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Bhutan’s turning point: Building economic resilience in an uncertain world

The escalating trade and geopolitical tensions between the United States and China continue to shape the global economic landscape. What began as a tariff dispute has evolved into a strategic decoupling in trade, technology, and investment. As the two largest economies pursue increasingly divergent paths, one leaning into self-reliance and the other reinforcing alliances, the fallout is being felt

Apr 26, 2025 3 mins read 1,978 views
From Bhutan to the reef: A journey of climate, connection and kindness

When Bhutanese actor and environmental advocate Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk set out ac...

Apr 26, 2025 5 mins read 9,512 views
Lhop community’s traditional paper craft faces market decline

Dorokha, Samtse—A desho paper production centre in Jigme village, Dophuchen gewog, run by the Lhop commu...

Apr 26, 2025 2 mins read 7,343 views
Filmmaking as an act of great empathy

A good story contains a sacred space within. Or lets call it a scared scene in this particular case as I am talking about a film. There is nothing extraordinary about that scene. But...

Apr 26, 2025 4 mins read 5,917 views
“Bhutan has given me perspective and presence”

There are so many moments that will stay with me, but some of the most memorable ones happened when Bhutan began emerging from the pandemic. I arrived in March 2022, at a time when the country was still managing COVID-19 with care and discipline.

Apr 26, 2025 4 mins read 7,458 views
Bhutan to host first-ever fashion week

Bhutan is set to launch its first-ever Fashion Week this October, a landmark event that will spotlight local creativity, elevate traditional textiles, and position Bhutan on the g...

Apr 26, 2025 3 mins read 6,073 views
Bhutanese women archers make international debut

An eight-woman team representing Bhutan recently participated in a friendly compound archery match in Sikkim, India, indicating the sport’s rising po...

Apr 26, 2025 1 mins read 12,881 views
ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་གི་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་བཙུན་རྣམ་༢ ཀྱིས་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་རབས་ཅན་གྱི་གཟིགས་སྐོར།

༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ མགྲོན་བརྡ་ཕུལ...

Apr 26, 2025 5 mins read 1,178 views
མི་དབང་མཆོག་གིས་ ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ མཐུན་འབྲེལ་རྩ་བརྟན་ བཟོ་གནང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ འབྲུག་དང་ ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་གི་བར་ན་ གཞུང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ དོན་...

Apr 26, 2025 5 mins read 2,323 views
ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་དེ་ འབྲུག་གི་ ཤེས་རིག་དོན་ལུ་ མཉམ་འབྲེལ་གཙོ་ཅན་ཨིནམ།

ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་དང་ འབྲུག་གི་བར་ན་ མཉམ་འབྲེལ་གཙོ་བོ་ར་ ཤེ...

Apr 25, 2025 8 mins read 1,027 views
Royal diplomacy: How King strengthened ties with Thailand

Diplomatic relationships are often built in conference rooms, signed into existence with handshakes and ink. But in rare instances, they are nurtured through grace, humility, and personal charm. Such is the story of Bhutan-Thailand relations, a friendship elevated to new heights through the singular efforts of His Majesty the King of Bhutan.

Apr 25, 2025 2 mins read 9,334 views
The bonding of two Kingdoms

The visit of His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun to Bhutan, as a guest of His Majesty Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, is a stimulating reminder of human governance that transcends time.

Apr 25, 2025 3 mins read 5,990 views
Thailand, key partner in Bhutan’s education journey

The principal link between Thailand and Bhutan is education, an enduring bridge that has shaped hundreds of Bhutanese professionals an...

Apr 25, 2025 3 mins read 6,630 views
RBP’s anti-drug campaign offers lifeline to struggling students

Punakha—A glimmer of hope has emerged for students battling substance abuse in Punakha, after a drug and crime awareness talk organised by the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) appears to have triggered a major shift in their perspective.

Apr 25, 2025 2 mins read 7,386 views
Where archery is a sacred ritual of victory and prayer

In Lingzhi, a remote highland village in northern Bhutan, the annual archery match is a sacred tradition. Held once a year before t...

