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01
Aug

Tashi Air gets a second aircraft

Tashi Air got a new aircraft called “Dorji” on July 30. The addition of a second 122-seater Airbus A319 means that the airline can now expand its route network and...
23
Jul

Kambja rice cultivation encouraged to boost rice production

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forests is keen on encouraging farmers to adopt the Kambja method of upland rice cultivation that does not need irrigation facilities, the lack of which...
14
Jul

Bhutan to hold SAFTA meeting for the first time

Bhutan will be hosting its first South Asia Free Trade Area (SAFTA) ministerial in the capital on July 24. This is the eighth SAFTA ministerial council (SMC) of its kind....
11
Jul

International GNH meet next year to mark Fourth King’s 60th Birth Anniversary

As part of the fourth Druk Gyalpo’s 60th birth anniversary celebrations, an international GNH conference is being planned for November next year. The plan was announced during Lyonchhoen’s visit to...
02
Jul

Japan pledges help “to introduce electric cars” in Bhutan.

While Lyonchhoen Tshering Tobgay is on a four-day visit to Japan,  his counterpart Shinzo Abe has agreed to look into the matter of introducing electric cars in Bhutan to replace...
30
Jun

Museum opened in memory of “Japan Sahib”

To commemorate the memory of the man who made modern agriculture possible in Bhutan, Dasho Nishioka, a museum was inaugurated in Paro on June 17. The museum displays pictures and...
24
Jun

“Thuenpha Phuenzhi” (The Four Harmonious Brothers)

The “Thuenpha Phuenzhi” or “Four Harmonious Brothers” is a religious painting or fresco often seen on the walls of temples and lhakhangs in Bhutan. It depicts a partridge, rabbit, monkey...
24
Jun

“Happiness Flag” unveiled at FIFA World Cup 2014

  Images of 198 Bhutanese who sent their photos made it to the largest ever, digitally produced photomosaic Happiness Flag at Arena de Sau Paulo ahead of the opening FIFA...
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