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Bhutan’s vision takes center stage at ESG meets Blockchain Summit

In an increasingly interconnected world grappling with challenges of sustainability and technological evolution, Bhutan recently carved out a significant space for its unique development philosophy at the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) meets Blockchain Summit and Awards 2025.

Jul 12, 2025 1 mins read 3,076 views
Bhutan’s 2024 food safety surveillance reveals persistent risks

Foodborne illnesses continue to pose a serious public health threat in Bhutan, reflecting a global challenge that affect...

Jul 12, 2025 2 mins read 1,050 views
Gyalsung is the best investment for future

A Bhutanese youth in Australia, Lekzin Thinley, 19, who returned from Gyalsung training in Jamtsholing, Samtse, reflects...

Jul 12, 2025 5 mins read 6,729 views
A fertility conversation rooted in choice, not crisis

Bhutan marked World Population Day this year by joining the global call to reframe the discussion around fertility—from...

Jul 12, 2025 3 mins read 1,819 views
Between roots and change: Quiet transformation of adivasi in Samtse

Samtse—In the southern hills of Samtse, where paddy fields stretch towards the horizon, a quiet transformation is taking...

Jul 12, 2025 3 mins read 1,955 views
Bhutan Innovation Lab to help Bhutan achieve 10X economic growth

The Prime Minister’s Office in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), launched the Bhutan I...

Jul 11, 2025 3 mins read 1,981 views
New borewell brings hope to Samtse Town’s long-standing water woes

Samtse—A long-standing water crisis in Samtse town appears to be nearing an end as residents welcome the completion of a...

Jul 11, 2025 2 mins read 1,763 views
Strokes of happiness paints Bhutan’s joy in New Delhi

New Delhi, India—The VAST Bhutan exhibition in India, which brought the question of happiness to life through the eyes o...

Jul 11, 2025 2 mins read 1,784 views
BDBL and Mountain Hazelnuts partner to empower rural farmers

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)as signed on July 9 between the Bhutan Development Bank Limited (BDBL) and Mountain H...

Jul 11, 2025 2 mins read 1,877 views
Homestays thrive in Gangtey-Phobjikha despite rising hotel presence

The Gangtey-Phobjikha Valley in Wangdue, often dubbed the Switzerland of Bhutan, continues to attract a growing number o...

Jul 11, 2025 2 mins read 2,507 views
Fraud uncovered, but questions about accountability remains

Coming to light after reports of fraudulent practices, the Department of Civil Registration and Census, in January this year, alerted the Trashigang Dzongkhag Administration and instructed officials to investigate how local government authorities failed to prevent the forgery of documents that resulted in a non-national getting citizenship.

Jul 15, 2025 2 mins read 2,490 views
A promising start, but the real test lies ahead

Bhutan’s recent efforts to step up its HIV response reflect a welcome sense of urgency and commitment. The introduction...

Jul 14, 2025 2 mins read 499 views
A sound problem!

“Sound check, sound check!” If you’ve attended a meeting, seminar, or workshop lately, you have likely heard this familiar phrase, usually followed by screeching micro...

Jul 12, 2025 2 mins read 2,135 views
Energising Bhutan

It was no mere coincidence that as Bhutan launched its National Energy Policy (NEP) 2025, flash floods from glacial lake outbursts and excessive rainfall were wreaking hav...

Jul 11, 2025 2 mins read 616 views
A moment of reckoning, a future in the making

As bulldozers break the quiet earth of Gelephu, this daring nation crosses the threshold into a future shaped not by hes...

Jul 10, 2025 2 mins read 605 views
Learning from the Tading experience

While much of the country debates taxes on fixed deposit interests, GST, and the legality of certain parliamentary decisions, something more quietly transformational is happening in Tading, Samtse. There, residents are reapin...

Jul 09, 2025 2 mins read 925 views
Inclusion in agriculture must be more than policy dream

Bhutan’s ambition to make its agriculture sector more inclusive by involving persons with disabilities (PWDs) is a welco...

Jul 08, 2025 2 mins read 475 views
Drug smuggling—A threat far deeper than we admit

The recent sentencing of an Indian national caught smuggling over 4.6 kilograms of heroin into Bhutan is not an isolated...

Jul 07, 2025 2 mins read 925 views
Civic sense, infrastructure can end capital’s woes

The brief yet heavy downpours have exposed more than just blocked drains. They revealed the lack of civic sense among re...

Jul 05, 2025 2 mins read 672 views
Leave the US with dignity

Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay yesterday urged Bhutanese overstaying their visas in the United States to return home voluntarily. While presenting the State of the Nation Report, Lyonchhen remind...

Jul 04, 2025 2 mins read 1,817 views
US tariff policy and supply chain shift: Limited direct impact

The ongoing United States–China trade war is redrawing global supply chains, prompting companies to shift operations fro...

May 12, 2025 3 mins read 11,440 views
Bhutan’s trade with Thailand hits record high

Bhutan’s imports from Thailand surged to Nu 2.67 billion in 2024, making the Southeast Asian country the third-largest s...

Apr 23, 2025 2 mins read 14,955 views
New vegetable market under construction in Samtse

Samtse—For many years, farmers in Samtse have sold vegetables from under makeshift tents, battling monsoon rains and bla...

Apr 17, 2025 2 mins read 13,968 views
Organic vegetables provide new livelihoods for Kochin farmers

Tashichoeling, Samtse — For 78-year-old Kamala Tamang of Kochin in Tendruk, saving money in a bank had been unimaginable...

Apr 16, 2025 2 mins read 13,922 views
Major financial sector reforms crucial to realising 13th Plan goals

Sweeping reforms in the financial sector are essential for the country to achieve the ambitious goals of its 13th Plan,...

Apr 14, 2025 3 mins read 13,927 views
Happiness with Mr Bhutan

In a world that first instills fear in us, only to sell us a product or service to eliminate that fear, we find ourselve...

May 10, 2025 3 mins read 10,894 views
Ask Mr Bhutan

As a collective, humanity has never been richer, more connected, more informed, and more protected from all cause diseas...

Apr 12, 2025 2 mins read 12,848 views
Ask Mr Bhutan

A significant portion of our youth’s challenges stems from our shortcomings as responsible, patient, and mindful elders....

Mar 22, 2025 1 mins read 12,944 views
Happiness with Mr Bhutan

Mar 15, 2025 4 mins read 14,433 views
When silence becomes a risk

The recent outbreak of leptospirosis among de-suung trainees in Dewathang has left the nation in grief and shock. Three...

Jul 03, 2025 2 mins read 530 views
70% seek jobs abroad?

After immense pressure and numerous tutorials, Sonam cleared her Royal Civil Service Commission entry exam last year. Sh...

Jul 02, 2025 2 mins read 6,769 views
Billions from abroad, but what lies ahead?

Remittances are pouring into the country. Our people, especially in places like Australia, are sending money home. This...

Jul 01, 2025 2 mins read 3,852 views
Heed the warnings of the rain

As the early rains of the monsoon settle into Bhutan’s valleys and mountains, the land is already showing signs of strai...

Jun 30, 2025 2 mins read 1,101 views
If CDG is illegal, so is PDF

The National Assembly has passed the 2025-26 budget, approving a Nu 94 million Priority Development Fund (PDF) meant sol...

Jun 28, 2025 2 mins read 692 views

Recents

Fraud uncovered, but questions about accountability remains

Coming to light after reports of fraudulent practices, the Department of Civil Registration and Census, in January this year, alerted the Trashigang Dzongkhag Administration and instructed officials to investigate how local government authorities failed to prevent the forgery of documents that resulted in a non-national getting citizenship.

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