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Forty-year-old entrepreneur Sonam Zangmo from Wangdue is pioneering organic glass noodles (Finn) made from buckwheat and vegetable extracts.
༉ གཞུང་དང་ འབྲེལ་ཡོད་གཙོ་ཅན་གྱི་བར་ན་ མཉམ་འབྲེལ་རྩ...
༉ དུས་ཅི་ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་སྒྲོམ་མཆོད་དང་ ཚེས་བཅུའི་སྐབས་ ཕ...
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ དཔག་བསམ་ཁ་ བཱ་ཝ་ནི་ཇོ་ར་གི་ ས་འོག...
༉ དར་དཀར་ནང་ ལྷ་མོའི་རྫིང་ཁ་ལུ་ ནགས་ཚལ་སྟུག་དྲགས་ཅིག་ནང་ཆགས་མི་ ཁུ་རུལ་མཚོ་ཡོད་སར་ དད་ཅན་མི་སེར་སྟོང་ཕྲག་༧ དེ་ཅིག་ འཛོམས་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ མང་ཤོས་ར་ རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་ ས་མཚམས་ས་ཁོངས་ཚུ་ནང་ལས་ འོང་ཡོདཔ་མ་ཚད་ ལ་ལུ་ཅིག་ ཉེ་འདབས་ཀྱི་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ནང་ལས་ ལོ་བསྟར་བརྩི་སྲུང་ཞུ་སྲོལ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཡོངས་གྲགས་ལུ་ ཧོ་ལི་ཟེར་མི་ དུས་སྟོན་བརྩི་སྲུང་འབད་ནིའི་དོན་ལུ་ འོང་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ གཞུང་གིས་ སོ་ནམ་ལས་སྡེ་ནང་ ཕྱིའི་མ་རྩ་གཞི་བཙུགས་...
༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༣ དང་༢༠༢༤ ལོའི་ འབྲུག་གི་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་གན...
༉ གེ་སར་རྒྱལ་པོ་གསོ་རིག་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་སྡེ་གིས་ ཐིམ་...
Nearly a year after the government announced 100 percent foreign direct investment (FDI) in the agriculture sector, some 12 interested foreign companies are waiting for the Cabinet to approve the FDI policy to enter the market.
The Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan (KGUMSB) will construct a fully-fledged campus for its Bachelor of Medicine an...
Bhutan’s agricultural exports saw a strong performance last year, ge...
Agenda Chikha, a collaborative initiative between the government and key stakeholde...
Bhutan is yet to see a single homegrown startup break into the regional or international market. This is not for lack of ambition or ideas but rather a result of systemic barriers that continue to stifle entrepreneurial growth.
High upfront costs, uncertain returns, market barriers, limited access to credit, and a lack of...
Punakha—The annual Punakha Tshechu and Dromchoe festivals this year witnessed an increase in tourist arrivals.
༉ ད་རིས་ གཞུང་གྲྭ་ཚང་གི་ རྡོ་རྗེ་སློབ་དཔོན་མཆོག་གི...
༉ སོ་ནམ་དང་སྒོ་ནོར་གྱི་ ལས་འགུལ་ཚུ་ལུ་ མ་དངུལ་འབོར་ཆེ་ཏོག་ཏོ་སྦེ་ བགོ་བཀྲམ་འབད་དེ་ཡོད་རུང་ ཐོན་སྐྱེད་དང་ ཡང་ཅིན་ ཁེབ་སང་གངམ་ བཟོ་མ་ཚུགས་པའི་ཁར་ ཡུན་བརྟན་མེད་པའི་སྐོར་ལས་ རྒྱལ་གཞུང་རྩིས་ཞིབ་འབད་འཛིན་གྱིས་ ཕན་ནུས་དང་ཚ་གྱང་ཡོད་ལུགས་ཚུ་ བཤད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ བདག་སྐྱོང་དང་ ཁྲིམས་འགལ་གནད་དོན་ཐོག་ལུ་ བྱང་སྟོར...
༉ གློག་ཤུགས་འགྲུལ་འཁོར་བཀྲམ་སྤེལ་བ་ ཀུན་ཕན་མོ་ཊརསི...
༉ གཞུང་གི་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ་དམིགས་གཏད་༢༠༥༠དང་འཁྲ...
༉ མི་སྡེ་བརྡ་བརྒྱུད་དང་ རྒྱལ་སྤྱིའི་གནས་ཚུལ་ཚུ་ནང་ ཁྱབ་སྤེལ་སོང་མི་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཚུ་གི་ ཐོ་ཡིག་ཟིན་བྲིས་དང་འཁྲིལ་བ་ཅིན་ འབྲུག་འདི་ ཡུ་ཨེསི་ལུ་འཛུལ་ཞུགས་འབད་ནི་དང་ ཡང་ཅིན་ སྐྱོད་ཐམ་བཀག་དམ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ དཀའ་ངལ་འཐོན་ནི་བཟུམ་ཅིག་ ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) aim to achieve a tenfold revenue expansion in line with the government’s 2050 economic grow...
