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Two Bhutanese films break into global markets on Amazon Prime Video

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.

May 06, 2025 2 mins read 20,432 views
Bhutanese diaspora scholars launch multidisciplinary journal in Australia

Bhutan’s academic and policy landscape reached a new milestone with the in...

May 06, 2025 3 mins read 8,194 views
བསམ་རྩེ་གི་སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་ ཁོང་རའི་ མིང་ཐོ་ཁར་ཡོད་པའི་ས་ཆ་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་རྐྱབ་མ་ཆོག་པའི་གདོང་ལེན།

༉ བསམ་རྩེ་རྒེད་འོག་གི་ སའི་ཇོ་བདག་ཚུ་གིས་ ཁོང་རའི་...

May 05, 2025 6 mins read 1,653 views
གསར་སྤང་ལུ་ འཆར་གཞི་༡༣ པའི་ནང་ འཁོར་ལམ་རྒྱ་སྐྱེད་ཀྱི་ལཱ་ཚུ་ རྒྱ་ཆེ་དྲགས་འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ གསར་སྤང་དང་ དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་ལུ་ འཆར་གཞི་༡༣ པའི་ནང་...

May 05, 2025 5 mins read 1,745 views
ཕམ་ཚུ་གིས་ སློབ་གྲྭ་ལུ་ རེ་བ་ལས་ལྷག་པའི་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར།

༉ 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།

May 05, 2025 7 mins read 5,148 views
ཐིམ་ཕུག་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་གིས་ ཁྲོམ་ལམ་འཕྱག་ནི་དང་ གཡུར་བ་བསལ་ནིའི་ལཱ་ཚུ་ སྒེར་སྡེ་ཅིག་ལུ་སྤྲོད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཁྲོམ་སྡེའི་འཕྲོད་བསྟེན་དང་ འཚོ་བའི་གནས་སྟངས་ཡར་ད...

May 05, 2025 7 mins read 2,798 views
འོང་འབབ་ཁྲལ་གྱི་ འབབ་ཁུངས་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༡༦ ཡར་འཕར།

༉ འདས་པའི་ལོ་དང་ཕྱདཔ་ད་ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༤ ཟླ་༤ པའི་ཚེས་...

May 05, 2025 8 mins read 2,236 views
དོ་འགྲན་དང་ཉོ་སྤྱོད་དབང་འཛིན་གྱིས་ ཀིའུ་ནེཊ་གཡོ་སྒྱུ་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ ཉོག་བཤད་༥ ཐོ་བཀོད།

༉  ཡོངས་འབྲེལ་ཐོག་ལས་ ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་མི་ ཚོང་བསྒྲགས་ལས...

May 05, 2025 7 mins read 547 views
དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་ལས་འགུལ་གྱི་དོན་ལུ་ ནང་འཁོད་དངུལ་འཛིན་འགན་ལེན་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ད་ལས་ཕར་ འབྲུག་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ སྡོད་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ཡང་ རྒ...

May 05, 2025 7 mins read 644 views
A bigger tax pie, but fewer at the table

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...

May 05, 2025 2 mins read 8,780 views
When a village owns its school

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...

May 05, 2025 3 mins read 6,600 views
Connecting culture, religion, and science

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’...

May 05, 2025 3 mins read 9,092 views
Jabchor 2.0 to support startups, boost investments

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.

May 05, 2025 3 mins read 6,084 views
‘Intelligent Bhutan’ vision takes shape

The government’s push for digital modernisation is gaining momentum as the GovTech Agency implements the National Digital Strategy (NDS) launched in July 2024.

May 05, 2025 3 mins read 5,514 views
Bhutan partners with Thailand to boost agarwood farming

Bhutan has entered into a strategic partnership with Thailand to improve its agarwood farming sector and enhance the livelihoods...

May 05, 2025 3 mins read 25,812 views
Thimphu Thromde outsources cleaning to keep core city spotless

In a move to improve urban hygiene and livability, Thimphu Thromde has outsourced its street sweeping and d...

May 05, 2025 2 mins read 15,040 views
Chimi Dema sets new record, winning fifth Mountain Bike Challenge title

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.

