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The rise in youth crimes in Bhutan stems from various causes, requiring a multifaceted solution. My experiences living in high-crime nations like India and Senegal, as well as low-crime countries like Bhutan, and very low crime countries like Switzerland and Finland, have shaped my understanding. Having personally transitioned from a violent life to a non-violent one, I offer my thoughts and solut

Feb 08, 2025 1 mins read 16,337 views
RMA lowers minimum lending rate, but borrowers see no relief

The central bank, the Royal Monetary Authority (RMA), revised the minimum lending rate (MLR) to 6.38 percent in D...

Feb 28, 2025 2 mins read 3,535 views
Phamai Doonghing: Parents’ network fighting childhood cancer

When faced with the devastating reality of childhood cancer, Bhutanese families are often left to navigate...

Feb 28, 2025 2 mins read 4,998 views
Make tax payment easy, not painful

A  nation’s progress is not just about big infrastructure or economic growth; it is also about how efficiently systems function for its people. Today, in our country, despite efforts to modernise governance, some basic services remain frustratingly difficult. Tax payment is one of them.

Feb 28, 2025 2 mins read 4,012 views
More than 200 register for 2025 Bhutan International Marathon

More than 200 runners, including over 50 international participants, have signed up for the 11th Bhutan Intern...

Feb 28, 2025 2 mins read 5,176 views
Farmers in Darla swap cash crops for dairy farming

Chukha-For many years, farmers in Darla gewog, Chukha, relied on cash crops like cardamom and citrus—crops that once brought prosperity but hav...

Feb 28, 2025 3 mins read 5,705 views
ཨ་སམ་གུ་ཧ་ཊི་ལུ་སྦེ་ ཨེཌི་བཱན་ཊེཇི་ཨ་སམ་༢.༠ གྲོས་འཛོམས།

༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༥ དང་༢༦ ལུ་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མངའ་སྡ...

Feb 28, 2025 1 mins read 885 views
གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ རྡོ་རྗེ་སློབ་དཔོན་མཆོག་ལུ་ པཎྲིཏ་ཝ་ན་རཏྣ་ཞི་བའི་ གསེར་གྱི་རྟགས་མ་ཕུལ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༣ ལུ་ བང་ལ་དེཤ་གི་རྒྱལ་ས་ ཌ་ཀ་ལུ་སྦེ་ བང་ལ་དེཤ་ནང་པའི་རིག་གཞུང་དར་སྤེལ་ཚོགས་པ་གིས་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ རྡོ་རྗེ་སློབ་དཔོན་མཆོག་ལུ་ པཎྲིཏ་ཝ་ན་རཏྣ་ཞི་བའི་ གསེར་གྱི་རྟགས་མ་ཕུལ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Feb 28, 2025 1 mins read 1,016 views
གྲུབ་འབྲས་ལག་ཁྱེར་གནང་ཡོདཔ་།

༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༥ ལུ་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ གཙུག་ལག...

Feb 28, 2025 1 mins read 929 views
Bhutan in Focus: The Call of the Mountains at the Kolkata French Film Festival 2025

Last year, a French film, ”La Tresse” (The Braid),...

Feb 28, 2025 5 mins read 4,721 views
གནས་ཚུལ་མདོར་བསྡུས།

༉ ད་རིས་ འབྲུག་དང་ སིངྒ་པོར་གྱིས་ ནག་རྫས་ཀར་བཱོན་ཚོང་ལས་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ ཆིངས་ཡིག་ལག་ལེན་གུ་ མཚན་རྟགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། ཆིངས་ཡིག་...