A draft list circulating on social media and international news outlets suggests that Bhutan could face an...
The Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has raised concerns over the effectiveness of investments in agriculture and livestock projects, revealing that substantial financial o...
The four-day Startup Community Bootcamp (SCB) and National Startup Weekend (NSUW) 2025 wrapped up on Saturday, providing a crucial platform for emerging entrepreneurs in the country.
The Royal Audit Authority’s recent findings on the inefficiencies in our agricultural investments raise serious concerns....
Phuentsholing—The construction of the Bhawanijhora underpass culvert in Pasak...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Office of the A...
Lhamoidzingkha, Dagana—As the conch shell’s haunting call reverberates through the dense forest, more than 7,000 devotees gather at the shores of Khurul Lake. Many have travelled from distant towns and across the border in India to celebrate Faguwa Purnima, better known as Holi.
In what is a major restructuring of the country’s digital entertainment sector, three leading Over-the-Top (OTT) streaming platforms—Samuh, Sha...
༉ འཕྲོད་བསྟེན་ལེགས་ཤོམ་མེད་པའི་ འཚོ་བའི་གནས་སྟངས་ད...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༣ པའི་ཚེས་༡༣ ལུ་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་རྒྱལ་འཛིན་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་སྡེའི་ གྲོས་འཛོམས་ཁང་ནང་སྦེ་ ཤེས་ཡོན་དང་གསར་བཏོད་བརྗེ་སོར་གྱི་ལས་རིམ་ཅིག་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་པའི་སྐབས་ དེ་ཁར་ ཤེས་ཡོན་སྤེལ་མི་དང་ སྲིད་དོན་པ་ དེ་ལས་ འབྲེལ་བ་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ ཤེས་རིག་ལམ་ལུགས་དེ་ བསྐྱར་ཞིབ་དང་ གསར་བཏོད་འབད་དགོ་པའི་སྐོར་ལས་ གྲོས་བསྡུར་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Nine-year-old Jigme Palden walks into a retail shop in Changbangdu, Thimphu, and buys a can of beer without any qualms. The shopkeeper neither asks his age nor hesitates to sel...
Hundreds of Bhutanese living abroad have already invested in the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) International Airport’s fixed-term deposit programme, with many more expressing interest ahead of the March 31 deadline.
Kuenphen Motors, the primary dealer for the EV taxi project, has claimed that it...
The Royal Audit Authority (RAA) has raised concerns over the increasing number of substandard, incomplete, and delayed infras...
The government's recent announcement to allow private and foreign investments in the healthcare sector has sparked debates on equality, qual...
The government's proposal to privatise healthcare services arrives at a critical juncture, as the nation grapples with a healthc...
Despite Bhutan’s commitment to inclusive education, thousands of children and youth with disabilities remain out of school, facing isolation and limited opportunities.
The morning mist hung low over Gelephu as 8-year-old Kuenzang walked to school, clutching his books in one hand, and in the othe...
Agriculture has long been the backbone of Bhutan’s economy. To meet the sector’s evolving needs, the government is focusing on accelerating commer...
Students of Shali Primary School in Shumar gewog, Pemagatshel, continue to use desks and chairs dating back to the 1980s and 1990s, many of which are no longer functional. This situation reflects broader concerns raised in the recent Royal Audit Authority (RAA) review of the Local Government (LG) Development Grant, which indicates that local leaders have not prioritised funding for essential secto
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༣ པའི་ཚེས་༡༢ ལུ་ རྒྱ་གར་ ནིའུ་ལྡི་ལི་ལུ་...
༉ འབྲུག་གི་ ཚོང་ལཱ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་གནས་སྟངས་ཚུ་ རིམ་ག...
༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཀྱི་ཚོང་འབྲེལ་ལྟེ་བ་ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ལུ་ ས...
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ ཐའེ་ལེནཌི་ལུ་ འབྲུག་གི་གཞུང་ཚབ་ ཀུན་བཟང་རྡོ་རྗེ་གིས་ ཐའེ་ལེནཌི་གི་བློན་ཆེན་ པཱེ་ཏོང་ཊཱན་ ཤི་ན་ཝ་ཊ་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་ ཕྱད་ཡོདཔ་བཞིན་དུ་ གཞུང་ཚབ་ཀྱིས་ མི་དབང་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་མཆོག་དང་ མི་དབང་རྒྱལ་བཙུན་ དེ་ལས་ འབྲུག་གི་བློན་ཆེན་ལས་ ལེགས་སྨོན་ཡོད་ལུགས་ཚུ་ ཞུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་དེ་ མཐར་འཁྱོལ་བྱུང་མི་རེ་ལུ་ རང་སོའི་ འཆར་སྣང་རེ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
A widening shortage of mid-career civil servants is creating what officials describe as a “missing middle” across government agencies, raising concerns about leadership succession, institutional continuity and the long-term resilience of the country’s public sector workforce.
