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གཞུང་ལམ་དེ་ འབྲུག་ལྷོ་ཕྱོགས་དཔལ་འབྱོར་དང་ མཐུད་འབྲེལ་ཡར་དྲག་གཏང་ནིའི་དོན་ལས་ གཙོ་ཅན་ཅིག་ཨིནམ་བཞིན་དུ་ གསར་སྤང་དང་ ལྷ་མོའི་རྫིང་ཁ་བར་ན་ གཞུང་ལམ་བསལ་ནིའི་ལས་འགུལ་དེ་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༧ ལས་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ནི་ཨིནམ་ལས་ གྲ་སྒྲིག་གི་ལཱ་ཚུ་འབད་ནི་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་ཚན་རིག་དང་འཕྲུལ་རིག་གི་གྲོས་འཛོམས...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་འཁོད་ལས་ འབྲུག་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུ...
༉ འབྲུག་པའི་ཨམ་སྲུ་ ཀི་རི་ཀེཊ་རྩེད་མི་ རྒན་རིམ་སྡེ...
༉ འབྲུག་ཚོང་དང་བཟོ་གྲྭ་ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ བློན་ཆེན་ཡིག་ཚང་དང་ ལྷན་རྒྱས་གཞུང་ཚོགས་ལུ་ ལོ་ལྔའི་འཆར་གཞི་༡༣ པའི་ནང་ སྒེར་སྡེའི་འབྲེལ་གཏོགས་དོན་ལུ་ ཐབས་བྱུས་གཞི་བཀོད་ཅིག་ གྲོས་འཆར་ཕུལ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Bhutan’s economic outlook for the next fiscal year appears positive. According to the World Bank’s latest South Asia Development Update, the economy is projected to grow by 6.6 percent in fiscal year 2024-25, a sign...
The lasting impact of Their Majesties King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida of Thailand’s state visit to Bhutan resonated deeply within both nations, marking a pinnacle in diplomatic relati...
Sarpang—A major highway that could reshape southern Bhutan’s economic and connectivity landscape has entered its preparatory stage, with construction...
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay has strongly condemned the terrorist attack that killed 26 people, including tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India on April 22.
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has submitted a formal proposal to the Prime Minister’s Office and the cabinet, outlining a strategic...
When a Bhutanese woman returned to her home this March after two years in Australia, she was hoping to breathe in the crisp, clear mountain air she had missed...
An international conference on Science Engineering and Technology (ICSciEnTec) convened yesterday with the aim of bridging distances, inspiring minds...
The Senior Bhutan National Women’s Cricket Team is currently in Assam, India, for a 10-day training session in preparation for the upcoming International Cricket Council (ICC) Women’s T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier, which will be held in Thailand next month.
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་གི་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལཔོ་མཆོག་དང་ རྒྱལ་བཙ...
༉ རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༤-༢༥ ལུ་ འབྲུག་གི་དཔལ་འབྱོར་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༦....
༉ དར་དཀར་ནང་ ལྷ་མོའི་རྫིང་ཁ་གི་ རྒེད་འོག་༢ ནང་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༡༣ ལུ་ ཨར་ཊི་པི་སི་ཨར་གྱི་ ཞིབ་དཔྱད་འབད་བའི་སྐབས་ལུ་ ཕག་ནད་ཨཕ་རི་ཀེན་ས་ཝའེན་ཕི་བར་ དར་ཁྱབ་སོང་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ ངོས་འཛིན་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
The business landscape in the country is rapidly evolving with foreign investments seen as critical to national development and economic diversification. In wake...
After a four-day State Visit filled with various engagements a...
Gelephu—The Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) will introduce land tokenisation as a new ownership model to allow affected landowner...
Bhutan’s economy is projected to grow to 6.6 percent in fiscal year 2024-25, up from 4.9 percent growth the previous year, driven by hydropower, mining, construction, and a resurgent tourism sector.
A lightning strike yesterday morning killed 15 cattle in Bamengang village (Mithun), located along the border between Norb...
Gelephu— In a show of national pride and unity, Bhutanese from across the country are stepping forward with contributions for the upcoming Gelephu International Air...
Phuentsholing—African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak confirmed through RT-PCR testing on April 13 continues...
Countries across the Asia-Pacific region have agreed to intensify co-operation to drive sustainable and resilient urban development, adopting a new resolution at the close of the 81st session of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), held from April 21 to 25 in Bangkok.
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MoIT) is partnering with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༢༥ ལུ་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ལུ་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༨༧...
འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ ལྟ་བཤལ་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱིས་ ཆོག་ཐམ་འཆང་མ...
སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༢༦ ལུ་ འཛམ་གླིང་རྒྱུ་རྩལ་ཉིནམ་དང་འབྲེལ་ འབྲུག་གསར་བཟོ་དང་བློ་རིག་རྒྱུ་དངོས་ལས་ཁུངས་ཀྱིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ འགོ་དང་པ་ སྒྱུ་རྩལ་མཁནམ་ཚུ་ ཐོ་བཀོད་འབད་ནིའི་ལམ་ལུགས་ཅིག་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ནུག།
༉ ད་རེས་ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ རྒྱ་གར་སི་ཀིམ་ལུ་སྦེ་ ཕྱ...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ནགས་ཚལ་མེ་རྐྱེན་བྱུང་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ སྤ...
Our forests, long a symbol of our environmental leadership, are going up in smoke. In just five months, fires have caused timber losses worth an estimated Nu 520 million. Behind this figure lies a more troubling reality: the...
The Department of Tourism’s (DoT) recent announcement requiring all licensed tours guides to undergo mandatory competency assessment has not gone down well with the guides, many of who argue that the move was introduced without sufficient research or consideration of existing national certification standards.
Punakha—An 81-year-old woman died while her 87-year-old husband was rescued after t...
The Bhutan Alternative Dispute Resolution Centre (BADRC) has stepped up efforts to enhance its services, training about...
The Department of Media, Creative Industry and Intellectual Prope...
Bhutan’s reputation abroad is enduringly dominated by Gross National Happiness. When I mention Bhutan to my friends in Europe or the US, even those who know nothing else usu...
In a quiet corner of her home, amidst a vibrant collection of colourful yarn, 32-year-old Tshering Dema from Lhuentse, orchestrates a symphony of stitches. With nimble fingers and a heart full of passion, she is the driving force behind “Daza’s Toy”.
Bhutan is hosting the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Level 3 Coaching Course for the first time in Thimphu. Four master educato...
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ བྱང་ཕྱོགས་ཁ་ཐུག་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ མ...
In a special gesture of welcome, Their Majesties the Druk Gyalpo and Gyaltsuen personally received Their Majesties the King and Queen of Thailand at the Paro International A...
Four years after an ambitious initiative to streng...
Gelephu—With just two months remaining before the development of the Gelephu International Airport begins, 51-year-old Madhab Adhikari from Samtenthang is searching for a temporary home for his five-member family in Sarpang.
Bhutan is celebrating the state visit of His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Phra Vajiraklaochaoyuhua and Her Majesty Queen Suthida Bajrasudhabimalalakshana, who arrived in the country...
Our judiciary today faces significant challenges, foremost among them being a persistent public perception of bias and inconsistency in the delivery of justice. This perception poten...
Recognising the potential of AI, the civil service has taken a major step into the...
Punakha—Punakha police are investigating a complaint filed by a 17-year-old girl alleging physical assault and sexual harassment by her stepfather at their Kapatapsa, Goenshari in Punakha home on April 17. The investigation also encompasses the circumstances of the girl’s recent pregnancy, which was reported to police as a potential case of child rape last year.
Forest fires in the country have resulted in an estimated Nu 520 million worth loss in timber over a five-month period spanning from November 2024 to March 25, 2025, according to a preliminary assessment by the Department of Forests and Park Services (DoFPS).
A Special Audit Report by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has identified significant procurement, planning, and governance failures in the Bhutan Integrated Taxation System (BITS 1.0), concluding that the project failed to achieve its intended objectives and resulted in substantial wasteful and avoidable expenditure of public funds.
Bhutan has witnessed a sharp rise in Australian student visa refusals over the past six months, with education consultants describing the rejection rate as the highest in recent years.
Phuentsholing—Erratic climatic conditions combined with changing geological patterns have turned the developing Amochu township area into a recurring flood-prone zone in recent years, with the latest disruption occurring e...
A widening shortage of mid-career civil servants is creating what officials describe as a “missing middle” across govern...
Shareholders of Sherza Ventures Ltd. have been unable to trade their shares for seven months because the company remains suspended from the Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan (RSEB).
Despite substantial investment in water infrastructure, the quality of drinking water in the country has shown no improv...
The Central Monastic Body is set to host the month-long bestowal of the sacred Kathrid (Pith Instructions) and Kyilchog...
Three Bhutanese nationals were deported from Kuwait after being arrested on charges ranging from drug possession to morality violations and alcohol consumption.
Having served as Medical Director for the past four months, my focus has been on strengthening systems and processes tha...
As participants of the third Pelsung cohort prepare to pitch their ideas in Thimphu on June 20, the event will showcase...