Feb 28, 2025 1 mins read 1,002 views
གནས་ཚུལ་མདོར་བསྡུས།

༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རང་ཟླ་༡༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༩ ལས་འགོ་བཙུགས་ རང་ཟླ་དང་པའི་ཚེས་༤ ཚུན་ ཉིན་གྲངས་ལྔའི་རིང་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ རྡོ་རྗེ་སློབ་མཆོག་གིས་ དབུ་བཞུགས་ཐོག་ལས་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ དཀར་སྦིས་མཆོད་རྟེན་རྙིང་པོ་ འབྲུག་མི་འགྱུར་ལྷུན་པོའི་ དགོན་འཛིན་གྲྭ་ཚང་ནང་ དགེ་འདུན་པ་ཞལ་གྲངས་༡༠༠ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་གིས་ ལོ་བསྟར་བཞིན་དུ་གནང་སྲོལ་ཡོད་པའི་ རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱི་སྐུ་རིམ་ རྒྱལ་བ་བྱམས་པའི་སྨོན་ལམ་འབུམ་ཐེར་ཐེངས་༦ པ་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།

Feb 28, 2025 1 mins read 861 views
ཆུ་ཁའི་རྒེད་འོག་ཚུ་ནང་ ས་སྣུམ་མ་ལང་པའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

ས་གནས་ཀྱི་མི་སེར་ཚུ་གིས་ གནད་དོན་སེལ་ཐབས་དོན་ལུ་ འ...

Feb 28, 2025 6 mins read 1,560 views
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་བུ་ལོན་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༢༩༣ ལུ་ ཡར་འཕར།

༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༤ ཟླ་༡༢ པ་ མཇུག་བསྡུ་བའི་སྐབས་ འབྲུག་...

Feb 27, 2025 6 mins read 1,451 views
གནས་ཚུལ་མདོར་བསྡུས།

༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༥ ལུ་ སྤ་རོ་དང་ བཀྲིས་གཡང་རྩེ་ལུ་སྦེ་ རང་བཞིན་སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་སྡེ་ཚན་དང་ འཛམ་གླིང་རི་དྭགས་མ་དངུལ་གྱིས་ གངས་གཟིག་དང་ ཨ་ཅོ་གདོང་དཀར་ཚུ་ སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་འབད་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ ལས་འགུལ་ཅིག་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ད་ སྤ་རོ་ལུ་ གངས་གཟིག་༡༡ ཡོད་མི་དེ་ གྱངས་ཁ་མཐོ་ཤོས་ཨིནམ་བཞིན་དུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཨ་ཅོ་གདོང་དཀར་༣༠༨ ཡོད་པའི་གྲས་ལས་ བཀྲིས་གཡང་རྩེ་ལུ་༢༦ ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པའི་གནས་ཚུལ།

Feb 27, 2025 0 mins read 760 views
Gewogs in Chukha struggle with fuel shortage

Chukha-Residents of Bongo, Darla, and Getana gewogs in Chukha continue to face fuel crisis as the lone fuel depot in Gedu frequently runs dry, sometimes up to a...

Feb 27, 2025 2 mins read 6,710 views
National debt touches Nu 293 billion

Bhutan’s national debt climbed to Nu 292.74 billion by the end of December 2024, which is equivalent to 97.1 percent of the country’s estimated gross domestic product (GDP), according t...

Feb 27, 2025 2 mins read 3,375 views
Need for clarity to forge ahead

Our glaciers are melting at an alarming rate—threatening not just the 700,000 and more people who depend on them, but also the 1.6 billion people downstream who rely on Himalayan water sources.

Feb 27, 2025 2 mins read 2,045 views
Paradox of Bhutan’s water crisis

Bhutan, a country with one of the world’s richest freshwater resources, is paradoxically grappling with severe water shortages in many regions. Despite an estimated 80 billion cubic meters of available water, some communities face chronic scarcity.

Feb 27, 2025 3 mins read 3,065 views
Govt. eases environmental restoration bond for mines to boost business

The government aims to increase the mining and quarrying sector’s GDP contribution...

Feb 27, 2025 2 mins read 2,642 views
ཨའི་དང་ཨ་ལུ་མཐའ་སྐྱོང་ལས་རིམ་གྱིས་ ཁེ་ཕན་ཚུ་འཐོབ་ནི་ཨིནམ།

༉ གསོ་བ་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༡ ལུ་ ཨ་ལུ་...