Shareholders of Sherza Ventures Ltd. have been unable to trade their shares for seven months because the company remains suspended from the Royal Securities Exchange of Bhutan (RSEB).
Despite substantial investment in water infrastructure, the quality of drinking water in the country has shown no improv...
The Central Monastic Body is set to host the month-long bestowal of the sacred Kathrid (Pith Instructions) and Kyilchog...
Three Bhutanese nationals were deported from Kuwait after being arrested on charges ranging from drug possession to morality violations and alcohol consumption.
Having served as Medical Director for the past four months, my focus has been on strengthening systems and processes tha...
As participants of the third Pelsung cohort prepare to pitch their ideas in Thimphu on June 20, the event will showcase...
Empty or abandoned houses, known locally as goongtong, have emerged as one of the country’s most pressing development ch...
International debate tournament
The Co-operatives and Farmer Groups Bill of Bhutan 2025 will be taken up during a Joint Sitting of Parliament in the nex...
The National Council yesterday deliberated on the National Budget Report for FY 2026–27, the Budget Appropriation Bill for FY 2026–27, and the Supplementary Budget Appropriation Bill for FY 2025–26.
Bhutan will begin testing its expanded Green Finance Taxonomy 2026 with a six-month pilot from June to November, before...
Like television, the internet, and AI, TikTok can be a force for good or bad. It entirely depends on how it is used.
Like television, the internet, and AI, TikTok can be a force for good or bad. It entirely depends on how it is used.
Once born into a physical body, there are certain absolute necessities without which most of us are incapable of experie...
Duchen Nga Zom is a duzom—an auspicious convergence of sacred time within the Buddhist calendar, marked by the meeting o...
Hantavirus is not a single virus but a family of rodent-borne viruses that occasionally spill over into humans, sometime...
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...
The Royal Civil Service Commission has identified a concerning trend that deserves urgent attention. Our civil service, the backbone of national administration, faces a dangerous hole in its middle ranks.
The closure of drayangs (entertainment centres) is an issue that most sensible Bhutanese, except perhaps the operators, have supported. While the current government may have ple...
The conflict in the Middle East has once again exposed our dependence on overseas employment as a pressure valve for domestic unemployment.
Bhutanese, friends of Bhutan, and our well-wishers are willingly answering the call to fulfill the Royal vision of erecting 108 Jangchub Choetens along the Mao Chhu in Gelephu Mindfulnes...
Financial institutions are the lifeblood of any modern economy. They mobilise savings, allocate capital, manage risk, an...
The Thromde election process has begun, with the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) notifying registered voters in Thimphu and Phuentsholing thromdes who are eligible for postal v...
Chain-link fencing is perhaps one of the most viable solutions policymakers have managed to narrow down in the long and...
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime was never going to be an easy transition. Major tax reforms rarely are. Introduced in January this year, GST was envisioned as a modern tax system, replacing an outdated framework...
Bhutan’s economy has changed dramatically since the Bankruptcy Act of 1999 was enacted. Back then, the private sector was small, cross-border trade was limited, and the financial system was far less complex.
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 confl...
The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support be...
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...
When I first arrived in Australia last year, I thought I was prepared. I had spoken to people, watched videos, and tried...
The name Dzambhala — from the Sanskrit Jambhala — is traditionally associated with wealth and prosperity, reflecting his...
The early years — roughly birth to five — are critical for emotional development. While a child raised with consistency...
You are not alone in your confusion — and much of it arises from the word itself. Emptiness can sound like nothingness,...
The monthly Sunday brunch at Le Méridien has become a special experience that goes beyond dining, offering guests a rela...
The digital age has transformed Bhutanese society in ways unimaginable in just a decade or two. Social media and online...
༉ 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...
A total of 2,937 graduates from 11 colleges under the Royal University of Bhutan received their degrees at the convocation.
Read MoreHis Majesty the King graced the closing ceremony of the fifth session of the Fourth Parliament at Gyelyong Tshokhang in Thimphu today.
Read MoreFive students from Lungtenzampa Middle Secondary School have been suspended after videos of student fights circulated widely on social media, triggering investigations by police and education authorities.
Read MoreThe country’s economy is on a growth trajectory, buoyed by rising revenues, strong remittance inflows and improved public finances. Yet the country faces two major threats that could undermine long-term growth: outmigration of young Bhutanese and vulnerability to global fuel price shocks.
Read MoreGelephu—With prayers offered at the beginning, middle, and end of a future sacred corridor stretching along the Mao River, the Zhung Dratshang yesterday performed the groundbreaking ceremony (Salang Tendrel) for the 108 Jangchub Chorten project.
Read MoreThe country’s waste prevention and management system remains fragmented, weakly coordinated, and heavily dependent on collection and disposal rather than reduction, recycling, and recovery, according to a performance audit report released by the Royal Audit Authority (RAA).
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