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Two Bhutanese feature films “Buelwa – An Offering”, produced by Bezya Pictures and Samuh, and “Gangnam Girls”, produced by Samuh, are now available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video in 72 countries.
Bhutan’s academic and policy landscape reached a new milestone with the in...
༉ བསམ་རྩེ་རྒེད་འོག་གི་ སའི་ཇོ་བདག་ཚུ་གིས་ ཁོང་རའི་...
༉ གསར་སྤང་དང་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ འཆར་གཞི་༡༣ པའི་ནང་...
༉ སྤ་རོ་ལུ་ ཁུ་སིམ་སི་སྦེ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཟླ་བ་ཁ་གཡུས་ཚན་ནང་ སངས་རྒྱས་སྒྲོལ་མ་གིས་ དྲོ་པ་ཧ་སག་ལས་ར་ མོ་རའི་དཀྱི་ར་ རྡིག་རྡིགམ་ཅིག་ གྱོན་ཞིནམ་ལས་ ཟླ་བ་ཁ་འབྲིང་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཆུང་བའི་ཁ་ཐུག་ལུ་ སོང་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ ཕམ་དང་སློབ་དཔོན་གྱི་ཞལ་འཛོམས་ནང་ བཅའ་མར་གཏོགས་པར་ མེནམ་མ་ཚད་ མོ་རའི་ སློབ་རིམ་༨ པའི་ནང་ དཔེ་ཆ་ལྷབ་མི་བུམོ་དེ་ བསྐྱལ་བར་ཡང་མེནམ་ད་ དོན་དག་ངོ་མ་ར་ མོ་ར་ ཞབས་ཁྲ་རྐྱབ་པར་འགྱོཝ་ཨིན་པས།
༉ ཁྲོམ་སྡེའི་འཕྲོད་བསྟེན་དང་ འཚོ་བའི་གནས་སྟངས་ཡར་ད...
༉ འདས་པའི་ལོ་དང་ཕྱདཔ་ད་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༤ ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་...
༉ ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ལས་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་མི་ ཚོང་བསྒྲགས་ལས...
༉ ད་ལས་ཕར་ འབྲུག་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ སྡོད་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ཡང་ རྒ...
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...
Dawakha, Paro—It is early morning in the quiet village of Dawakha in Paro. Sangay Dema wears her best kira and sets out toward Dawakha Lower Secondary School. She is not going to attend a parent-teacher...
In a first-of-its-kind initiative in Bhutan, Druk Nyo Foundation, a social and cultural organisation—has started working on a project to rediscover and document Buddhism’...
The Department of Employment and Entrepreneurship (DoEE) under the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, and Employment launched Jabchor 2.0 on May 2 to support entrepreneurship, foster innovation, and attract both local and international investments.
The government’s push for digital modernisation is gaining momentum as the GovTech Agency implements the National Digital Strategy (NDS) launched in July 2024.
Bhutan has entered into a strategic partnership with Thailand to improve its agarwood farming sector and enhance the livelihoods...
In a move to improve urban hygiene and livability, Thimphu Thromde has outsourced its street sweeping and d...
Chimi Dema, a 28-year-old cyclist from Punakha, added another victory to her record yesterday by winning the female’s 100 km category of the Enduring Friendship Mountain Bike Challenge 2025 in Thimphu, her fifth title overall.
༉ ཁ་ཙ་ ཏཱ་ར་ཡ་ན་གཞི་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ གཞི་བཙུགས་གཙོ་འཛིན་...
༉ ད་ལས་ཕར་ འབྲུག་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ སྡོད་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ཡང་ རྒ...
༉ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ དར་དཀར་ནང་ལུ་ ཨཱཕ་རི་ཀའི་ ཕག་ནད...
༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ གི་ བི་ཨོ་བི་ འབྲུག་ཨམ་སྲུའི་རྒྱལ་ཡ...
It is not often that media institutions introspect on their own standing. Yet, the annual release of global press freedom rankings invariably sparks reflection among journalists, policymakers, and citizens who view a free press as the bedrock of democ...
