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Bhutan’s agrifood exports have plateaued. Key crops such as cardamom, ginger, potatoes, mandarins, and apples are failing to meet market demands or sustain rural livelihoods.
The Thimphu-Babesa expressway is undergoing a facelift, perhaps to welcome a VIP. While this may be welcome news , the traffic disruptions it causes indicate that there is something seriously wrong with our urban...
In an age dominated by fast fashion and synthetic dyes, a Bhutanese entrepreneur is turning to the past to craft a more sustainable future using natural dyes.
༉ རྒྱ་འབྲུག་མཐུན་འབྲེལ་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ཀབ་༢༠༢༥ འི་ ཀི་རི་ཀེཊ་འགྲན་བསྡུར་དེ་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་ཀི་རི་ཀེཊ་རྩེད་ཐང་ནང་སྦེ་ ཁ་ཙ་འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་བསྒང་ འབྲུག་པའི་སྡེ་ཚན་༢ ཆ་ར་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁ་ཐབ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ དོ་འགྲན་དང་ཉོ་སྤྱོད་དབང་འཛིན་གྱིས་ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་...
༉ དབང་འདུས་ བ་འཇོ་ཐང་ཁྲོམ་གྱིས་ དེང་སང་གི་མཐུན་རྐྱ...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ འབྲུག་གིས་ འཛམ་གླིང་གསོ་བའི་ཉིནམ་འདི་ འཕྲོད...
A recent investigation by the Consumer and Competition Affairs Authority (CCAA) has uncovered widespread disparities in vehicle dealership contracts, exposing practices that heavily favour sellers while leaving consumers vulnerable to unclear terms, harsh penalties, and limited recourse.
Bhutan observed World Health Day with a renewed national commitment to maternal and child health under the global theme “Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures” yesterday.
The government has committed USD 100 million through a venture capital fund to support entrepreneursh...
While most are chasing fares, one cabbie is giving his rides away—for free, and for a cause. Tempa Gyeltshen, a 33-year-old taxi driver from Samdrupjongkhar,...
Bhutan is facing a silent but dangerous health crisis. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)—such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory conditions—have quietly become the leading cause of death in the country.
Wangdue—Bajothang town in Wangdue is set to get a major upgrade with the construction of a new farmers market equipped with modern amenities, offering l...
Gelephu—In the inaugural Bhutan-India Friendship Association (BIFA) Cup 2025 cricket tournament, which kicked off yesterday at t...
གཞུང་གིས་ སྐྱིན་འགྲུལ་ཕར་འགྱངས་གདམ་ཁའི་ གནད་དོན་ཐོ...
༉ ཆེ་མཐོ་ཁྲིམས་འདུན་གྱིས་ ཟླཝ་༦ གི་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་མི་གིས་ གླུ་གཞས་འགྲན་བསྡུར་ནང་ལས་ དྲག་ཤོས་གསུམ་ལུ་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་ཡ་༢.༦ སྤྲོད་དགོཔ་སྦེ་ བཀའ་རྒྱ་གནང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས། ཁྲིམས་འདུན་ལས་ འདས་པའི་བདུན་ཕྲག་ནང་ འཁྲོན་ཆོད་གནང་མི་ལྟར་དུ་ འབད་བ་ཅིན་ གླུ་གཞས་འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་མི་ བསོད་ནམས་བསྟན་འཛིན་གྱིས་ གཡོ་སྒྱུ་དང་ མགུ་སྐོར་རྐྱབ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཉེས་འཛུགས་བཀལ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་སྡེའི་ གཞུང་སྐྱོང་ལེགས་ལྡན་...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ནང་ ལཱ་འབད་སའི་ ས་ཁོངས་ཚུ་ ཉེན་སྲུང་དང...
A study by the Good Governance Committee (GGC) of the National Council of Bhutan warns of growing rural crisis marked by Satong (abandoned land) and Goongtong (vacant households) calling for immedi...
In an effort to create safer and healthier workplaces nationwide, the Department of Labour (DoL) under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Employment, in partnership with the Japan International Cooperation Agency, has launched the National Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Strategy 2025–2035.
In a bid to raise awareness about the rising threat of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the country, the Ministry of He...
A recent study by the Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) found that the Bhutan Meat Vendors Association (BMVA), formed to stabilise prices and ensure suppl...
Food prices in Bhutan have been rising steadily, making it harder for families to afford what they need. Recent data shows that food inflation reached 5.45 percent in February this year, with the cost of food and no...
Convinced for a long time of the common interests shared by France and Bhutan to concretise the friendly relations between our two nations, I have undertaken for the past year and a half the task to intensify these relations with a dual objective: Capitalise on our commonalities such as the importance we attach to culture;Increase our exchanges, particularly in the fields of education and vocation
Punakha—The old Punakha town located just across the river overlooking the iconic Punakha Dzong is a striking contrast, marred by disorganised construct...
