June of 2019

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Climate Change and Youth Action

Perspective

Jun 04, 2019 3 mins read 400 views
ECCD facilitators call for community support

Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD)

Jun 04, 2019 2 mins read 440 views
Trashigang grapples with gungtongs

Empty households (gungtong)

Jun 04, 2019 2 mins read 500 views
Qualification for local leaders

Letter to the editor

Jun 04, 2019 1 mins read 0 views
Housing for GNH

Editorial

Jun 04, 2019 2 mins read 432 views
Bhutan For Life releases first tranche Nu 12.85M fund

Bhutan for Life (BFL) Fund

Jun 04, 2019 1 mins read 395 views
Health minister questioned on merger of referral hospitals

National Assembly

Jun 04, 2019 2 mins read 438 views
Govt. to track scholarship students' progress

National Assembly

Jun 04, 2019 2 mins read 457 views
NA rejects motion seeking Parliament's review of rules and regulations

National Assembly

Jun 04, 2019 3 mins read 443 views
Three former CLCS lecturers detained

College of Language and Culture Studies (CLCS)

Jun 04, 2019 1 mins read 489 views
Council calls for a lead agency on alcohol control

National Council

Jun 04, 2019 3 mins read 523 views
Pay revision

Pay Commission

Jun 04, 2019 0 mins read 0 views
Bhutan hosts UNWTO Commission meeting

Meeting

Jun 03, 2019 3 mins read 416 views
Construction firm caught lifting riverbed materials

Crime

Jun 03, 2019 1 mins read 403 views
Managing meat waste

Meat waste

Jun 03, 2019 2 mins read 445 views
Potato grading machine installed

Potatoes

Jun 03, 2019 1 mins read 390 views
Speaker reminds of decorum

National Assembly

Jun 03, 2019 1 mins read 413 views
NA endorses six recommendations to support ACC

National Assembly

Jun 03, 2019 2 mins read 419 views
Qualification for local leaders

Letter to the editor

Jun 03, 2019 1 mins read 458 views
Being responsible citizens

Editorial

Jun 03, 2019 2 mins read 443 views
A separate highland development department?

12th Five-Year Plan

Jun 03, 2019 2 mins read 448 views
Helping startups kick start

Royal Monetary Authority (RMA)

Jun 03, 2019 3 mins read 427 views
Truckers demand new and bigger parking space in Gelephu

Boulder business

Jun 03, 2019 2 mins read 407 views
One bar for every 177 Bhutanese

National Council

Jun 03, 2019 3 mins read 449 views
Cleaning campaign

Cleaning campaign

Jun 03, 2019 0 mins read 0 views
No doping cases detected so far

Bhutan Anti-Doping Committee (BADC)

Jun 02, 2019 2 mins read 444 views
Bhalujhora bridge collapses

Bridge

Jun 02, 2019 1 mins read 488 views
The Oriental Tiger in South Asia is roaring

Bhutan-Bangladesh

Jun 02, 2019 3 mins read 471 views
Fruit and tree saplings planted to mark Social Forestry Day

Social Forestry Day

Jun 02, 2019 1 mins read 416 views
Increased minimum wage rate to be applied in Pvt. sector

National Assembly

Jun 02, 2019 3 mins read 441 views
Bamboo stumps planted in Tsirang

Social Forestry Day

Jun 02, 2019 1 mins read 435 views
Stray dogs in Ludrong needs urgent attention

Letter to the editor

Jun 02, 2019 1 mins read 442 views
Call for investment in agriculture sector is welcome

Editorial

Jun 02, 2019 2 mins read 453 views
Telling the mountain story

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)

Jun 02, 2019 2 mins read 441 views
Electricity tariff has always been higher: ABI

Association of Bhutanese Industries (ABI)

Jun 02, 2019 4 mins read 420 views
Fronting: Still a cat and mouse game

National Assembly

Jun 02, 2019 5 mins read 451 views
Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen reminds people of civic duties

Waste

Jun 02, 2019 1 mins read 426 views
Assembly agenda today

National Assembly

Jun 02, 2019 0 mins read 0 views
PM attends Indian PM's swearing - in ceremony

Lyonchhen Dr Lotay Tshering met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Hyderabad House yesterday in New Delhi and conveyed the warm greetings and felicitations of His Majesty The King, the Royal Government and people of Bhutan.

