January of 2021

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Water treatment plant in Pinchina not serving its purpose

Water

Jan 11, 2021 2 mins read 445 views
Reforming civil service: Towards a future ready government

Perspective

Jan 11, 2021 4 mins read 377 views
Woman survives fall from the second storey

Accident

Jan 11, 2021 1 mins read 427 views
Caravan 2021 celebrates Bhutan's art, culture, and literature

Festival

Jan 11, 2021 1 mins read 367 views
Let's be home

Letter to the editor

Jan 11, 2021 1 mins read 430 views
No new cases from communities in the last three days

Health

Jan 11, 2021 2 mins read 391 views
Tenants in Trashigang hoping for rent waiver

Economy

Jan 10, 2021 1 mins read 389 views
Dust particles from PCAL plant affect Gomtu residents

Industries

Jan 10, 2021 3 mins read 519 views
Chikthuen: More than a BBS Show

Perspective

Jan 10, 2021 4 mins read 390 views
Bhutan's film industry incurs a loss of Nu 90 million

Entertainment

Jan 10, 2021 2 mins read 366 views
Lockdown and movement restrictions impact highlanders

Health

Jan 10, 2021 2 mins read 381 views
Who helps sex workers?

Letter to the editor

Jan 10, 2021 1 mins read 449 views
A problem bigger than pandemic?

Editorial

Jan 10, 2021 2 mins read 375 views
Gearing for vegetable cultivation

Agriculture

Jan 10, 2021 1 mins read 431 views
Advocacy and awareness: Must to control cybercrime

Crime

Jan 10, 2021 2 mins read 422 views
A channel to watch Chencho Gyeltshen

Sports

Jan 10, 2021 0 mins read 418 views
Bhutan's efforts increase Black-necked Crane population and safety

Wild Life

Jan 10, 2021 2 mins read 440 views
Finding patient zero near impossible: Health Minister

Health

Jan 10, 2021 4 mins read 392 views
Gelephu businesswoman detained

Crime

Jan 08, 2021 1 mins read 377 views
Pemagatshel banks take services to clients

Banks

Jan 08, 2021 1 mins read 383 views
Show of solidarity in pandemic times

Desuup

Jan 08, 2021 2 mins read 407 views
Haa dzongkhag investigates death of 49-year-old patient

Accident

Jan 08, 2021 1 mins read 435 views
Number and professionalism: shortages facing Bhutan's construction sector

Construction

Jan 08, 2021 2 mins read 362 views
Significance of Bhairab Kunda Temple in Bhutan

Perspective

Jan 08, 2021 4 mins read 510 views
16 archers in Mongar violate lockdown rules

Crime

Jan 08, 2021 1 mins read 411 views
Many returned to Phuentsholing without quarantine

Health

Jan 08, 2021 2 mins read 399 views
Consistency and adherence to the rule of law

Letter to the editor

Jan 08, 2021 2 mins read 390 views
Stick after the carrot

Editorial

Jan 08, 2021 2 mins read 396 views
Working from home turns from dream to nightmare

Health

Jan 08, 2021 1 mins read 394 views
Remittance inflow grows despite Covid-19

Banks

Jan 08, 2021 1 mins read 376 views
Preventive measures more effective than vaccine: WHO

Health

Jan 08, 2021 2 mins read 408 views
Persons with disabilities experience better services this lockdown

Disable

Jan 08, 2021 2 mins read 353 views
NPPF's pension scheme faced with sustainability risk

Finance

Jan 08, 2021 4 mins read 426 views
Lockdown extended by two weeks for Thimphu and Paro

Health

Jan 08, 2021 2 mins read 396 views
PII worker dies in accident

Accident

Jan 07, 2021 1 mins read 425 views
Breaching lockdown protocol could get you prison term: AG

ACC-RAA-OAG

Jan 07, 2021 3 mins read 418 views
Fire damage construction materials worth Nu 1.5M

Disaster

Jan 07, 2021 1 mins read 365 views
Female ox?

Media

Jan 07, 2021 2 mins read 464 views
Working from home

Letter to the editor

Jan 07, 2021 1 mins read 413 views
Dealing with the fiery issue

Editorial

Jan 07, 2021 2 mins read 418 views
Household waste doubles in Thimphu during lockdown

Environment

Jan 07, 2021 2 mins read 384 views
Reopening of schools could differ from dzongkhag to dzongkhag

Education

Jan 07, 2021 2 mins read 387 views
New travel protocols for those stranded

Transport

Jan 07, 2021 1 mins read 405 views
Police appeal not to share obscene media content

Gender

Jan 07, 2021 1 mins read 396 views
The price of personal affair going public

Gender

Jan 07, 2021 4 mins read 364 views
Bhutan records first Covid-19 death

Health

Jan 07, 2021 2 mins read 327 views
Business owners sign undertaking letter with Covid-19 task force

Health

Jan 06, 2021 2 mins read 410 views
Sarpang reinstates mandatory quarantine

Health

Jan 06, 2021 2 mins read 351 views
Haa begins lockdown relaxation in green zones

Health

Jan 06, 2021 2 mins read 396 views
Pandemic delays Digital Drukyul projects

Technology

Jan 06, 2021 1 mins read 392 views
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Where the Migoi still roams

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Foreign workers now require Bhutanese bank accounts for work permit approval

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Startups call for support beyond seed funding

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Where tradition meets treatment

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Between Homes

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The true wealth of Dzambhala

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No amount of money can replace you

The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency and warmth by devoted grandparents can fare well, separation from parents at this age generally causes...

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You’re not what you think you are

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Sundays at Le Méridien

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The trap of spiritual materialism

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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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Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

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Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

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Unshackling the state

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The environmental toll of wars

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A costly fiasco

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

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Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

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Living hand to mouth

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A call for shared responsibility

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Culture under threat?

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Promises and performance

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Recents

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, business, education, entertainment, and entrepreneurship.

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