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Record slump in tourist arrivals
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8 February, 2010 - Tourist arrivals dropped by 15 percent in 2009 from the year before, prompting people in the industry to call it one of the worst slumps in recent years.
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Hydropower construction company by 2012
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Bhutanese company to bid for 10,000 MW and other project
8 February, 2010 - Druk Green Power corporation’s (DGPC) planned hydropower construction company, once formed, will bid for a slice of the Nu 525 bn construction pie of the 10,000 MW projects.
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8 February, 2010 - A six-year-old girl was killed yesterday morning after being hit by a maruti-swift vehicle on the Mongar-Trashigang highway.
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PM meets former Indian ambassadors
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| Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley talks to former Indian ambassadors to Bhutan at an informal gathering at the Bhutan embassy, New Delhi |
8 February, 2010 - “If Bhutan is a subject of some degree of admiration around the world it was attributable to ‘the special benefits’ that Bhutan enjoyed through its ‘special relationship’ with India.”
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PM, NIIT Chairman discuss IT project
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| NIIT chairman, Rajendra S. Pawar and Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y. Thinley |
8 February, 2010 - The chairman of Indian ICT giant NIIT, Rajendra S. Pawar, and Prime Minister Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y. Thinley met in New Delhi, India, to take the Nu 2.05 billion Total Solutions forward.
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Indian rally teams take top 3 prizes
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| Winners of the Bhutanese rally team |
3rd Indo-Bhutan friendship car rally8 February, 2010 - The lost time in navigating the traffic in Siliguri during the first leg did not stop the professional rally team from Kolkota, Arindam Ghosh and Somdeb Chanda in bagging the first prize of Rs 75,000 and a Bhutan India Friendship Association (BIFA) trophy, during the third Indo Bhutan friendship rally (IBFR), which ended on Saturday in Thimphu.
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Bhutan – The last bastion of the hornbill
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Researcher Rinchen Drakpa, a Thrumshingla park official, will be mapping the bird’s habitat
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| Safe in Bhutan The rufous-necked hornbil |
8 February, 2010 - Bhutan’s forests provide a safe haven for the rufous-necked hornbill, a bird that is classified vulnerable by the international union for conservation of nature (IUCN) and Birdlife international, according to a Thrumshingla national park official.
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Switch to local DTH service provider
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8 February, 2010 - Bhutanese, who have already availed the direct to home (DTH) service from India, will have to switch over or terminate their current subscriptions once a local DTH television service provider is established, says Bhutan infocomm and media authority (BICMA).
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| The ambulances were cleansed before distributing
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8 February, 2010 - Ten ambulances, each costing Nu 3 million, were handed over to representatives of hospitals and basic health units (BHUs) in the country on February 6 in Phuentsholing.
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Editorial: Deconstructing the construction industry
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8 February, 2010 - Policy makers predict that the next 10-15 years will be a golden era for Bhutan in terms of business and employment, in which the constructionindustry would play a key role.
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Electrical engineering at Khuruthang VTI
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7 February, 2010 - Of the total 261 vocational skills the country requires for social and economic development between 2008 and 2013, the need for electricians ranks sixth in terms of urgency.
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“The gods have abandoned their abode” : PM
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| From left: prime minister of Greece, George Papandreou, Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley and the president of Kiribatic Republic, Anote Tong |
Delhi Sustainable Development Summit7 February, 2010 -
Bhutan is formulating policies for the construction industry to employ green technology and practices, said Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y Thinley, while speaking to world leaders and other members at the Delhi sustainable development summit in India yesterday.
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Contractor’s bone of contention
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Revision possible, says MoIC’s Lyonpo Yeshey Zimba, but industry lacks professionalism
Bhutan Schedule Of Rates7 February, 2010 -
Tender documents are to contractors what job applications might be to young graduates in search of work. It is the first step towards determining who is awarded the job.
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Post mortem blame apportioned
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| Accident Scene Overloading and driving without license seem to be the main culprits |
Tsirangtoe Accident7 February, 2010 -
Tsirang residents say that the recent Tsirangtoe accident, which killed two men on the spot and injured five others, could have been prevented if the road safety and transport authority (RSTA) and traffic police had been vigil.
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Drukgyal Zhipa addresses the people of Mongar
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6 February, 2010 - Addressing the people of eastern Bhutan affected by natural disasters yesterday, His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo Jigme Singye Wangchuck, assured that all the 1,476 affected households will receive the King’s kidu of Nu 21.6 million depending on the level of damage to their homes.
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