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As the nation takes stock of its economic health, a troubling figure demands urgent attention. As of now, loans worth Nu 33 billion remain under deferment. Nearly 6,000 borrowers—ranging from large hotel chains to small business owners—are unable to meet their repayment obligations. Of that total, a staggering Nu 13 billion is tied to the hotel and tourism sector alone. For a country with a GDP of
In a drive to bolster food security, works on establishing 15 mega greenhouses worth Nu 84.9 million are currently underwa...
Phuentsholing—The government’s plan to construct a domestic airstrip at Rinchenphu in Yoeseltse, Samtse, has entered the next phase with the compl...
A recent rapid assessment of Bhutan’s media landsc...
The Beskop Tshechu Film Festival returns this year with a renewed sense of purpose. For the first time in its history, all screenings will take place at the City Cinema Hall, a conscious move aimed at improving accessibility and sparking deeper engagement through post-screening conversations and Q&A sessions.
Since the launch of the Environmental Deoxyribonucleic Acid (eDNA) laboratory at the College of Natural Resources (CNR), the country h...
རྒྱལ་སྤྱི་ངོས་ལེན་ཟད་འགྲོ་དཔེ་རིས་དང་འཁྲིལ་བ་ཅིན་...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༩ ལུ་ བརྡ་བརྒྱུད་ཞལ་འཛོམས་འཚོགས་པའི་སྐབས་ལུ་ ནང་སྲིད་བློན་པོ་ ཚེ་རིང་གིས་ ཟླཝ་འདི་རྫོགས་ཁམས་ཅིག་ལས་ རྒེད་འོག་བདག་སྐྱོང་འགོ་དཔོན་གི་ ས་སྟོང་ཚུ་ག་ར་ བསྐོ་བཞག་འབད་ཚར་ནི་ཨིན་ཟེར་ཨིན་པས།
སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༡༠ ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་འཁོད་ཀྱི་ བརྡ་...
༉ སང་ཕོད་ཀྱི་ལོའི་ སྔ་ཆ་ལུ་ འགོ་བཙུགས་ནི་ཨིན་མི་ ག...
Gelephu—At least three international construction firms are expected to undertake the 13.6-k...
Eco-tourism in Bhutan is emerging as a powerful tool to protect natural and cultural heritage while delivering tangible benefits to local communities. By offering visitors an educational and meaningful experience rooted in Bhutanese traditions and ecosystems, the sector is steadily becoming a model for sustainable development.
Bhutan’s critical care services are steadily expanding as the government intensi...
The Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) has not yet reached a final decision on adopting the Cambridge curriculum by July this...
Let’s face it. Alcohol has become a national problem. The statistics speak for itself.
India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire across land, air and sea on May 10 starting 5:00 pm—after an intense war—halting the fight between the two nuclear armed countries.
College of Natural Resources (CNR), Lobesa—As discussions o...
The ongoing United States–China trade war is redrawing global supply chains, prompting companies to shift o...
The country’s journalism fraternity came together Saturday to celebrate the 9th Annual Jo...
In a world that first instills fear in us, only to sell us a product or service to eliminate that fear, we find ourselves trapped in a never ending cycle of anxiety and temporary relief. At a time when humanity is addicted to economic growth at all costs, it is easy to lose sight of the deeper question, the mother of why we do what we do: our pursuit of happiness.
A growing chorus of Bhutan’s healthcare profession...
Bhutan suffers an estimated economic loss of Nu 6.5 billion every year due to alcohol-related harm—an amount that...
With the fourth phase of the monetary relief measures set to end...
Phuentsholing—Although Samtse was declared the country’s fifth dzongkhag thromde by the previous Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) government, the current administration under Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay is shifting gears.
To raise Bhutan’s standing in the global media landscape, experts suggest drawing lessons from countries that consistently ra...
With tensions escalating between India and Pakistan, the world is watching with a growing concern. The conflict is closest to our doors, the SAARC region, yet there seems to be some silence in c...
The advent of land tokenisation in Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) marks a transformative moment in property rights and wealth preservation. By leveraging blockchain techn...
The government is planning to reduce Thimphu’s growing dependence on private vehicles by promoting more sustainable modes of transport—among them walking, cycling, and improved public bus systems.
In December 2023, Bhutan launched one of its most...
Oxford Professor Eric Beinhocker explained the Origin of Wealth as the combinat...
A regional conference aimed at promoting cross-bor...
All vacant Gewog Administrative Officer (GAO) positions across the country will be filled by the end of this month, Home Minister Tshering announced during the Meet the Press session yesterday.
Samtse—At 74, Madan Kumar Rai remembers a time whe...
The government has approved the import of beef from Brazil starting in February this year, following the co...
