March of 2018

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Heavy rain contains a forest fire in Mongar

Forest fire

Mar 22, 2018 0 mins read 370 views
Two sentenced in Gelephu visa scam

Crime

Mar 22, 2018 3 mins read 584 views
BEA to hold talks with banks in Bangladesh

Bhutan Exporters Association (BEA)

Mar 22, 2018 1 mins read 395 views
NIPP 2018 launch

National Intellectual Property Policy (NIPP)

Mar 22, 2018 0 mins read 388 views
Bhutan and Australia looks forward to strengthening collaboration

Bhutan-Australia

Mar 21, 2018 3 mins read 443 views
Two Bhutanese win South Asia Procurement Innovations Award 2017

Award

Mar 21, 2018 2 mins read 373 views
Haa DT endorses fine system to address waste issue

Dzongkhag tshogdu (DT)

Mar 21, 2018 2 mins read 367 views
Know Your NC Candidate: Dagana

National Council

Mar 21, 2018 1 mins read 0 views
Know Your NC Candidate: Dagana

National Council

Mar 21, 2018 0 mins read 0 views
Know Your NC Candidate: Dagana

National Council

Mar 21, 2018 1 mins read 0 views
Know Your NC Candidate: Dagana

National Council

Mar 21, 2018 1 mins read 0 views
Know Your NC Candidate: Dagana

National Council

Mar 21, 2018 1 mins read 0 views
Know Your NC Candidate: Dagana

National Council

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Know Your NC Candidate: Dagana

National Council

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Know Your NC Candidate: Dagana

National Council

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Know Your NC Candidate: Dagana

National Council

Mar 21, 2018 1 mins read 0 views
Know Your NC Candidate: Dagana

National Council

Mar 21, 2018 1 mins read 454 views
Clarification: College of Rigney in Tashiyangtse renamed as College of Zorig Chusum

Letter to the editor

Mar 21, 2018 1 mins read 381 views
What does tigers walking urban roads tell us?

Editorial

Mar 21, 2018 1 mins read 400 views
NBC launches Wild River BioBlitz

National Biodiversity Centre (NBC)

Mar 21, 2018 1 mins read 422 views
DT endorses gewog bus service improvement

Dzongkhag tshogdu (DT)

Mar 21, 2018 2 mins read 367 views
Tiger spotted in Kabesa

Tigers

Mar 21, 2018 1 mins read 422 views
MoE cancels transfer order of education officials

Education

Mar 21, 2018 2 mins read 441 views
Three nominees out of NC race

National Council

Mar 21, 2018 2 mins read 395 views
Police sends woman home

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)

Mar 21, 2018 0 mins read 388 views
BFF Academy FC undefeated in Thimphu B-League

Football

Mar 20, 2018 2 mins read 416 views
Five Samdrupjongkhar NC candidates start campaigning

National Council

Mar 20, 2018 1 mins read 396 views
Enhancing opportunities for persons with disability

Projects

Mar 20, 2018 2 mins read 382 views
Bhutan observes International Day of Happiness

International Day of Happiness

Mar 20, 2018 1 mins read 383 views
Know Your NC Candidate: Chukha

National Council

Mar 20, 2018 0 mins read 0 views
Know Your NC Candidate: Chukha

National Council

Mar 20, 2018 0 mins read 0 views
Know Your NC Candidate: Chukha

National Council

Mar 20, 2018 1 mins read 0 views
Know Your NC Candidate: Chukha

National Council

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Know Your NC Candidate: Chukha

National Council

Mar 20, 2018 1 mins read 0 views
Know Your NC Candidate: Chukha

National Council

Mar 20, 2018 0 mins read 440 views
Know Your NC Candidate: Bumthang

National Council

Mar 20, 2018 1 mins read 0 views
Know Your NC Candidate: Bumthang

National Council

Mar 20, 2018 1 mins read 0 views
Know Your NC Candidate: Bumthang

National Council

Mar 20, 2018 1 mins read 449 views
Time to resolve the water crisis

Letter to the editor

Mar 20, 2018 1 mins read 453 views
Support entrepreneurship

Editorial

Mar 20, 2018 2 mins read 441 views
Bhutan Airlines cancels flight due to technical glitch

Bhutan Airlines

Mar 20, 2018 1 mins read 419 views
Country's first satellite builders attend the BHUTAN-1 workshop

Technology

Mar 20, 2018 3 mins read 396 views
Campaign begins for NC election

Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB)

Mar 20, 2018 2 mins read 409 views
Photo exhibition

Photo exhibition

Mar 20, 2018 0 mins read 0 views
RMA pilots YE-Banking to instill values and make youth financial literate

Royal Monetary Authority (RMA)

Mar 19, 2018 2 mins read 456 views
Samdrupjongkhar nominates six NC candidates

National Council

Mar 19, 2018 2 mins read 382 views
STCBL to build toilets for Chimuna PS

State Trading Corporation of Bhutan Limited (STCBL)

Mar 19, 2018 1 mins read 421 views
Trashigang has eight NC candidates

National Council

Mar 19, 2018 1 mins read 444 views
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Bhutan’s rising suicides deepen economic and demographic strain

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Fuel subsidy unsustainable as annual cost could reach Nu 14.4B

With a price tag of Nu 14.4 billion annually, can Bhutan really afford to keep subsidizing your fuel?

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CCAA warns public against alleged “TikTok Shop” scam

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Over 200 intruders enter Lunana cordyceps sites

Over 200 intruders have swarmed the cordyceps sites of Lunana, sparked by a permit loophole that left local residents wa...

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Multidisciplinary Super-Speciality Hospital project moving ahead as planned: Health Minister

The Multidisciplinary Super-Speciality Hospital (MDSSH) will be constructed as a flagship project under the 13th Five-Ye...

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Airborne geophysical survey maps 40% of country’s land for minerals

Bhutan’s first-ever Airborne Geophysical Survey is on track for completion by June this year, with the most technically...

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Flood-damaged Dagachhu hydropower plant to resume operations on May 16

The Department of Energy announced that restoration work at the flood-damaged Dagachhu hydropower plant is nearing compl...

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Where the Migoi still roams

Trashigang —In the high valleys of Sakteng Gewog, the legend of the Migoi, the mythical yeti, has never truly disappeared.

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Family problems major driver behind rise in youth substance abuse: Education Minister

Family problems and weak support systems at home remain among the main drivers behind the rise in substance abuse among...

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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 5,057 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

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From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

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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 1,700 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 1,378 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 5,603 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 1,342 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 3,600 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 2,695 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 2,618 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

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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, business, education, entertainment, and entrepreneurship.

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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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When will we feed ourselves?

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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 2,105 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.

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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 2,577 views
Unshackling the state

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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....

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A costly fiasco

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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.

Feb 25, 2026 2 mins read 6,312 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 6,240 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 6,640 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

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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 9,753 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...

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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 3,470 views
When Words Create Worlds

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Where to find the best momos in Thimphu

Mar 16, 2026 1 mins read 4,445 views
Living hand to mouth

Apr 08, 2026 2 mins read 3,009 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 3,643 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 3,257 views
Culture under threat?

Mar 28, 2026 2 mins read 4,683 views
Promises and performance

As the government undertakes the mid-term review (MTR) of 13th Plan activities across dzongkhags, its performance must b...

Mar 25, 2026 2 mins read 3,785 views

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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, business, education, entertainment, and entrepreneurship.

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