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འབྲུག་པའི་ན་གཞོན་ཚུ་གིས་ མི་སྡེ་ལས་རིག་རྩལ་གྱི་ལས་བྱེདཔ་ཟེར་བའི་ཐོག་ འོང་འབབ་ས་ཡ་ལས་བཅད་དེ་བཟོ་ཡོདཔ།

དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་ དགའ་སེང་ལོག་ལས་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༢༥ ལང་མི་ ཉིམ་རྡོ་རྗེ་གིས་ ཧེ་མ་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ ཆུ་གཡུར་བཟོ་མི་འོག་ལུ་ གླ་ཆ་ཉུང་སུ་སྦེ་ ལཱ་འབད་སྡོད་ཡོད་རུང་ ད་རེས་འབདཝ་ད་ ཁོ་གིས་ འབྲུག་གི་རིག་རྩལ་ཅན་གྱི་ ལས་མི་ལས་སྡེ་ནང་ གཞི་སྒྱུར་སྦོམ་སྦེ་ར་ འབག་འོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Jul 31, 2025 10 mins read 1,863 views
བསམ་རྩེ་ལུ་ ལྕགས་ར་བསྒོར་མི་གིས་ སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་ལུ་ སྲུང་སྐྱོབ་འབད་ཚུགས་ནི།

༉ བསམ་རྩེ་ གསང་སྔགས་ཆོས་གླིང་རྒེད་འོག་ ཆུ་ཆུང་ས་ལས...

Jul 31, 2025 5 mins read 1,804 views
གསོལ་ཆུ་གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་ ལག་ལེན་གྱི་དོན་ལས་ གཞུང་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་རྩིས་སྤྲོད།

༉ ཧཱ་གསང་སྦས་ཁ་ལུ་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་མི་ མེ་ག་ཝཱཊ་༡༨ འ...

Jul 31, 2025 3 mins read 1,792 views
Making urban Thimphu and Paro climate-resilient

The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MoIT) will lead a transformative development in Thimphu and Paro, investing in making these two urban areas more climate-resilient and sustainable against growing impacts of climate change.

Jul 31, 2025 4 mins read 1,974 views
New energy policy targets ambitious 25,000MW capacity by 2040

The National Energy Policy 2025 (NEP 2025) was officially launched yesterday, setting a bold direction for Bhu...

Jul 31, 2025 4 mins read 4,763 views
Bhutanese youth transform skilled labour market, earn millions through C4SW

Once an underpaid assistant to Indian plumbers, 25-year-old Nima Dor...

Jul 31, 2025 3 mins read 4,947 views
Wind turbines face operational hurdles, offer lessons for future projects

Wangdue—Once seen as a promising step toward diversifying Bhutan’s energy...

Jul 31, 2025 2 mins read 5,077 views
Speaker Lungten Dorji advocates stronger parliamentary leadership at global forum

Lungten Dorji, Speaker of the National Assembly of Bhutan, is participating in the 6th World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, taking place from July 29 to 31 at the Palais des Nations, United Nations Office in Geneva.

Jul 31, 2025 2 mins read 6,052 views
Don’t let data die in the system

Bhutan’s disease surveillance system, NEWARS, has made impressive strides in 2024. Reporting rates are up, outbreaks are being caught early, and there is growing clarity on the types and patt...

Jul 31, 2025 2 mins read 5,360 views
Digital gaps persist despite major investment

Bhutan’s ambitious digital transformation efforts are facing significant hurdles despite substantial government investment, according to the recently publishe...

Jul 31, 2025 2 mins read 2,521 views
Chainlink fence brings relief to farmers battling crop loss in Samtse

Samtse—After years of battling crop loss from wild boars and stray cattle, farmers in...

Jul 31, 2025 2 mins read 5,479 views
Suchhu Hydropower Plant officially handed over for operations

The 18MW Suchhu Hydropower Plant (HPP) officially transitioned from its construction and commissioning phase to full operation and maintenance yesterday.

