Minister of Finance Wangdi Norbu of Bhutan

Ugyen Tshering has been appointed as the Foreign Affairs Minister.

Lyonpo Wangdi Norbu said that one of the most significant developments during the period was the drop in lending rates to 10 percent which boosted private sector investments.

Bhutan`s Prime Minister arrives in India - Zee NewsA high-level delegation including Foreign Affairs Minister Ugyen Tshering, Economic Affairs Minister Khandu Wangchuk and Finance Minister Wangdi Norbu is accompanying Prime Minister Thinley.

a project" than higher realisations "from the personal income taxes and sales taxes.

Mr Norbu has estimated domestic revenues at Ngultrum 10,122 million, an increase of more than a third from the original estimates of the 2005-06 financial year.

Lyonpo Wangdi Norbu has placed himself between two men, with doma in mouth, animatedly conversing, frequently rubbing his upper lip with his right thumb and index finger as though to smoothen his mustache.

While Wangdi Norbu has been given the Finance portfolio, Zangley Dukpa will be the health minister.