September of 2017

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Save our children

Editorial

Sep 08, 2017 2 mins read 439 views
WHO presents citation to Bhutan for eliminating measles

WHO

Sep 08, 2017 1 mins read 588 views
Official credit card to ease foreign payments

Official credit card

Sep 08, 2017 2 mins read 671 views
NC members to complete term on May 9

Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB)

Sep 08, 2017 3 mins read 429 views
Vague environment study stalls Shingkhar - Gorgan road

Roads

Sep 08, 2017 4 mins read 448 views
Take a minute, Change a life

World Suicide Prevention Day

Sep 08, 2017 0 mins read 479 views
Bhutan beats the Maldives in SABA basketball championship

Basketball

Sep 07, 2017 1 mins read 623 views
Green tea plantation brews good business in Samcholing

Green tea plantation

Sep 07, 2017 2 mins read 545 views
Chukha court orders man to pay thrimthue for SP+

Drugs

Sep 07, 2017 1 mins read 446 views
Trashigang BoBL staff alleged of embezzling Nu 1.5M

Bank of Bhutan Limited (BoBL)

Sep 07, 2017 2 mins read 446 views
A SMU graduate's experience

Letter to the editor

Sep 07, 2017 1 mins read 440 views
Target the dealers

Editorial

Sep 07, 2017 2 mins read 446 views
Gelephu distillery, a potential market for maize growers

Bhutan Centennial Distillery (BCD)

Sep 07, 2017 2 mins read 623 views
Flood destroys crops and drinking water source in Sarpang

Disaster

Sep 07, 2017 1 mins read 417 views
NRDCL objects private landowners from trading sand

Natural Resources Development Corporation Limited (NRDCL)

Sep 07, 2017 2 mins read 445 views
Mangdechhu project gears for commissioning

Hydro projects

Sep 07, 2017 2 mins read 465 views
Community mapping

Seminar

Sep 07, 2017 0 mins read 0 views
U-16 in first basketball int'l championship

Basketball

Sep 06, 2017 1 mins read 497 views
Paro cabbages fetch good price

Cabbages

Sep 06, 2017 1 mins read 431 views
Power Training Institute launches three courses

Power

Sep 06, 2017 2 mins read 477 views
"We may have changed but not the society": A recovering addict

Drugs

Sep 06, 2017 2 mins read 468 views
RCSC's S&S Reforms

Letter to the editor

Sep 06, 2017 2 mins read 455 views
So it has been still?

Editorial

Sep 06, 2017 1 mins read 434 views
ELM to improve children's maths and literacy skills

Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD)

Sep 06, 2017 1 mins read 475 views
WHO calls on ministers to strengthen investment in health

WHO

Sep 06, 2017 2 mins read 439 views
Accident kills one

Accident

Sep 06, 2017 0 mins read 0 views
Minor commits suicide in Thimphu

Accident

Sep 06, 2017 0 mins read 405 views
Amendment of fiscal incentives laws not urgent, say legislators

Fiscal Incentives

Sep 06, 2017 3 mins read 541 views
20 percent of children exposed to digital pornography, finds study

Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD)

Sep 06, 2017 2 mins read 427 views
Trongsa-Zhemgang highway closed until Sept 11

Roads

Sep 06, 2017 0 mins read 434 views
Palestine humbles Bhutan 2:0

Football

Sep 05, 2017 2 mins read 470 views
Online auction for potatoes goes live

Potatoes

Sep 05, 2017 2 mins read 660 views
Only 12 percent of children fed acceptable diet

Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD)

Sep 05, 2017 1 mins read 467 views
Refining Kanjyur text going Kuenselphodrang

Religion

Sep 05, 2017 2 mins read 517 views
RCSC should prioritise the need

Letter to the editor

Sep 05, 2017 1 mins read 416 views
Performance matters

Editorial

Sep 05, 2017 2 mins read 516 views
WHO's RC meeting focuses on health and climate change

WHO

Sep 05, 2017 2 mins read 383 views
CSOs need more visibility, finds study

Civil society organisations (CSO)

Sep 05, 2017 2 mins read 384 views
Malfunctioned sensor causes Drukair flight to return

Drukair

Sep 05, 2017 1 mins read 393 views
PM visits flood damage site in Sarpang

PM visits

Sep 05, 2017 1 mins read 410 views
NC recommends RCSC to revisit S&S reforms

Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC)

Sep 05, 2017 5 mins read 492 views
GNH and leadership

GNH

Sep 05, 2017 0 mins read 431 views
Feeder road blacktop a priority for Shemagangkha

Roads

Sep 04, 2017 2 mins read 473 views
Bhutan will face Palestine at 6PM today

Football

Sep 04, 2017 2 mins read 411 views
People still not aware about NWFP rules

Non-wood forest product (NWFP)

Sep 04, 2017 2 mins read 375 views
Keep supporting our youth

Letter to the editor

Sep 04, 2017 1 mins read 435 views
Healthy debate is necessary

Editorial

Sep 04, 2017 2 mins read 488 views
Himalayan black bears rescued and released

Nature conservation division (NCD)

Sep 04, 2017 2 mins read 465 views
Woman sentenced to 25 years for Olakha murder

Crime

Sep 04, 2017 1 mins read 474 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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Café by the waterfall

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May 02, 2026 2 mins read 2,702 views
Where tradition meets treatment

In Bhutan, healing is not a choice between past and present but a collaboration between the two. Across the country, patients move between modern clinics and traditional medicine units with ease, guided as much by...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 2,449 views
Between Homes

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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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May 23, 2026 2 mins read 1,978 views
Insolvency law, a long overdue

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May 20, 2026 3 mins read 1,902 views
GMC was a masterstroke

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May 16, 2026 2 mins read 4,523 views
Fighting online scams

The digital age has transformed Bhutanese society in ways unimaginable in just a decade or two. Social media and online platforms have opened enormous opportunities for communication,...

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 2,003 views
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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When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 2,469 views
Startups call for support beyond seed funding

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National debt to rise by 26%, reaching Nu 380 billion in June

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Feb 18, 2026 4 mins read 7,731 views
Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

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Feb 18, 2026 2 mins read 8,140 views
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The true wealth of Dzambhala

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May 02, 2026 4 mins read 2,367 views
No amount of money can replace you

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Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 4,858 views
You’re not what you think you are

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Apr 18, 2026 4 mins read 3,885 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

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The trap of spiritual materialism

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Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

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Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

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