Have you ever really looked at the face of the Buddha? I hadn’t. Not really. I have seen so many statues and paintings of the Buddha, at monasteries, lhakhangs, temples in Thimphu and all over Bhutan. But I never really stopped...
Punakha—A businesswoman nearly lost Nu 650,000 last year after her former colleague persuaded her to invest in what was pitched as a lucrative e-c...
Trongsa—With no clear plans for the redevelopment of the Viewpoint Resort in Trongs...
With the loan deferment options initiated during the pandemic set to end by June 30 this year, the government has be...
Phuentsholing—Phuentsholing Thromde’s order to relocate more than 20 long-established industries in Phuentsholing has drawn backlash from industrialists, who accuse the thromde of making a rushed and unilateral decision that could upend livelihoods and undermine their businesses.
There are growing concerns in the arts and craft business. Those in the business are increasingly alarmed by the influx of cheaper—sometimes better-finished—imported crafts that are flooding the local market. A walk through any craft bazaar o...
This week marks a pivotal moment for Bhutan's judicial system as judges and registrars from across the nation conver...
The country’s first green hydrogen pilot plant, located in Gidawom near the Thimphu-Paro highway, is expected to begin with a 1-megawa...
Aligning with the concept of learning abroad and giving back to the country, the Institute of Technology and Professional Learning (ITPL) has introduced four new courses to improve public health, workplace safety, caregiving quality, and telecommunication networks.
After a brief rest in Albury, Bhutanese messenger Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk has resumed his ambitious biking journey acr...
In a celebration of friendship and mutual respect, Bhutan is gearing up for a historic State Visit from the King and...
The Bhutan Health Trust Fund (BHTF) is the financial backbone of Bhutan’s free healthcare system, ens...
Students are increasingly using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Co-Pilot to assist with their studies, citing both advantages and concerns about their impact on learning.
The High Court has ordered the organiser of singing reality show, Bhutan Idol, to pay...
Knowledge is a key happiness indicator in Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness (GNH) index, particularly in relation to educatio...
༉ དཔལ་འབྱོར་ལྷན་ཐབས་ལས་རིམ་ཡིག་ཚང་གིས་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེ...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༣ པའི་ཚེས་༢༥ ལུ་ འཛམ་གླིང་ནང་ ངོས་འཛིན་ཡོད་པའི་ ཨེ་བིསི་བྷུ་ཊཱན་གྱིས་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་གླ་གཏང་ནིའི་ཞབས་ཏོག་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ་བཞིན་དུ་ དེ་གིས་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ འཛམ་གླིང་གནས་རིམ་གྱི་ འགྲུལ་སྐྱོད་ཐབས་ཤེས་ཚུ་ བྱིན་ཚུགས་ནི་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ང་བཅས་རའི་ སློབ་གྲྭ་ཚུ་ནང་ སློབ་དཔོན་༡,༡༠༠ལྷགཔ་ཅ...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཨི་-སི་གི་རེཊ་ཟེར་མི་ཏམ་ཁུ་ ནང་འདྲེན...
༉ འབྲུག་ལུ་ སོ་ནམ་བཟའ་འཐུང་གི་ གོང་ཚད་ཡར་འཕར་འགྱོ་...
༉ ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ རྩི་མ་ལ་ཁ་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ སྨན་ཁང་རྙིངམ་གི་ཚབ་ ཉལ་ཁྲི་༢༠ འབད་མི་ སྨན་ཁང་ཅིག་དགོ་པའི་ གྲོས་གཞི་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ སྨན་ཁང་འདི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ནདཔ་དང་ ལས་བྱེདཔ་གཉིས་ཆ་ར་ལུ་ ཉེན་སྲུང་དང་ལྡནམ་སྦེ་ བཞག་ཐབས་ལུ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ བེང་ཀོག་ལུ་སྦེ་ བེང་གཱལ་མཚོ་ཁུག་གི་ སྣ་མང་ལས་སྡེའི་འཕྲུལ་རིག་དང་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ཐབས་རིག་ བིམསི་ཊེག་ཞལ་འཛོམས་ཐེངས་༦ པ་ འཚོགས་པའི་སྐབས་ བློན་ཆེན་ཚེ་རིང་སྟོབས་རྒྱས་ཀྱིས་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་ འབྲུག་གི་མི་སེར་ཚུ་ལས་ བཀྲིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཞུ་ཡོདཔ་མ་ཚད་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ལུ་ ཁས་བླངས་ཡར་བསྐྱར་ ཕུལ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
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.
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.
Trashignag-Hazelnut growers from across the country were recognised in the agricultural sector at the National Growers’...
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...
Crochet, the meticulous art of creating fabric from interlocked loops of yarn, was once associated with a domestic hobby...
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...
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...
The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) investigation into the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) loan was meant to settle...
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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreChukha—Restoration work on the 100-metre Takti Bridge in Chukha is underway, with Project DANTAK aiming to complete critical stabilisation and reopen the crossing to traffic by the first week of April.
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