Empty or abandoned houses, known locally as goongtong, have emerged as one of the country’s most pressing development ch...
The National Council yesterday deliberated on the National Budget Report for FY 2026–27, the Budget Appropriation Bill for FY 2026–27, and the Supplementary Budget Appropriation Bill for FY 2025–26.
Bhutan will begin testing its expanded Green Finance Taxonomy 2026 with a six-month pilot from June to November, before...
Like television, the internet, and AI, TikTok can be a force for good or bad. It entirely depends on how it is used.
Like television, the internet, and AI, TikTok can be a force for good or bad. It entirely depends on how it is used.
Once born into a physical body, there are certain absolute necessities without which most of us are incapable of experie...
Duchen Nga Zom is a duzom—an auspicious convergence of sacred time within the Buddhist calendar, marked by the meeting o...
Hantavirus is not a single virus but a family of rodent-borne viruses that occasionally spill over into humans, sometime...
The desire for happiness is universal, and beauty, prestige, and wealth have always been seen as pathways to achieve it. In that sense, this is nothing new.
About six kilometres before Trongsa town, just past the Bjee Zam Bridge, a traditional one-storey house appears on the left of the highway. It is not easy to miss. This modest structure...
In Bhutan, healing is not a choice between past and present but a collaboration between the two. Across the country, patients move between modern clinics and traditional medicine units with ease, guided as much by...
The closure of drayangs (entertainment centres) is an issue that most sensible Bhutanese, except perhaps the operators, have supported. While the current government may have pledged during the campaign to review the previous government’s decision to shut them down, any sane government should not back down from that closure.
The conflict in the Middle East has once again exposed our dependence on overseas employment as a pressure valve for domestic unemployment.
Bhutanese, friends of Bhutan, and our well-wishers are willingly answering the call to fulfill the Royal vision of erecting 108 Jangchub Choetens along the Mao Chhu in Gelephu Mindfulnes...
Financial institutions are the lifeblood of any modern economy. They mobilise savings, allocate capital, manage risk, an...
The Thromde election process has begun, with the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) notifying registered voters in Thimphu and Phuentsholing thromdes who are eligible for postal v...
Chain-link fencing is perhaps one of the most viable solutions policymakers have managed to narrow down in the long and...
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime was never going to be an easy transition. Major tax reforms rarely are. Introduced in January this year, GST was envisioned as a modern tax system, replacing an outdated framework...
Bhutan’s economy has changed dramatically since the Bankruptcy Act of 1999 was enacted. Back then, the private sector was small, cross-border trade was limited, and the financial system was far less complex.
The conflict in the Middle East, which has disrupted the global economy and fueled uncertainties, has led investors to question whether oil-rich nations remain a safe haven. As the confl...
The digital age has transformed Bhutanese society in ways unimaginable in just a decade or two. Social media and online platforms have opened enormous opportunities for communication,...
The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support be...
The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.
The Year of the Snake became a defining moment for the country’s economy, as growth accelerated sharply following severa...
The Wood Female Snake Year brought major tax reforms in the country with the passage of the Income Tax Act of Bhutan 202...
When I first arrived in Australia last year, I thought I was prepared. I had spoken to people, watched videos, and tried...
The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his...
The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency...
You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness,...
The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a rela...
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ལངམ་སྦེ་མེད་པའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་ ས་མཚམས་ཕྱི་ཁ...
Recent developments in the Middle East crisis suggest that a return to normalcy is still far away. Even if the war ends...
Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country coul...
A Special Audit Report by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has identified significant procurement, planning, and governance failures in the Bhutan Integrated Taxation System (BITS 1.0), concluding that the project failed to achieve its intended objectives and resulted in substantial wasteful and avoidable expenditure of public funds.
Read MoreBhutan has witnessed a sharp rise in Australian student visa refusals over the past six months, with education consultants describing the rejection rate as the highest in recent years.
Read MorePhuentsholing—Erratic climatic conditions combined with changing geological patterns have turned the developing Amochu township area into a recurring flood-prone zone in recent years, with the latest disruption occurring even before the onset of the monsoon.
Read MoreA widening shortage of mid-career civil servants is creating what officials describe as a “missing middle” across government agencies, raising concerns about leadership succession, institutional continuity and the long-term resilience of the country’s public sector workforce.
Read MoreShareholders of Sherza Ventures Ltd. have been unable to trade their shares for seven months because the company remains suspended from the Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan (RSEB).
Read MoreThe closure of drayangs (entertainment centres) is an issue that most sensible Bhutanese, except perhaps the operators, have supported. While the current government may have pledged during the campaign to review the previous government’s decision to shut them down, any sane government should not back down from that closure.
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