January 2025 brought me an extraordinary gift — a journey back to my second home, Tokushima. When my friend Teruh...
༉ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་གིས་ ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་གི་...
༉ གྲུབ་དབང་ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་གིས་ ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཀུན་གསལ་ཕོ་བྲང་ སྟོན་པ་རྡོར་གདན་མའི་ སྐུ་མདུན་ལུ་སྦེ་ སྙིང་ཐིག་ཡ་བཞི་དང་...
༉ གསོ་བ་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ ལོ་བསྟར་ཁྱིམ་གུང་གསོ་བའི་ལྟ་རྟ...
༉ འབྲུག་ཉེན་སྒྲོལ་ཚོགས་སྡེ་(བི་ཨར་སི་ཨེསི) གཞི་བཙུགས་འབད་དེ་ ལོ་༨ ལང་མི་ ཉིནམ་དང་འབྲེལ་ ཚོགས་སྡེ་གིས་ ན་གཞོན་གྲོས་གནས་དང་ སྲིད་བྱུས་འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༨ ལུ་ མཉམ་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ལས་ གློག་...
The Ministry of Health’s launch of the Annual Household-Health Surveillance (AHS) programme marks a significant step in Bhutan’s journey toward strengthening primary healthcare. At a time when health systems around the world are grappling with rising costs and widening gaps in access, Bhutan’s decision to take essential health services directly to the people is both timely and commendable.
The Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC) and India’s Adani Group sign...
The cost of goods and services in the country rose sharply in March this year, with the infl...
A 64-year-old man died after being electrocuted in Nobgang, Punakha, while replacing prayer flags near the Talo Gup’s office.According to police and eyewitness accounts, the incident occurred when the man was attemptin...
Thimphu Thromde is digitally transforming its operations to tackle the persistent issue of waste management. The city’s rapid urban growth has exacerbated sanitation challenges, with garbage accumulating in drains, overflowing bins, and neglected areas becoming illegal dumping grounds.
Marking its eighth foundation day, the Bhutan Red Cross Society (BRCS) launched its Youth Forum and Youth Volunteer Policy yesterday, a strategic initiative aimed at unlocking the potential of Bhutan’s young population.
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With the fourth phase of the monetary relief measures set to end on June 30, 2025, the Ministry of Finance has begun discussions with the Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) and the Financial Institutions Association of Bhutan (FIAB) to assess the possibility of extending the loan deferment facility for sectors still grappling with economic hardship.
Bhutan suffers an estimated economic loss of Nu 6.5 billion every year due to alcohol-related harm—an amount that repres...
Phuentsholing—Although Samtse was declared the country’s fifth dzongkhag thromde by the previous Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (D...
To raise Bhutan’s standing in the global media landscape, experts suggest drawing lessons from countries that consistent...
The government is planning to reduce Thimphu’s growing dependence on private vehicles by promoting more sustainable mode...
All vacant Gewog Administrative Officer (GAO) positions across the country will be filled by the end of this month, Home...
A regional conference aimed at promoting cross-border tourism, trade, digital connectivity, and women’s leadership in cl...
Samtse—At 74, Madan Kumar Rai remembers a time when buffaloes were central to life in his village. Once a prominent buff...
The government has approved the import of beef from Brazil starting in February this year, following the completion of a...
The Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC) and India’s Adani Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Thimphu ye...
Bhutan’s imports from Thailand surged to Nu 2.67 billion in 2024, making the Southeast Asian country the third-largest source of imported goods.
Samtse—For many years, farmers in Samtse have sold vegetables from under makeshift tents, battling monsoon rains and bla...
Tashichoeling, Samtse — For 78-year-old Kamala Tamang of Kochin in Tendruk, saving money in a bank had been unimaginable...
Sweeping reforms in the financial sector are essential for the country to achieve the ambitious goals of its 13th Plan,...
In an age dominated by fast fashion and synthetic dyes, a Bhutanese entrepreneur is turning to the past to craft a more sustainable future using natural dyes.
The Bank of Bhutan (BoB) unveiled two financial products—Credit Line Limit (CLL) and BOB Premium Card—at a networking ev...
Potato trade has seen a major transformation since the launch of the online auction system under the Bhutan Commodities...
Mountain Hazelnuts, one of Bhutan’s first fully foreign direct investment (FDI) companies, has secured USD 7.9 million e...
In a world that first instills fear in us, only to sell us a product or service to eliminate that fear, we find ourselves trapped in a never ending cycle of anxiety and temporary relief. At a time when humanity is addicted to economic growth at all costs, it is easy to lose sight of the deeper question, the mother of why we do what we do: our pursuit of happiness.
