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Rationalisation of schools is not about denying students access to education, but about improving quality and ensuring the efficient use of financial, human, and physical resources, according to the Minister for Education and Skills Development (MoESD), Yeezang De Thapa.
Dagana— With water sources rapidly drying up and threatening the livelihoods of ove...
Wangdue— For generations, the families of Drinchengang (formerly Rinchengang) in Thedtsho gewog, Wangdue, have lived in tightly clustered adobe ho...
Members of Parliament (MP) yesterday called on the health ministry to prioritise the d...
As climate change continues to reshape Bhutan’s mountainous terrain, entire communities are being displaced.
༉ འབྲུག་ལུ་ འདས་པའི་ལོ་གསུམ་གྱི་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ རྡོག་མ་གི་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་དེ་ རྒྱ་ཆེཝ་སྦེ་ར་ མར་བབས་སོང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ རྡོག་མ་ཤིང་འཛུགས་སྐྱོང་འབད་མིའི་གྱངས་ཁ་ ཡར་སེང་སོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Her Majesty Gyalyum Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, Patron of the Tarayana Foundation, graced the opening of a two-day...
As the armed confrontation between Iran and Israel enters its second week, the Ministry of Foreign Af...
The tax reform proposed in the Income Tax Bill 2025 is expected to cost the government up to Nu 5.57...
Samtse—The areca nut production in Bhutan has sharply declined over the past three years despite an increase in the number of trees planted.
Two spiritual events. Two vastly different outcomes. What separates the squalor left behind at the recent oral transmission from the orderly conclusion of the menlam chenmo gathering is not money, not manpower, but pla...
Jomotsangkha — In the quiet corners of Jomotsangkha Wildlife Sanctuary (JWS), a touching story of companionship and car...
The incident involving two Bhutanese individuals defacing a 30,000-year-old sacred Uluru rock in Australia in August last year has...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ འོང་འབབ་ཁྲལ་གྱི་དཔྱད་ཡིག་༢༠༢༥ ཅན་མ་ཆ་འཇོག་གནང་ཡོདཔ་བཞིན་དུ་ གཞི་སྒྱུར་སྦོམ་སྦེ་ར་འབད་མི་ དཔྱད་ཡིག་དེ་ ད་ལྟོ་ཡོད་པའི་ འོང་འབབ་ཁྲལ་གྱི་དཔྱད་ཡིག་༢༠༠༡ ཅན་མ་དེ་ ཆ་མེད་འགྱོཝ་ཨིན་པས།
རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༥-༢༦ གི་ འཆར་དངུལ་སྙན་ཞུ་ནང་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་...
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་གི་ གཙང་ཆུའི་མཐའམ་བདའ་སྟེ་ གཙང་ཆུ་ས...
In recent days, the National Assembly has passed some major tax reforms. From introducing a flat 5 percent Goods and Services Tax (GST) and increasing excise duties on harmful products to taxing high-value fixed deposi...
The National Assembly yesterday unanimously adopted the Income Tax Bill of Bhutan 2025, a comprehensive tax reform to replace the existing 2001 Income Tax Act, which now moves to the National Council for further deliberation.
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the Kingdom of Bhutan and the Kingdom of Thailand is expected to be implemented by January 2026.
Gelephu—With the implementation of extensive flood control measures along major riverbanks in Gelephu, residents...
A majority of the Members of Parliament (MP) in National Council...
In a quiet yet powerful culmination, 35 young Bhutanese creatives came together to screen their short films at the closing event of “Art for People” programme, a two-week filmmaking course.
Samdrupjongkhar—Tshomo, a 60-year-old farmer from Tsangchil...
The Bhutan Football Federation (BFF) and the Bhutan Cricket Council Board (BCCB) have recently received recognition from international sports bodies for...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་ཁང་ནང་ དྲི་བ་དྲིས་ལན་གྱི་ ཚོགས་རི...
ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ འཐུས་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ ཅ་ཆས་དང་ཞབས་ཏོག་(ཇི་ཨེསི་ཊི)ཁྲལ་གྱི་ འཕྲི་སྣོན་དཔྱད་ཡིག་༢༠༢༥ ཅན་མ་ ཆ་འཇོག་དང་ དཔྱད་ཡིག་འགོ་བཙུགས་ཚེས་གྲངས་ གྲོས་འདེབས་ཕུལ་མི་གི་ ཁྲིམས་མཐུན་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ ཚ་གྱང་ཡོད་ལུགས་ཚུ་བཤད་ནུག།
༉ གཞུང་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ན་གཞོན་ལཱ་གཡོག་མ་ཐོབ་པའི་...
Alcohol, tobacco, carbonated drinks, and other non-essential or harmful products will become more expensive starting January 2026, with the National Assembly...
The Members of Parliament (MPs) in National Council (NC) yesterday raised concerns on...
