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The Hotel and Restaurant Association of Bhutan (HRAB) is calling on the government to extend the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) loans to the hospitality sector, arguing that the industry is still struggling to recover from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
His Majesty the King, His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, Her Maj...
More than 90,000 students across Bhutan will receive increased school meal stipends be...
The Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) has announced a bye-election for the Nubi-T...
The Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) introduced a new set of loan restructuring measures this year aimed at helping struggling borrowers, particularly businesses hit hard during pandemic. The move marks a shift from the broad loan deferment approach under Monetary Measures IV (MM4), which officially ended on June 30, this year.
Our ambitious endeavour to introduce an electric vehicle (EV) taxi program, intended to curtail carbon emissions and modernise its transportation sector, needs better...
Bhutan is undergoing a profound demographic transition. While the country...
Samtse—Despite repeated appeals and visible signs of deterioration, the condition of staff quarters at Samtse...
The development of responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) policies and overall AI strategies must occur simultaneously rather than sequentially. This was shared by a panelist during the recent AI for Development workshop, which concluded on June 17.
At just 24 years old, Bishal Dhakal is quietly rewriting Bhutan’s tech narrative. As the sole founder of Light Webx, a startup he runs independently, Bishal is d...
With the egg initiative launched in February, which provides one egg per child to 31,579 students across the country, there has been a noticeable—though no...
Rice production and the number of rice growers in Bhutan have declined steadily in rec...
Despite its richness in biodiversity, vibrant cultural heritage, and a wide array of trekking opportunities, Zhemgang has long remained on the fringes of Bhutan’s tourism circuit.
༉ ཆུ་ཁ་ དར་ལ་ སྐལ་ཟ་རི་དང་ ཤར་ཕུག་སྤྱི་འོག་གི་ མི་...
༉ མེ་ག་ཝཱཊ་༡,༠༢༠ འབད་མི་ དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་ སྤུ་ན་གཙ...
༉ ཧེ་མ་འབད་བ་ཅིན་ དབང་འདུས་ཕོ་བྲང་ ཕོབ་སྦྱིས་ཁའི་ལ...
༉ ཨ་ལུ་རེ་ལུ་ སྒོང་རྡོག་རེ་ཟེར་མི་ལས་རིམ་དེ་ སློབ་...
༉ ལྕང་གླིང་མི་ཐང་གི་ མདའ་རྩེད་ཐང་ནང་སྦེ་ ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་...
When His Majesty the King announced the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) on National Day 2023, it was met with awe, excitement—and some doubt....
The “One-Child, One-Egg” initiative is visibly transforming the school feeding programme (SFP) in lowland areas, with excited students at Wokuna Extended Classroom in Punakha cheerfully telling visiting officials that daily eggs are making them stronger and tastier meals.
Wangdue—After nearly 14 years of construction, the 1,020-megawatt (MW) Punatsangchhu-II Hydroelectric Project (HEP) achieved a majo...
Phuentsholing—Residents of Kezari and Sharphu chiwogs in Darla, Chukha, are urgently appealing to the government to either reopen Kezari Primar...
To enhance Bhutanese human capital and deepen bilateral ties, Japan yesterday granted approximately Nu 143 million (JPY 243 mill...
A single women’s team, “Kurukulle,” stands out among 84 competitors at the Bhutan National Archery Championship 2025 currently underway at Thimphu’s Changlimithang archery range, representing a moment for female participation in the sport.
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༧ པའི་ཚེས་༡༥ ལུ་ གནས་ཚུལ་ཞལ་འཛོམས་ཅིག་ འ...
༉ གཞུང་གིས་ལོ་གཅིག་གི་ གྲུབ་འབྲས་ཡོངས་རྫོགས་སྦེ་ བ...
༉ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་དྲན་ཤེས་ཁྲོམ་ཚོགས་ནང་ ཆོས་ཕྱོགས་ཀྱི...
At a glance, tourist arrivals in the first six months of 2025 look promising. A total of 100,675 tourists visited Bhutan—an increase of over 25,000 compared to the same period last year. More than half were from neighbouring India, categorised in the industry as non-dollar-paying tourists.
