February of 2024

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Protecting ourselves

Editorial

Feb 07, 2024 2 mins read 0 views
Proactive investigations surge by 25% amid calls for collective action

ACC-RAA-OAG

Feb 07, 2024 2 mins read 677 views
Complex formal FIs push borrowers to informal lending

Finance

Feb 07, 2024 3 mins read 775 views
NHDCL board to discuss tenancy revision

House

Feb 07, 2024 2 mins read 701 views
Meat demand surges as Saga Dawa approaches

Food

Feb 07, 2024 2 mins read 752 views
Waiting for a smooth ride to Sakteng

Highlander

Feb 06, 2024 2 mins read 651 views
Tyre expert's transformative journey

Feature Story

Feb 06, 2024 2 mins read 437 views
For better football

Letter to the Editor

Feb 06, 2024 1 mins read 673 views
Fighting Stigma

Editorial

Feb 06, 2024 2 mins read 470 views
Combating HIV stigma remains a challenge

Health

Feb 06, 2024 2 mins read 677 views
Private sector proposes Better Business Council

Trade

Feb 06, 2024 3 mins read 675 views
Arts students in dire strait

Education

Feb 06, 2024 2 mins read 683 views
Medical centers and labour agent suspended and slapped fines

Foreign Affairs

Feb 06, 2024 3 mins read 747 views
Maths wizards rewarded at annual competition

Education

Feb 05, 2024 2 mins read 681 views
Maiden Anti-Corruption Day calls for collective effort

ACC-RAA-OAG

Feb 05, 2024 1 mins read 703 views
Bhutan begins third mega plantation programme

Forest

Feb 05, 2024 2 mins read 741 views
Commendable police vigilance

Letter to the Editor

Feb 05, 2024 1 mins read 614 views
Against populist decisions

Editorial

Feb 05, 2024 2 mins read 491 views
Remote gewogs in need of more current budget

Finance

Feb 05, 2024 2 mins read 614 views
Farmers wait crop compensation

Agriculture

Feb 05, 2024 2 mins read 752 views
Senior citizens financially excluded

Gender

Feb 05, 2024 3 mins read 654 views
Ambassador of Kuwait presents credentials to His Majesty The King

Foreign Affairs

Feb 04, 2024 1 mins read 705 views
Zeus Nakulu Dog Shelter expands services

Stray

Feb 04, 2024 3 mins read 720 views
Reflections

Letter to the Editor

Feb 04, 2024 1 mins read 717 views
Addressing attrition issue in health sector

Editorial

Feb 04, 2024 2 mins read 630 views
Inflation ticks upward to 4.99 percent

Economy

Feb 04, 2024 2 mins read 683 views
Sustainable land management helps Thongrong farmers

Land

Feb 04, 2024 2 mins read 656 views
Addressing attrition is a priority: Health Minister

Health

Feb 04, 2024 2 mins read 676 views
His Majesty The King grants Dhar

Royal

Feb 04, 2024 1 mins read 0 views
Growing domestic demand hurts power export

The country's hydropower generation last year saw a decline of 2 percent compared to the previous year. In terms of sales, export sales saw a decline of 26.7 percent...

Feb 04, 2024 3 mins read 679 views
A sanctuary for recovering addicts

Narcotic

Feb 02, 2024 2 mins read 640 views
Sacred Rinchen Bumpa: Pilgrimage's spiritual awakening

Feature Story

Feb 02, 2024 2 mins read 613 views
Man fatally stabbed in alcohol-fueled fight

Crime

Feb 02, 2024 1 mins read 655 views
Accident kills two brothers

Accident

Feb 02, 2024 1 mins read 625 views
Legal Aid Centre helps more cases

Judiciary

Feb 02, 2024 1 mins read 708 views
Basochhu earns over Nu 230M in two months

Hydro power

Feb 02, 2024 1 mins read 652 views
From Builders to Botches: Legislating Accountability for IT Negligence

Letter to the Editor

Feb 02, 2024 3 mins read 629 views
In tourism, we still "believe"

Editorial

Feb 02, 2024 2 mins read 518 views
Class 10 performance rose 2.20 percent last year

Education

Feb 02, 2024 2 mins read 592 views
BCTA revokes 1,603 driving licences

Transport

Feb 02, 2024 1 mins read 520 views
The hidden cost being a politician

Politics

Feb 02, 2024 3 mins read 574 views
Gelephu Mindfulness City raises hopes for rusting machines

Thromde

Feb 02, 2024 3 mins read 738 views
Reforming education sector a priority: Minister

Education

Feb 01, 2024 1 mins read 671 views
Yak-rearing declines in the face of alternatives

Highlander

Feb 01, 2024 2 mins read 733 views
Water issue risk to agriculture

Letter to the Editor

Feb 01, 2024 1 mins read 630 views
Regularising irregularities!

Editorial

Feb 01, 2024 2 mins read 584 views
Chapchaps hope hinges on government intervention

Agriculture

Feb 01, 2024 2 mins read 635 views
Bhutan receives coveted travel destination award

Award

Feb 01, 2024 1 mins read 606 views
Browse Archives
First phase of 104MW small hydropower projects begins operation

The three small hydropower projects - the 18MW Suchhu, 32MW Yungichhu, and 54MW Burgangchhu, are expected to generate 494 million units (MU) of electricity annually.

