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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
When Bhutanese actor and environmental advocate Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk set out ac...
Dorokha, Samtse—A desho paper production centre in Jigme village, Dophuchen gewog, run by the Lhop commu...
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...
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.
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...
An eight-woman team representing Bhutan recently participated in a friendly compound archery match in Sikkim, India, indicating the sport’s rising po...
༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ མགྲོན་བརྡ་ཕུལ...
༉ འབྲུག་དང་ ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་གི་བར་ན་ གཞུང་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ དོན་...
ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་དང་ འབྲུག་གི་བར་ན་ མཉམ་འབྲེལ་གཙོ་བོ་ར་ ཤེ...
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.
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.
The principal link between Thailand and Bhutan is education, an enduring bridge that has shaped hundreds of Bhutanese professionals an...
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.
In Lingzhi, a remote highland village in northern Bhutan, the annual archery match is a sacred tradition. Held once a year before t...
The European Union plans to host a high-level business forum in Brussels later this year to...
བ་རཱ་ཟིལ་ལུ་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དགའ་སྐྱི...
༉ འབྲུག་ལུ་ སོ་ནམ་གྱི་ལཱ་ནང་ ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་...
༉ བང་ལ་དེཤ་གི་ ཨམ་སྲུའི་ཕུཊ་བཱོལ་རྩེད་འགྲན་པ་ རི་ཏ...
༉ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ མགུ་མ་རྒེད་འོག་གི་ སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་ ལྕང་ལཱ་ར...
༉ 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།
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...
Samtse—With just six months remaining before its scheduled completion, the Norbugang I...
The success of Mountain Hazelnuts, Bhutan’s first foreign direct...
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.
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...
High in the Himalayas and across Southeast Asia’s tropical plains, Bhutan and Thailand stand as two distinct Buddhist kingdom...
Ritu Porna Chakma, 21, is a midfielder for the senior women’s national football team of Bangladesh...
༉ 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།
ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ བཀག་ཆ་མེད་པའི་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་འཐབ་ན...
༉ འབྲུག་གི་ ཉིན་བསྟར་ལས་མིའི་གླ་འཐུས་དེ་ ཨཱསི་ཊེ་ལ...
ཨ་ལུ་དབང་པོ་སྐྱོན་ཅན་ཚུ་གི་དོན་ལུ་ ཉིནམ་གཅིག་གི་རི...
༉ 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།
As the vibrant hues of national flags and ornate portraits of Thai and Bhutanese kings flutter along...
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.
The 23rd National Design and Art Competition (NDAC) opened yesterday with a burst of colour and...
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.
A one-day medical and dental camp for children with disabilities brought critical health services directly to families often left behind by...
Bhutan’s national minimum wage is over 50 times lower than that of Australia, raising questions about wage-setting f...
ལྷན་རྒྱས་གཞུང་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ བཀའ་རྒྱ་དང་འཁྲིལ་ཏེ་ འབྲུག...
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།
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༢༥ ལུ་ ཐའེ་ལེནཌ་གི་རྒྱལཔོ་དང་...
༉ ཧེ་མ་ཚར་གཅིག་ རྐང་འཁོར་ས་ཡེ་ཀཱལ་གཏང་ནི་ལུ་ ཤུགས་...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ནང་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་དེ་ ཟླཝ་༢ ལང་པའི...
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.
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.
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.
The Invest Bhutan Summit has attracted strong international interest, drawing 71 foreign investors from 11 countries in...
A Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) rule requiring civil servants on extraordinary leave to serve a three-month noti...
The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) has generated more than 11,130 jobs and supported the creation of 329 new business...
The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) continues to deliver support across the country’s economy, driving growth in agric...
The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) plans to submit a modernised Consumer Protection Bill to the Cabin...
A targeted fund injection of Nu 245.03 million under the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) has fueled a surge in the cou...
Mandarin suppliers across the country are facing financial risks as advance-payment-based orchard booking arrangements c...
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.
The 1,125MW Dorjilung Hydroelectric Power Project (DHPP) is expected to boost the country’s economy, raising gross domes...
The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) Steering Committee will review how to reallocate Nu 574.73 million in unspent and...
The agriculture and livestock sector is seeing an increased investor interest following major reforms in foreign direct...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has submitted 35 business proposals from 12 sector associations to th...
During the two-day Bhutan SDG Impact Finance Forum held last week in Thimphu, international and high-level participants...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...
The latest trade figures reveal a story written not just in ledgers, but in our daily choices.
The capital city is, once again, under excavation. From Motithang to Babesa, roads and drains are being dug out severing...
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...
Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...
Crochet, the meticulous art of creating fabric from interlocked loops of yarn, was once associated with a domestic hobby...
Two decades ago, in February 2005, Kuensel increased its publication frequency to twice a week. This move was a direct r...
Over the years, the civil society sector has quietly assumed a critical role in bridging policy and people. Often referr...
The debate on private sector participation in healthcare has reached an unhelpful impasse. This is mainly because it is...
The Royal Audit Authority’s (RAA) latest annual report is disturbing, to say the least. Financial irregularities reached...
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