Gelephu—The Tabab Choeten, a spiritual landmark within the ambitious Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC), is nearing completion, with artisans currently crafting sacred cla...
The Opposition Party(OP) said that its efforts to conduc...
The Opposition Party (OP) clarified its role in Parliament during a press conference on July...
The global fight against HIV stands at a dangerous crossroads as abrupt funding cuts threaten to reverse decades of progress, the latest UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2025 warns.
A two-day workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI) fo...
The Opposition Party has raised concerns over what it terms...
Phobjikha—Once home to thousands of sheep, Phobjikha Valley in Wangdue...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ འབྲུག་སླར་འབྱུང་གློག་མེ་ལས་འཛིན་གྱིས་ མེ་ག་ཝཱཊ་༡༢༠ འབད་མི་ འཇམ་སྦྱི་ཉི་དྲོད་ཕོ་ཊོ་བཱོལ་ཊེཊ་ལས་འགུལ་གྱི་ ཁག་འབག་ལཱ་དེ་ རིག་གསར་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་ལུ་ བྱིན་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ གནས་ཚུལ་ཞལ་འཛོམས་སྐབས་ གཞུང་གི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལས་ སླ...
ཁ་ཙ་ འབྲུག་གི་ཆོས་སྡེ་ལྷན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ རྩིས་ལོ་༢༠༢༤-...
༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ གི་ རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱི་ སྙན་ཞུ་ཕུལབའི་སྐབ...
The State of the Nation (SotN) report 2025 was seen as rich in vision but poor in critical analysis, operational coherence and institutional realism, underplaying structural challenges while overemphasising symbolic projects and aspirational narratives, according the Opposition Party (OP) discussed yesterday on the review of the Prime Minister’s report on the SotN.
The Opposition Party (OP) has strongly criticised the go...
Druk Green Power Corporation Limited (DGPC) yesterday awarded the contract for the 120 megawatt...
The draft National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (NAIS) 2025 seeks to align advanced technology with the country’s guiding development philosophy, Gross National Happiness (GNH...
The outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in Assam is not just a neighbouring country’s problem—it is an urgent public health concern for Bhutan. With the monsoon season at its peak, the conditions for mosquito-borne diseases like JE have never been more favourable. The Ministry of Health’s advisory, prompted by confirmed fatalities in Assam, must not be taken lightly.
Tucked in the heart of the Himalayas, Bhutan is a nation where culture is not only preserved but celebrated with pas...
The Commission for Religious Organisations of Bhutan (CROB) yesterday reco...
༉ སྤ་རོ་རྫོང་ཁག་ཁྲིམས་འདུན་གྱིས་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མི་ཁུང...
༉ གནམ་བྱཱར་ཐོནམ་དང་འབྲེལ་ གསོ་བ་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ ཇ་པ་ནིསི་ཨིན་སེཔ་ཧེ་ལི་ཊིསི་ཟེར་མི་ནད་གཞི་དེ་ རྒྱ་གར་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ ཨ་སམ་ལུ་ དར་ཁྱབ་སོང་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ མི་མང་ལུ་ དྲན་བཏོན་གསལ་བསྒྲགས་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
The agriculture sector is showing early signs of transition from subsistence-based farming towards more commercial production, supported by improved market access, better inputs and modern farming practices, according to the latest quarterly data.
The programme focused on strengthening ethical and responsible reporting on issues affecting marginalised groups, partic...
The spike in egg prices is the result of deeper structural disruptions in the poultry sector, compounded by inflationary...
The Fifth Session of the Fourth Parliament of Bhutan will be held from May 14 to June 17, 2026, during which lawmakers w...
At just 32, Tseltrim Zangmo thought she was just tired; she ended up fighting Stage 3 breast cancer. Her message to the...
The bond between the two Kingdoms of Bhutan and Thailand has always been rooted in shared reverence and wisdom. This gai...
One life is lost every 84 hours. Bhutan’s rising suicide rate is no longer just a public health crisis. It is also a di...
With a price tag of Nu 14.4 billion annually, can Bhutan really afford to keep subsidizing your fuel?
