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Perspective: Is social media becoming a nuisance in Bhutan?

Is social media becoming a nuisance in Bhutan?

May 24, 2024 4 mins read 1,582 views
A chance missed for Bhutanese racers

Sports

May 31, 2024 1 mins read 735 views
How safe is Punakha's suspension bridge?

Road

May 31, 2024 3 mins read 964 views
Reality shows under the government radar

Entertainment

May 31, 2024 2 mins read 901 views
Seeking FDI in agriculture sector

Agriculture

May 31, 2024 2 mins read 787 views
New Thai visa rule to let Bhutanese stay up to 60 days

Foreign Affairs

May 31, 2024 1 mins read 854 views
Teachers' IWP weighs down on parents?

Education

May 31, 2024 2 mins read 772 views
The Blazing Jewel of Sovereignty

Perspective

May 31, 2024 6 mins read 752 views
Its influenza, not Covid KP.2

Health

May 31, 2024 1 mins read 772 views
Do not blame youth for the mess we are creating

Letter to the Editor

May 31, 2024 2 mins read 748 views
Tourism development must aim for excellence

Editorial

May 31, 2024 2 mins read 872 views
Suspect admits to murdering a 13-year-old girl

Crime

May 31, 2024 2 mins read 844 views
The burden of medical referrals

Health

May 31, 2024 4 mins read 1,041 views
ESP open to all Bhutanese with genuine business proposals: FM

Tourism

May 30, 2024 2 mins read 783 views
Improving sanitation and hygiene in construction sites

Letter to the Editor

May 30, 2024 1 mins read 818 views
Ambitious WASH standards welcome

Editorial

May 30, 2024 2 mins read 703 views
Dental hospital will be back at JDWNRH soon

Health

May 30, 2024 1 mins read 748 views
All that shines is not oil in the Middle East

Foreign Affairs

May 30, 2024 2 mins read 773 views
RCSC proposes "para regular" status for contract employees

RCSC

May 30, 2024 2 mins read 875 views
PM calls for joint efforts to address substance abuse in schools

Narcotic

May 30, 2024 4 mins read 856 views
MoIT to start website and app for real-time roadblock alerts

Technology

May 28, 2024 2 mins read 894 views
Court convicts tour driver for larceny

Crime

May 28, 2024 1 mins read 846 views
Why Dzongkha matters for young Bhutanese?

Letter to the Editor

May 28, 2024 1 mins read 924 views
How safe is the food we eat?

Editorial

May 28, 2024 2 mins read 694 views
BoB launches BoBloan for seamless loan applications

Banks

May 28, 2024 1 mins read 843 views
137 police personnel complete intensive search and rescue training

Lost and Found

May 28, 2024 2 mins read 792 views
Govt. commits to making all schools period-friendly in five years

Education

May 28, 2024 3 mins read 832 views
South Asia collaborates to combat wildlife crime

Wild Life

May 27, 2024 2 mins read 872 views
Drugs pose a major threat to young people

Letter to the Editor

May 27, 2024 1 mins read 831 views
Bridging the gap with compassion

Editorial

May 27, 2024 2 mins read 860 views
Cash for trash?

Environment

May 27, 2024 2 mins read 1,104 views
Intense heat hits hard layer poultry farms

Farming

May 27, 2024 2 mins read 759 views
Public authorities advise caution as Cyclone Remal passes

Climate

May 27, 2024 3 mins read 771 views
A hero returns home from Mt. Everest

Award

May 27, 2024 3 mins read 792 views
Boxing team returns without Olympic quota

Sports

May 29, 2024 2 mins read 686 views
Thousands gather at Paro for Rinchen Terzoed empowerment

Religious

May 29, 2024 2 mins read 781 views
Need soundproofed karaoke in Thimphu

Letter to the Editor

May 29, 2024 1 mins read 821 views
Menstruation _Not a big deal

Editorial

May 29, 2024 2 mins read 718 views
BTF proposes USD 10 million to GCF for projects in 120 gewogs

Climate

May 29, 2024 2 mins read 755 views
High levels of AFM1 detected in imported milk

Health

May 29, 2024 2 mins read 886 views
Youth-led initiative tackles mounting plastic waste in rivers

Youth

May 29, 2024 3 mins read 774 views
Nu 2 billion from ESP for tourism sector

Tourism

May 29, 2024 2 mins read 955 views
Bhutan launches ambitious WASH standards

Water

May 29, 2024 2 mins read 928 views
10th International long-distance stage race kicks off

Sports

May 26, 2024 1 mins read 582 views
Browse Archives
Bhutanese fans tip Argentina, Brazil, Japan, England to lift World Cup 2026

As the FIFA World Cup 2026 prepares to make history with a record 48 teams across three North American nations, football fans in Bhutan have already chosen their potential winners.

Jun 10, 2026 3 mins read 2,987 views
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...

Jun 09, 2026 2 mins read 2,080 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 3,446 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 1,662 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 2,009 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 4,964 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 2,291 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 4,062 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 2,168 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 2,746 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 1,506 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 3,967 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 660 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 1,294 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 1,122 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 1,458 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 1,884 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 2,472 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 2,223 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 2,881 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 2,630 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 6,833 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 1,204 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 606 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 1,908 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 1,634 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 1,830 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 2,231 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 2,156 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 4,745 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 2,236 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 2,828 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 6,599 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 7,934 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 8,121 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 8,533 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 15,787 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 2,547 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 5,087 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 4,107 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 3,797 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins read 4,336 views
When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 2,692 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 3,710 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 6,852 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 4,109 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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