A. Four years on, those same subscribers are beginning to accuse television of something, of promoting a world that is incompatible with their own unique culture and of threatening to destroy an idyll where time has stood still for half a millennium.
B. The Dragon King Jigone Singye Wangchuk, had lifted a ban on the small screen as part of a radical plan to modernize his country, and those who could afford the G pound - a - month subscription signed up to a cable service that provided 46 channels of round - the - clock entertainment much of fit from Rupert Mudoch's Star T.V network.
C. An independent group of Bhutanese academics has carried out its own impact study and found that cable television has caused "dramatic changes" to society, being responsible for increasing crime, corruption, an uncontrolled desire for western products, and changing attitudes to love and relationship.
D. In June 1999 Bhutan became the last nation in the world to turn on television.
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