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Dhamdum Industrial Park allots plots to 63 industries, employment on the rise

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.

Apr 22, 2025 2 mins read 7,997 views
Thailand leads Bhutan’s agro-export markets beyond India and Bangladesh

Thailand emerged as Bhutan’s one of the top agricultural export destinatio...

Apr 22, 2025 2 mins read 10,946 views
High-value hospitality: Everyday duty of every Bhutanese

A recent story of a billionaire visitor to Bhutan and a humble shopkeeper has captured the imagination of many, serving as a...

Apr 22, 2025 4 mins read 5,893 views
Gangtey-Phobji biking trail poised for revival

Wangdue-Once a favourite among biking enthusiasts, the Gangtey-Phobji Biking Trail is gearing up for a much-anticipated comeback. Stretching nearly 53 kilo...

Apr 22, 2025 2 mins read 6,714 views
Bhutan-Thailand celebrate friendship through football

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.

Apr 22, 2025 1 mins read 9,313 views
གོང་ཚད་གན་ཡིག་ལས་འཆར་གྱིས་ ནང་འཁོད་ཤ་ཚོང་འཐབ་མི་ཚུ་ལུ་ ཕན་ཐོགས་འབྱུང་ནི།

༉ གོང་ཚད་གན་ཡིག་ལས་འཆར་ཐོག་ལུ་ གཞུང་གི་ཐབས་ལམ་སྒྲི...

Apr 21, 2025 5 mins read 1,137 views
འཇིགས་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་བསྟན་སྲུང་དམག་སྡེའི་སྨན་ཁང་ནང་ མོ་ནད་མཁས་མཆོག་ མེད་པའི་དཀའ་ངལ།

༉ བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་ བདེ་བ་ཐང་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ འཇིགས་མ...

Apr 21, 2025 7 mins read 2,029 views
སྨད་སྒང་སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་གིས་ བྱ་དང་ཕགཔ་གསོ་སྐྱོང་ལུ་ ཤུགས་བཏོན་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ 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།

Apr 21, 2025 6 mins read 1,353 views
ཐའེ་དུས་སྟོན་གྱིས་ རྒྱལ་པོའི་གཟིགས་སྐོར་གྱི་ཧེ་མར་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་༢ ཐག་ཉེ་སུ་འབག་འོང་ཡོདཔ།

བཙན་སྐྱོགས་དབང་འདུས། ༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ ཆུ་ཚོད་འཁོར་ལོའི་...

Apr 21, 2025 7 mins read 2,003 views
Empowering parents of children with disabilities

The Draktsho Vocational Training Centre for Children and Youth with Disabilities is launching a major initiative to train 80 parents of children with...

Apr 21, 2025 2 mins read 6,206 views
Bhutanese teen helps build satellite in Australia

Pema Tsho Sakhu, a 13-year-old Bhutanese student living in Perth, Australia, is already reaching for the stars, literally.

Apr 21, 2025 3 mins read 19,541 views
Thai festival brings two kingdoms closer ahead of Royal visit

The Clock Tower Square in Thimphu came alive over the weekend with the colours, flavours, and rhythms of Thailand.

Apr 21, 2025 3 mins read 19,875 views
When the forest burns and no one knows why

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...

Apr 21, 2025 2 mins read 8,500 views
Royal Visit of Thai King & Queen, beyond diplomacy

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...

Apr 21, 2025 5 mins read 2,217 views
Maedgang farmers thrive with poultry and pig farming boom

Samtse—Poultry and piggery farming has become a primary source of livelihood for many farmers in Maedgang, under Norbuang...

Apr 21, 2025 2 mins read 4,628 views
Heli Bhutan to begin operations this month

Bhutan’s first private helicopter operator, Heli Bhutan Private Limited (Heli Bhutan), will begin its operations by the end of this month.

Apr 21, 2025 2 mins read 7,245 views
གཟའ་སྐར།

གཟའ་སྐར།

Apr 19, 2025 0 mins read 998 views
སྐད་ཡིག་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ།

སྐད་ཡིག་དང་ ལམ་སྲོལ།

Apr 19, 2025 0 mins read 996 views
སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་གིས་ དྲོད་ཤུགས་ཆེ་རུང་ ལྕགས་སྐུད་དྲྭ་མིག་བསྒོར་ནི་ལུ་ རྩ་འགེངས་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ 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།

Apr 19, 2025 8 mins read 1,060 views
བསམ་རྩེ་ ཀོ་ཅིན་གྱི་སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་ ཚོད་བསྲེ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ མི་ཚེའི་གནས་སྟངས་བསྒྱུར་བཅོས།

༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ བཀྲིས་ཆོས་གླིང་ བསྟན་འབྲུ་ཀོ་ཅིན་ལས་ སྐ...

Apr 19, 2025 7 mins read 1,105 views
In search of quality

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...

Apr 19, 2025 2 mins read 7,912 views
Blazing cost of forest fires

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).