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 3,518 views
Thousands of dormant bank accounts pose fraud risk, FIs say

Thousands of bank accounts across the country’s financial institutions (FIs) have become dormant, holding idle funds for...

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 4,036 views
Sakteng’s journey of progress

May 13, 2026 3 mins read 3,968 views
NC to deliberate pension reform, tobacco control, and budget bills

The 37th Session of the National Council (NC), to be held from May 14 to June 16, will deliberate on agreements, convent...

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 2,257 views
Arbitration seen as crucial tool to attract FDI, says BADRC

As Bhutan gears toward achieving a 10X economy, the flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) will remain a crucial factor...

May 13, 2026 4 mins read 1,947 views
Quarterly survey reveals shifting trends in agriculture and livestock sector

The agriculture sector is showing early signs of transition from subsistence-based farming towards more commercial produ...

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 1,625 views
Social media exposure of vulnerable groups raises concerns over ethics and dignity

The programme focused on strengthening ethical and responsible reporting on issues affecting marginalised groups, partic...

May 12, 2026 2 mins read 2,949 views
ASF outbreak deepens uncertainty for pig farmers

May 12, 2026 4 mins read 2,828 views
Poultry mismanagement fuels egg crisis, MoAL must stabilise supply chains immediately

The spike in egg prices is the result of deeper structural disruptions in the poultry sector, compounded by inflationary...

May 12, 2026 3 mins read 2,678 views
Startups call for support beyond seed funding

The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support beyond seed funding remains limited, making it difficult for existing startups to scale and sustain operations.

Mar 21, 2026 3 mins read 5,252 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 744 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 1,334 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 1,125 views
Café by the waterfall

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...

May 02, 2026 2 mins read 1,848 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 1,532 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 5,752 views
The true wealth of Dzambhala

The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his role as a symbol of abundance and generosity. There are five principal forms of the...

May 02, 2026 4 mins read 1,493 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 and warmth by devoted grandparents can fare well, separation from parents at this age generally causes...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 3,822 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, which is precisely what it does not mean. A more precise term might be: empty of inherent existence.

Apr 18, 2026 4 mins read 2,879 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a relaxed four-hour setting to reconnect with family and friends.

Apr 13, 2026 3 mins read 2,776 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 conflict drags on, investors are seeking to diversify away from Gulf nations, especially Dubai while navigating geopolitical tensions and global volatility.

May 16, 2026 2 mins read 3,275 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 942 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...

May 11, 2026 6 mins read 1,050 views
When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 1,390 views
Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

Recent developments in the Middle East crisis suggest that a return to normalcy is still far away. Even if the war ends and the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly one-quarter of the world’s oil flows to markets, reopens, the discuss...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 2,308 views
Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country could see as few as 2,000 births by 2028.

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 4,989 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...

Apr 25, 2026 2 mins read 2,765 views
Unshackling the state

Apr 22, 2026 2 mins read 2,778 views
The environmental toll of wars

The deafening sounds of missiles and gunfire in the Middle East have briefly faded under a ceasefire, offering a much-needed respite that eases global anxieties over spiraling economic and geopolitical crises....

Apr 18, 2026 2 mins read 2,458 views
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.

Feb 25, 2026 2 mins read 6,470 views
Economy uncoils for strongest growth in years

The Year of the Snake became a defining moment for the country’s economy, as growth accelerated sharply following severa...

Feb 18, 2026 4 mins read 6,399 views
Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

The Wood Female Snake Year brought major tax reforms in the country with the passage of the Income Tax Act of Bhutan 202...

Feb 18, 2026 2 mins read 6,800 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 13,670 views
Dorjilung hydropower to raise GDP by 2.4%, generate 5,000 jobs

The 1,125MW Dorjilung Hydroelectric Power Project (DHPP) is expected to boost the country’s economy, raising gross domes...

Jan 31, 2026 3 mins read 10,057 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins read 3,186 views
Compassion in practice: Building a win-win healthcare system

Taking care of all members of society is a characteristic of a mature and compassionate nation; therefore, I strongly ad...

Apr 04, 2026 4 mins read 2,650 views
Happiness with Mr Bhutan

Studies and end of life accounts consistently show that many of us leave this world with the same stinging regrets: not...

Apr 01, 2026 4 mins read 3,616 views
When Words Create Worlds

Mar 30, 2026 4 mins read 2,781 views
Where to find the best momos in Thimphu

Mar 16, 2026 1 mins read 4,608 views
A costly fiasco

Apr 11, 2026 2 mins read 3,821 views
Living hand to mouth

Apr 08, 2026 2 mins read 3,158 views
A call for shared responsibility

The government’s directive to prudently use scarce public resources, fossil fuels (petrol and diesel) is a timely interv...

Apr 04, 2026 2 mins read 3,798 views
When the watchdog has no teeth

The Bhutan Media Forum concluded yesterday, bringing together media professionals, policymakers, and civil society membe...

Apr 01, 2026 2 mins read 3,408 views
Culture under threat?

Mar 28, 2026 2 mins read 4,845 views

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