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Samtse—Two months after its inauguration in February, Dhamdum Industrial Park in Samtse has allotted plots to 63 industries and continues to expand its industrial footprint and employment prospects.
Thailand emerged as Bhutan’s one of the top agricultural export destinatio...
A recent story of a billionaire visitor to Bhutan and a humble shopkeeper has captured the imagination of many, serving as a...
Wangdue-Once a favourite among biking enthusiasts, the Gangtey-Phobji Biking Trail is gearing up for a much-anticipated comeback. Stretching nearly 53 kilo...
To mark the Royal visit of Thailand’s King and Queen on April 25, a highly anticipated under-17 (U-17) football match between Bhutan and Thailand was played yesterday in the capital, drawing thousands of Bhutanese spectators.
༉ གོང་ཚད་གན་ཡིག་ལས་འཆར་ཐོག་ལུ་ གཞུང་གི་ཐབས་ལམ་སྒྲི...
༉ བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་ བདེ་བ་ཐང་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ འཇིགས་མ...
༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ ནོར་བུ་སྒང་རྒེད་འོག་ སྨད་སྒང་གཡུས་ཚན་གྱི་སོ་ནམ་པ་ མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་གིས་ བྱ་དང་ཕགཔ་གསོ་སྐྱོང་ཐོག་ལས་ འཚོ་བ་སྐྱོང་ནི་དེ་ གཙོ་བོ་ཅིག་ལུ་ གྱུར་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
བཙན་སྐྱོགས་དབང་འདུས། ༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ ཆུ་ཚོད་འཁོར་ལོའི་...
The Draktsho Vocational Training Centre for Children and Youth with Disabilities is launching a major initiative to train 80 parents of children with...
Pema Tsho Sakhu, a 13-year-old Bhutanese student living in Perth, Australia, is already reaching for the stars, literally.
The Clock Tower Square in Thimphu came alive over the weekend with the colours, flavours, and rhythms of Thailand.
More than 70,000 acres of forestland have been lost to fire in the country in just five years. This is not merely a statistic—it is a serious problem. The country has...
On the evening of February 21 this year, waves of messages extending warm felicitations on the Birth Anniversary of His Majesty The King were s...
Samtse—Poultry and piggery farming has become a primary source of livelihood for many farmers in Maedgang, under Norbuang...
Bhutan’s first private helicopter operator, Heli Bhutan Private Limited (Heli Bhutan), will begin its operations by the end of this month.
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ དགེ་ལེགས...
༉ ད་རེས་ནངས་པར་ གསར་སྤང་ལུ་ ཚ་དྲོད་ཆེ་བའི་དུས་ཚོད་ཅིག་ཨིནམ་ལས་ དྲོད་ཤུགས་ཀྱི་ ཚད་གཞི་དེ་ཡང་ ཌི་གི་རི་ སེལ་ཤི་ཡསི་༢༦ ལུ་ལྷོད་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ མི་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་གིས་ ཁྱིམ་ནང་རླུང་འཁོར་མེད་པར་ ལཱ་འབད་མི་ཚུགས་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་རུང་ སེངྒེ་རྒེད་འོག་ སངས་རྒྱས་ཐང་དང་ གཞི་གསར་ཐང་གི་གཡུས་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ སོ་ནམ་གྱི་ལཱ་འབད་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ གྲ་སྒྲིག་འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ བཀྲིས་ཆོས་གླིང་ བསྟན་འབྲུ་ཀོ་ཅིན་ལས་ སྐ...
As Thimphu Thromde undergoes a flurry of repairs and maintenance in preparation for an upcoming VIP visit, the city’s transformation offers more than just a polished façade. It is a good time to pause and reflect on the overall quali...
Forest fires have destroyed around 70,696 acres of forest land across the country in the past five years, according to records with the Department of Forests and Park Services (DoFPS).
“Working among the 87-member Bhutan Medical Relief Team (BMRT) in Myanmar for 18 days, I realised that co-operation, discipline, citizen involvement during emergencies, and volunteerism are key to a nation’s growth,” said Damcho Lhendup, a 19-year-old Gyalsup from the first batch, second cohort of the Gyalsung programme.
For more than three months, the gynaecology department at J...
To strengthen road safety and support law enforcem...
The opposition Member of Parliament (MP) for Nubi-Tangsibji constituency in Trongsa, Tashi D...
As Bhutan advances toward its ambitious goal of achieving developed nation status, its restrictive financial services system stands as a significant...
The price guarantee scheme (PGS), a government backed initiative, is showing early success in boosting local meat and fish production, with...
Bhutan marked a major milestone in its digital dev...