The government is accelerating efforts to address the pressing issue of rising youth unemployment in the country through a range of initiatives aimed at creating jobs and equipping young people with the skills needed for long-term careers.
During the National Assembly’s Question Hour yesterday, Menbi-...
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Lamgong-Wangchang called for a revision of the country’s building regulations after raising concerns about the inconsistent enf...
Concerned over the large-scale felling of trees for p...
At daybreak in Berti village, 65-year-old Wangpo walks the perimeter of his maize field, searching for signs of fresh damage. The evidence is unmistakable—flattened stalks and circular impressions pressed into the damp soil.
Chukha—After years of delays and repeated appeals from local comm...
What lingers in Kuenselphodrang these days isn’t j...
༉ དོ་འགྲན་དང་ཉོ་སྤྱོད་དབང་འཛིན་དང་འཁྲིལཝ་ད་ མཐའ་ཟུ...
༉ སྦོང་སྒོར་-སྐྱབས་ཆའི་འཐུས་མི་ སྤེན་པ་གིས་ གཞུང་ལ...
ཆུམ་དང་ བཟའ་སྤྱོད་ཀྱི་མར་ཁུ་ ཚྭ་ གཙང་རས་ དེ་ལས་ གླ...
༉ སྤ་རོ་ཆུ་འཛོམས་ལས་ ཀི་ལོ་མི་ཊར་༦ དེ་ཅིག་ ལམ་འགྲུ...
༉ ད་རེས་ནངས་པར་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དང་ ཕུ་ལ་ཧ་རི་གི་བར་ན་ ཀི་ལོ་མི་ཊར་༦ འབད་མི་ འཁོར་ལམ་དེ་ ལེགས་བཅོས་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ ཆོས་འབྲེལ་ལས་འགུལ་སྦོམ་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་རྫོང་(བཱཇ་ར་ཡ་ན་ལྟེ་བ་)དང་ དགེ་བསྙེན་གནས་ཁང་གཉིས་ནང་ འགྲོ་འགྲུལ་འབད་ཚུགསཔ་བཟོ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ཨིན་པས།
Bhutan’s fertility rate has dropped from over six children per woman in the 1980s t...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday adopted the Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, reducing the applicable GST rate to...
The National Assembly yesterday deliberated on the 207 sections of the Excise Tax Bill of Bh...
Limited pharmacy services in several remote districts, including Zhemgang, Gasa, and Samdrupjongkhar, are restricting access to essential medicines and pushing residents to obtain drugs from across the border, raising concerns about safety and regulatory compliance, according to the Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA).
Bhutan has officially embarked on its second Joint External Evaluation (JEE) of core capacities under the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005), reaffirming its commitment to national and global health security.
Civil servants across all grade levels have seen a significant increase in take-home pay following recent tax reforms, according to the Ministry of Finance’s latest Quarterly Macroeconomic Situation and Outlook.
Phuentsholing—Tourists entering the country by road through Phuentsholing will experience faster and more comfortable se...
Family members of former President of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) Lhab Dorji have alleged...
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 ch...
For more than a decade, Bhutan Cancer Society (BCS) has steadily transformed cancer care in the country from a subject c...
A Bhutanese based in New York, who runs Tasha International News, a Telegram- based unofficial news channel, has collect...
A Nu 43.7 million eco-tourism facility built to transform a local community has become a white elephant in the capital....
Once coveted positions, local administrative posts such as drungpa and dzongrab have become less attractive to civil servants, leaving critical leadership roles vacant due to stagnant career progression.
The private leasing of 200 acres of state land at Darla Top has sparked massive local controversy, forcing the Prime Min...
As geopolitical hostilities rapidly escalate in the Middle East, more than 7,700 Bhutanese workers remain in the Gulf re...
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.
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...
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...
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,...
༉ 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...
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...
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...
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...
This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...
More than two years after promising to review the closure of drayangs, the government has ruled out the possibility of reviving the entertainment venues, signalling a definitive end to an industry that once formed a significant part of the country’s nightlife economy.
Read MoreAfter receiving training from Women’s Self-Support Group on Waste Management in 2023 on crafting new products from plastic waste, Jamyang Choden, 44, from Lhuentse, decided to give it a try.
Read MoreIt has been less than a month since Rinchen Yangzom moved into the Bjarpa community house beside Ngangla Lhakhang in Ngangla Trong. For the next three years, this is her home. She cannot leave it for a single day.
Read MoreAn educated youth has shattered traditional age boundaries to get elected as Tshogpa, completely rewriting what leadership looks like for the next generation of highlanders. Is it finally time for youths to take full control of local governance?
Read MoreThe conflict in the Middle East has once again exposed our dependence on overseas employment as a pressure valve for domestic unemployment.
Read MorePrivate livestock dealers claim a state-owned corporation lured them into investing, only to turn around and aggressively take over their market share. Is the private sector being undermined in the name of regulation? Who is in the right?
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