February of 2016

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Nangpa and Intention

k2

Feb 26, 2016 2 mins read 709 views
Spring's come and, with it, feast of fashion

k2

Feb 26, 2016 3 mins read 630 views
Pazaps beat Takins in overtime

Basketball

Feb 28, 2016 1 mins read 721 views
108,000 Sokshing plantation this Sunday

Tendril

Feb 28, 2016 2 mins read 823 views
The Prince and Bhutan's Future

Perspective

Feb 28, 2016 3 mins read 828 views
Trongsaps and Bumthaps express disappointment with BOiC

Business Opportunity and Information Center (BOiC)

Feb 28, 2016 2 mins read 738 views
NPPF house rent too high

Letter to the editor

Feb 28, 2016 1 mins read 703 views
Catching and keeping up

Editorial

Feb 28, 2016 2 mins read 689 views
BICMA seizes illegal internet antennas

Internet

Feb 28, 2016 1 mins read 765 views
TVET blueprint to guide reforms

Labour

Feb 28, 2016 2 mins read 728 views
OSCC may be established, finally

Midterm review (MTR)

Feb 28, 2016 2 mins read 699 views
Kidnapped return, abductors identified

Kidnap

Feb 28, 2016 2 mins read 830 views
Proposal for college

Education

Feb 28, 2016 0 mins read 700 views
How to lose weight . all but unwittingly

Perspective

Feb 26, 2016 3 mins read 0 views
Athletes recognized

Award

Feb 26, 2016 1 mins read 776 views
Village demands dump site relocated

Waste

Feb 26, 2016 2 mins read 780 views
Cut-off policy cutting too deep

Perspective

Feb 26, 2016 4 mins read 695 views
Making the most of the pleasant weather

Hotels

Feb 26, 2016 3 mins read 742 views
Art competition ends

Art competition

Feb 26, 2016 1 mins read 717 views
MoHCA seeks more people and money to fulfil Plan

Midterm review (MTR)

Feb 26, 2016 2 mins read 676 views
More than 700 employed at IT park today

Employment

Feb 26, 2016 2 mins read 646 views
Central school question

Letter to the editor

Feb 26, 2016 2 mins read 730 views
Hear the growing voices?

Editorial

Feb 26, 2016 1 mins read 746 views
Good men cometh, from afar

Religion

Feb 26, 2016 4 mins read 938 views
BKP backs govt.'s Rising East policy

Politics

Feb 26, 2016 1 mins read 638 views
Ambiguity about thrompon's tenure confuses Gelephu

LG

Feb 26, 2016 2 mins read 681 views
Are employees not happy with an independent ECB?

Conflict

Feb 26, 2016 4 mins read 675 views
Health ministry MTR

Health ministry MTR

Feb 26, 2016 0 mins read 836 views
DNT condemns govt's Rising East policy strategy

Politics

Feb 25, 2016 2 mins read 719 views
The lonely yogi of Gechu

Profile

Feb 25, 2016 2 mins read 723 views
Tsangpo to review paddy cultivation

Agriculture

Feb 25, 2016 1 mins read 662 views
Windstorm damages roof of 17 houses

Disaster

Feb 25, 2016 1 mins read 705 views
Ensuring the plants thrive

Letter to the editor

Feb 25, 2016 1 mins read 621 views
Making Thimphu a fine city

Editorial

Feb 25, 2016 2 mins read 606 views
Investigation: police involved in forging release documents

Crime

Feb 25, 2016 1 mins read 704 views
Surprise inspection collects Nu 104,300 fine

Cleanliness

Feb 25, 2016 3 mins read 629 views
Experts: HIA crucial in addressing developmental impact

Meeting

Feb 25, 2016 2 mins read 667 views
Economy not generating quality jobs: MoLHR

Midterm review (MTR)

Feb 25, 2016 3 mins read 682 views
No news from kidnappers

Kidnap

Feb 25, 2016 0 mins read 668 views
Pangrizampa bazam restored

Architecture

Feb 24, 2016 2 mins read 640 views
Labour shortage halts renovation work at Trongsa Dzong

Trongsa Dzong

Feb 24, 2016 2 mins read 730 views
Members reopen closed cooperative unit

Dairy

Feb 24, 2016 2 mins read 654 views
Reliable power on the way to Phobjikha and nearby gewogs

Electricity

Feb 24, 2016 2 mins read 661 views
Training criteria unfair

Letter to the editor

Feb 24, 2016 1 mins read 644 views
Storm after the calm

Editorial

Feb 24, 2016 2 mins read 786 views
NPPF plan reforms for social protection

National Pension and Provident Fund (NPPF)

Feb 24, 2016 3 mins read 771 views
Bhutan officially enters Guinness World Record

Record

Feb 24, 2016 3 mins read 804 views
Abductors demand Nu 20M from parents

Kidnap

Feb 24, 2016 2 mins read 775 views
Health expert meeting begins

Meeting

Feb 24, 2016 0 mins read 0 views
Health expert meeting begins

Meeting

Feb 24, 2016 0 mins read 706 views
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GMC was a masterstroke

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༉ 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་ཁ...

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