December of 2017

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KD Builders and NST win volleyball championship

Volleyball

Dec 31, 2017 1 mins read 390 views
Putting waste to use

Plastic-made products

Dec 31, 2017 1 mins read 454 views
Former teacher to contest for NC

National Council

Dec 31, 2017 1 mins read 427 views
Curbing substance use problem from the source

Bhutan Narcotic Control Authority (BNCA)

Dec 31, 2017 3 mins read 364 views
Startups lack platform to showcase products

Letter to the editor

Dec 31, 2017 1 mins read 366 views
The burden of farming

Editorial

Dec 31, 2017 2 mins read 440 views
ACC to auction confiscated goods

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC )

Dec 31, 2017 3 mins read 440 views
Foreign ministry to be relocated in 12th Plan

MPs' office

Dec 31, 2017 2 mins read 416 views
Local industries suffer post GST

Goods and Services Tax (GST)

Dec 31, 2017 4 mins read 453 views
Return of the Sun

Festival

Dec 31, 2017 0 mins read 419 views
Home for the downtrodden

k2

Dec 29, 2017 3 mins read 389 views
Bhutan ecological society

k2

Dec 29, 2017 2 mins read 362 views
Pel Drukdraling Foundation

k2

Dec 29, 2017 0 mins read 436 views
Gyalyum Charitable Trust

k2

Dec 29, 2017 0 mins read 419 views
For development of sports

k2

Dec 29, 2017 2 mins read 453 views
For professional development of journalism

k2

Dec 29, 2017 2 mins read 371 views
BARC for animal welfare

k2

Dec 29, 2017 2 mins read 394 views
Vajrayana

k2

Dec 29, 2017 4 mins read 415 views
Fitness and performance

k2

Dec 29, 2017 1 mins read 0 views
A focal point for the hospitality industry

k2

Dec 29, 2017 3 mins read 370 views
Lawyer aspires to become lawmaker

National Council

Dec 29, 2017 2 mins read 386 views
Tests confirm E.Coli presence in Wangchhu

Health diseases

Dec 29, 2017 1 mins read 419 views
Illumination Dorokha.

Perspective

Dec 29, 2017 3 mins read 378 views
Dzongpon Kunzang Thinley and the Raven Crown

Perspective

Dec 29, 2017 6 mins read 394 views
Carbide gas cylinder explosion raises safety concerns

Explosion

Dec 29, 2017 1 mins read 396 views
Recitation observes Zhabdrung's birth anniversary

Religion

Dec 29, 2017 1 mins read 384 views
Man get nine years for impregnating minor

Crime

Dec 29, 2017 1 mins read 403 views
Bhutan signs UN's Rapid Deployment Level agreement

Rapid Deployment Level (RDL)

Dec 29, 2017 2 mins read 393 views
For a harmonious democratic society

Letter to the editor

Dec 29, 2017 1 mins read 367 views
Mental healthcare must go nationwide

Editorial

Dec 29, 2017 2 mins read 382 views
407 Tsirang farmers await agro-cooperative loan

Loan

Dec 29, 2017 3 mins read 390 views
Thromde to reconstruct damaged road in Babesa

Road

Dec 29, 2017 2 mins read 355 views
Multidimensional poverty halved, but highest among children

National Statistics Bureau (NSB)

Dec 29, 2017 3 mins read 464 views
Haa opens as schools in villages close

Schools

Dec 29, 2017 6 mins read 420 views
Oath taking ceremony

Oath taking ceremony

Dec 29, 2017 0 mins read 0 views
Camp Raven, engaging the young meaningfully

Camp

Dec 28, 2017 2 mins read 374 views
Monastic community engaged to address social issues

Training

Dec 28, 2017 1 mins read 387 views
Opposition Leader visits Tsirang

Visits

Dec 28, 2017 2 mins read 397 views
Former IT officer to contest for NC from Gelephu

National Council

Dec 28, 2017 1 mins read 400 views
MoWHS to blacktop Baylangdra feeder road

Road

Dec 28, 2017 1 mins read 359 views
Education must cultivate happiness

Letter to the editor

Dec 28, 2017 1 mins read 407 views
Powers of the empowered

Editorial

Dec 28, 2017 2 mins read 376 views
Poverty incidence decreases in agriculture sector

Poverty

Dec 28, 2017 1 mins read 385 views
A society for sustainable tourism

Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB)

Dec 28, 2017 2 mins read 403 views
Investigation on-going in retired colonel's death

Investigation

Dec 28, 2017 1 mins read 435 views
Undercutting is illegal but mostly hearsay: PM

Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB)

Dec 28, 2017 3 mins read 370 views
Road construction already monitored, says minister

Road

Dec 28, 2017 3 mins read 338 views
National football team selection

Football

Dec 28, 2017 0 mins read 394 views
"Participants would hesitate to raise issues in the presence of media" - PM

Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay

Dec 27, 2017 1 mins read 337 views
Transportation hampers milk supply to dairy plant

Dairy

Dec 27, 2017 3 mins read 342 views
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Strengthening the third sector

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Why selective privatisation in healthcare makes sense

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Dec 30, 2025 2 mins read 1,865 views
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Dec 29, 2025 2 mins read 3,351 views
What about moral and ethical accountability?

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Dec 27, 2025 2 mins read 2,192 views
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The fourth round of the Gelephu Mindfulness City volunteer programme, which drew a record 10,000 participants, pushing total participation beyond 22,500, must be celebrated as a national moment. The overwhelming number of volunteer...

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The promise of Bhutan-Thailand Free Trade Agreement

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Dec 25, 2025 2 mins read 1,832 views
Time to open farms to foreign labour

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Dec 24, 2025 2 mins read 1,204 views
Building inclusive sports

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Dec 23, 2025 2 mins read 1,414 views
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