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His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Gyaltsuen are in Vietnam from August 18 to 22 at the invitation of President Luong Cuong, marking the first-ever visit by a Bhutanese Head of State to Vietnam. This historic engagement underscores the maturity of a diplomatic relationship established just over a decade ago and opens new horizons for cooperation in trade, culture, spirituality, and developme
I arrived in Bhutan for the 2025 Bhutan Echoes literary festival expecting postcard beauty–the valleys, the mountains, the wi...
Sarpang—For decades, crossing the swollen Panchfaley stream during monsoon meant risk and uncertainty for residents of...
Our vision is to make Paro FC synonymous with exce...
༉ བློན་ཆེན་ཡིག་ཚང་གིས་ གསལ་བསྒྲགས་འབད་མི་དང་འཁྲིལཝ...
༉ སྨན་གཡོག་དེ་ ཁྱད་ལཱ་ཅན་ཅིག་ཨིན་པའི་ཁར་ ཚན་རིག་གི...
སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༦ ལས་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཏེ་ འབྲུག་གི་གནས་ཚད་ལས་...
༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་ རྒྱལ་བཙུན་རྣམ་...
Alcohol remains one of the biggest social problems in our country. Solutions are rare, even though this substance has long been identified as a root cause of many evils—including in the teachings of Lord Buddha. While we may not be able to eliminate alcohol completely, a small initiative could make a big difference: protecting our children from early exposure to it.
On Their Majesties’ ongoing State Visit to Vietnam, His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen paid tribute to President Ho Chí Minh — the founder of modern Vietnam, and t...
Starting next year, only products certified by the Bhutan Standards Bureau (BSB) will be permitted for import into Bhutan.
While nursing has been viewed as a profession best suited to students from science backgrounds, educators say that perception...
A recent survey conducted by the Journalists’ Association of Bhutan (JAB) has revealed the profound and multifaceted influence of media on Bhutanese society.
The country’s ambitious bid to green its tourism industry has met its first real test: only five hotels—all of them five-star properties—have qualifi...
Phuentsholing—In an age when farming is often seen as burdensome, Sanjeev Subba,...
The seventh edition of the South Asian Football Federation’s (SAFF) Under (U)-17 Women’s Championship 2025 is scheduled to begin today at the Changli...
ལྷ་ཁང་རབ་གནས་དེ་ཡང་ སྐྱབས་རྗེ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་གིས་ གནང་ནི་དང་ དེ་གི་ཤུལ་ལས་ ཉིན་གྲངས་༣ གྱི་རིང་ འཛམ་གླིང་ཞི་བདེའི་སྨོན་ལམ་ཆེན་མོ་ འཚོགས་གནང་ནི་གི་ ལས་རིམ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆོ་མཆོག་དང་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་བཙ...
The salang tendrel for the Jamjee Solar Project is more than a ritual blessing. It is our bold leap into a new era of renewable energy. For decades, we have relied almost entirely on hydro...
In what is described as a landmark moment in Bhuta...
Paro-The country is moving beyond sustainable tourism toward a regenerative model—an approach first introduced by the monarchs through the “high value, low volume” policy.
In a move to curb illegal imports and ensure timely access to agricultural inputs, the National Seed Centre, Ministry of Agri...
Bhutan will host the Global Peace Prayer Festival in Thimphu from November 4 to 17, an event of a scale never seen before in the country, the Prime Minister’s Offic...
Located amid one of Buddhism’s most sacred sites at Rajgir, Bihar, India, the Royal Bhutan Temple will be consecrated on September 4. Hi...
Bhutan’s highland communities are set to benefit from new initiatives aimed at revitalising yak-rearing by promoting fibre production, rangeland development, and global market access.
The Bhutan Badminton Federation (BBF) is optimistic about its prospects in the individual matches of the Badminton Asia’s South Asia Regional Juni...
༉ འབྲུག་མཁལ་རྡོག་གཞི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ མཁལ་རྡོག་གཞི་བཙུགས...
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་གིས་ ཟངས་མདོག་དཔལ་རིའི་ ས་ཁོངས་ནང་ མི་མང་རྐང་འགྲུལ་འབད་མི་ཚུ་ལུ་ སྟབས་བདེ་དྲག་བཟོ་ནི་ལུ་དམིགས་ཏེ་ སྣུམ་འཁོར་འགྲུལ་སྐྱོད་ཀྱི་ སྒྲིག་གཞི་གསརཔ་བཟོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ ས་ཁོངས་ནང་སྡོད་མི་ཚུ་ བྱ་སྟབས་མ་བདེཝ་མི་འཐོན་ནི་དང་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་ལེགས་ཤོམ་འཐབ་ཚུགས་ནི་ དེ་ལས་ མི་མང་གི་ས་ཁོངས་ཚུ་ གོ་ཡངས་ཡོདཔ་བཟོ་དོན་ལུ་ཨིན་པས།
When the Samdrupjongkhar gate was opened to international tourists last November, the expectation was this would channel a steady flow of visi...
Bhutan aims to become a regional clean energy exporter by 2035, harnessing its abundant renewab...
