October of 2021

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Lack of facilities impedes grassroots football

Sports

Oct 31, 2021 3 mins read 613 views
Love, hate and tragedy: A three-part history of Bhutan-Cooch relations

Perspective

Oct 31, 2021 5 mins read 732 views
Impacts of climate change: observations from the highlands

Environment

Oct 31, 2021 2 mins read 623 views
Free and fair election necessary

Letter to the Editor

Oct 31, 2021 1 mins read 693 views
Work hour or culture: which is more important?

Editorial

Oct 31, 2021 2 mins read 656 views
Land development brings hope to Tsakaling farmers

Agriculture

Oct 31, 2021 1 mins read 649 views
Climate change: a local perspective

Environment

Oct 31, 2021 4 mins read 614 views
RENEW micro finance celebrates World Savings Day

Gender

Oct 31, 2021 1 mins read 583 views
Teachers to be assessed for proficient standard next year

Education

Oct 31, 2021 4 mins read 599 views
Astrology college marks 25 years of promoting astrology

Religious

Oct 31, 2021 1 mins read 646 views
Women's football league leaders clash today

Sports

Oct 29, 2021 1 mins read 660 views
Winter timing cancelled for civil servants

RCSC

Oct 29, 2021 1 mins read 615 views
Nobgang villagers engage to protect heritage

Culture

Oct 29, 2021 2 mins read 607 views
Thimphu thromde to monitor unauthorised construction projects

Thromde

Oct 29, 2021 2 mins read 656 views
Unschooled hands that make lifelike Sculptures

Feature Story

Oct 29, 2021 2 mins read 648 views
Punakha police forward vehicle scam case to the OAG

Crime

Oct 29, 2021 1 mins read 633 views
Young designers participate in apparel design competition

Festival

Oct 29, 2021 1 mins read 632 views
BBLS to create a new bird area in Thimphu

Wild Life

Oct 29, 2021 2 mins read 598 views
Tibetan Calligraphy: A Buddhist Pilgrimage

Perspective

Oct 29, 2021 5 mins read 575 views
Second LG completes term

Local Government

Oct 29, 2021 3 mins read 601 views
Clients sue real estate company for breach of contract

Judiciary

Oct 29, 2021 2 mins read 630 views
Social media pose more threat to free and fair elections

Letter to the Editor

Oct 29, 2021 2 mins read 592 views
The gap is still huge in TVET

Editorial

Oct 29, 2021 2 mins read 568 views
Import of vehicles surge in vehicle rich Bhutan

Trade

Oct 29, 2021 4 mins read 596 views
Export to Assam, India undergoes major changes

Trade

Oct 29, 2021 3 mins read 604 views
Phuentsholing Township Development moving at snail's pace

Thromde

Oct 29, 2021 2 mins read 585 views
Health minister awarded distinguished alumni award by alma mater

Health

Oct 28, 2021 1 mins read 608 views
Streetwise phallus maker

Entrepreneurs

Oct 28, 2021 1 mins read 551 views
Transformation, A way forward

Letter to the Editor

Oct 28, 2021 2 mins read 551 views
Awards well deserved

Editorial

Oct 28, 2021 2 mins read 904 views
Bio-fertiliser plant to begin production early next year

Agriculture

Oct 28, 2021 1 mins read 562 views
Woman arrested for alleged murder of stepmother

Crime

Oct 28, 2021 1 mins read 712 views
New plant to export oxygen to India beginning next week

Trade

Oct 28, 2021 1 mins read 633 views
Firms say TVET reform needs pvt sector collaboration

Labour

Oct 28, 2021 3 mins read 754 views
Bhutan to go to polls for LG elections on December 22

Election

Oct 28, 2021 2 mins read 665 views
Broom growers see market and production decline

Agriculture

Oct 26, 2021 2 mins read 566 views
Along the long-forgotten Trail

Feature Story

Oct 26, 2021 3 mins read 590 views
Public library needs a change

Letter to the Editor

Oct 26, 2021 1 mins read 552 views
Help farmers mechanise

Editorial

Oct 26, 2021 2 mins read 590 views
Matrimonial cases dominate court cases in Mongar

Judiciary

Oct 26, 2021 1 mins read 579 views
Former Norgaygang gup and mangmi sue home secretary and two officials

Judiciary

Oct 26, 2021 1 mins read 608 views
Thimphu dzongkhag court dismisses former STCBL CEO's claim

Judiciary

Oct 26, 2021 2 mins read 679 views
Damtshi from early on

Education

Oct 26, 2021 2 mins read 662 views
A "Blue Poppy" certification for qualifying budget hotels

Tourism

Oct 26, 2021 2 mins read 597 views
Gelephu airport to become second international airport

Transport

Oct 26, 2021 2 mins read 688 views
Another Bhutanese plays for Indian football club

Sports

Oct 25, 2021 1 mins read 584 views
Diversifying Bhutan's energy sources by investing in renewable energy

Perspective

Oct 25, 2021 4 mins read 585 views
Lesson from recent crop loss to rainfall

Letter to the Editor

Oct 25, 2021 1 mins read 586 views
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Parliament session to deliberate budget and critical national Bills

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GMCA invites bids to redesign Gelephu Old Town

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Through chemotherapy, lockdowns, and stigma

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Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom bridge in the sky

The bond between the two Kingdoms of Bhutan and Thailand has always been rooted in shared reverence and wisdom. This gai...

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Bhutan’s rising suicides deepen economic and demographic strain

One life is lost every 84 hours. Bhutan’s rising suicide rate is no longer just a public health crisis. It is also a di...

May 09, 2026 8 mins read 4,765 views
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?

May 09, 2026 4 mins read 3,365 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 beyond seed funding remains limited, making it difficult for existing startups to scale and sustain operations.

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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.

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A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 1,249 views
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 1,778 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 1,459 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 5,681 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 1,420 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 3,704 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 2,788 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 2,699 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 conflict drags on, investors are seeking to diversify away from Gulf nations, especially Dubai while navigating geopolitical tensions and global volatility.

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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,...

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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?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 1,298 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 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 2,207 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.

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 4,834 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...

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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....

Apr 18, 2026 2 mins read 2,371 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 6,393 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 6,319 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 6,722 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

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The trap of spiritual materialism

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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...

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When Words Create Worlds

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Where to find the best momos in Thimphu

Mar 16, 2026 1 mins read 4,531 views
A costly fiasco

Apr 11, 2026 2 mins read 3,748 views
Living hand to mouth

Apr 08, 2026 2 mins read 3,085 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 3,723 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 3,333 views
Culture under threat?

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Recents

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 conflict drags on, investors are seeking to diversify away from Gulf nations, especially Dubai while navigating geopolitical tensions and global volatility.

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