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Samtse—Two months after its inauguration in February, Dhamdum Industrial Park in Samtse has allotted plots to 63 industries and continues to expand its industrial footprint and employment prospects.
Thailand emerged as Bhutan’s one of the top agricultural export destinatio...
A recent story of a billionaire visitor to Bhutan and a humble shopkeeper has captured the imagination of many, serving as a...
Wangdue-Once a favourite among biking enthusiasts, the Gangtey-Phobji Biking Trail is gearing up for a much-anticipated comeback. Stretching nearly 53 kilo...
To mark the Royal visit of Thailand’s King and Queen on April 25, a highly anticipated under-17 (U-17) football match between Bhutan and Thailand was played yesterday in the capital, drawing thousands of Bhutanese spectators.
༉ གོང་ཚད་གན་ཡིག་ལས་འཆར་ཐོག་ལུ་ གཞུང་གི་ཐབས་ལམ་སྒྲི...
༉ བསམ་གྲུབ་ལྗོངས་མཁར་ བདེ་བ་ཐང་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ འཇིགས་མ...
༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ ནོར་བུ་སྒང་རྒེད་འོག་ སྨད་སྒང་གཡུས་ཚན་གྱི་སོ་ནམ་པ་ མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་གིས་ བྱ་དང་ཕགཔ་གསོ་སྐྱོང་ཐོག་ལས་ འཚོ་བ་སྐྱོང་ནི་དེ་ གཙོ་བོ་ཅིག་ལུ་ གྱུར་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
བཙན་སྐྱོགས་དབང་འདུས། ༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ ཆུ་ཚོད་འཁོར་ལོའི་...
The Draktsho Vocational Training Centre for Children and Youth with Disabilities is launching a major initiative to train 80 parents of children with...
Pema Tsho Sakhu, a 13-year-old Bhutanese student living in Perth, Australia, is already reaching for the stars, literally.
The Clock Tower Square in Thimphu came alive over the weekend with the colours, flavours, and rhythms of Thailand.
More than 70,000 acres of forestland have been lost to fire in the country in just five years. This is not merely a statistic—it is a serious problem. The country has...
On the evening of February 21 this year, waves of messages extending warm felicitations on the Birth Anniversary of His Majesty The King were s...
Samtse—Poultry and piggery farming has become a primary source of livelihood for many farmers in Maedgang, under Norbuang...
Bhutan’s first private helicopter operator, Heli Bhutan Private Limited (Heli Bhutan), will begin its operations by the end of this month.
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ དགེ་ལེགས...
༉ ད་རེས་ནངས་པར་ གསར་སྤང་ལུ་ ཚ་དྲོད་ཆེ་བའི་དུས་ཚོད་ཅིག་ཨིནམ་ལས་ དྲོད་ཤུགས་ཀྱི་ ཚད་གཞི་དེ་ཡང་ ཌི་གི་རི་ སེལ་ཤི་ཡསི་༢༦ ལུ་ལྷོད་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ མི་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་གིས་ ཁྱིམ་ནང་རླུང་འཁོར་མེད་པར་ ལཱ་འབད་མི་ཚུགས་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་རུང་ སེངྒེ་རྒེད་འོག་ སངས་རྒྱས་ཐང་དང་ གཞི་གསར་ཐང་གི་གཡུས་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ སོ་ནམ་གྱི་ལཱ་འབད་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ གྲ་སྒྲིག་འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ བཀྲིས་ཆོས་གླིང་ བསྟན་འབྲུ་ཀོ་ཅིན་ལས་ སྐ...
As Thimphu Thromde undergoes a flurry of repairs and maintenance in preparation for an upcoming VIP visit, the city’s transformation offers more than just a polished façade. It is a good time to pause and reflect on the overall quali...
Forest fires have destroyed around 70,696 acres of forest land across the country in the past five years, according to records with the Department of Forests and Park Services (DoFPS).
“Working among the 87-member Bhutan Medical Relief Team (BMRT) in Myanmar for 18 days, I realised that co-operation, discipline, citizen involvement during emergencies, and volunteerism are key to a nation’s growth,” said Damcho Lhendup, a 19-year-old Gyalsup from the first batch, second cohort of the Gyalsung programme.
For more than three months, the gynaecology department at J...
To strengthen road safety and support law enforcem...
The opposition Member of Parliament (MP) for Nubi-Tangsibji constituency in Trongsa, Tashi D...
As Bhutan advances toward its ambitious goal of achieving developed nation status, its restrictive financial services system stands as a significant...
The price guarantee scheme (PGS), a government backed initiative, is showing early success in boosting local meat and fish production, with...
Bhutan marked a major milestone in its digital dev...
Gelephu—The Gelephu Central Regional Referral Hospital (CRRH) yesterday installed the advanced EVIS X1 CV-1500 endoscopy system to enhance the early...