Jul 31, 2025 1 mins read 6,043 views
མི་དབང་མཆོག་གིས་ འགུབ་དགའ་མདོག་ཚེ་རིང་ལུ་ འབུ་རས་དམརཔོ་གནང་ཡོདཔ།

སྤྱི་ཟླ་༧ པའི་ཚེས་༣༠ ལུ་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་...

Jul 30, 2025 1 mins read 5,174 views
འཛམ་གླིང་རི་དྭགས་མ་དངུལ་གྱིས་ གཅན་གཟན་སྟག་གི་ གསར་བཏོན་མ་དངུལ་འགོ་འབྱེད།

ཁ་ཙ་ འཛམ་གླིང་རི་དྭགས་གཅན་གཟན་སྟག་གི་ ཉིནམ་དང་འབྲེ...

Jul 30, 2025 7 mins read 1,638 views
ཟ་ཁང་ཚུ་ སྐྱིན་འགྲུལ་མེད་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ གདོང་ལེན་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ལྟ་བཤལ་ལས་སྡེའི་ནང་ སྐྱིན་འགྲུལ་བཏབ་མ་ཚུགས་པའི་...

Jul 30, 2025 7 mins read 1,664 views
རྡོ་རྗེ་སློབ་དཔོན་བགྲེསཔ་དམར་བསད་འབད་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ དགེ་སློང་བགྲེསཔ་ཅིག་ལུ་ ཉེས་འཛུགས་བཀལ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་ ཁྲིམས་སྲུང་འགག་པ་གིས་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༧ པའི་ཚེས...

Jul 30, 2025 5 mins read 1,857 views
Final act of wisdom and compassion

In a society steeped in tradition, change often comes slowly—sometimes painfully so. But once in a while, someone shows us a better way forward not through words, but through the choices they...

Jul 30, 2025 2 mins read 5,286 views
Budget hotels struggle with mounting loan defaults

Tourism sector is facing major financial headwinds as non-performing loans (NPLs) have surged to Nu 549.21 million as of May 2025.

Jul 30, 2025 3 mins read 6,280 views
WWF-Australia launches Global Tiger Innovation Fund

As Bhutan and other tiger range countries observed Global Tiger Day yesterday, WWF-Australia officially launched the Global Tiger Innovation...

Jul 30, 2025 2 mins read 7,014 views
The Tale of Two Ravens: Weaving Bhutan’s spirit

Your book, The Tale of Two Ravens, is clearly rooted in your time in Bhutan. What was it about Bhutan that left such a lasting impression on you and ultimately inspired this story?

Jul 30, 2025 4 mins read 3,371 views
Bhutan eyes green evolution with agroecology for sustainable food systems

Bhutan is positioning itself as a leader in the agroecology transition wit...

Jul 30, 2025 4 mins read 5,387 views
Bhutan moves to standardise national sign language for inclusive communication

In a major push towards inclusive education and accessibili...

Jul 30, 2025 3 mins read 4,815 views
གཞུང་གིས་ ན་གཞོན་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ སྨྱོ་རྫས་ཀྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་སེལ་ཐབས་ལུ་ དམིགས་བསལ་ སློབ་གྲྭ་གཞི་བཙུགས།

རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ན་གཞོན་ཚུ་གིས་ སྨྱོ་རྫས་ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་མི་...

Jul 29, 2025 7 mins read 1,850 views
མེ་ག་ཝཱཊ་༡,༡༢༥ འབད་མི་ རྡོ་རྗེ་ལུང་གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་གྱི་དོན་ལུ་ གཞི་རྟེན་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་ནི་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ།

འཁོར་ལམ་དང་ ཟམ་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་བརྩིས་ཏེ་ མེ་ག་ཝཱཊ་༡,༡༢༥ འབད་མི་ རྡོ་རྗེ་ལུང་གློག་མེ་ལས་འགུལ་ བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ གཞུང་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ གཞི་འགྱམ་གྱི་ ལཱ་འབད་ནི་འགོ་བཙུགས་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།

Jul 29, 2025 5 mins read 1,834 views
ཚུལ་མིན་གླར་སྤྱོད་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ཨ་ལེན་ཅི་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་བ་ཚུ་ལུ་ གྱོང་རྒུད་ཕོག་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཨ་ལེན་ཅི་གི་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་ཚུ་ ཕྱིར་ཚོང་འཐབ་པའི་སྐབས་...