Apr 25, 2025 3 mins read 6,191 views
EU to host Brussels Business Forum to attract investments in Bhutan

The European Union plans to host a high-level business forum in Brussels later this year to...

Apr 25, 2025 2 mins read 6,781 views
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དགའ་སྐྱིད་དཔལ་འཛོམས་གཞི་བཀོད་ མོ་བཏབ་ཐོག་ལས་ བ་རཱ་ཟིལ་ལུ་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ནི།

བ་རཱ་ཟིལ་ལུ་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དགའ་སྐྱི...

Apr 24, 2025 6 mins read 1,991 views
འབྲུག་འདི་ ཡུན་བརྟན་ཅན་གྱི་ ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་ལྟེ་བ་ཅིག་སྦེ་ མཐར་འཁྱོལ་བྱུང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ འབྲུག་ལུ་ སོ་ནམ་གྱི་ལཱ་ནང་ ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་...

Apr 24, 2025 9 mins read 1,974 views
ལྕང་ཡུལ་དང་ རི་རྩ་གི་ཆུ་གཡུར་ལས་འཆར་གྱིས་ སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་ལུ་ འཚོ་བའི་གནས་སྟངས་ཡར་དྲག་བཟོ་ནི།

༉ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ མགུ་མ་རྒེད་འོག་གི་ སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་ ལྕང་ལཱ་ར...

Apr 24, 2025 5 mins read 1,394 views
ནོར་བུ་སྒང་བཟོ་གྲྭ་གླིང་གའི་ཞག་དུས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༩ པའི་ནང་ཨིན་རུང་ ལཱ་ཕྱེད་ཀ་ལས་བརྒལ་ མཇུག་བསྡུ་མ་ཚུགས་པར་ཡོདཔ།

༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ ནོར་བུ་སྒང་བཟོ་གྲྭ་གླིང་ག་ནང་ ལཱ་ཚུ་མཇུག་བསྡུ་ནི་ལུ་ དུས་ཚོད་དང་འཁྲིལཝ་ད་ ཟླཝ་༦ དེ་ཅིག་ལས་བརྒལ་མེདཔ་བཞིན་དུ་ ད་ལྟོ་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་གོང་འཕེལ་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༤༠.༥ དང་ དངུལ་འབྲེལ་གྲུབ་འབྲས་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༣༧.༡༦ ལས་བརྒལ་ མ་ཐོནམ་ཨིན་པས།

Apr 24, 2025 7 mins read 2,140 views
For inclusive healthcare

A recent medical and dental camp organised by the Ability Bhutan Society (ABS), in collaboration with DANTAK healthcare professionals, offers a small but powerful glimpse of what inclusive healthcare can and should look l...

Apr 24, 2025 2 mins read 9,175 views
Norbugang Industrial Park at halfway mark as September deadline nears

Samtse—With just six months remaining before its scheduled completion, the Norbugang I...

Apr 24, 2025 2 mins read 9,130 views
Mountain Hazelnuts’ success positions Bhutan as FDI hub for sustainability

The success of Mountain Hazelnuts, Bhutan’s first foreign direct...

Apr 24, 2025 3 mins read 25,256 views
Changyuel-Ritsa irrigation scheme offers lifeline to farmers

Punakha— As the paddy cultivation season nears, farmers in Guma gewog in Punakha, long plagued by water shortages, are seeing a glimmer of hope. The Changyuel-Ritsa lift irrigation project has been officially approved, offering a lifeline to two of the gewog’s most agriculturally dependent villages.

Apr 24, 2025 2 mins read 7,234 views
Brazil to pilot GNH framework

Gross National Happiness (GNH) is making its way to Brazil. The Centre for Bhutan and Gross National Happiness Studies (CBS) has signed a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Brazilian organisat...

Apr 24, 2025 3 mins read 8,946 views
Sovereign spirits: Story of Bhutan-Thailand Relationship

High in the Himalayas and across Southeast Asia’s tropical plains, Bhutan and Thailand stand as two distinct Buddhist kingdom...

Apr 24, 2025 6 mins read 3,590 views
“My goal this season is to help Paro FC win the championship”

Ritu Porna Chakma, 21, is a midfielder for the senior women’s national football team of Bangladesh...