Gelephu—The Gelephu Central Regional Referral Hospital (CRRH) yesterday installed the advanced EVIS X1 CV-1500 endoscopy system to enhance the early...
Indian insurance giant Bajaj Allianz chose Bhutan as the destination for its annual company event, bringing about 120 delegates to the country yesterday for a three-day MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) tourism visit.
In the two most remote gewogs of the country, Lunana in Gasa and Lingzhi in Thimphu, both located 4,000 metres above se...
Samtse-Tashichoeling in Samtse, once a quiet settlement of scattered homes and narrow roads, is rapidly transforming into a thriving town. T...
After earning critical praise and a string of international accolades, filmmaker Dechen Roder’s psychological drama “I, the Song” premiered in Thimphu on April 17.
དངུལ་རྩིས་ལྷན་ཁག་གི་ གནས་དེབ་གསརཔ་དང་འཁྲིལ་བ་ཅིན་ འཛམ་གླིང་ནང་ ས་སྣུམ་གྱི་གོང་ཚད་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༢༠ ཡར་སོང་འགྱོ་མི་དེ་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་འཕར་ཚད་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༤.༡ དེ་ཅིག་ མར་འབབ་འགྱོ་ནི་ལུ་ ལྷན་ཐབས་འབད་ནི་ཨིན་པས།
དོ་འགྲན་དང་ཉོ་སྤྱོད་དབང་འཛིན་གྱིས་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ལུ་ སྒེ...
ད་རེས་ འབྲུག་གི་ལྟ་བཤལ་ལས་སྡེ་ནང་ ལམ་སྲོལ་གྱི་ཉམས་...
༉ ཨེ་ཤི་ཡཱན་གོང་འཕེལ་དངུལ་ཁང་གིས་ དུས་ཅི་ འབྲུག་ལུ...
༉ ད་རིས་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ ཚོགས་ཀྱི་སློབ་དཔོན་སྐུ་བགྲེས་ རྡོ་རྗེ་རིན་ཆེན་མཆོག་གིས་ དབུ་བཞུགས་ཐོག་ དགེ་འདུན་པ་ཞལ་གྲངས་༢༠༠ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་གིས་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ སྤང་རི་ཟམ་གདོང་ འབྲུག་ཕོ་བྲང་སྡིངས་རྩིས་གཞུང་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ ལོ་བསྟར་གནང་སྲོལ་ཡོད་པའི་ བསྟན་སྤྱིའི་སྐུ་རིམ་ འབྱུང་བའི་སྤྱི་མདོས་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
A 20 percent surge in global oil prices could drag the country’s economic growth down by as much as 1.4 percent, according to a new simulation by the...
The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) has found several shortcoming...
The Bhutan National Digital Identity (NDI) is set to launch the “NDI Xcelerator Programme” from May 8 to June 6 this ye...
For a person diagnosed with kidney failure, a transplant gives a new lease of life. However, a study published in the Bhutan Health Journal reveals that many kidney transplant recipients in the country are living with poor health-related quality of life, struggling physically, emotionally, and socially even after undergoing life-saving surgery.
Bhutan’s tourism sector remains largely focused on...
Sarpang—It is hot in Sarpang these days. With temperatures already reaching 26°C, not many can work outdoors or without a fan, e...
རྒྱ་མཚོ་ལས་ མཐོ་ཚད་མི་ཊར་༤,༠༠༠ གི་ས་ཁར་དང་ འབྲུག་ལ...
བསམ་རྩེའི་སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་གིས་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ གནམ་བྱཱར་ལུ་ ཆརཔ་དང་ཚ་དྲོད་ཀྱི གདོང་ལེན་འབད་དེ་ གནས་སྐབས་ཀྱི་གུར་ནང་ལས་ ཚོད་བསྲེ་ཚུ་ བཙོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཨེ་ཤི་ཡ་དང་ པེ་སི་ཕིག་གི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ལས་རིམ་གསརཔ་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་མིའི་ནང་ འབྲུག་དང་ ཀེམ་བོ་ཌི་ཡ་ རྒྱ་ནག་ དེ་ལས་ མོང་གོ་ལི་ཡ་ཚུ་གིས་ ཨའི་ལས་ཨ་ལུ་ལུ་ འབུ་མིའི་ནད་གཞི་ཨེཆི་ཨའེ་བི་དང་ སི་ཕི་ལིསི་ དེ་ལས་ ཧེ་པ་ཊའེ་ཊིསི་བི་ཚུ་ མེདཔ་བཟོ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ ལཱ་ཚུ་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ར་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
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Today, as we gather to start the construction works for the Gelephu International Airport, we are laying the foundations of a legacy that will shape the lives of generations to come.