Feb 26, 2025 5 mins read 1,507 views
ཚལ་ལུ་རྒྱ་ཆེ་དྲགས་སྦེ་ ཕྱིར་ཚོང་འཐབ་ཚུགས་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ད་རེས་ཀྱི་ ཚལ་ལུའི་དུས་ཚོད་སྐབས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱིས་ ཚ...

Feb 26, 2025 3 mins read 1,303 views
སྤུ་ན་ཁ་དང་ མགར་སའི་བར་ན་ འཁོར་ལམ་ཉམས་བཅོས་འབད་དགོཔ།

༉ ལོ་ངོ་བཅུ་ཕྲག་གི་རྒྱབ་ལས་ ཀི་ལོ་མི་ཊར་༧༤ འབད་མི་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་དང་ མགར་སའི་གཞུང་ལམ་དེ་ རྫོང་ཁག་གཞན་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ མཐུད་སྦྲེལ་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ད་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ རྟ་གུ་ཁུར་ཆ་བཀལ་ཏེ་ ཉིན་ལམ་༢ ཀྱི་རིང་ རྐང་འགྲུལ་འབད་དེ་ མགར་ས་རྫོང་ཁག་ནང་ འགྱོ་དགོཔ་ཨིན་རུང་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༡༢ ལས་ གཞུང་ལམ་དེ་ དུས་ཡུན་ཆུ་ཚོད་༣ གྱི་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་ནང་སྦེ་ ལྷོད་ཚུགསཔ་སོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Feb 26, 2025 6 mins read 1,083 views
གཞུང་གི་ལས་སྡེ་ཚུ་གིས་ གསར་སྒྲུབ་འཆར་དངུལ་ ཚ་ངེར་བཏོན་ཏེ་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་དགོཔ།

༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༡༩ ལུ་ དངུལ་རྩིས་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ ག...

Feb 26, 2025 5 mins read 896 views
མི་རློབས་ས་ཡ་ལས་བཅད་མི་ཚུ་ལུ་ འཐུང་ཆུའི་དཀའ་ངལ་བྱུང་སྟེ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ འབྲུག་གི་ ཁྱེགས་རི་དང་ ཆུ་རྐ་ཚུ་ལུ་ གནམ་གཤིས་འགྱ...

Feb 26, 2025 6 mins read 1,639 views
Looming water crisis for millions?

Bhutan’s glaciers and water sources are under threat from climate change, endangering 240 million people in the Himalayas and 1.6 billion downstream, Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay warned at...

Feb 26, 2025 4 mins read 5,660 views
Finance ministry urges govt. agencies to expedite capital budget use

The Ministry of Finance issued a directive on February 19 urging all government agencies to accelerate capital project implementation, citing serious concerns over slow budget utilisation in the 2024-25 fiscal year.

Feb 26, 2025 2 mins read 3,147 views
Mandarin exports rebound

Mandarin exports recorded a strong recovery this season, with the country exporting 35,674.96 metric tonnes (MT) and earning Nu 1.43 billion in revenue.

Feb 26, 2025 1 mins read 4,877 views
Mother and child healthcare gets a boost

The Ministry of Health (MoH) launched the ‘Accelerating Maternal and Child Health Programme’ (AMCHP) on February 21 to improve the health and well-being of mothers and child...

Feb 26, 2025 2 mins read 3,387 views
Punakha-Gasa highway in need of repair

Punakha—For more than a decade, the 74-kilometre Punakha-Gasa highway has been the district’s vital link to the rest of the country.  Once an arduous two-day trek by horseback, th...

Feb 26, 2025 1 mins read 5,266 views
Bridging skills and opportunity

After years of striving to build a skilled workforce through the Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) initiative, the labour ministry this week unveiled the Community for Skilled Workers (C4SW) programme launched with a website, constitution and bylaws.

Feb 26, 2025 2 mins read 1,985 views
Jampeling Central School wins National Space Challenge

Two students from Jampeling Central School in Trashigang won the National Space Challenge 2025. The week-long competition, which st...