Jul 29, 2025 7 mins read 1,806 views
A school of second chances – and a stark warning

When a school opens its gates not to eager young minds but to those already bruised by addiction, it signals more than just a new institutio...

Jul 29, 2025 2 mins read 5,827 views
A lucrative cardamom business lost to fronting

There is a big irony in the lucrative cardamom export business. Even as the trade continues to be dominated by fronting and other market distortions, Bhuta...

Jul 29, 2025 4 mins read 5,937 views
Govt. opens specialised school to combat youth substance abuse

To address the country’s growing crisis of youth substance abuse, the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) officially opened the nation’s first specialised school, Yarabling Higher Secondary School (YHSS) in Yonphula, Trashigang.

Jul 29, 2025 2 mins read 3,004 views
1,125MW Dorjilung Hydropower Project begins with infrastructure phase

The 1,125 Megawatt (MW) Dorjilung Hydropower Project has officially begun with the con...

Jul 29, 2025 1 mins read 5,919 views
Former monk charged in killing of former Dorji Lopen

Punakha—Punakha police have charged a man in his early 20s with the murder of former Dorji Lopen Yonten Gyeltshen at his meditation house...

Jul 29, 2025 1 mins read 12,984 views
Samtse College of Education trains local leaders and principals on GESI project

Samtse—To promote gender equality and social inclusion (...

Jul 29, 2025 2 mins read 5,300 views
Bhutan’s passport rises to 84th in global ranking

Bhutan’s passport has improved its standing in the Henley Passport Index 2025, climbing three positions to 84th position in the Henley Passport Index 2025, granting its citizens visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 51 countries, marking a positive shift in the nation’s international travel access.

Jul 29, 2025 2 mins read 5,843 views
Phobji’s dairy turnaround: A valley finds stability in milk

Phobji, Wangdue—At 7:45 am, the morning calm of Phobji valley is broken only by the sound of footsteps—vill...

Jul 29, 2025 3 mins read 2,790 views
Waste warriors of Orong: A success story of women-led community waste management practice in a rural Bhutan

It is a warm summer morning. Green maize fields sw...

Jul 29, 2025 6 mins read 10,055 views
Bhutanese shuttlers gain experience at World University Games despite losses

Four college students from the Royal University of Bhutan partici...

Jul 29, 2025 2 mins read 5,375 views
རྒྱལ་གཞུང་འགན་ལེན་བདོག་གཏད་བརྗེ་སོར་ཁང་གིས་ ལས་སྡེ་ལས་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ས་ཡ་༨༧ མ་ལེན་པར་ཡོདཔ་སྦེ་ཨིནམ།

༉ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་འགན་ལེན་བདོག་གཏད་བརྗེ་སོར་ཁང་གིས་ གསལ་...

Jul 27, 2025 6 mins read 1,842 views
རྒན་རིམ་གྱི་གནས་སྟངས་ ག་དེ་སྦེ་ར་ སེལ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ན།

༉ ང་བཅས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་འདི་ ལེགས་ཤོམ་སྦེ་ དབྱེ་ཞིབ་འབ...

Jul 27, 2025 5 mins read 1,774 views
རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༥-༢༦ ནང་ ནང་འཁོད་འོང་འབབ་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་༧༠.༤༦ ལུ་ ཡར་སེང་འགྱོ་ནི།

༉ རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༥-༢༦ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ ནང་འཁོད་འོང་འབབ...