Apr 24, 2025 2 mins read 8,867 views
མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ བདེ་སྲུང་གསེར་གྱི་རྟགས་མ་ གནང་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཁ་ཙ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ ཟླ་༣ པའི་ཚེས་༢༨ ལུ་ མའེ་ཡན་མར་ལུ་ ས་ཡོམ་རྐྱབ་པའི་ཤུལ་ལས་ འབྲུག་གི་ སྨན་བཅོས་གྲོགས་རམ་སྡེ་ཚན་ལུ་ ཁྱད་དུ་འཕགས་པའི་ རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་འབད་བའི་ངོས་འཛིན་ལུ་ དཱ་ཏོ་ ཨ་ཌམ་ ཏཱུན་ལུ་ འབྲུག་གི་ ཁས་བླངས་ཞབས་ཏོག་དོན་ལུ་ གཟེངས་རྟགས་མཐོ་ཤོས་ཨིན་མི་ བདེ་སྲུང་གསེར་གྱི་རྟགས་མ་ གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Apr 24, 2025 1 mins read 2,051 views
འབྲུག་གིས་ ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་ཡར་སེང་།

ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ བཀག་ཆ་མེད་པའི་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་འཐབ་ན...

Apr 23, 2025 6 mins read 1,930 views
འབྲུག་གི་ ཉིན་བསྟར་ལས་མིའི་གླ་འཐུས་དེ་ འཛམ་གླིང་ནང་ དམའ་ཤོས་ཅིག་ཨིནམ།

༉ འབྲུག་གི་ ཉིན་བསྟར་ལས་མིའི་གླ་འཐུས་དེ་ ཨཱསི་ཊེ་ལ...

Apr 23, 2025 7 mins read 1,456 views
ཨ་ལུ་དབང་པོ་སྐྱོན་ཅན་ཚུ་ལུ་ གསོ་བའི་ཞབས་ཏོག།

ཨ་ལུ་དབང་པོ་སྐྱོན་ཅན་ཚུ་གི་དོན་ལུ་ ཉིནམ་གཅིག་གི་རི...

Apr 23, 2025 7 mins read 2,129 views
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་བཟོ་བཀོད་དང་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་འགྲན་བསྡུར་གྱིས་ ས་གནས་ལག་བཟོའི་ རིག་རྩལ་བརྩི་སྲུང་།

༉ ཁ་ཙ་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་བཟོ་བཀོད་དང་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་འགྲན་བསྡུར་ཐེངས་༢༣ པ་ འགོ་བཙུགས་མི་དེ་གིས་ རྒྱལ་འཛིན་ཐགས་རིགས་སློབ་སྡེའི་ནང་ འབྲུག་གི་ རང་ལུགས་ལག་བཟོའི་འགྲེམས་སྟོན་དང་ ལམ་སྲོལ་བརྩི་སྲུང་ལུ་ གྱུར་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Apr 23, 2025 5 mins read 2,023 views
Thailand King’s state visit: Milestone of unity and friendship

As the vibrant hues of national flags and ornate portraits of Thai and Bhutanese kings flutter along...

Apr 23, 2025 6 mins read 12,723 views
Bhutan’s trade with Thailand hits record high

Bhutan’s imports from Thailand surged to Nu 2.67 billion in 2024, making the Southeast Asian country the third-largest source of imported goods.

Apr 23, 2025 2 mins read 21,445 views
National Design and Art Competition celebrates local craftsmanship

The 23rd National Design and Art Competition (NDAC) opened yesterday with a burst of colour and...

Apr 23, 2025 2 mins read 8,942 views
Let profits trickle down to the masses

At last, the government has managed to persuade Bhutan Telecom to reduce mobile data charges by 50 percent.  From July 1, data charges will be cheaper by 50 percent. In other words, we will get more data with the same price.

Apr 23, 2025 2 mins read 8,693 views
Inclusive healthcare for children with disabilities

A one-day medical and dental camp for children with disabilities brought critical health services directly to families often left behind by...