Apr 19, 2025 3 mins read 4,803 views
Bhutan medical relief team returns after successful mission in Myanmar

“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.

Apr 19, 2025 3 mins read 7,186 views
Patients suffer as Dewathang hospital’s lone gynaecologist absent for months

For more than three months, the gynaecology department at J...

Apr 19, 2025 2 mins read 11,485 views
RBP to install AI-powered number plate recognition cameras to enhance public safety

To strengthen road safety and support law enforcem...

Apr 19, 2025 2 mins read 5,122 views
Opposition MP appeals to High Court, claiming insufficient evidence

The opposition Member of Parliament (MP) for Nubi-Tangsibji constituency in Trongsa, Tashi D...

Apr 19, 2025 1 mins read 8,021 views
Easing loan access through credit scoring system

As Bhutan advances toward its ambitious goal of achieving developed nation status, its restrictive financial services system stands as a significant...

Apr 19, 2025 3 mins read 4,554 views
Price guarantee scheme pumps up local meat industry

The price guarantee scheme (PGS), a government backed initiative, is showing early success in boosting local meat and fish production, with...

Apr 19, 2025 2 mins read 4,905 views
Bhutan receives high-resolution digital topographic map for strategic developmental projects

Bhutan marked a major milestone in its digital dev...

Apr 19, 2025 2 mins read 7,900 views
Gelephu CRRH installs advanced endoscopic system

Gelephu—The Gelephu Central Regional Referral Hospital (CRRH) yesterday installed the advanced EVIS X1 CV-1500 endoscopy system to enhance the early...

Apr 19, 2025 3 mins read 8,015 views
120 Bajaj Allianz delegates in Bhutan for MICE event

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.

Apr 19, 2025 2 mins read 7,775 views
Highland schools struggle to feed children nutritious food

In the two most remote gewogs of the country, Lunana in Gasa and Lingzhi in Thimphu, both located 4,000 metres above se...

Apr 19, 2025 3 mins read 46,118 views
Tashichoeling transforms into emerging urban centre

Samtse-Tashichoeling in Samtse, once a quiet settlement of scattered homes and narrow roads, is rapidly transforming into a thriving town. T...

Apr 19, 2025 3 mins read 8,560 views
I, the Song: A review

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.

Apr 19, 2025 2 mins read 9,677 views
འཛམ་གླིང་ས་སྣུམ་གོང་ཚད་ ཡར་སེང་འགྱོ་མི་དེ་གིས་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ ག་དེ་སྦེ་ གནོད་སྐྱོན་འབྱུང་ནི།

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།

Apr 18, 2025 7 mins read 1,046 views
གོང་ཚད་ཡར་སེང་ཐད་ཁར་ དུམ་གྲ་ཅིག་ མར་བབས་འགྱོ་རུང་ འབྱེམ་ཕོག་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཨེ་ཤི་ཡཱན་གོང་འཕེལ་དངུལ་ཁང་གིས་ དུས་ཅི་ འབྲུག་ལུ...

Apr 19, 2025 5 mins read 2,152 views
བསྟན་སྤྱིའི་སྐུ་རིམ་ འབྱུང་བའི་སྤྱི་མདོས་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ།

༉ 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།

Apr 18, 2025 1 mins read 2,265 views
How rising global fuel prices will impact Bhutan

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...

Apr 18, 2025 2 mins read 9,724 views
CCAA finds unfair practices in private schools’ terms and conditions

The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) has found several shortcoming...

Apr 18, 2025 3 mins read 5,990 views
Bhutan NDI to launch training to bridge digital skills gap

The Bhutan National Digital Identity (NDI) is set to launch the “NDI Xcelerator Programme” from May 8 to June 6 this ye...

Apr 18, 2025 2 mins read 5,332 views
Life after kidney transplant

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.

Apr 18, 2025 2 mins read 8,112 views
Bhutan explores wildlife and nature-based tourism to boost conservation and local livelihoods

Bhutan’s tourism sector remains largely focused on...

Apr 18, 2025 3 mins read 7,667 views
Farmers brave heat to build chain-link fence in Sarpang

Sarpang—It is hot in Sarpang these days. With temperatures already reaching 26°C, not many can work outdoors or without a fan, e...

Apr 18, 2025 2 mins read 6,642 views
སློབ་ཕྲུག་ཚུ་ལུ་ གུར་ནང་སྦེ་ དཔེ་ཆ་སྟོན་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

རྒྱ་མཚོ་ལས་ མཐོ་ཚད་མི་ཊར་༤,༠༠༠ གི་ས་ཁར་དང་ འབྲུག་ལ...

Apr 17, 2025 10 mins read 2,291 views
བསམ་རྩེ་ལུ་ ཚོད་བསྲེ་ཁྲོམ་གསརཔ་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོདཔ།

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།

Apr 17, 2025 5 mins read 2,365 views
འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འདི་ ཨེ་ཤི་ཡ་དང་ པེ་སི་ཕིག་ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ལས་རིམ་གྱི་ གྲས་ཁར་ཚུད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ 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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