Jul 27, 2025 5 mins read 1,733 views
སྡེབ་སྲིད་སློབ་གྲྭ་གིས་ ལོ་ལྔའི་རིང་ ནགས་ཚལ་བསྐྱར་གསོ་འབད་ནི་གི་ལས་འགུལ་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ནགས་ཚལ་ཚུ་ མར་ཉམས་འགྱོ་མི་དང་ མཐའ་འཁོར་གནས་སྟངས་...

Jul 27, 2025 6 mins read 1,795 views
Bhutanese step forward to build the GMC

Gelephu—Inspired by the historic launch of the Gelephu International Airport project, Bhutanese from all corners of the country are stepping forward to offer volunteer service (zhabtog) at the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC).

Jul 26, 2025 3 mins read 5,505 views
Not enough evidence to charge former Radhi gup and tshogpa: OAG

The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has clarified its decision to not file criminal charges against...

Jul 26, 2025 4 mins read 6,319 views
YELP strengthens youth employability amid evolving labour market

The Youth Engagement and Livelihood Programme (YELP), one of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and E...

Jul 26, 2025 4 mins read 3,660 views
Capital’s public toilets fail to meet hygiene and accessibility standards

Public toilets in Thimphu are falling critically short of standards,...

Jul 26, 2025 3 mins read 7,388 views
The hidden face of urban hospitality

As Bhutan pushes to attract more tourists, we are failing at something basic—public toilets. A recent report on Thimphu’s public sanitation facilities has exposed not just a few broken taps or dirty floors, but a deep failure in planning, upkeep, and responsibility.

Jul 26, 2025 2 mins read 5,745 views
Chief justice must exert courage for radical transformation

The appointment of an experienced insider as chief justice this week comes at a pivotal moment. With decades of judi...

Jul 26, 2025 2 mins read 5,381 views
UNICEF Bhutan commits to scalable and lasting impact for all children

In a single word, I would describe my initial experience as ‘overwhelmed’. I was overw...

Jul 26, 2025 6 mins read 15,068 views
A life of service: Recollecting Zimpon Dorji Gyeltshen’s life

Serving three successive monarchs across six decades, the late Zimpon’s life was a living chronicle of B...

Jul 26, 2025 5 mins read 10,793 views
Health workforce shows steady growth amid staffing challenges

The Ministry of Health’s (MoH) Annual Health Bulletin for 2025 has revealed a steady rise in Bhutan’s health workforce, which shows improvements in key personnel categories and reaffirming the government’s commitment to strengthening the country’s healthcare system.

Jul 26, 2025 2 mins read 3,225 views
འབྲུག་པའི་མཛོག་ཁྱད་བརྗེ་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ ཨེ་ཤི་ཡཱན་མཛོག་ཁྱད་མགྲན་བསྡུར་ནང་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ནི།

སྤྱི་ཟླ་༨ པའི་ཚེས་༡ ལས་༡༢ ཚུན་ བེང་ཀོག་ལུ་སྦེ་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་མི་ སྐྱེས་ལོ་༡༩ དང་༢༢ མན་ཆད་འབད་མི་ ཁྱད་འཕགས་ཅན་གྱི་ མཛོག་ཁྱད་འགྲན་བསྡུར་ནང་ འབྲུག་མཛོག་ཁྱད་ཚོགས་སྡེ་ལས་ ཕོ་སྐྱེས་༥ དང་ ཨམ་སྲུ་༡ བརྩིས་ཏེ་ མཛོག་ཁྱད་བརྗེ་མི་༥ གིས་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་ནི་ཨིན་པས།

Jul 25, 2025 4 mins read 1,758 views
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Rising online abuse exposes gaps in GBV response

Technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) is emerging as a growing concern in the country, with women, girls and young people increasingly exposed to online harassment, cyberbullying, image-based abuse, sextortion and artificial intelligence-enabled sexual abuse.

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