Apr 23, 2025 2 mins read 7,024 views
Bhutan’s minimum wage trails far behind global benchmarks

Bhutan’s national minimum wage is over 50 times lower than that of Australia, raising questions about wage-setting f...

Apr 23, 2025 2 mins read 12,155 views
སྤྱི་ཟླ་༧ པ་ལས་ མོ་བཱ་ཡལ་གྱི་ ཌ་ཊ་སྤྱོད་འཐུས་ མར་ཕབ་འབད་ནི།

ལྷན་རྒྱས་གཞུང་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ བཀའ་རྒྱ་དང་འཁྲིལ་ཏེ་ འབྲུག...

Apr 22, 2025 7 mins read 2,429 views
ཐའི་ལེནཌ་དེ་ འབྲུག་གི་སོ་ནམ་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་ ཕྱིར་ཚོང་འཐབ་ས་ གཙོ་ཅན་ཅིག་ལུ་གྱུར་ཡོདཔ།

ཐའི་ལེནཌ་དེ་ འབྲུག་གི་སོ་ནམ་ཕྱིར་ཚོང་འཐབ་ས་ གཙོ་ཅན་ཅིག་ལུ་ གྱུར་ཡོདཔ་བཞིན་དུ་ ན་ཧིང་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་ཡ་༨༣.༢༡ དེ་ཅིག་གནས་པའི་ ཅ་ཆས་ཚུ་ ནང་འདྲེན་འབད་ནུག།

Apr 22, 2025 6 mins read 2,085 views
འབྲུག་དང་ ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་གི་བར་ན་ མཛའ་བཤེས་མཐུན་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ ཕུཊ་བཱོལ་རྩེད་འགྲན་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༢༥ ལུ་ ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་གི་རྒྱལཔོ་དང་...

Apr 22, 2025 5 mins read 1,428 views
སྒང་སྟེང་དང་ ཕོབ་སྦྱིས་ཁའི་རྐང་འཁོར་རྒྱུན་ལམ་ བསྐྱར་གསོ་འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཧེ་མ་ཚར་གཅིག་ རྐང་འཁོར་ས་ཡེ་ཀཱལ་གཏང་ནི་ལུ་ ཤུགས་...

Apr 22, 2025 6 mins read 1,489 views
དམ་དུམ་བཟོ་གྲྭ་གླིང་ག་གིས་ བཟོ་གྲྭ་འཕྲུལ་ཁང་༦༣ ལུ་ ས་ཆ་བགོ་བཀྲམ་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ནང་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་དེ་ ཟླཝ་༢ ལང་པའི...

Apr 22, 2025 6 mins read 2,228 views
The future is ours

A remarkable transformation is unfolding in the southern plains of Bhutan. The quiet frontier town of Gelephu is now emerging as the beating heart of a national dream—the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC). This visionary project, led by His Majesty the King, is an infrastructural revolution, a bold leap into the future.

Apr 22, 2025 2 mins read 9,260 views
Bhutan Telecom to reduce mobile data charges from July

Starting July 1, Bhutan Telecom (BT) will reduce mobile data charges by 50 percent, following a directive from the Cabinet. The decision is part of the government’s pledge to make internet services more affordable in the country.

Apr 22, 2025 2 mins read 11,748 views
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Bhutan pitches high-growth sectors as Invest Bhutan Summit opens

The Invest Bhutan Summit has attracted strong international interest, drawing 71 foreign investors from 11 countries in sectors such as IT and digital infrastructure, agro-based industries, tourism and wellness ventures, and solar technologies.

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Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 6,818 views
ESP creates over 11,130 jobs, supports 329 new businesses

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ESP Secretariat reports tangible impact across key sectors

The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) continues to deliver support across the country’s economy, driving growth in agric...

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CCAA reviews consumer law amid surge in e-commerce fraud

The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) plans to submit a modernised Consumer Protection Bill to the Cabin...

Feb 11, 2026 3 mins read 1,548 views
Nu 245 million ESP funds drive growth in creative sector

A targeted fund injection of Nu 245.03 million under the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) has fueled a surge in the cou...

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Advance payments leave mandarin suppliers facing losses

Mandarin suppliers across the country are facing financial risks as advance-payment-based orchard booking arrangements c...