Indian insurance giant Bajaj Allianz chose Bhutan as the destination for its annual company event, bringing about 120 delegates to the country yesterday for a three-day MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) tourism visit.
In the two most remote gewogs of the country, Lunana in Gasa and Lingzhi in Thimphu, both located 4,000 metres above se...
Samtse-Tashichoeling in Samtse, once a quiet settlement of scattered homes and narrow roads, is rapidly transforming into a thriving town. T...
After earning critical praise and a string of international accolades, filmmaker Dechen Roder’s psychological drama “I, the Song” premiered in Thimphu on April 17.
དངུལ་རྩིས་ལྷན་ཁག་གི་ གནས་དེབ་གསརཔ་དང་འཁྲིལ་བ་ཅིན་ འཛམ་གླིང་ནང་ ས་སྣུམ་གྱི་གོང་ཚད་ བརྒྱ་ཆ་༢༠ ཡར་སོང་འགྱོ་མི་དེ་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་འཕར་ཚད་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༤.༡ དེ་ཅིག་ མར་འབབ་འགྱོ་ནི་ལུ་ ལྷན་ཐབས་འབད་ནི་ཨིན་པས།
དོ་འགྲན་དང་ཉོ་སྤྱོད་དབང་འཛིན་གྱིས་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ལུ་ སྒེ...
ད་རེས་ འབྲུག་གི་ལྟ་བཤལ་ལས་སྡེ་ནང་ ལམ་སྲོལ་གྱི་ཉམས་...
༉ ཨེ་ཤི་ཡཱན་གོང་འཕེལ་དངུལ་ཁང་གིས་ དུས་ཅི་ འབྲུག་ལུ...
༉ ད་རིས་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ ཚོགས་ཀྱི་སློབ་དཔོན་སྐུ་བགྲེས་ རྡོ་རྗེ་རིན་ཆེན་མཆོག་གིས་ དབུ་བཞུགས་ཐོག་ དགེ་འདུན་པ་ཞལ་གྲངས་༢༠༠ ལྷགཔ་ཅིག་གིས་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ སྤང་རི་ཟམ་གདོང་ འབྲུག་ཕོ་བྲང་སྡིངས་རྩིས་གཞུང་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ ལོ་བསྟར་གནང་སྲོལ་ཡོད་པའི་ བསྟན་སྤྱིའི་སྐུ་རིམ་ འབྱུང་བའི་སྤྱི་མདོས་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
A 20 percent surge in global oil prices could drag the country’s economic growth down by as much as 1.4 percent, according to a new simulation by the...
The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) has found several shortcoming...
The Bhutan National Digital Identity (NDI) is set to launch the “NDI Xcelerator Programme” from May 8 to June 6 this ye...
For a person diagnosed with kidney failure, a transplant gives a new lease of life. However, a study published in the Bhutan Health Journal reveals that many kidney transplant recipients in the country are living with poor health-related quality of life, struggling physically, emotionally, and socially even after undergoing life-saving surgery.
Bhutan’s tourism sector remains largely focused on...
Sarpang—It is hot in Sarpang these days. With temperatures already reaching 26°C, not many can work outdoors or without a fan, e...
རྒྱ་མཚོ་ལས་ མཐོ་ཚད་མི་ཊར་༤,༠༠༠ གི་ས་ཁར་དང་ འབྲུག་ལ...
བསམ་རྩེའི་སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་གིས་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ གནམ་བྱཱར་ལུ་ ཆརཔ་དང་ཚ་དྲོད་ཀྱི གདོང་ལེན་འབད་དེ་ གནས་སྐབས་ཀྱི་གུར་ནང་ལས་ ཚོད་བསྲེ་ཚུ་ བཙོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཨེ་ཤི་ཡ་དང་ པེ་སི་ཕིག་གི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ལས་རིམ་གསརཔ་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་མིའི་ནང་ འབྲུག་དང་ ཀེམ་བོ་ཌི་ཡ་ རྒྱ་ནག་ དེ་ལས་ མོང་གོ་ལི་ཡ་ཚུ་གིས་ ཨའི་ལས་ཨ་ལུ་ལུ་ འབུ་མིའི་ནད་གཞི་ཨེཆི་ཨའེ་བི་དང་ སི་ཕི་ལིསི་ དེ་ལས་ ཧེ་པ་ཊའེ་ཊིསི་བི་ཚུ་ མེདཔ་བཟོ་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ ལཱ་ཚུ་འབད་བའི་བསྒང་ར་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
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Torrential rain has upended the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier underway in Thailand, forcing several matches to be abandoned and dashing the hopes of Team Bhutan, who were left battling not just opponents, but the weather.
The Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH), Bhutan’s primary healthcare institution, is facing a crit...