Phobjikha-Although Phobjikha is a Ramsar-designated wetland, the valley is experiencing increasing environmental pressur...
His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen, accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses Gyalsey Jigme Namgyel and Gyal...
Despite trade agreements ensuring zero-rated status for exports from India to Bhutan, local importers are increasingly r...
Phobjikha Gewog, famed for its sweeping valley, sacred heritage sites, and the graceful winter presence of the endangere...
Once an unfamiliar grain in Bhutanese farming circles, quinoa is fast emerging as a promising staple in the country’s ev...
Tashicholing—Farmers in Thangchhenang village (Biru Tar) under Pemaling Gewog, Samtse, are struggling to begin paddy cul...
Bhutan’s national women’s football team are full of confidence as they prepare to face Lebanon tomorrow in the ongoing A...
The government has outlined a crucial and ambitious legislative plan for fiscal year 2025–2026, prominently featuring th...
It may be a coincidence, but the World Bank’s warning that Bhutan could lose a significant share of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2050 due to drying climate comes just as the country rolls out its 21st Century Economic Roadmap or the 10X National Economic Roadmap.
The National Assembly’s recent move to adopt a zero-tolerance policy on harmful digital content is not only timely—it is overdue. For too long, we have watched from the sidelines as explicit, violen...
When the global apparel giant Uniqlo recently objected to Bhutanese retailers using its logo without permission, it set off a chain of events that now serves as a rare, and long overdue, wake-up call.
Bhutan has been named among 36 countries facing potential US travel sanctions. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade has issued a notification urging undocumented Bhutanese in the United States to voluntarily return home.
Whether the confusion stems from discussions in Parliament or how the media has reported them, many people, including those without a fixed deposit account, are concerned about the proposed tax on fixed deposit (F...
Two spiritual events. Two vastly different outcomes. What separates the squalor left behind at the recent oral transmission from the orderly conclusion of the menlam chenmo gathering is not money...
In recent days, the National Assembly has passed some major tax reforms. From introducing a flat 5 percent Goods and Services Tax (GST) and increasing excise duties on harmful products to taxing...
Alcohol, tobacco, carbonated drinks, and other non-essential or harmful products will become more expensive starting Jan...
Bhutan’s fertility rate has dropped from over six children per woman in the 1980s to just 1.7 in 2017, far below the rep...
We are on the verge of becoming a malaria-free nation. This is no small feat. From tens of thousands of cases in the 1990s to zero local transmissions since November 2021, the turnaround is remarkable. But to paint this...
In an age dominated by fast fashion and synthetic dyes, a Bhutanese entrepreneur is turning to the past to craft a more...
The Bank of Bhutan (BoB) unveiled two financial products—Credit Line Limit (CLL) and BOB Premium Card—at a networking ev...
Potato trade has seen a major transformation since the launch of the online auction system under the Bhutan Commodities...
Mountain Hazelnuts, one of Bhutan’s first fully foreign direct investment (FDI) companies, has secured USD 7.9 million e...
For the first time, Bhutanese vintage wine will go under the hammer on the global stage, marking a historic moment for t...
Public service delivery in Bhutan is expected to improve significantly with the launch of the Integrated Service Centre...
There is another record, one we would rather not be associated with. In just the first five months of 2025, nearly 29 ki...
Consider this: of the 172 metric tonnes of waste generated daily in Bhutan, plastics constitute roughly 36 percent, with...
A fierce public debate has erupted over the proposed introduction of a 10 percent withholding tax on fixed deposit (FD)...
Waste has always been Bhutan’s quiet embarrassment—a problem we have seen, smelled, and stepped around, yet never truly...
Bhutan’s recent efforts to step up its HIV response reflect a welcome sense of urgency and commitment. The introduction of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in late 2024 marked a significant policy shift—one grounded in science and global best practice.
Read MoreThe much-awaited 69.04-kilometre cross-border railway project connecting Gelephu to Kokrajhar station in Assam, India, is currently awaiting Indian government approval.
Read MoreAs temperatures soar this summer, rivers in Punakha have become a popular retreat for residents seeking relief from the heat. However, what begins as a refreshing escape is increasingly ending in tragedy.
Read MoreRising costs in food and non-food categories fuelled a jump in the country’s inflation rate, which reached 3.84 percent in May this year compared to May of the previous year.
Read MoreBhutan’s growing response to the HIV epidemic is taking shape against a shifting regional landscape, where progress and persistent vulnerabilities go hand in hand.
Read MoreFewer crimes are happening in Bhutan, but those that do are more severe, according to the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)’s Statistical Yearbook 2024 report.
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