Feb 26, 2025 2 mins read 3,535 views
དྲང་ཁྲིམས་དོན་ལུ་ ལྟེ་བ་གསརཔ་ཅིག་ འགོ་འབྱེད་མཛད་གནང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ཚེས་༢༢ ལུ་ འཇིགས་མེད་སེངྒེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་སློབ་གྲྭ་དང་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཁྲིམས་དོན་སྤེལ་ཁང་ དེ་ལས་ འབྲུག་གི་རྒྱབ་མི་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ གཙོ་འཛིན་ཨིན་མི་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་པོའི་སྲསམོ་ བསོད་ནམས་བདེ་ཆེན་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་གིས་ སྤ་རོའི་གྲོས་འཛོམས་སྐབས་ དྲང་ཁྲིམས་དོན་ལུ་ ལྟེ་བ་གསརཔ་ཅིག་ འགོ་འབྱེད་མཛད་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Feb 25, 2025 4 mins read 1,569 views
Wisdom Centre ushers in new era of justice

Fostering co-ordination among justice sectors and ensuring an agile, responsive, and effective legal system in the country has become more critical than ever.

Feb 25, 2025 3 mins read 8,006 views
Super -speciality hospital to transform healthcare

Bhutan is set to witness a groundbreaking transformation in its healthcare system with the construction of a Multi-Disciplinary Super-Specialit...

Feb 25, 2025 3 mins read 4,341 views
Powering homes, empowering locals

Homeowners and builders can now hire local electricians and plumbers at affordable rates, with assured quality, reliability, and service guarantees under the Community for Skilled Workers (C4SW), according to its newly launched website, constitution, and bylaws released by the Department of Labour (DoL).

Feb 25, 2025 3 mins read 5,031 views
Making the 10X vision a reality

The government has set an ambitious target to increase real GDP tenfold by 2050, catapulting the country into the ranks of developed economies. The "21st Century Economic Roadmap–A 10X National Econom...

Feb 25, 2025 2 mins read 2,190 views
Biometric system to ease border crossing in Phuentsholing

Phuentsholing—The Department of Immigration (DoI) launched the Automated Immigration Clearance System (AICS) at the Phuent...

Feb 25, 2025 1 mins read 5,475 views
Paro FC Coach Puspalal Sharma to lead Butwal Lumbini FC in Nepal’s top league

Paro FC’s 41-year-old technical director, Puspalal Sharm...

Feb 25, 2025 2 mins read 5,959 views
Strategic roadmap to transform civil service by 2035

Inspired by His Majesty the King’s vision, the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) unveiled its Strategic Roadmap 2025-2035 on February 21 to transform the civil service into an Enlightened Entrepreneurial Bureaucracy (E²B) by 2035.

Feb 25, 2025 3 mins read 10,104 views
Trongsa Viewpoint Resort conundrum: Who is accountable?

Trongsa—The Viewpoint Resort in Trongsa, once a star-rated luxury property, has been left in a state of disrepair, with no clear plans for redevelopment, even after the long legal dispute ended three years ago.

Feb 22, 2025 4 mins read 10,439 views
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Bhutan recognised as ‘Destination of the Year – Earthly Experiences’ at ITB Berlin 2026

Bhutan received international recognition at the global travel trade show ITB Berlin in Germany, yesterday where the country was named “Destination of the Year – Earthly Experiences” for its commitment to authentic and regenerative tourism.

Mar 05, 2026 2 mins read 2,078 views
Labour market mismatch persists amid economic recovery

Mar 04, 2026 3 mins read 2,203 views
Bhutan–Singapore launch four new climate projects

Mar 04, 2026 5 mins read 2,547 views
Lungtenzampa bridge design deferred to fiscal year 2026-27

Mar 04, 2026 2 mins read 3,308 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 2,616 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 2,524 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 2,555 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 9,529 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 5,439 views
ESP Steering Committee to review Nu 575 million in unspent, recovered funds

The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) Steering Committee will review how to reallocate Nu 574.73 million in unspent and...

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 4,838 views
New FDI regime offers wider access to foreign investors in agriculture

The agriculture and livestock sector is seeing an increased investor interest following major reforms in foreign direct...