Financial institutions (FIs) have approved Nu 2.28 billion in loans under the economic stimulus programme’s (ESP) concessional credit lines (Window-I) and reinvigoration fund (Window-II).
Khoma in Lhuentse, usually calm and quiet, has become a busy stopover in recent days. Located on the route to Singye Dzo...
In a thrilling display of wit, awareness, and cross-border camaraderie, Babesa Higher Secondary School (HSS) was victori...
Phuentsholing—When a group of customers stepped into a popular momo restaurant in Phuentsholing’s town centre and asked for tea, the restaurant owner had to turn them down. The reason—there wasn’t enough water.
The Bhutan Food and Drug Authority (BFDA) and the International Trade Center, World Trade Organisation (WTO), yesterday...
Bhutan’s only—and the world’s first—captive breeding centre for the critically endangered white-bellied heron (WBH) is m...
After a 14-year break, Bhutan is once again stepping onto the international bodybuilding stage. The country will host th...
More than 3,000 devotees are currently living in makeshift shelters at Kuenselphodrang, Thimphu, as they attend the mont...
Bhutan’s economic outlook for the next fiscal year appears positive. According to the World Bank’s latest South Asia Development Update, the economy is projected to grow by 6.6 percent in fiscal year 2024-25, a significant rise from the 4.9 percent growth recorded the previous year.
The business landscape in the country is rapidly evolving with foreign investments seen as critical to national developm...
Our forests, long a symbol of our environmental leadership, are going up in smoke. In just five months, fires have caused timber losses worth an estimated Nu 520 million. Behind this figure...
Bhutan is celebrating the state visit of His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Phra Vajiraklaochaoyuhua and Her Majesty Queen Suthida Bajrasudhabimalalakshana, who arrived in the country yesterday for a three-day visit.
Diplomatic relationships are often built in conference rooms, signed into existence with handshakes and ink. But in rare...
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 hea...
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 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 Gel...
More than 70,000 acres of forestland have been lost to fire in the country in just five years. This is not merely a stat...
As Thimphu Thromde undergoes a flurry of repairs and maintenance in preparation for an upcoming VIP visit, the city’s transformation offers more than just a polished façade. It is...
Wangdue—The third unit of Punatsangchhu-II hydropower project was commissioned yesterday, boosting the plant’s total gen...
The country’s economy, facing nearly three decades of premature de-industrialisation, requires a targeted industrial pol...
Forty-year-old entrepreneur Sonam Zangmo from Wangdue is pioneering organic glass noodles (Finn) made from buckwheat and...
Bhutan’s agricultural exports saw a strong performance last year, generating Nu 3.51 billion from both primary and proce...
Agenda Chikha, a collaborative initiative between the government and key stakeholders, has committed USD eight million t...
For a person diagnosed with kidney failure, a transplant gives a new lease of life. However, a study published in the Bh...
The Asian Development Bank forecasts that inflation in Bhutan will cool to 4.2 percent this year. That is welcome news....
Bhutanese boxers, over the weekend, not only excited spectators at the clock tower square, but also made the country pro...
The decision to integrate the Gelephu-Kokrajhar cross-border railway into the development of the Gelephu Mindfulness Cit...
Mental health is emerging as one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Globally, it accounts for one in six years...
In an age when many countries are content with meeting global benchmarks, Bhutan has chosen to raise the bar—not just for itself, but for how nations think about maternal and newborn care. The Bhutan Every Newborn Action Plan (BENAP) 2025–2029 is not merely a health sector initiative. It is a moral and strategic statement about national priorities.
Read MoreHis Majesty the King granted Royal Kashos (edicts) for the construction of eight major spiritual projects in Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) on May 12—the auspicious 15th Day of the 3rd Month of the Wood Female Snake Year.
Read MoreSamtse—Once known for its lush paddy fields and sprawling areca nut plantations, Samtse is emerging as a vibrant industrial and economic zone. The shift from an agriculture-dominated district to a centre of manufacturing and infrastructure growth is reshaping both its landscape and livelihood.
Read MoreBhutan has launched an ambitious new roadmap to improve the health and survival of mothers and newborns. The Bhutan Every Newborn Action Plan (BENAP) 2025–2029, released by the Ministry of Health, signals a renewed national commitment to eliminating preventable newborn deaths and stillbirths, while strengthening the country’s health system.
Read MoreThe annual Bhutan Day, a key initiative of the German Bhutan Himalaya Society (DBHG), convened on May 17 at the Dharma Mati Centre in Berlin, bringing together experts, students, and guests from across the globe for a hybrid gathering.
Read MoreFor the second time in 16 years, Bhutan is once again racing to lower the waters of the most dangerous glacier lake, Thorthomi, in Lunana using centuries-old technique never before tested at this scale in such rugged terrain called siphoning.
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