Bhutan’s press freedom ranking has plunged to its lowest level in decades, according to the 2025 World Press Freedom Index released yesterday by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The country is now ranked 152nd out of 180 countries and territories, a five-place drop from its 147th position last year, and a staggering fall from 33rd place just four years ago.
In a glimmer of hope for one of the most endangered bird species in the world, Bhutan has recorded a modest but meaningful rise...
Tax revenue from personal income tax (PIT), business income tax (BIT), and corporate income tax (CIT) has surged by 16.81 percent for the income year 2024 as of April 18 compared to the sa...
The 10-year Gelephu Mindfulness City’s Nation Building Bond (GNBB) has seen a robust start, attractin...
The digital marketplace in Bhutan has undergone rapid transformation, with thousands of consumers shifting to online platform...
When a 50-year-old woman walked into the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) last month for a rou...
To strengthen immunisation coverage in remote regions, the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with Gasa dzongkhag administration, UNICE...
Wangdue-Spanning 437 acres in Hebisa village in Gasetsho Wom, Wangdue, the Yarju Open-Air...
For days, Paro was under a blanket of haze, which is normal for this time of the year. The dust from the long dry winter plus the smoke from the recent wildfires, which had hit several places in and around Paro, had made the air thick and the visibility to a couple of kilometres. It caused several flight disruptions too.
History and culture are related, and shared history and culture help shape relationships...
The journey of many Bhutanese students studying abroad often leads to deep introspection about nation...
Gender, as a deeply ingrained social construct, restricts human identity through a male-female binary historically designed to consolidate power and systematical...
The 19th Tarayana Annual Fair opened yesterday at the Centenary Park in Thimphu, commemorating Tarayana Foundation’s 22 years of service to rural communities of the country.
Samtse—Several landowners in Samtse are facing delays in building homes as their applications to construct on...
Sarpang—Residents of Sarpang and Gelephu can expect a major uplift of their existing road networks as major infrastructure work...
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 poin...
The wait is over. Bhutanese living in the country can now directly invest in one of the country’s most ambitious infrastructure projects—the Gelephu International Airport.
Despite being declared an illegal scheme in 2022, QNET, an online marketing company, has once again drawn the attention of the Competition and Consum...
Access to clean and reliable water remains a basic neces...
The children’s book “Bumpa”, originally written in English and based on true stories from Bhutan’s blind community, has found a new home in Sri Lanka with a Sinh...
The BoB Bhutan Women’s National League 2025 is shaping up to be the most competitive and exciting season yet, drawing attention from football enthusiasts across the country.
༉ གཞུང་གིས་ གཞི་རིམ་ལས་གཡོགཔ་(ཨི་ཨེསི་པི་)དང་ སྤྱི...
༉ སོ་ནམ་གཞི་སྒྱུར་དང་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ་མགྱོགས་དྲ...
༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་༢༩ ལུ་ འབྲུག་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་གར་གྱི་...
༉ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ལུ་ ལྟ་བཤལཔ་འོང་མིའི་གྱངས་ཁ་ ཡར་སེང་འགྱོ་མི་དང་བསྟུན་ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ ཉེ་འདབས་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་ ཨ་མོ་ཆུ་ཟམ་གྱི་ས་ཁོངས་ནང་ གསང་སྤྱོད་དང་ ཕྱགས་སྙིགས་བཀོག་སའི་ཧོད་ ལགཔ་འཁྱུ་ས་ ཉེན་སྲུང་ དེ་ལས་ ས་ཁོངས་འཛིན་སྐྱོང་གི་ཚ་གྱང་ཚུ་ ཡར་སེང་འགྱོ་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Not long after the government raised the maximum contract term for Elementary Support Personnel (ESP) and General Support Personnel (GSP) to five years, a new issue has surfaced—inconsistent and uneven application of contract extensions, leaving many workers frustrated and uncertain.
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New Delhi, India—The VAST Bhutan exhibition in India, which brought the question of happiness to life through the eyes of Bhutanese artists, invited audiences to explore how happiness is expressed, shared, and celebrated across different cultures.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)as signed on July 9 between the Bhutan Development Bank Limited (BDBL) and Mountain H...
