December of 2015

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Ten years on: Did the PCS (really) fail?

Perspective

Dec 04, 2015 5 mins read 422 views
Reading for Happiness

Perspective

Dec 04, 2015 3 mins read 442 views
Bhutan's ICT global ranking improves

ICT

Dec 04, 2015 3 mins read 442 views
Ease land leasing and access to credit for employment: Council

National Council

Dec 04, 2015 3 mins read 384 views
Vacancies aplenty for trained teachers, projects assessment

National Assembly

Dec 04, 2015 2 mins read 441 views
Who are the stakeholders?

Letter to the editor

Dec 04, 2015 1 mins read 421 views
How effectively do we stop preventable tragedies?

Editorial

Dec 04, 2015 2 mins read 591 views
"My documents were verified"

Local Government

Dec 04, 2015 1 mins read 383 views
World Bank gives USD 3.8M as climate aid

Climate

Dec 04, 2015 2 mins read 411 views
A major shake up in the tourism sector?

Tourism

Dec 04, 2015 2 mins read 384 views
Govt. asks Bangladesh to limit buses and trucks to border

Motor Vehicle Agreement (MVA)

Dec 04, 2015 4 mins read 472 views
Pre-vocational building

Inauguration

Dec 04, 2015 0 mins read 443 views
Bridging the gap through sports

Football

Dec 03, 2015 2 mins read 435 views
BAFRA lifts Maggi ban

Bhutan Agriculture and Food Regulatory Authority (BAFRA)

Dec 03, 2015 1 mins read 439 views
Land price soars as project takes shape

Development

Dec 03, 2015 2 mins read 435 views
Council questions employment programmes' efficacy

National Council

Dec 03, 2015 3 mins read 444 views
RBP clarifies on the zebra crossing rule

Letter to the editor

Dec 03, 2015 2 mins read 447 views
Planning our drainage system

Editorial

Dec 03, 2015 2 mins read 525 views
NA decides to withdraw enterprise bill

Parliament

Dec 03, 2015 2 mins read 485 views
Doctors' career path reformed

Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC)

Dec 03, 2015 2 mins read 421 views
Thrompons may miss out on new LG entitlements

Local Government

Dec 03, 2015 2 mins read 450 views
Parents could be held for negligent homicide

Fire accident

Dec 03, 2015 1 mins read 449 views
Truckers fear BBIN agreement will drive them out of game

Transport

Dec 03, 2015 3 mins read 503 views
Commerce Secretary Level Meeting

Meeting

Dec 03, 2015 0 mins read 446 views
Free trade is compatible with GNH

World Trade Organization (WTO)

Dec 02, 2015 3 mins read 455 views
History and imagination blend to tease viewers' heart

Film review

Dec 02, 2015 1 mins read 402 views
Assembly likely to re-ratify UN anti-corruption convention

National Assembly

Dec 02, 2015 2 mins read 420 views
Five Bhutanese awarded New Zealand development scholarships

Scholarships

Dec 02, 2015 1 mins read 486 views
"I have decided not to re-contest"

Q&A

Dec 02, 2015 3 mins read 422 views
Inclusion matters

Letter to the editor

Dec 02, 2015 2 mins read 441 views
Fighting choeten vandalism

Editorial

Dec 02, 2015 2 mins read 442 views
Selling foods on street is informal, not illegal: DNT

Business

Dec 02, 2015 2 mins read 504 views
Saving energy and cost

Sustainable and Efficient Industrial Development (SEID)

Dec 02, 2015 2 mins read 478 views
BNB on B-Wallet

Bhutan National Bank Ltd. (BNBL)

Dec 02, 2015 1 mins read 428 views
10 choetens vandalized

Crime

Dec 02, 2015 1 mins read 448 views
Plastic ban to return in S/Jongkhar

Environment

Dec 02, 2015 2 mins read 491 views
Shingkhar-Gorgan highway to complete in 2017

Roads

Dec 02, 2015 3 mins read 485 views
Gakidling gup terminated

Gup

Dec 02, 2015 0 mins read 415 views
Wangtsa wants Haa thromde boundary re-deliberated

Thromde

Dec 01, 2015 2 mins read 463 views
"I can make a difference"

Q&A

Dec 01, 2015 2 mins read 421 views
Get tested, know your HIV status

Health

Dec 01, 2015 2 mins read 439 views
Officials discuss heron conversation strategy

Royal Society for Protection of Nature (RSPN)

Dec 01, 2015 1 mins read 452 views
Drukair to launch scheduled operations to Gelephu

Aviation

Dec 01, 2015 2 mins read 456 views
BoB clarifies on M-BoB complaint

Letter to the editor

Dec 01, 2015 1 mins read 439 views
Yes, we can!

