ADB approves USD 13 million package to strengthen resilient urban infrastructure and housing in Thimphu and Phuentsholing

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a USD 13 million package to improve urban resilience and expand affordable housing in Bhutan, mainly targeting Thimphu and Phuentsholing.

འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་གྱི་དཀའ་ངལ་དང་ གདོང་ལེན་ལུ་ཐབས་ལམ་གྱི་བྱ་རིམ་མེདཔ།

༉ འབྲུག་པའི་ན་གཞོན་ཚུ་ ཡུན་རིངམོ་སྦེ་ར་ ཁྱིམ་གྱི་ཇ...

འགོ་དཔོན་༢ ལུ་ འགན་འཁྲི་བཀལ་ཡོད་རུང་ མཐུན་རྐྱེན་ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་མ་ཚུགས་པར་ལུས་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་རྩིས་ཞིབ་དབང་འཛིན་གྱིས་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་ཡ་༥...

སྒྲ་དབྱངས་སྒོ་བསྡམས་མི་གིས་ གཞི་བསྒྱུར་ཅིག་ལས་ ཁྱད་པར་མེད་པའི་གནས་སྟངས།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ སྤྲོ་སྟོན་གྱི་ལས་རིམ་འཕྲོ་མཐུད་ཅན་ཅི...

བཙག་འཐུ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ ས་གནས་གཞུང་དང་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ བཙག་འཐུ་ཁས་བླངས་གསལ་བསྒྲགས་ དབྱེ་ཞིབ་འབད་ནི།

༉ ད་ལས་ཕར་ འབྲུག་བཙག་འཐུ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠...

དུས་ཡོལ་སོང་ལུ་ ལུང་ནག་ནང་ལུ་ ཁྲིམས་འགལ་ཐོག་ལས་ དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུབ་འཐུ་མི་ཡོདཔ།

༉ མོང་སྒར་ལས་ཨིན་མི་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༤༣ ལང་མི་ཕོ་སྐྱེས་ཅི...

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Holding leaders to their vows

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Pledges are beyond ECB's authority

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སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ འཐབ་འཛིང་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ དབང་བཙོང་གནད་དོན་དེ་ ཞིབ་དཔྱད་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ལུང་བསྟན་ཟམ་པ་འབྲིང་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་བར་མའི་ སློབ་ཕྲ...

ནོར་བུ་སྒང་གཡུས་ཚན་ནང་ སྤང་ཚལ་ལུ་འཛུགས་སྐྱོང་འབད་མི་གིས་ ཁེ་སང་ལེགས་ཤོམ་ཐོབ་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་འཐབ་སྟེ་ ལོ་ལྔ་ལང་པའི་ཤུལ་ལུ་ བསམ་རྩེ་...

Election Commission to vet campaign pledges in LG and NC elections

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ཤེར་ཟ་ལས་སྡེ་དེ་ ཟླཝ་གཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ བཀག་ཆ་འབད་བཞག་ཡོདཔ།

༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་གཞུང་འགན་ལེན་བདོག་གཏད་བརྗེ་སོར་ཁང་གིས་ ཤེར་ཟ་ལས་སྡེ་དེ་ གནས་སྐབས་ཀྱི་དོན་ལུ་ བཀག་ཆ་འབད་ཡོད་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ལས་སྡེའི་བགོ་བཤའ་འཆང་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ བགོ་བཤའི་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་ཚུ་ བར་སྐབས་ཅིག་ འཐབ་མི་ཚུགས་ནི་ཨིན་པས།

ཀུན་གསལ་ཕོ་བྲང་ནང་ དཀྱིལ་མཆོག་འཕྲེང་བའི་བཀའ་དབང་གནང་བཞིན་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཀུན་གསལ་ཕོ་བྲང་ནང་ ཕྱི་ནང་༢ ལས་ དད་ཅན་སྟ...

གནས་ཚུལ་མདོར་བསྡུས།

གནས་ཚུལ་མདོར་བསྡུས།

སྒམ་རི་ཆུ་༡ པ་དང་ བ་མུ་སྤ་རོང་ཆུ་གཅིག་སྒྲིལ་གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་གྱིས་ མི་སྡེ་ལུ་ ཕན་ཐོགས་འབྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ བཀྲིས་སྒང་ སག་སྟེང་རྒེད་འོག་ནང་ སྒམ་རི་ཆུ་༡ པ་དང...

འཐབ་འཛིང་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ འཐུས་ཤོར།

༉ ཆོས་རྣམས་ཐམས་ཅད་རྐྱེན་ཡིན་ཏེ། །འདུན་པའི་རྩེ་ལ་རབ...

ཨ་མོ་ཆུའི་ལས་འགུལ་ལུ་ ཐབས་ལམ་གཞན་ག་ཅིག་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ན?

༉ གནམ་གཤིས་གནས་སྟངས་ཀྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ འཛམ་གླིང་གི་འགྱུར་བ་ཚུ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ཨ་མོ་ཆུའི་ཁྲོམ་གྱི་ས་ཁོངས་དེ་ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཀྱི་ལོ་ལས་འགོ་བཙུགས་ ཆུ་རུད་ཀྱི་ས་ཁོངས་ཅིག་ལུ་གྱུར་ཡོདཔ་ད་ ད་རེས་འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ལུ་ བྱུང་མིའི་གནོད་སྐྱོན་དེ་ གནམ་བྱཱར་མ་ཐོནམ་ལས་ བྱུང་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ཨིན་པས།