Jan 03, 2026 3 mins read 5,692 views
Pindarika: Myth, desire, and revenge on big screen

Mar 10, 2026 1 mins read 72 views
A night for silver screen in Punakha

For Bhutanese cinema, the National Film Awards have become something more than an annual ceremony. It is a barometer of an industry that is still young but steadily maturing.

Mar 02, 2026 2 mins read 685 views
Your Body, Your First Responsibility

Mar 02, 2026 1 mins read 887 views
At 71, Bhutan’s pioneer filmmaker continues to shine

Mar 02, 2026 2 mins read 1,241 views
Damcha– A Promise Beyond the Blackboard

The film also vividly portrays the realities of education in remote Bhutanese communities, where students brave treacherous rivers, dense forests, and wildlife to reach school – an enduring testament to the value placed on learning.

Feb 21, 2026 2 mins read 2,289 views
Urgent call to skill our youth

Mar 07, 2026 2 mins read 1,519 views
Bracing for impacts of distant wars

Mar 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,090 views
Beyond the statistics

Feb 28, 2026 2 mins read 1,119 views
An auspicious beginning

Last week, Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) stood at the epicentre of events that were as symbolic as they were historic. As the nation celebrated the 46th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty th...

Feb 25, 2026 3 mins read 1,182 views
Are we prepared for a major earthquake?

The recent assessment by experts from the National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal serves as a stark reminder that Bhutan's capital sits on shaky grounds. Their warning that earthquakes do not kill people, unsafe buildings do, sh...

Feb 21, 2026 2 mins read 1,916 views
A year of reckoning

As we enter the Fire Male Horse Year, our nation stands at a defining crossroads. The year 2025 delivered strong macroeconomic signals and renewed optimism on paper.

Feb 18, 2026 3 mins read 1,621 views
Projecting growth

Feb 14, 2026 2 mins read 1,886 views
Builders or buyers?

The latest trade figures reveal a story written not just in ledgers, but in our daily choices.

Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 2,571 views
The burden of cancer

Feb 07, 2026 2 mins read 2,780 views
Inconvenience caused is highly not appreciated

The capital city is, once again, under excavation. From Motithang to Babesa, roads and drains are being dug out severing...

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 3,371 views
BCCI submits 35 business ideas to govt. for private sector engagement

The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has submitted 35 business proposals from 12 sector associations to th...

Dec 20, 2025 2 mins read 6,180 views
Bhutan attracts major impact finance commitments at SDG forum

During the two-day Bhutan SDG Impact Finance Forum held last week in Thimphu, international and high-level participants...

Dec 20, 2025 3 mins read 4,689 views
Businesses propose action oriented public-private forum to address private sector woes

The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...

Dec 20, 2025 2 mins read 4,996 views
Amochu quarriers call for flood walls after millions in losses

Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...

Oct 16, 2025 2 mins read 7,107 views
Between Homes: Voices of Bhutanese living between home and elsewhere

I used to run a small grocery shop in Bhutan during the pandemic. It wasn’t anything grand, just a humble little place t...

Feb 21, 2026 1 mins read 2,207 views
Dining in the Sun: Inside Solé

Feb 21, 2026 1 mins read 2,131 views
The spiritual and theatrical world of Charmi Chheda

Charmi Chheda’s relationship with the stage began long before she understood what theatre could mean. At eight years old...

Feb 21, 2026 2 mins read 1,373 views
Driving a new generation of golfers: The 19th Hole

Feb 16, 2026 2 mins read 1,629 views
Giku-Na: A corner for a community

Feb 16, 2026 1 mins read 1,717 views
The tourism paradox

Jan 28, 2026 2 mins read 3,753 views
A relief for the hotel industry

Jan 24, 2026 2 mins read 3,634 views
High-value tourism, low-value jobs?

Jan 21, 2026 2 mins read 3,922 views
Tying the loose ends of GST reform

Jan 17, 2026 2 mins read 4,182 views
GST transition pains need urgent fixes

Jan 14, 2026 2 mins read 4,047 views

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