The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support beyond seed funding remains limited, making it difficult for existing startups to scale and sustain operations.
The desire for happiness is universal, and beauty, prestige, and wealth have always been seen as pathways to achieve it. In that sense, this is nothing new.
About six kilometres before Trongsa town, just past the Bjee Zam Bridge, a traditional one-storey house appears on the left of the highway. It is not easy to miss. This modest structure...
In Bhutan, healing is not a choice between past and present but a collaboration between the two. Across the country, patients move between modern clinics and traditional medicine units with ease, guided as much by...
When I first arrived in Australia last year, I thought I was prepared. I had spoken to people, watched videos, and tried to imagine what life would be like. Bu...
The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his role as a symbol of abundance and generosity. There are five principal forms of the...
The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency and warmth by devoted grandparents can fare well, separation from parents at this age generally causes...
You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness, which is precisely what it does not mean. A more precise term might be: empty of inherent existence.
The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a relaxed four-hour setting to reconnect with family and friends.
The conflict in the Middle East, which has disrupted the global economy and fueled uncertainties, has led investors to question whether oil-rich nations remain a safe haven. As the conflict drags on, investors are seeking to diversify away from Gulf nations, especially Dubai while navigating geopolitical tensions and global volatility.
The digital age has transformed Bhutanese society in ways unimaginable in just a decade or two. Social media and online platforms have opened enormous opportunities for communication,...
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ལུང་ཕྱོགས་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ལངམ་སྦེ་མེད་པའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་ལུ་བརྟེན་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་ ས་མཚམས་ཕྱི་ཁ...
Recent developments in the Middle East crisis suggest that a return to normalcy is still far away. Even if the war ends and the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly one-quarter of the world’s oil flows to markets, reopens, the discuss...
Bhutan is facing a “national crisis” as birth rates plunge by 62.9 percent. If current trends continue, the country could see as few as 2,000 births by 2028.
This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...
The deafening sounds of missiles and gunfire in the Middle East have briefly faded under a ceasefire, offering a much-needed respite that eases global anxieties over spiraling economic and geopolitical crises....
The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.
The Year of the Snake became a defining moment for the country’s economy, as growth accelerated sharply following severa...
The Wood Female Snake Year brought major tax reforms in the country with the passage of the Income Tax Act of Bhutan 202...
The 1,125MW Dorjilung Hydroelectric Power Project (DHPP) is expected to boost the country’s economy, raising gross domes...
Taking care of all members of society is a characteristic of a mature and compassionate nation; therefore, I strongly ad...
Studies and end of life accounts consistently show that many of us leave this world with the same stinging regrets: not...
The government’s directive to prudently use scarce public resources, fossil fuels (petrol and diesel) is a timely interv...
The Bhutan Media Forum concluded yesterday, bringing together media professionals, policymakers, and civil society membe...
Three borrowers have refunded a combined Nu 240.48 million to the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) pool following the Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) directive to submit action taken reports on procedural lapses identified in four projects.
Read MoreThe Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) has launched a nationwide review and redeployment exercise to address growing disparities in teacher distribution across schools, in wake of teacher shortages in key subjects and rising teacher attrition.
Read MoreBhutan is confronting a mounting demographic crisis that economists warn could undermine the country’s ambitious 10X National Economic Vision, as declining fertility, rising youth outmigration, and a rapidly ageing population begin to reshape the foundations of long-term economic growth.
Read MoreThe National Assembly yesterday tabled the Renewable Energy Tax Exemption Bill of Bhutan 2026, proposing time-bound and conditional tax breaks to attract investment and accelerate the development of hydropower, solar, and other renewable energy projects.
Read MoreThe conflict in the Middle East, which has disrupted the global economy and fueled uncertainties, has led investors to question whether oil-rich nations remain a safe haven. As the conflict drags on, investors are seeking to diversify away from Gulf nations, especially Dubai while navigating geopolitical tensions and global volatility.
Read MoreCharity has always been an inherent value of Bhutanese society. Neighbours lend a hand, communities pull together in sickness and death, and strangers step up in hard times.
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