News Archive - May 2008

News Archive

May 2008

DATE	HEADLINES

May 1	His Majesty confers Dakyen to Speaker
	Pay Commission established
	Ministers to get Prado and Toyota Yaris for parliamentarians
	Souvenir Production and Training Centre, Punakha celebrates foundation day

May 3	His Majesty grants audience to PDP candidates
	Nation observes birth anniversary of Third King
	Annual Tarayana fair begins
	Teacher's Day, a day to honour the noblest profession

May 5	National Strategic Plan for prevention and control of STI and HIV/AIDS
	Mukazor quarry extraction raises safety concerns
	Creating women and children friendly police procedures
	Changzamtok workshop relocation dilemma

May 6	Bhutan Telecom launches 3G service
May 6	Stakeholders discuss sustainable management of cordyceps

May 8	Government to set up grievance cell
	Cabinet decides to establish medical college
	Education Ministry to recruit 222 temporary teachers
	Hontsho Community School faces classroom shortage
	Samtse town to get proper sewerage
	Demand for orange saplings grows in Pemagatshel
	Contractors say Construction Development Board should be strengthened

May 9	The first session of parliament begins
	Construction of hostels for the Ugyen Wangchuck Environment and Forestry Institute delayed
	Rural Development Training Centre opened in Zhemgang

May 10	PM, Opposition Leader and NC Chairperson pledge to work together
May 10	Bhutanese park in Austria

May 12	Bazam over Mochu inaugurated
	Rural schools face teacher shortage
	Transportation and lack of electricity, major hurdle for people of Panbang

May 13	Changbangdu residents still wait for road

May 14	Indian PM to visit Bhutan
	Parliament continues discussion on Draft Constitution
	DPT to set up 8 bureaus

May 15	Matsutake export declines

May 16	2 men arrested for smuggling drugs
May 16	Bhutanese archers receive cash incentives

May 17	I ndian PM receives audience
	Indian PM arrives in the Kingdom
	Scam on mobile phones

May 18	Indian PM addresses the parliament
	Foundation stone for Punatsangchu-I Hydropower Project laid
	Lyonchen Jigmi Y. Thinley hosts banquet for Indian PM

May 20	Fewer accidents at Melong Brak
	Orange production falls in Pachutar in Phuentsholing
	Samtse faces parking shortage
	Salamjee farmers in Dagana conduct land management programme

May 21	Parliamentarians express their gratitude to India
May 21	Rural urban migration and its problems

May 22	Kidu for people affected by windstorm
	Windstorm affects several houses in Monggar
	US$ 3.7 million for changing the lives of Bhutanese children
	Buddhist studies to be introduced in colleges and institutes
	Health Minister in Geneva
	Poor turnout for Miss Bhutan Beauty Pageant

May 23	Chief Justice to be referred as Druk gi Thrimchee
	Windstorm damages 58 houses in Trashigang
	New classification and standard system for hotels

May 24	Parliamentarians debate the role of local governance
	Police apprehends several chorten robbers
	National Assembly elections free and fair
	Rain scarcity affects paddy transplantation

May 26	Drinking water scarcity in Wangduephodrang
	A man killed in an accident
	Gelephu crematorium out of use
	Thimphu United B wins the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck archery tournament

May 27	His Majesty grants audience to Director General of border roads
	Should opposition leader be conferred "Dakyen"?
	Classroom congestion, a problem in many schools

May 28	35 drug peddlers apprehended in just one week
	Elephants rampage crops in Samtse
	Parliamentarians opt for cash
	Over speeding on Thimphu-Paro highway raises concern

May 29	June 2 to be celebrated as Constitution Day
May 29	Home Ministry designs model houses for rural areas

May 30	Monk Body arrives in Thimphu
	Maldives Foreign Minister visits Bhutan
	Demarcation of plots in new Gelephu town completed

May 31	Landline phone users on the decline
May 31	The price of collecting cordyceps

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