May of 2023

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Farewell, fading fax machine: An obituary for the obsolete

Feature Story

May 12, 2023 2 mins read 440 views
Exploring the mysteries of Bali Lhakhang A herder and donkey's journey

Feature Story

May 12, 2023 3 mins read 498 views
174 Kms: Bhutan's First National Highway

Perspective

May 12, 2023 12 mins read 576 views
Sarpang NC Candidates disagree to high court verdict

Election

May 12, 2023 2 mins read 475 views
Rising health and safety issues at construction sites

Construction

May 12, 2023 2 mins read 459 views
Balancing intentions and democratic will

Letter to the Editor

May 12, 2023 2 mins read 392 views
All that visa grant notice is untrue

Editorial

May 12, 2023 2 mins read 509 views
Khengpas gearing up for Watermelon Festival

Agriculture

May 12, 2023 1 mins read 433 views
Can artificial intelligence replace humans?

Technology

May 12, 2023 2 mins read 442 views
Teacher attrition is a concern: Education Minister

Education

May 12, 2023 2 mins read 426 views
Brutal slaughter of two cows shocks Goenshari community

Crime

May 12, 2023 1 mins read 453 views
Is Bhutan heading for trouble?

Foreign Affairs

May 12, 2023 3 mins read 499 views
A home far away from home

Feature Story

May 11, 2023 2 mins read 442 views
Importance of experts to advise the government

Letter to the Editor

May 11, 2023 1 mins read 479 views
Bhutan's GLOF nightmare: A call for action

Editorial

May 11, 2023 2 mins read 467 views
STCBL to enhance visibility at Ramtokto fuel station

Fuel

May 11, 2023 2 mins read 522 views
From upper to lower house?

National Council

May 11, 2023 2 mins read 470 views
Choeten vandalized, suspects at large

Crime

May 11, 2023 1 mins read 414 views
Rebooting online potato market

Agriculture

May 11, 2023 2 mins read 448 views
Rampant increase in illegal fishing in Jigmechhu

Forest

May 11, 2023 2 mins read 443 views
Merak residents celebrate completion of GC road GSB-paving

Road

May 09, 2023 2 mins read 679 views
CSI aims to be part of global supply chain

Feature Story

May 09, 2023 2 mins read 411 views
Our debt

Letter to the Editor

May 09, 2023 1 mins read 448 views
Forcing elected representatives to serve their term

Editorial

May 09, 2023 2 mins read 473 views
RBP rules out foul play in an explosion at Thimphu hotel

Crime

May 09, 2023 1 mins read 496 views
Four nominations for NC chair

National Council

May 09, 2023 1 mins read 505 views
New NC members to draw revised salary

National Council

May 09, 2023 2 mins read 513 views
Premier league contenders hire nine foreign players

Sports

May 10, 2023 1 mins read 490 views
Farmers advocate for minimum selling price to ensure fair prices

Agriculture

May 10, 2023 2 mins read 447 views
Encourage electric vehicle users

Letter to the Editor

May 10, 2023 1 mins read 430 views
Bhutan's waste epidemic: A country choking on its own garbage

Editorial

May 10, 2023 2 mins read 518 views
Court finds uncle guilty of child endangerment

Judiciary

May 10, 2023 1 mins read 412 views
Govt. raises bond to meet fiscal gap

Finance

May 10, 2023 3 mins read 471 views
Former soldier sentenced to six years for drug trafficking

Crime

May 10, 2023 1 mins read 465 views
NC elects Sangay Dorji as its chairperson

Election

May 10, 2023 2 mins read 576 views
Drinking water shortage hits Gelephu thromde

Water

May 10, 2023 2 mins read 477 views
Waste problem growing in Merak

Environment

May 08, 2023 2 mins read 464 views
Canada-Bhutan expand cooperation beyond education

Question and Answer

May 08, 2023 3 mins read 545 views
Waiting for the pay revision

Letter to the Editor

May 08, 2023 1 mins read 419 views
Saving livestock and livelihoods

Editorial

May 08, 2023 2 mins read 493 views
Cabinet move favours non star hotels

Tourism

May 08, 2023 2 mins read 452 views
Local businesses prosper along Tading-Samtse highway

