October of 2023

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DPT declares two more candidates

Politics

Oct 25, 2023 1 mins read 0 views
Her Majesty and HRH GyalseyUgyenWangchuck attend Tika ceremony

Royal

Oct 25, 2023 1 mins read 464 views
Overworked healthcare workers risk to patients, says research

Health

Oct 25, 2023 3 mins read 527 views
Exciting Laya Run and Strong Women competition

Sports

Oct 23, 2023 2 mins read 442 views
Laya's Festival: a platform for climate change awareness

Letter to the Editor

Oct 23, 2023 2 mins read 467 views
Money matters in wooing voters

Editorial

Oct 23, 2023 2 mins read 423 views
OAG decides not to charge two former PDP ministers

ACC-RAA-OAG

Oct 23, 2023 2 mins read 523 views
Celebrating Snow Leopards through art, culture and traditions

Festival

Oct 23, 2023 2 mins read 514 views
Royal Highland Festival draws huge crowd

Editorial

Oct 23, 2023 2 mins read 463 views
Eye Camp transforms lives

Health

Oct 23, 2023 3 mins read 476 views
Bhutan secures spot in AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers 2027

Sports

Oct 22, 2023 2 mins read 601 views
On Gyalsung programme

Letter to the Editor

Oct 22, 2023 1 mins read 544 views
Prioritising mental health in education

Editorial

Oct 22, 2023 2 mins read 445 views
Vendors struggle as fresh vegetables wilt

Trade

Oct 22, 2023 2 mins read 469 views
Inconsistent judgments confuse family members over land dispute

Judiciary

Oct 22, 2023 3 mins read 508 views
Taxi driver's act of integrity earns him Royal recognition

Lost and Found

Oct 22, 2023 1 mins read 493 views
Govt. to support pay raise of BBS, FMCL, BLDCL

Economy

Oct 22, 2023 2 mins read 464 views
HM Blesses Dassai Tika

Festival

Oct 22, 2023 1 mins read 428 views
Two men electrocuted in Dagana

Disaster

Oct 20, 2023 1 mins read 494 views
Convention turn-out a show of strength: PDP

Politics

Oct 20, 2023 2 mins read 485 views
Choeten Kora residents call for permanent flood control measures

Feature Story

Oct 20, 2023 3 mins read 469 views
Navigating Bhutan's Financial Market Challenges

Perspective

Oct 20, 2023 10 mins read 587 views
Jangphutse in dire need of female health worker

Health

Oct 20, 2023 2 mins read 481 views
Ensuring fair pricing and product information in the Bhutanese market

Letter to the Editor

Oct 20, 2023 2 mins read 380 views
Caution_As the curtain falls on National Assembly

Editorial

Oct 20, 2023 2 mins read 383 views
Prioritising mental health and well-being in schools

Health

Oct 20, 2023 2 mins read 496 views
ECB extends postal ballot registration deadline

Election

Oct 20, 2023 1 mins read 454 views
Not in good motion

Entertainment

Oct 20, 2023 6 mins read 522 views
SOEs to raise pay 46-72 percent from this month

Economy

Oct 20, 2023 1 mins read 433 views
Amir Rai: Redefining limits in Bhutanese football

Sports

Oct 19, 2023 2 mins read 593 views
Civil servants on LTT ask for fair benefits

RCSC

Oct 19, 2023 2 mins read 421 views
Addressing youth unemployment

Letter to the Editor

Oct 19, 2023 2 mins read 575 views
Embracing change with compassion

Editorial

Oct 19, 2023 2 mins read 433 views
NA adopts NC's recommendations, passes Biological Corridor Bill

National Assembly

Oct 19, 2023 1 mins read 564 views
Gewogs grapple with high fallowing of land

Agriculture

Oct 19, 2023 2 mins read 422 views
A seed bank to help Lumang farmers

Agriculture

Oct 19, 2023 2 mins read 453 views
Is growing domestic debt a concern?

Economy

Oct 19, 2023 2 mins read 439 views
Elders in Paro need better care

Gender

Oct 18, 2023 3 mins read 424 views
Khuruthang's only amusement park gets makeover

Entertainment

Oct 18, 2023 1 mins read 460 views
The Monk and the Gun reflects Bhutan's unique journey

Entertainment

Oct 18, 2023 1 mins read 482 views
Reinforcing awareness about drug use among youth

Letter to the Editor

Oct 18, 2023 2 mins read 374 views
Learning from the Dragon Boys

Editorial

Oct 18, 2023 2 mins read 460 views
JICA assists Bhutan in geospatial data transformation project

Foreign Affairs

Oct 18, 2023 3 mins read 507 views
JDWNRH resumes off-hour consultation services

Health

Oct 18, 2023 2 mins read 533 views
Cardamom fetches a good price in Haa

Agriculture

Oct 18, 2023 1 mins read 440 views
Bhutan begins pilot timber extraction for export

Forest

Oct 18, 2023 2 mins read 484 views
Lost after a massive win over Hong Kong

Sports

Oct 17, 2023 3 mins read 431 views
Clock Tower hosts inspiring White Cane Safety Day

Disable

Oct 17, 2023 3 mins read 448 views
For our teachers

Letter to the Editor

Oct 17, 2023 1 mins read 505 views
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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 2,029 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 3,386 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 1,616 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 1,965 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 4,896 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 2,257 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 3,944 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 2,098 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 2,682 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 1,934 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 1,455 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 3,931 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 624 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 1,275 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 1,104 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 1,439 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 1,864 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 2,452 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 2,203 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 2,863 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 2,613 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 6,816 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 1,146 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 572 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 1,875 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 1,614 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 1,796 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 2,205 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 2,127 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 4,721 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 2,213 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 2,793 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 6,572 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 7,891 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 8,081 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 8,489 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 15,743 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 2,529 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 5,061 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 4,082 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 3,779 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins read 4,312 views
When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 2,668 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 3,685 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 6,816 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 4,081 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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