October of 2021

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The young people behind Humans of Thimphu

Youth

Oct 13, 2021 2 mins read 532 views
Bridge or no bridge for locals of Gakiling?

Road

Oct 13, 2021 2 mins read 470 views
Getting our priority right

Letter to the Editor

Oct 13, 2021 1 mins read 509 views
Teacher attrition - looking beyond high salary

Editorial

Oct 13, 2021 2 mins read 488 views
Winter session of Parliament to begin from November 24

Parliament

Oct 13, 2021 2 mins read 486 views
Nationwide biometrics collection for secure online identity

Technology

Oct 13, 2021 2 mins read 540 views
ECCD centres remain closed in Tsirang without facilitators

Education

Oct 13, 2021 2 mins read 561 views
Teachers continue to leave jobs

Education

Oct 13, 2021 2 mins read 500 views
Who are the women running for climate in Gasa today?

Sports

Oct 12, 2021 3 mins read 532 views
Mysterious leather box

Feature Story

Oct 12, 2021 2 mins read 497 views
Corrigendum

Corrigendum

Oct 12, 2021 0 mins read 0 views
We need the outdoor gyms

Letter to the Editor

Oct 12, 2021 1 mins read 467 views
A solution

Editorial

Oct 12, 2021 2 mins read 0 views
De-suups hoist Zhabten prayer flags

Entertainment

Oct 12, 2021 1 mins read 528 views
Dzongkhag court buildings to accommodate dzongkhag election offices

Election

Oct 12, 2021 1 mins read 475 views
OGOP airport shop inaugurated

Transport

Oct 12, 2021 1 mins read 456 views
A Royal Vision Transforms Paro Airport

Transport

Oct 12, 2021 3 mins read 528 views
Bhutan Space Week 2022 calls for proposals from teachers

Technology

Oct 11, 2021 2 mins read 473 views
Eight scholarship students receive awards for academic excellence

Education

Oct 11, 2021 2 mins read 473 views
On colouring the roof

Letter to the Editor

Oct 11, 2021 1 mins read 428 views
An issue bigger than a protest

Editorial

Oct 11, 2021 2 mins read 530 views
Instituting a social security system for monks and nuns

Religious

Oct 11, 2021 1 mins read 472 views
Physiotherapy services are not well understood in the country

Health

Oct 11, 2021 3 mins read 460 views
LDCs demand more from developed countries at the COP26

Foreign Affairs

Oct 11, 2021 2 mins read 444 views
Expert cautions against giving cell phones to a child

Technology

Oct 11, 2021 2 mins read 423 views
Sunrise FC thrash Taktshang FC 21-0

Sports

Oct 10, 2021 1 mins read 444 views
Streetlights don't work in Mongar

Thromde

Oct 10, 2021 1 mins read 421 views
Dechencholing murder victim's family still deprived of justice

Crime

Oct 10, 2021 2 mins read 507 views
Mental well-being is important

Letter to the Editor

Oct 10, 2021 1 mins read 573 views
Giving a leg up to agriculture

Editorial

Oct 10, 2021 2 mins read 446 views
Cellular companies to introduce 5G by the end of this year

Technology

Oct 10, 2021 1 mins read 464 views
NCGS approves 145 projects with loan amount of Nu 492.01M

Banks

Oct 10, 2021 1 mins read 472 views
RIGSS study shows prospects of professionalising domestic help

Education

Oct 10, 2021 3 mins read 531 views
Entertainment businesses open in low-risk areas

Entertainment

Oct 10, 2021 2 mins read 444 views
422 receive citizenship kidu

Kidu

Oct 10, 2021 0 mins read 422 views
Shamed coach sued for passive bribery

Sports

Oct 08, 2021 3 mins read 512 views
Waste problem in Narphung town

Environment

Oct 08, 2021 1 mins read 467 views
Land prices skyrocketing in Gelephu

Trade

Oct 08, 2021 3 mins read 551 views
A wait too long for Thimphu residents

Thromde

Oct 08, 2021 1 mins read 437 views
Urban agriculture initiative struggling to keep beneficiaries

City

Oct 08, 2021 2 mins read 542 views
A glimpse of Bhutan inside Paro airport

Feature Story

Oct 08, 2021 2 mins read 485 views
To whom should the thrompon report to?

Thromde

Oct 08, 2021 6 mins read 597 views
Talking about mental health: First important step to cure

Health

Oct 08, 2021 3 mins read 465 views
Uncertain contents and uncontrolled prices of food products

Letter to the Editor

Oct 08, 2021 2 mins read 534 views
A call to action

Editorial

Oct 08, 2021 2 mins read 482 views
Twisting planned and budgeted activities raises questions

Finance

Oct 08, 2021 2 mins read 531 views
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Fourth thromde elections set for July 15

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International review puts country’s forest carbon credits within reach

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Jun 10, 2026 2 mins read 2,840 views
Drayang closure to remain permanent

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Jun 10, 2026 2 mins read 3,133 views
The house that must never be empty

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Jun 10, 2026 3 mins read 3,411 views
Empowering women through waste upcycling

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Educated Tshogpa paves way for younger highlanders

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Jun 10, 2026 2 mins read 2,609 views
NA directs talks on reducing high lending rates to ease burden

Banks in the country maintain high lending rates and low returns on deposits, which continue to strain businesses, parti...

Jun 10, 2026 2 mins read 6,124 views
BLDCL at loggerheads with private retail outlets and distributors

Private livestock dealers claim a state-owned corporation lured them into investing, only to turn around and aggressivel...

Jun 10, 2026 5 mins read 3,235 views
DoT spends 85 percent of budget, but key infrastructure projects lag behind

The Department of Tourism spent over 85 per cent of its budget, yet critical tourism infrastructure is still lagging. Wh...

Jun 10, 2026 4 mins read 4,736 views
NC endorses annual budget as per NA

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.

Jun 09, 2026 2 mins read 1,736 views
Bhutan to pilot green finance taxonomy from June

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May 30, 2026 3 mins read 4,171 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 13, 2026 4 mins read 585 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 832 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 1,410 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 1,247 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 1,584 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 2,006 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 2,600 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 2,353 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 2,997 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 2,757 views
Reform or stay shut

The closure of drayangs (entertainment centres) is an issue that most sensible Bhutanese, except perhaps the operators, have supported. While the current government may have pledged during the campaign to review the previous government’s decision to shut them down, any sane government should not back down from that closure.

Jun 13, 2026 2 mins read 990 views
Overseas employment isn’t the solution

The conflict in the Middle East has once again exposed our dependence on overseas employment as a pressure valve for domestic unemployment.

Jun 10, 2026 2 mins read 1,385 views
United for Project 108

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Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 776 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 2,070 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 1,795 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 1,981 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 2,397 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 2,296 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 4,887 views
Fighting online scams

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May 13, 2026 2 mins read 2,373 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 6,732 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 8,171 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 8,363 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 8,777 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 16,033 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...

May 02, 2026 1 mins read 6,965 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 2,680 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 5,236 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 4,250 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

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Apr 13, 2026 3 mins read 3,921 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 2,988 views
When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 2,832 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 3,868 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 7,021 views

Recents

RAA uncovers major procurement lapses in the Nu 610M BITS projects

A Special Audit Report by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has identified significant procurement, planning, and governance failures in the Bhutan Integrated Taxation System (BITS 1.0), concluding that the project failed to achieve its intended objectives and resulted in substantial wasteful and avoidable expenditure of public funds.

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