As a collective, humanity has never been richer, more connected, more informed, and more protected from all cause disease and mortality. Yet it is very clear t...
As the nation takes stock of its economic health, a troubling figure demands urgent attention. As of now, loans worth Nu 33 billion remain under deferment. Nearly 6,000 borrowers—ranging from large hotel chains to small business owners—are unable to meet their repayment obligations. Of that total, a staggering Nu 13 billion is tied to the hotel and tourism sector alone. For a country with a GDP of
Let’s face it. Alcohol has become a national problem. The statistics speak for itself.
With tensions escalating between India and Pakistan, the world is watching with a growing concern. The conflict is closest to our doors, the SAARC region, yet there seems to be some silence in calling out to de-escalate...
The Ministry of Health’s launch of the Annual Household-Health Surveillance (AHS) programme marks a significant step in Bhutan’s journey toward strengthening primary healthcare. At a tim...
The GovTech Agency’s initiative to equip half of Bhutan’s population with essential digital skills—or at least enable them to safely navigate online services—is not just timely but a necessary stride toward progress. With a target to achiev...
In an era where institutions are stretched thin and community bonds often feel like relics of the past, the story of Daw...
The latest figures from the Department of Revenue and Customs (DRC) reveal a significant increase in income tax collection—Nu 16.87 billion as of April 18 this year, marking a 16.81 percent surge compared to the same period last year. On th...
It is not often that media institutions introspect on their own standing. Yet, the annual release of global press freedom rankings invariably sparks reflection am...
Policymakers have reiterated the mantra that the private sector is the “engine of growth”. This phrase has adorned national plans, speeches, and policy statements for decades, to the point that it has become a passé, nothing...
The recent confirmation of African Swine Fever (ASF) in Dagana should serve as a serious wake-up call—not just for pig farmers in Lhamoizingkha and Nichula, but also for the entire livestock sector across the country. With nine farms...
For the first time, Bhutanese vintage wine will go under the hammer on the global stage, marking a historic moment for t...
In much of the world, plant-based diets are gaining traction for their health benefits and environmental sustainability....
Wangdue—The third unit of Punatsangchhu-II hydropower project was commissioned yesterday, boosting the plant’s total gen...
The country’s economy, facing nearly three decades of premature de-industrialisation, requires a targeted industrial pol...
Forty-year-old entrepreneur Sonam Zangmo from Wangdue is pioneering organic glass noodles (Finn) made from buckwheat and...
A significant portion of our youth’s challenges stems from our shortcomings as responsible, patient, and mindful elders....
The rise in youth crimes in Bhutan stems from various causes, requiring a multifaceted solution. My experiences living i...
The rise in youth crimes in Bhutan stems from various causes, requiring a multifaceted solution. My experiences living i...
The rise in youth crimes in Bhutan stems from various causes, requiring a multifaceted solution. My experiences living i...
Bhutan’s economic outlook for the next fiscal year appears positive. According to the World Bank’s latest South Asia Dev...
The business landscape in the country is rapidly evolving with foreign investments seen as critical to national developm...
Our forests, long a symbol of our environmental leadership, are going up in smoke. In just five months, fires have cause...
Bhutan is celebrating the state visit of His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Phra Vajiraklaochaoyuhua and Her Majesty Q...
Diplomatic relationships are often built in conference rooms, signed into existence with handshakes and ink. But in rare...
As the nation takes stock of its economic health, a troubling figure demands urgent attention. As of now, loans worth Nu 33 billion remain under deferment. Nearly 6,000 borrowers—ranging from large hotel chains to small business owners—are unable to meet their repayment obligations. Of that total, a staggering Nu 13 billion is tied to the hotel and tourism sector alone. For a country with a GDP of
Read MoreIn a drive to bolster food security, works on establishing 15 mega greenhouses worth Nu 84.9 million are currently underway.
Read MorePhuentsholing—The government’s plan to construct a domestic airstrip at Rinchenphu in Yoeseltse, Samtse, has entered the next phase with the completion of the technical feasibility study for the proposed airstrip.
Read MoreA recent rapid assessment of Bhutan’s media landscape has raised concerns about financial instability, limited access to information, and a growing culture of self-censorship that impacts journalistic integrity and press freedom.
Read MoreThe Beskop Tshechu Film Festival returns this year with a renewed sense of purpose. For the first time in its history, all screenings will take place at the City Cinema Hall, a conscious move aimed at improving accessibility and sparking deeper engagement through post-screening conversations and Q&A sessions.
Read MoreSince the launch of the Environmental Deoxyribonucleic Acid (eDNA) laboratory at the College of Natural Resources (CNR), the country has been saving between USD 200 and USD 300 per sample on analysis costs, funds that would otherwise have been spent on laboratories overseas.
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