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Monday, June 24, 2019

The March Of Money: Part IV

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Bhutan’s hammered coinage (Maartrum) era ended with the advent of two of our earliest milled coinages – the silver Thala and two sizes...
Saturday, June 22, 2019

The March Of Money: Part III

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Records of Bhutan’s earliest coinage are none existent. However we can make some educated conjectures. We know from the notes made by the ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

The March of Money: Part II

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For a country that did not use money, Bhutan was flooded with overabundance of metal currency - from six different countries and perhaps m...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2019

The March of Money: Part I

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A Bengali babu - a civil servant - by the name of Kishenkant Bose visited Bhutan in 1815. His comments in relation to coinage in the count...
Monday, June 17, 2019

Tenzing Lamsang’s Drive for MP Vehicle Fund

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In the last issue of the  TheBhutanese newspaper, its Editor Tenzing Lamsang proposed the idea that the Bhutanese farmers and the private...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Bhutan's Historic Laser Surgery At The JDWNRH

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Dear Rotarians, We successfully conducted Bhutan’s first laser surgery last week on a patient suffering from precancerous lesion in her o...
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Saturday, June 15, 2019

Imported Energy Cheaper Than Our Own

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Wangcha Sangey says it all in his Blog: “…….. Presently Bhutan gets less than Rs. 2.00 per unit for export to India. And domestic aver...
Thursday, June 13, 2019

Looking for Old Bhutanese Coins

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The Royal Government of Bhutan struck silver  Thala coins for the first time in 1929. Some 20,000 of them were struck. The engraving of t...
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Monday, June 10, 2019

The Vehicle Quota - A State Sponsored Crime

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The KUENSEL of 6th June, 2019 reporting on the issue the Vehicle Quota writes as follows: “The Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers and...
Sunday, June 9, 2019

DNT’s Daant: Khaane Ke Ya Dikhaane Ke?

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The present set of lawmakers need to seriously consider what they will be imperiling – should they choose not to be responsible – when the...
Friday, June 7, 2019

No More IDEC For Import of Private Vehicles

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I became entitled to a Vehicle Quota in 1979. I wanted to buy a TOYOTA Corona sedan. The CIF Phuentsholing price then was Nu.64,000.00. T...
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Thursday, June 6, 2019

Begin The Journey Of Restitution Of Our Morality

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Yesterday a Member of the Parliament called me to say that the 4th Pay Commission’s recommendations have been tabled for discussion. Thus...
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