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Samtse—With just two months remaining until its scheduled September completion, the Norbugang Industrial Park in Samtse has reached 76 percent overall progress.
Bhutan’s hard-won gains in poverty reduction are under perilous thre...
Bhutanese consumers have received over Nu 339, 567 in refunds from the Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) through mediation and referrals, highlighting...
Phobjikha—As the valleys of Gangtey and Phobjikha in Wangdue continue to draw more visitors each y...
The former Dorji Lopen, Yonten Gyeltshen, was stabbed to death at his residence in Nalanda, Punakha, in the early hours of July 2.
Renewable energy vital in transformation of Bhutan’s food security, experts say. Departments of Energy, Agriculture and Water review potenti...
The 13th Five-Year Plan (FYP), which commenced in July 2024, lays out a bold vision to transform Bhutan’s economy.
In the forest of Namchella chiwog in Dagapela, nature has reclaimed what time and tragedy left behind. Once a thriving village, its tr...
Internet stability in the country is hampered by a combination of infrastructure challenges, right-of-way hurdles, network congestion, and application server limitations, the Minister of Industry, Commerce and Employment, Namgyal Dorji said during the 17th Meet-the-Press yesterday.
The Ministry of Education and Skill Development (MoESD) clarified that it is not ad...
The finance minister Lekey Dorji led Bhutan’s delegation to the Fourth International Conference on Financing f...
Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay yesterday urged Bhutanese overstaying their visas in the United States to return home voluntarily. While presenting the State of the Nation Report, Lyonchhen reminded Bhutanese living in...
As Bhutan faces a growing challenge of skilled citizens moving abroad for work, Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay yesterday outlined the government’s commitment to boosting the economy, fostering employment, and offering competitive wages to keep talent within the country.
Bhutan’s first-ever Airborne Geophysical Survey ha...
Bhutan has surpassed Nu 200 billion in hydropower investments, signaling a major stride towards its energy security goals and ambitious plans for economic transf...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday adopted the Excise Tax Bill of Bhutan 2025, approving only one of the three recomm...
A growing coalition of government agencies, researchers, and development partners is turning to renewable energy–powered irrigation systems to address some of the country’s most pressing challenges—food insecurity, rural joblessness, and climate vulnerability.
Wangdue—Designated in 2014 as Bhutan’s largest Ramsar site, the 974.65-hectare Gangtey-Phobji wetland is now the foc...
ཉིན་བསྟར་ ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་ཡར་སེང་ སོང་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ བསམ་...
ལོ་བསྟར་རྩིས་ཞིབ་སྙན་ཞུ་༢༠༡༠ ལས་༢༠༢༣ ཅན་མ་དང་འཁྲིལ...
The recent outbreak of leptospirosis among de-suung trainees in Dewathang has left the nation in grief and shock. Three young lives have been lost, and many continue to recover from a preventable illness.
More than Nu 4.7 billion in financial irregularities, representing over 27 percent of cases identified since 2...
The National Assembly (NA) yesterday passed the Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill of Bhutan, 2025, rejecting two recommendations proposed by the Nati...
The agriculture sector has received a timely boost with a notable increase in the production of major crops and cereals, a...
A performance audit report by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA), tabled in Parliament yesterday, shed light on shortcomings in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) facilities and services across government schools in Thimphu Thromde.
Samtse—With increasing volumes of waste generated daily, the PW Waste Recovery Center in Sam...
རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ཚོགས་འདུ་གིས་ འབྲུག་གི་གདམ་ཁ་ཅན་གྱི་འཁོན...
ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ཨ་མོ་ཆུ་ འབྲུག་ཚོགས་འབྲེལ་ལས་འཛི...
After immense pressure and numerous tutorials, Sonam cleared her Royal Civil Service Commission entry exam last year. She was set to become a civil servant, earning around Nu 41,000 a month. Yet, she turned down the job and chose...
The Parliament has called for legal action over Nu...
The preliminary investigation into the leptospirosis outbreak among des...
The joint-sitting of Parliament yesterday, endorsed the implementation of performance-based budgeting across all budgetary bodies to address the persistent issues of capital budget underutilisation and enhance the efficient utilisation of resources.
The National Council (NC) has decided to seek a Royal Command to convene a joint sitting of Parliament after it declined to incorporate 4...
A two-year nationwide sanitation project worth Nu 7 million is set to begin this month in Thimphu,...
At the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) conversation on June 30 in Thimphu, the intersection of cryptocurrency, innovation, and tourism took center stage. Many internati...
༉ འབྲུག་ལུ་ གྲལ་བཙུགས་ཤེས་ཡོན་ ཡར་དྲག་གཏང་ནི་ལུ་ ར...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་རྩིས་དཔྱད་བཀོད་འཛིན་གྱིས་ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག...
Despite growing efforts to promote inclusive education in Bhutan, students with disabilities co...
Bhutan’s housing landscape shows a near-even split between homeowners and renters, with 53.2 percent of households owning their dwellings and 46.8 percent renting,...
The World Bank’s latest report “Bhutan Poverty and Equity Assessment” reveals a stark picture of the nation’s poverty landscape: while wage and salary employment remains the clearest path out of poverty, most rural Bhutanese continue to depend on low-productivity agriculture.
Remittances are pouring into the country. Our people, especially in places like Australia, are sending money home. This cash inflow is a big help. It supports families...
For years, I have considered Dorji Wangchuk (Dorjigs) to be Bhutan’s best movie producer. I enjoy talking to Aue Dorji because he has a unique entrepreneurial approach to movie-making. With Dasho Driver, he is putting...
Phuentsholing— The double lane road near the STCBL fuel depot in Amochhu, Phuentsholing, once touted as a vital arte...
As my time in Bhutan as the World Bank’s Interim Country Director comes to a close, I leave with a deep sense of admiration, gratitude, and optimism for the country’s future.
Over 200 intruders have swarmed the cordyceps sites of Lunana, sparked by a permit loophole that left local residents watching outsiders enter their lands first.
The Multidisciplinary Super-Speciality Hospital (MDSSH) will be constructed as a flagship project under the 13th Five-Ye...
Bhutan’s first-ever Airborne Geophysical Survey is on track for completion by June this year, with the most technically...
The Department of Energy announced that restoration work at the flood-damaged Dagachhu hydropower plant is nearing compl...
Trashigang —In the high valleys of Sakteng Gewog, the legend of the Migoi, the mythical yeti, has never truly disappeared.
Family problems and weak support systems at home remain among the main drivers behind the rise in substance abuse among...
As global climate forecasts warn of a possible “Super El Niño” this summer; raising fears of record-breaking temperature...
All foreign workers employed in the country for more than a month are required to open Bhutanese bank accounts.
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.
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 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, business, education, entertainment, and entrepreneurship.
༉ 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...
As the government undertakes the mid-term review (MTR) of 13th Plan activities across dzongkhags, its performance must b...
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, business, education, entertainment, and entrepreneurship.
Read MoreThe three small hydropower projects - the 18MW Suchhu, 32MW Yungichhu, and 54MW Burgangchhu, are expected to generate 494 million units (MU) of electricity annually.
Read MorePunakha—The Royal Bhutan Police has deployed 28 police personnel, including two officers, to Lunana amid mounting security concerns triggered by a surge in illegal cordyceps collection in the remote highlands.
Read MoreThousands of bank accounts across the country’s financial institutions (FIs) have become dormant, holding idle funds for years because customers stopped using them, forgot about them, or shifted to other FIs.
Read MoreThe 37th Session of the National Council (NC), to be held from May 14 to June 16, will deliberate on agreements, conventions, review reports, and legislative bills.
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