Editorial

Dec 01, 2015 2 mins read 495 views
Wetland in Paro thromde will be protected, assures PM

PM visits

Dec 01, 2015 3 mins read 422 views
5,000 MW only by 2020

Hydropower

Dec 01, 2015 2 mins read 417 views
Plug undercutting or reform daily tourism tariff: Council

National Council

Dec 01, 2015 3 mins read 590 views
Light to moderate rain expected

Hydromet services

Dec 01, 2015 0 mins read 406 views
BTF uses e-headgear to achieve fairness

Taekwondo

Dec 31, 2015 1 mins read 405 views
Browse Archives
Lowland cordyceps discovery in India raises questions over Bhutan’s premium fungus economy

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Riwo Exhibition Unites Himalayan artists in exploration of identity and continuity

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NC revisits reservations to the CRPD

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National Council refers Livestock Bill back to Committee for review

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BRCS opens first Branch Emergency Operations Centre in Tsirang

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BTF opens office in GMC to strengthen support for southern region

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PM takes responsibility for fiscal deficit coordination failure

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World Environment Day sees schools, businesses team up for recycling drive

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NA adopts Renewable Energy Tax Exemption Bill 2026

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NC raises concerns on e-waste and waste management gaps

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Bhutan to pilot green finance taxonomy from June

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Stop recording, start living

Like television, the internet, and AI, TikTok can be a force for good or bad. It entirely depends on how it is used.

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Ask Mr Bhutan: “Money can’t buy happiness.” Is it true, when everything is dependent on money?

Once born into a physical body, there are certain absolute necessities without which most of us are incapable of experie...

May 30, 2026 2 mins read 1,092 views
Duchen Nga Zom: What a butter lamp and a few flower petals can teach us

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May 30, 2026 4 mins read 925 views
The virus, the fear, and the freedom beyond both

Hantavirus is not a single virus but a family of rodent-borne viruses that occasionally spill over into humans, sometime...

May 24, 2026 4 mins read 1,252 views
Whose face are you wearing?

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.

May 16, 2026 4 mins read 1,686 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 2,261 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

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Café by the waterfall

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May 02, 2026 2 mins read 2,693 views
Where tradition meets treatment

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...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 2,441 views
Between Homes

When I first arrived in Australia last year, I thought I was prepared. I had spoken to people, watched videos, and tried to imagine what life would be like. Bu...

May 02, 2026 1 mins read 6,640 views
United for Project 108

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 Mindfulness City (GMC).

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 225 views
Banks can unlock growth through affordable credit

Financial institutions are the lifeblood of any modern economy. They mobilise savings, allocate capital, manage risk, an...

Jun 03, 2026 3 mins read 1,604 views
A missed opportunity

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May 30, 2026 2 mins read 1,351 views
Chain-link fencing: somebody’s gain, another’s loss

Chain-link fencing is perhaps one of the most viable solutions policymakers have managed to narrow down in the long and...

May 27, 2026 2 mins read 1,512 views
Fixing and fine-tuning GST regime

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May 23, 2026 2 mins read 1,961 views
Insolvency law, a long overdue

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.

May 20, 2026 3 mins read 1,890 views
GMC was a masterstroke

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...

May 16, 2026 2 mins read 4,513 views
Fighting online scams

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,...

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 1,986 views
ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་མ་ལང་མི་དེ་ སྲིད་བྱུས་དང་ ཁྱིམ་བཟོ་ག་གི་འཐུས་ཤོར་ཨིན་ན།

༉ 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...

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Startups call for support beyond seed funding

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National debt to rise by 26%, reaching Nu 380 billion in June

The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.

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Economy uncoils for strongest growth in years

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Feb 18, 2026 4 mins read 7,710 views
Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

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Feb 18, 2026 2 mins read 8,117 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

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The true wealth of Dzambhala

The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his...

May 02, 2026 4 mins read 2,356 views
No amount of money can replace you

The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 4,848 views
You’re not what you think you are

You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness,...

Apr 18, 2026 4 mins read 3,874 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

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Apr 13, 2026 3 mins read 3,595 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

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Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

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May 02, 2026 3 mins read 3,456 views
Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

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Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 6,505 views
A bumper harvest shouldn’t brew a bumper crisis

This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...

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Unshackling the state

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Recents

ACC drops cases against former JDWNRH president; family alleges wrongful implication

Family members of former President of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) Lhab Dorji have alleged wrongful implication and institutional failure after the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) closed two long-running investigations into the handling of private donations and the establishment of a radiotherapy facility at the national referral hospital.

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The gift of children

Punakha—When Karma Namgay and Dechen Lhaden’s daughter turned four, the questions from relatives and friends became increasingly awkward to answer – why had they not had another child?

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