Trade

May 08, 2023 1 mins read 446 views
Livestock sector threatened by emerging disease outbreaks

Agriculture

May 08, 2023 2 mins read 378 views
Tobacco import trebles in 2022

Narcotic

May 08, 2023 1 mins read 504 views
Chimi's throw earns silver for Bhutan

Sports

May 07, 2023 1 mins read 461 views
Merak takes to sports on Olympic Day

Sports

May 07, 2023 1 mins read 387 views
Vulnerability of gewogs to melting glaciers in Punatsangchu basin

Perspective

May 07, 2023 2 mins read 482 views
Browse Archives
Amendment to CRPD reservation fails to secure support in NC

The amendment to the reservation on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) was not adopted at the ongoing National Council (NC) session today as it failed to secure the required simple majority.

Jun 09, 2026 2 mins read 2,004 views
Study to improve road construction in high-altitude passes

Recurrent failures of pavements along Dochula, Pelela, Yotongla and Thrumshingla passes are partly attributed to design...

Jun 09, 2026 2 mins read 3,355 views
Bhutan installs first high-altitude black carbon monitoring station

The National Centre for Hydrology and Meteorology (NCHM), in partnership with the International Centre for Integrated Mo...

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 1,600 views
NC forwards Co-operatives and Farmers Groups Bill 2025 to National Assembly

The Co-operatives and Farmers Groups Bill of Bhutan 2025 has been reviewed by the National Council and forwarded to the...

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 1,943 views
NC backs designated zones for meat shops, adopts Livestock Bill

Meat shops and meat sales outlets will be allowed to operate only from designated locations under the Livestock Bill of...

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 4,861 views
Finance Minister to present revised block grant guidelines in winter Parliament session

Finance Minister Lekey Dorji will present revised guidelines for the annual block grant for local governments during the...

Jun 08, 2026 2 mins read 2,239 views
New income tax regime reduces TDS deductions, increases take-home pay

Civil servants across all grade levels have seen a significant increase in take-home pay following recent tax reforms, a...

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 3,901 views
Renovated immigration building to ease congestion at Phuentsholing terminal

Phuentsholing—Tourists entering the country by road through Phuentsholing will experience faster and more comfortable se...

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 2,062 views
ACC drops cases against former JDWNRH president; family alleges wrongful implication

Family members of former President of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) Lhab Dorji have alleged...

Jun 06, 2026 5 mins read 2,649 views
The gift of children

Punakha—When Karma Namgay and Dechen Lhaden’s daughter turned four, the questions from relatives and friends became increasingly awkward to answer – why had they not had another ch...

Jun 06, 2026 3 mins read 1,913 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 1,417 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...

May 30, 2026 3 mins read 3,904 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 613 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 1,261 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 1,093 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 1,427 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 1,856 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 2,443 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 2,191 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 2,857 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 2,602 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 6,808 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 1,120 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 Mindfulnes...

Jun 06, 2026 2 mins read 561 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 1,856 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 1,602 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 1,774 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 2,194 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 2,116 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 4,708 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 2,201 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 2,777 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 6,555 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 7,860 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 8,051 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 8,461 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 15,715 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 2,519 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 5,050 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 4,071 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 3,768 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins read 4,303 views
When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 2,656 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 3,667 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 6,794 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 4,062 views

Recents

Dungkar Dzong-an icon of Bhutan’s transformation

The Dungkar Dzong in Pangbisa, Paro, is a vivid living monument to the era of transformation in Bhutan. The structure represents Bhutan’s architectural splendour at its best. In function, it is an icon of change, an expression of times to come. The concept is an ingenuous demonstration of how a proud past welcomes an exciting future.

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Fourth thromde elections set for July 15

The dhamngoi zomdu (candidate selection meetings) for Thrompon candidates will begin for the fourth local government elections of Thimphu and Phuentsholing Thromde Tshogdes, scheduled for July 15, according to the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB).

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