The Salang Tendrel ceremony for the 120 megawatt-peak (MWp) Jamjee Solar Photovoltaic Project, Bhutan’s first and largest grid-connected utility-scale solar initiative, was held on August 16 at Maedwang gewog, Thimphu.
The Journalist Association of Bhutan’s Media Perception Index 2025 has highlighted gro...
Phuentsholing—The Phuentsholing Thromde has implement...
Punakha—Dzomlingthang, a scenic riverside retreat just two kilometres from the iconic Punakha Dzong, is set for a major...
The walk to Jetsun Milarepa’s drupchhu begins quietly. A short 10-15-minute journey from the road point near Dobji Dzong in Dawakha, Paro, winds through crisp air, filled with subtle scents of its natural surroundings.
The 13th Foundation Day of the Bhutan Kidney Foundation (BKF) recognised seven kidney donors...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ ན་རོ་རྒེད་འོག་གིས་ དབྱར་རྩྭ་དགུན་འབུབ་...
༉ གཞི་རྟེན་མཁོ་ཆས་དང་ སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་ལྷན་ཁག་ འགྲོ་འགྲ...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་གིས་ རུལ་བཏུབ་པའི་ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་བས...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༨ པའི་ཚེས་༡༤ ལུ་ ཀྲོང་གསར་ ནུབ་སྦི་- སྟང...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ལུ་སྦེ་ འབྲུག་རྒྱུ་ནོར་གཞི་བཟུང་དང་ སྡེ་...
Looking at today’s priorities, there is no mistaking the urgency. Bhutan must grow its economy tenfold in the next decade. The government has set the bar high with its national economic vision to achieve 10X growth by 2035. The call is...
As the demand for new nursing institutes grows in the country, health o...
Gelephu—With the main drug traffickers taken off the porous borders in Sarpang, the ambitious goal of making Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) free from cr...
A taxi ride to Paro recently offered a snapshot of a shifting media landscape in Bhutan. The passengers had barely settled into the seat when the driver...
With Bhutan set to replace its 10 percent Bhutan Sales Tax (BST) with a 5 percent Goods and Services Tax (G...
A new nationwide survey suggests that Bhutan’s media landscape, though modest in size and resources, holds considerable sway over public opinion, shaping how people think, speak and even behave.
Gerab Nyed-Yon (GNY), the investment arm of the Zhung Dratshang (central monastic body), has reported exceptional performance in 2024, surpassing its revenue and profit targets by a significant margin.
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Green Digital Limited (GDL) and Clean Kinetics signed a Joint Venture (JV) Agreement to develop grid-connected ground-mo...
Bhutan’s carefully cultivated image as a green success story needs journalism that is willing to look beyond slogans and...
Vehicle prices in Bhutan continue to be a point of contention, especially when compared with those in neighbouring India...
When the Goods and Services Tax (GST) came into force on January 1, public attention largely centred on prices, complian...
The Ministry of Finance projects that revenue from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will reach Nu 14.18 billion in the f...
For Phuntsho Wangdi, a corporate employee, the impact of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is felt in the monthly househo...
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) should prevent retailers from facing a cascading price effect by allowing them to claim...
The impact of Goods and Services Tax (GST) is being felt most immediately and viscerally in the agriculture and livestoc...
The agriculture and livestock sector is seeing an increased investor interest following major reforms in foreign direct investment (FDI) policy that liberalised ownership rules and eased approvals.
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...
Happiness can be described in countless ways, yet it is always experienced as one. Even if we fail to put it into words, we still recognise it. Sometimes, only when old words fade from the ton...
Happiness can be described in countless ways, yet it is always experienced as one. Even if we fail to put it into words, we still recognise it. Sometimes, only when old words fade from the ton...
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...
Two decades ago, in February 2005, Kuensel increased its publication frequency to twice a week. This move was a direct response to our readers’ growing needs and a conscious preparation for the n...
Over the years, the civil society sector has quietly assumed a critical role in bridging policy and people. Often referred to as the third sector, CSOs have emerged as indispensable partners in Bhutan’s pursuit...
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 fourth round of the Gelephu Mindfulness City volunteer programme, which drew a record 10,000 participants, pushing total participation beyond 22,500, must be celebrated as a national moment. The overwhelming number of volunteer...
The parliamentary endorsement of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Thailand marks a watershed moment in Bhutan’s econo...
Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...
Choose your environment Your environment is the invisible hand that constantly shapes the way you think, feel, and act....
Our global culture has conditioned us to spend the best of ourselves in the pursuit of a “decent living” whatever that m...
In a world that constantly advertises, applauds, and sells consumption, acquisition and growth at all costs, cultivating...
The shortage of farm labour is a real problem faced by farming households across the country. Over the years, this has...
For 15-year-old Nima Dema, a student from Tendruk Central School in Samtse, the opportunity to take part in the ongoing...
The resumption of works on the 1,200-megawatt Punatsangchhu Hydropower Project I offers a flicker of hope. After all, th...
Bhutan’s clean air is becoming a comforting myth—pleasant to repeat, dangerous to believe. For years, we have worn the r...
We love to talk about innovation, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance. In fact, we use these words in excess in policy d...
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