October of 2013

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Four new BoB branch offices for Thimphu

Banking

Oct 31, 2013 1 mins read 512 views
Nu 1B for local government

Local Government

Oct 31, 2013 1 mins read 628 views
Japanese aid to extend fibre optics network to client base

JICA/BT

Oct 31, 2013 1 mins read 508 views
Bumthang habitat under threat

Crane

Oct 31, 2013 2 mins read 536 views
A township on tenterhooks

Bajo

Oct 31, 2013 3 mins read 486 views
Mapping Bhutan's intangible cultural heritage

Workshop

Oct 31, 2013 1 mins read 534 views
Downed by `friendly fire'

Arrow

Oct 31, 2013 1 mins read 460 views
Safety compromised?

Editorial

Oct 31, 2013 2 mins read 0 views
Saving lives at Mebar tsho

Letter to the editor

Oct 31, 2013 1 mins read 477 views
Parties have a basis to strive

Delegation

Oct 31, 2013 2 mins read 466 views
25 Semtokha monks receive Kathina robes

Religion

Oct 31, 2013 1 mins read 499 views
Car gutted, arson suspected

Accident

Oct 31, 2013 0 mins read 532 views
Police unable to find body of Indian tourist

Accident

Oct 31, 2013 1 mins read 529 views
Bhutan's business climate gets WB thumbs-up

World Bank

Oct 31, 2013 2 mins read 512 views
"Repeat once" pledge comes through

Education

Oct 31, 2013 3 mins read 502 views
City bus services

City bus services

Oct 31, 2013 0 mins read 483 views
Tearful onion prices

Vegetable

Oct 30, 2013 2 mins read 443 views
Bhutan is more than just ema-datsi

Conference

Oct 30, 2013 2 mins read 412 views
Prickly sokshing issue

Dzongkhag Tshogdu

Oct 30, 2013 3 mins read 400 views
Houses to make way for highway

Road

Oct 30, 2013 2 mins read 447 views
Award for architectural preservation and restoration

Award

Oct 30, 2013 1 mins read 425 views
Project authority responds to audit

Hydropower Project

Oct 30, 2013 2 mins read 551 views
After- effects of partying

Letter to the editor

Oct 30, 2013 1 mins read 483 views
An infusion of financial life

Editorial

Oct 30, 2013 2 mins read 472 views
People want census again on Parliament's agenda

Nurbugang

Oct 30, 2013 2 mins read 462 views
Standing for her constituency

Election

Oct 30, 2013 2 mins read 442 views
One dead, one missing at Mebartsho

Accident

Oct 30, 2013 1 mins read 459 views
National minimum wage revised to Nu 125 a day

Workforce

Oct 30, 2013 2 mins read 469 views
Unstable gateway links disrupt Internet service

Internet

Oct 29, 2013 1 mins read 503 views
A bigger stick against sandalwood smugglers

Timber

Oct 29, 2013 2 mins read 476 views
The blessing in disguise

Religion

Oct 29, 2013 2 mins read 464 views
Medical university establish first institutional linkage

Health

Oct 29, 2013 1 mins read 409 views
Refey-Khosela bypass work resumes

Road

Oct 29, 2013 2 mins read 513 views
Spinning up ways to spend

Local Government

Oct 29, 2013 2 mins read 477 views
A trade of a different sort

Letter to the editor

Oct 29, 2013 1 mins read 492 views
Of govt.'s first 100 days pledges

Editorial

Oct 29, 2013 2 mins read 497 views
Stalled education city project a concern: PM

National Land Commission (NLC)

Oct 29, 2013 2 mins read 501 views
Working out jobs abroad

Employment

Oct 29, 2013 3 mins read 441 views
INR 1B received for economic stimulus

Rupee crunch

Oct 29, 2013 3 mins read 442 views
STI/HIV testing services in BHUs

Health

Oct 29, 2013 0 mins read 464 views
First five postal ballots received

Election

Oct 28, 2013 1 mins read 418 views
Tsakaling eschews meat for rituals

Religion

Oct 28, 2013 1 mins read 483 views
Chuzagang READ Center turns one

Community

Oct 28, 2013 1 mins read 501 views
An ambulance for Nangkhor

Planning

Oct 28, 2013 1 mins read 485 views
Travel medicine - The medical side of tourism

Health

Oct 28, 2013 3 mins read 429 views
SABAH Bhutan: changing lives

SAARC

Oct 28, 2013 1 mins read 487 views
Dagapela fuel station saves Dagana residents their gas

Fuel

Oct 28, 2013 1 mins read 481 views
Community defends forest against hardwood felling

Timber

Oct 28, 2013 1 mins read 453 views
Remedial measures on shear zone to begin mid-November

Hydropower Project

Oct 28, 2013 2 mins read 482 views
A competition in a mess

Letter to the editor

Oct 28, 2013 1 mins read 497 views
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