The Gangtey-Phobjikha Valley in Wangdue, often dubbed the Switzerland of Bhutan, continues to attract a growing number o...
Heavy rainfall on the night of July 9 caused significant flooding and multiple roadblocks in Gasa and along the Punakha–...
Thimphu Cricket Club (CC) concluded their league stage with a commanding 211-run victory over Samtse Stallions in the on...
The new National Energy Policy (NEP) 2025 marks a strategic shift in how the country will manage its energy future. Whil...
The Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) has finalised the draft of a new Competition Bill, according to th...
A life-changing win has transformed the fortunes of Tandin Tshering, a 25-year-old resident of Phuntsholing, who secured...
Bhutan and Switzerland yesterday marked a significant milestone, celebrating the 40th anniversary of formal diplomatic r...
Bhutan National Digital Identity (NDI) has launched a suite of advanced security features aimed at enhancing digital tra...
Bhutan’s recent efforts to step up its HIV response reflect a welcome sense of urgency and commitment. The introduction of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in late 2024 marked a significant policy shift—one grounded in science and global best practice.
“Sound check, sound check!” If you’ve attended a meeting, seminar, or workshop lately, you have likely heard this familiar phrase, usually followed by screeching micro...
It was no mere coincidence that as Bhutan launched its National Energy Policy (NEP) 2025, flash floods from glacial lake outbursts and excessive rainfall were wreaking hav...
As bulldozers break the quiet earth of Gelephu, this daring nation crosses the threshold into a future shaped not by hes...
While much of the country debates taxes on fixed deposit interests, GST, and the legality of certain parliamentary decisions, something more quietly transformational is happening in Tading, Samtse. There, residents are reapin...
Bhutan’s ambition to make its agriculture sector more inclusive by involving persons with disabilities (PWDs) is a welco...
The recent sentencing of an Indian national caught smuggling over 4.6 kilograms of heroin into Bhutan is not an isolated...
The brief yet heavy downpours have exposed more than just blocked drains. They revealed the lack of civic sense among re...
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 remind...
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 illne...
The ongoing United States–China trade war is redrawing global supply chains, prompting companies to shift operations fro...
Bhutan’s imports from Thailand surged to Nu 2.67 billion in 2024, making the Southeast Asian country the third-largest s...
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 a world that first instills fear in us, only to sell us a product or service to eliminate that fear, we find ourselve...
As a collective, humanity has never been richer, more connected, more informed, and more protected from all cause diseas...
A significant portion of our youth’s challenges stems from our shortcomings as responsible, patient, and mindful elders....
After immense pressure and numerous tutorials, Sonam cleared her Royal Civil Service Commission entry exam last year. Sh...
Remittances are pouring into the country. Our people, especially in places like Australia, are sending money home. This...
As the early rains of the monsoon settle into Bhutan’s valleys and mountains, the land is already showing signs of strai...
The National Assembly has passed the 2025-26 budget, approving a Nu 94 million Priority Development Fund (PDF) meant sol...
Public spaces are mirrors of a society’s soul. When they begin to show cracks—when disorder, crime, and neglect creep in...
Bhutan’s recent efforts to step up its HIV response reflect a welcome sense of urgency and commitment. The introduction of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in late 2024 marked a significant policy shift—one grounded in science and global best practice.
Read MoreThe much-awaited 69.04-kilometre cross-border railway project connecting Gelephu to Kokrajhar station in Assam, India, is currently awaiting Indian government approval.
Read MoreAs temperatures soar this summer, rivers in Punakha have become a popular retreat for residents seeking relief from the heat. However, what begins as a refreshing escape is increasingly ending in tragedy.
Read MoreRising costs in food and non-food categories fuelled a jump in the country’s inflation rate, which reached 3.84 percent in May this year compared to May of the previous year.
Read MoreBhutan’s growing response to the HIV epidemic is taking shape against a shifting regional landscape, where progress and persistent vulnerabilities go hand in hand.
Read MoreFewer crimes are happening in Bhutan, but those that do are more severe, according to the Royal Bhutan Police (RBP)’s Statistical Yearbook 2024 report.
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