October of 2015

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k2

Oct 30, 2015 5 mins read 621 views
The changing face of Laya

k2

Oct 30, 2015 3 mins read 590 views
Bhutan Lottery to start next year

State owned enterprise (SoE)

Oct 30, 2015 1 mins read 566 views
The clay statue maker of Ramtogtok

Sculpture

Oct 30, 2015 2 mins read 741 views
Alcohol - The good, the bad and the ugly sides of drinking [Part Four]

Perspective

Oct 30, 2015 4 mins read 601 views
A library goes mobile for a day

Library

Oct 30, 2015 1 mins read 568 views
Heap of Jewels

Perspective

Oct 30, 2015 5 mins read 577 views
Govt. takes credit for rise in Doing Business ranking

Business

Oct 30, 2015 2 mins read 648 views
Bhutan will meet MDG targets: PM

Sustainable development goals (SDGs)

Oct 30, 2015 2 mins read 561 views
Bhutan, SDGs, and challenges

Global Goals

Oct 30, 2015 2 mins read 597 views
Can we afford to keep digging up our roads?

Letter to the editor

Oct 30, 2015 0 mins read 573 views
BFF needs to be more transparent

Letter to the editor

Oct 30, 2015 1 mins read 580 views
What about the others?

Editorial

Oct 30, 2015 2 mins read 573 views
Eastern circuit still the least explored

Tourism

Oct 30, 2015 3 mins read 521 views
Police investigates tsamdro dispute

Tsamdro (pastureland)

Oct 30, 2015 2 mins read 556 views
High Court convicts Chang Ugyen

Crime

Oct 30, 2015 3 mins read 643 views
Bhutan's first chopper lands

Aviation

Oct 30, 2015 2 mins read 501 views
Cyclonic storm Chapala intensifies

Cyclonic storm

Oct 30, 2015 0 mins read 559 views
Hazelnut arrives in Chukha

Agriculture

Oct 29, 2015 2 mins read 514 views
Man detained for locking up wife and mother-in-law

Crime

Oct 29, 2015 2 mins read 553 views
Be a responsible cyclist

Letter to the editor

Oct 29, 2015 1 mins read 530 views
A social malaise?

Editorial

Oct 29, 2015 2 mins read 607 views
Newborn found abandoned

Crime

Oct 29, 2015 1 mins read 530 views
Farmers upset with poor potato prices

Harvest

Oct 29, 2015 2 mins read 544 views
Curtain falls on Paro thromde issue

Paro thromde

Oct 29, 2015 1 mins read 583 views
The challenges of maintaining traditional architecture

Traditional architecture

Oct 29, 2015 4 mins read 652 views
Light rain in the next 72 hours

Weather

Oct 29, 2015 0 mins read 555 views
Talking dzongkha again?

Letter to the editor

Oct 28, 2015 1 mins read 532 views
Clarifying the misconception on ILCS

Letter to the editor

Oct 27, 2015 1 mins read 610 views
Tencholing and Beyond

Perspective

Oct 28, 2015 5 mins read 599 views
Royal Wedding anniversary golf tournament concludes

Sports

Oct 28, 2015 1 mins read 579 views
Hoteliers seek support to boost tourism in the east

Hoteliers

Oct 28, 2015 2 mins read 502 views
Champion 60 becomes official

Youth

Oct 28, 2015 2 mins read 541 views
Learning through accidents

Editorial

Oct 28, 2015 2 mins read 543 views
Decongesting tourist sites

Tourism

Oct 28, 2015 2 mins read 528 views
High Court acquits three convicted in choeten vandalism

Crime

Oct 28, 2015 2 mins read 538 views
Bhutan easiest country to do business in South Asia

Business

Oct 28, 2015 3 mins read 533 views
High Court convicts three in Lhakhang Karpo case

Lhakhang Karpo

Oct 28, 2015 2 mins read 525 views
Three arrested for alleged drug smuggling

Crime

Oct 28, 2015 3 mins read 567 views
Veteran tournament underway

Basketball

Oct 27, 2015 2 mins read 565 views
The Dzongkha dilemma

Editorial

Oct 27, 2015 2 mins read 530 views
Tashi Gatshel residents happy with LPG service

LPG

Oct 27, 2015 2 mins read 496 views
Non-frame method to stabilize slopes

Landslide

Oct 27, 2015 2 mins read 510 views
UNDP partners with SDF for sustainable development goals

SAARC

Oct 27, 2015 1 mins read 589 views
Cyber security team to be formed by next year

ICT

Oct 27, 2015 2 mins read 522 views
ACC reports decline in complaints of corruption

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)

Oct 27, 2015 2 mins read 695 views
Jigme Namgyel Engineering College offers Power Engineering

Jigme Namgyel Engineering College

Oct 27, 2015 1 mins read 510 views
Samdrupjongkhar to get a 40-bed hospital by next Plan

Hospital

Oct 27, 2015 2 mins read 523 views
Road widening works unsettles Sha Ngawang people

Land

Oct 27, 2015 3 mins read 488 views
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