May of 2016

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Most LG leaders decide to re-contest

LG

May 13, 2016 1 mins read 381 views
Armyworm infest paddy seedlings in Trongsa

Agriculture

May 13, 2016 1 mins read 381 views
Monsoon likely to bring more rain this year

Climate

May 13, 2016 2 mins read 381 views
Improving the tourist experience

Letter to the editor

May 13, 2016 1 mins read 414 views
Cleaning up using incentives or penalties?

Editorial

May 13, 2016 2 mins read 428 views
PM's maiden visit to Nichula brings hope

Visit

May 13, 2016 2 mins read 431 views
Sustaining culture in the face of globalisation

Culture

May 13, 2016 2 mins read 381 views
Businesses, residents appeal Norzin Lam closure

Thromde

May 13, 2016 3 mins read 420 views
Paro farmers face labour woes

Agriculture

May 13, 2016 4 mins read 392 views
Meeting

Meeting

May 13, 2016 0 mins read 0 views
Aiming higher

Shooting

May 12, 2016 2 mins read 469 views
Trong residents to get plots next month

Land

May 12, 2016 2 mins read 630 views
Taking matters into their own hands

Road

May 12, 2016 2 mins read 400 views
Bangladesh wants to expand trade with Bhutan

Trade

May 12, 2016 2 mins read 609 views
Address worsening urban air quality as a priority

Letter to the editor

May 12, 2016 1 mins read 425 views
Educate both voters and citizens

Editorial

May 12, 2016 1 mins read 427 views
P'ling lagging behind in crime, drug abuse reduction

Midterm review (MTR)

May 12, 2016 2 mins read 424 views
Ngultrum's purchasing power decreases

Currency

May 12, 2016 2 mins read 360 views
Using tech to protect choetens

Security

May 12, 2016 2 mins read 426 views
Highlanders unsure about tsamdro, sokshing

Land

May 12, 2016 2 mins read 420 views
First women's football league underway

Football

May 11, 2016 1 mins read 407 views
Govt. endorses gender based budget planning strategy

Gender

May 11, 2016 3 mins read 434 views
Two detained for trafficking tobacco products

Crime

May 11, 2016 1 mins read 425 views
Open house voter education for those residing in Thimphu

LG

May 11, 2016 2 mins read 438 views
HC orders consultancy firm to refund client

Judiciary

May 11, 2016 2 mins read 401 views
People of Gasa question OL about taxes

Tax

May 11, 2016 2 mins read 434 views
Empowering the press in Bhutan

Letter to the editor

May 11, 2016 1 mins read 429 views
Watching how we watch?

Editorial

May 11, 2016 2 mins read 435 views
Contractors thrash out issues

Construction

May 11, 2016 3 mins read 411 views
Labour ministry looking into Qatar case

Employment

May 11, 2016 2 mins read 436 views
Police to install 118 CCTV cameras in Thimphu

Safety

May 11, 2016 1 mins read 428 views
PM asks contractors for quality

Construction

May 11, 2016 3 mins read 469 views
Is this City's year?

Football

May 10, 2016 2 mins read 469 views
Women vying for LG posts

LG

May 10, 2016 2 mins read 432 views
ACC reaches out to local governments

Anti Corruption Commission (ACC)

May 10, 2016 2 mins read 441 views
A long walk to school

Education

May 10, 2016 2 mins read 461 views
Take the NSB findings seriously

Letter to the editor

May 10, 2016 1 mins read 427 views
For efficient and sustainable transport system

Editorial

May 10, 2016 1 mins read 518 views
Water woes in Zhemgang

Water

May 10, 2016 2 mins read 437 views
King and Queen of Sweden to visit Bhutan

Royal visit

May 10, 2016 0 mins read 370 views
Gearing up for the Bhutan-Japan friendship offer

Tourism

May 10, 2016 3 mins read 406 views
Drought hits Tsirang farmers

Disaster

May 10, 2016 2 mins read 403 views
MTR

Midterm review (MTR)

May 10, 2016 0 mins read 421 views
The funny guy's back

Film review

May 09, 2016 1 mins read 403 views
Minor army-worm outbreak in Punakha

Agriculture

May 09, 2016 2 mins read 435 views
The cleanest gewog in Pemagatshel

Civic sense

May 09, 2016 1 mins read 425 views
Identifying the right way to the right issues

Letter to the editor

May 09, 2016 1 mins read 520 views
The BBIN debate

Editorial

May 09, 2016 2 mins read 456 views
Committee to be formed to review transport issues

Transport

May 09, 2016 3 mins read 448 views
Lack of water leaves villagers worried

Water

May 09, 2016 2 mins read 403 views
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The virus, the fear, and the freedom beyond both

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A memoir of hustle and heartache

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From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

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Where tradition meets treatment

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United for Project 108

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Banks can unlock growth through affordable credit

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A missed opportunity

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Chain-link fencing: somebody’s gain, another’s loss

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Fixing and fine-tuning GST regime

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Insolvency law, a long overdue

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GMC was a masterstroke

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Fighting online scams

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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་ཁ...

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