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At the Meet-the-Press session held yesterday, the Foreign Minister Dr Tandi Dorji highlighted the areas that can be enhanced in the tourism sector during the COVID-19 period. He said that even before COVID-19 pandemic, the policy change recommended in the Tourism Levy Exemption (Amendment) Bill of Bhutan during the National …
Read More »Taxi Association wants to mostly keep Kidu Relief option for more affected citizens
Happy with interest waiver and loan deferral Taxi drivers in the country are one of the beneficiaries of the Druk Gyalpo’s Relief Kidu. However, many taxi drivers said they are not applying for the fund, but rather keeping the option for other badly affected citizens. Chairman of Bhutan Taxi Association, …
Read More »Sufficient vegetables if country goes into lockdown: MoAF
Tshewang Tashi, Dy. Chief of PPD, MoAF said “Under the leadership of the government, we have formed a task force called National Vegetable Management Taskforce (NVMT) who will take care of constant supply of vegetable during the COVID-19 emergency or beyond.” NVMT will look into from where they will outsource …
Read More »886 Bhutanese evacuated in first batch with 1,047 to go in the second batch
The government has evacuated 756 Bhutanese in India comprising of; 240 people from Delhi, 139 from Bangalore, 110 people from Chandigarh, 135 people from Amrithsar, 51 from Kolkata and 81 from Chennai, India in the first phase. About 70 percent of the people evacuated are students. In addition 59 were …
Read More »Face masks mandatory if we go into red zone: Health Minister
The Health Minister Lyonpo Dechen Wangmo said that it will be mandatory for Bhutanese to wear masks if Bhutan goes into the red zone. In an interview to The Bhutanese she said, “A lot of the countries around the world recommending face masks is due to the presence of community …
Read More »All three Bhutanese patients test negative
The Health Minister said that a Bhutanese patient or the fourth case has tested negative twice for the COVID-19 virus and so she is out of the isolation ward in the hospital and is now in quarantine in a hotel. The other two girls who are case number three and …
Read More »Students adjust to online learning and its challenges
Most university students find it comfortable to study online as it allows for better flexibility and easy access to lessons that they can understand. However, there are some students who are facing challenges to learn online. A second year student from the Paro College, Laxmi Dhimal, said learning through Virtual …
Read More »Around 140 Bhutanese in Perth ready to return home with worries over drying jobs, lack of health insurance and uncertainty
The Association of Bhutanese in Perth Inc. (ABPI) has collected a list of more than 140 Bhutanese living in Perth, Australia seeking to return home. A member of ABPI said no survey has been carried out to find the specific reason for them wanting to return home. However, the member …
Read More »Proposed Third BBS channel to be dedicated to education
Ministry of Education (MoE) in collaboration with all the relevant agencies, Royal Education Council (REC), Bhutan Council for School Examinations and Assessment (BCSEA) and Royal University of Bhutan (RUB) are proposing for a third BBS channel. The channel is set to officially launch on May 2020. The ministry has already …
Read More »OCP tracks down and fines unreasonable chili price hikers
Based on the consumer complaints received through toll free number 1214 regarding the unreasonable price charged by the vegetable vendors on the green chilies sold in the Centenary Farmers’ Market (CFM), and after investigations by Office of Consumer Protection (OCP), it was found out that the vegetable suppliers/brokers and vegetable …
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