mins read 414 views
Project employee gets 3 years for smuggling cigarettes

Tobacco

Apr 05, 2013 1 mins read 402 views
India-Bhutan Plan talks review projects

Bhutan-India

Apr 05, 2013 1 mins read 380 views
High blood pressure is a "silent killer"

Letter to the editor

Apr 05, 2013 2 mins read 434 views
Tongue twister

Editorial

Apr 05, 2013 2 mins read 349 views
EJG will speed up seven upcoming projects

Empowered Joint Group (EJG)

Apr 05, 2013 1 mins read 382 views
Debate helps voters decide

Election

Apr 05, 2013 2 mins read 358 views
Bhutan steps up but still below

Development

Apr 05, 2013 4 mins read 359 views
To vote or not to?

Election

Apr 05, 2013 3 mins read 371 views
1,000 days to achieve MDG

MDG

Apr 05, 2013 0 mins read 365 views
What are our young people up to nowadays?

Youth

Apr 04, 2013 3 mins read 382 views
NC aspirants talk about its roles, democracy

Election

Apr 04, 2013 2 mins read 420 views
Home maintenance service launched

NHDCL

Apr 04, 2013 2 mins read 378 views
The silent crime that cries out .

Crime

Apr 04, 2013 2 mins read 395 views
First relocation, then facility

Parking

Apr 04, 2013 2 mins read 349 views
373 Tsirang postal ballot applicants rejected

Election

Apr 04, 2013 1 mins read 340 views
Keeping up with inflation every month

Statistic

Apr 04, 2013 2 mins read 382 views
Is Bhutan over conserving its environment?

Letter to the editor

Apr 04, 2013 2 mins read 389 views
Make vote by post count

Editorial

Apr 04, 2013 2 mins read 421 views
Goings-on on the eve of common forum

Election

Apr 04, 2013 2 mins read 392 views
Case filed against Paro Bondey's ponzi schemer

Crime

Apr 04, 2013 2 mins read 342 views
Building cost balloons to Nu 94B

Hydropower

Apr 04, 2013 2 mins read 377 views
Paid to vote

Election

Apr 04, 2013 2 mins read 388 views
AVID Bhutan

Bhutan-Australia

Apr 04, 2013 0 mins read 335 views
Sports policy

Sports

Apr 04, 2013 0 mins read 444 views
Bhutan Clearing FC condemns U-16 to 3-0 loss

Football

Apr 03, 2013 1 mins read 387 views
In search of a lost 10-year-old girl's parents

RENEW

Apr 03, 2013 1 mins read 378 views
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National debt to rise by 26%, reaching Nu 380 billion in June

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Where tradition meets treatment

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Between Homes

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The true wealth of Dzambhala

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May 02, 2026 4 mins read 1,085 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 3,288 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.

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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 2,349 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins read 2,725 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།

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When will we feed ourselves?

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Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

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Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

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Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 4,140 views
A bumper harvest shouldn’t brew a bumper crisis

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Unshackling the state

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The environmental toll of wars

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A costly fiasco

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Living hand to mouth

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Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

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Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

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Dorjilung hydropower to raise GDP by 2.4%, generate 5,000 jobs

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ESP Steering Committee to review Nu 575 million in unspent, recovered funds

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Compassion in practice: Building a win-win healthcare system

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When Words Create Worlds

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Where to find the best momos in Thimphu

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A call for shared responsibility

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When the watchdog has no teeth

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Culture under threat?

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Promises and performance

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Policy versus ground reality

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Mar 21, 2026 2 mins read 3,762 views

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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།

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