Jun 01, 2019 1 mins read 562 views
Browse Archives
Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen graces inauguration of Her Expression Festival at VAST

Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen on June 4 graced the inauguration of Her Expression Festival and Her Expression Vol. IX, an an...

Jun 06, 2026 1 mins read 359 views
Lowland cordyceps discovery in India raises questions over Bhutan’s premium fungus economy

The discovery of cordyceps in the low-altitude forests of East Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh, India, has sparked c...

Jun 05, 2026 3 mins read 5,534 views
Riwo Exhibition Unites Himalayan artists in exploration of identity and continuity

Riwo: Identity and Continuity, a contemporary art exhibition held at the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology in Gangtok, Sik...

Jun 05, 2026 2 mins read 3,479 views
NC revisits reservations to the CRPD

The National Council today unanimously supported the already adopted reservations on Articles 23, 27, and 29 of the Amendment to the Reservations to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

Jun 04, 2026 3 mins read 1,602 views
National Council refers Livestock Bill back to Committee for review

The National Council continued deliberations on the Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025 today, directing the Economic Affairs...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,485 views
BRCS opens first Branch Emergency Operations Centre in Tsirang

Coinciding with the Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen, the Bhutan Red Cross Society (BRCS) inaugurated its...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,556 views
BTF opens office in GMC to strengthen support for southern region

Coinciding with the 36th Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen Jetsun Pema Wangchuck, the Bhutan Trust Fund for...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,732 views
PM takes responsibility for fiscal deficit coordination failure

Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay accepted responsibility for a communication gap between the Ministry of Finance and the E...

Jun 04, 2026 4 mins read 5,281 views
World Environment Day sees schools, businesses team up for recycling drive

What if waste was no longer viewed as rubbish, but as a resource waiting for a second life? That idea took centre stag...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,041 views
Bhutan to pilot green finance taxonomy from June

Bhutan will begin testing its expanded Green Finance Taxonomy 2026 with a six-month pilot from June to November, before rolling it out nationwide in January 2027.

May 30, 2026 3 mins read 3,499 views
Stop recording, start living

Like television, the internet, and AI, TikTok can be a force for good or bad. It entirely depends on how it is used.

Jun 06, 2026 4 mins read 304 views
Ask Mr Bhutan: “Money can’t buy happiness.” Is it true, when everything is dependent on money?

Once born into a physical body, there are certain absolute necessities without which most of us are incapable of experie...

May 30, 2026 2 mins read 1,104 views
Duchen Nga Zom: What a butter lamp and a few flower petals can teach us

Duchen Nga Zom is a duzom—an auspicious convergence of sacred time within the Buddhist calendar, marked by the meeting o...

May 30, 2026 4 mins read 936 views
The virus, the fear, and the freedom beyond both

Hantavirus is not a single virus but a family of rodent-borne viruses that occasionally spill over into humans, sometime...

May 24, 2026 4 mins read 1,263 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 1,696 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 2,269 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 2,027 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 2,702 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 2,449 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 6,651 views
United for Project 108

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 Mindfulness City (GMC).

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 253 views
Banks can unlock growth through affordable credit

Financial institutions are the lifeblood of any modern economy. They mobilise savings, allocate capital, manage risk, an...

Jun 03, 2026 3 mins read 1,620 views
A missed opportunity

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...

May 30, 2026 2 mins read 1,368 views
Chain-link fencing: somebody’s gain, another’s loss

Chain-link fencing is perhaps one of the most viable solutions policymakers have managed to narrow down in the long and...

May 27, 2026 2 mins read 1,527 views
Fixing and fine-tuning GST regime

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...

May 23, 2026 2 mins read 1,978 views
Insolvency law, a long overdue

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.

May 20, 2026 3 mins read 1,902 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 confl...

May 16, 2026 2 mins read 4,523 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 2,004 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 2,524 views
When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 2,469 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 be...

Mar 21, 2026 3 mins read 6,366 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 7,542 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 7,734 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 8,143 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 15,384 views
The true wealth of Dzambhala

The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his...

May 02, 2026 4 mins read 2,367 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...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 4,858 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,...

Apr 18, 2026 4 mins read 3,885 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a rela...

Apr 13, 2026 3 mins read 3,608 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins read 4,111 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...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 3,470 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 coul...

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 6,522 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 3,863 views
Unshackling the state

Apr 22, 2026 2 mins read 3,915 views

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