Feb 11, 2026 3 mins read 1,416 views
Criminal convictions drop sharply in 2025

Bhutan recorded a sharp decline in criminal convictions in 2025, with the number of individuals found guilty falling by nearly a quarter compared with the previous year.

Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 1,176 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 8,260 views
Dorjilung hydropower to raise GDP by 2.4%, generate 5,000 jobs

The 1,125MW Dorjilung Hydroelectric Power Project (DHPP) is expected to boost the country’s economy, raising gross domes...

Jan 31, 2026 3 mins read 4,045 views
ESP Steering Committee to review Nu 575 million in unspent, recovered funds

The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) Steering Committee will review how to reallocate Nu 574.73 million in unspent and...

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 3,547 views
New FDI regime offers wider access to foreign investors in agriculture

The agriculture and livestock sector is seeing an increased investor interest following major reforms in foreign direct...

Jan 03, 2026 3 mins read 4,557 views
BCCI submits 35 business ideas to govt. for private sector engagement

The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has submitted 35 business proposals from 12 sector associations to th...

Dec 20, 2025 2 mins read 5,087 views
Bhutan attracts major impact finance commitments at SDG forum

During the two-day Bhutan SDG Impact Finance Forum held last week in Thimphu, international and high-level participants...

Dec 20, 2025 3 mins read 3,611 views
Businesses propose action oriented public-private forum to address private sector woes

The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...

Dec 20, 2025 2 mins read 3,928 views
Driving a new generation of golfers: The 19th Hole

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Giku-Na: A corner for a community

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Koo Me Zha: A film review

Feb 16, 2026 1 mins read 669 views
A Café that kept it Simple

Feb 16, 2026 1 mins read 3,344 views
When stillness stirs a nation

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Ask Mr Bhutan

Feb 02, 2026 2 mins read 1,625 views
Fitness is not defined by body size or age

Feb 02, 2026 1 mins read 1,599 views
Projecting growth

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Builders or buyers?

The latest trade figures reveal a story written not just in ledgers, but in our daily choices.

Feb 11, 2026 2 mins read 1,219 views
The burden of cancer

Feb 07, 2026 2 mins read 1,496 views
Inconvenience caused is highly not appreciated

The capital city is, once again, under excavation. From Motithang to Babesa, roads and drains are being dug out severing...

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 2,164 views
The tourism paradox

Jan 28, 2026 2 mins read 2,163 views
A relief for the hotel industry

Jan 24, 2026 2 mins read 2,457 views
High-value tourism, low-value jobs?

Jan 21, 2026 2 mins read 2,798 views
Tying the loose ends of GST reform

Jan 17, 2026 2 mins read 3,029 views
GST transition pains need urgent fixes

Jan 14, 2026 2 mins read 2,967 views
Making GST work past early hiccups

The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a major fiscal reform in recent years. These new reforms are part of a broader effort to modernise the country’s tax system to make taxation fairer, more efficient, a...

Jan 10, 2026 2 mins read 3,149 views
Amochu quarriers call for flood walls after millions in losses

Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...

Oct 16, 2025 2 mins read 5,528 views
Movie Review: Lights, Camera, Action!

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The Hamptons, born from the love of cooking

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Yarn roses, tiny dolls, and business of careful hands

Crochet, the meticulous art of creating fabric from interlocked loops of yarn, was once associated with a domestic hobby...

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Turning bridal hairstyling into a trend

Jan 26, 2026 2 mins read 2,791 views
Birbi and the art of taking your time

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The cost of delay

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A new chapter for Kuensel

Two decades ago, in February 2005, Kuensel increased its publication frequency to twice a week. This move was a direct r...

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Strengthening the third sector

Over the years, the civil society sector has quietly assumed a critical role in bridging policy and people. Often referr...

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Why selective privatisation in healthcare makes sense

The debate on private sector participation in healthcare has reached an unhelpful impasse. This is mainly because it is...

Dec 30, 2025 2 mins read 3,989 views
Agencies must be held accountable for financial irregularities

The Royal Audit Authority’s (RAA) latest annual report is disturbing, to say the least. Financial irregularities reached...

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