May 05, 2025 3 mins read 7,984 views
ཏཱ་ར་ཡ་ན་གཞི་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ ལོ་བསྟར་དུས་སྟོན་ཐེངས་༡༩ པ་ མཇུག་བསྡུ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ཁ་ཙ་ ཏཱ་ར་ཡ་ན་གཞི་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ གཞི་བཙུགས་གཙོ་འཛིན་...

May 05, 2025 1 mins read 2,274 views
དགེ་ལེགས་ཕུག་གནམ་གྲུ་ཐང་ལས་འགུལ་གྱི་དོན་ལུ་ ནང་འཁོད་དངུལ་འཛིན་འགན་ལེན་ འགོ་འབྱེད་འབད་ཡོདཔ།

༉ ད་ལས་ཕར་ འབྲུག་ནང་འཁོད་ལུ་ སྡོད་མི་ཚུ་གིས་ཡང་ རྒ...

May 05, 2025 7 mins read 2,168 views
སྐྱེ་ལྡན་ཉེན་སྲུང་གི་ ཐབས་ལམ་སྒྲིང་སྒྲི་བཟོ་དགོཔ།

༉ འཕྲལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་ཁར་ དར་དཀར་ནང་ལུ་ ཨཱཕ་རི་ཀའི་ ཕག་ནད...

May 05, 2025 6 mins read 2,712 views
གཟའ་སྐར།

གཟའ་སྐར།

May 04, 2025 0 mins read 919 views
སྐད་ཡིག་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ།

སྐད་ཡིག་དང་ལམ་སྲོལ།

May 04, 2025 0 mins read 700 views
བི་ཨོ་བི་ འབྲུག་ཨམ་སྲུའི་རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ལིག་རྩེད་འགྲན་༢༠༢༥ འགོ་བཙུགས་ནི།

༉ སྤྱི་ལོ་༢༠༢༥ གི་ བི་ཨོ་བི་ འབྲུག་ཨམ་སྲུའི་རྒྱལ་ཡ...

May 04, 2025 8 mins read 1,381 views
Media reflects

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...

May 03, 2025 2 mins read 8,679 views
Bhutan’s press freedom tumbles to historic low, ranking 152nd globally

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.

May 03, 2025 5 mins read 7,465 views
White-Bellied Heron population ticks up, offering hope

In a glimmer of hope for one of the most endangered bird species in the world, Bhutan has recorded a modest but meaningful rise...

May 03, 2025 2 mins read 11,812 views
Income tax revenue up by 16 percent

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...

May 03, 2025 3 mins read 7,135 views
GMC domestic bond attracts over Nu 18M subscription on first day

The 10-year Gelephu Mindfulness City’s Nation Building Bond (GNBB) has seen a robust start, attractin...

May 03, 2025 2 mins read 11,531 views
Plugging the loopholes in e-commerce consumer protection

The digital marketplace in Bhutan has undergone rapid transformation, with thousands of consumers shifting to online platform...

May 03, 2025 3 mins read 5,414 views
Stigma in silence: The hidden struggles of living with HIV

When a 50-year-old woman walked into the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) last month for a rou...

May 03, 2025 3 mins read 8,530 views
Ministry steps up vaccination efforts in remote Laya

To strengthen immunisation coverage in remote regions, the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with Gasa dzongkhag administration, UNICE...

May 03, 2025 2 mins read 5,804 views
Yarju open-air prison to open in 2027: A new model of rehabilitation

Wangdue-Spanning 437 acres in Hebisa village in Gasetsho Wom, Wangdue, the Yarju Open-Air...

May 03, 2025 3 mins read 9,613 views
It never snows in April: Reflections on the State Visit of the Thai King

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.

May 03, 2025 3 mins read 3,026 views
Historical and cultural linkages: Elements of Indo-Bhutan relations

History and culture are related, and shared history and culture help shape relationships...

May 03, 2025 6 mins read 3,566 views
Recognising the value of language, nationhood, and self-reliance

The journey of many Bhutanese students studying abroad often leads to deep introspection about nation...

May 03, 2025 2 mins read 3,757 views
Geniverse: Redefining identity beyond gender

Gender, as a deeply ingrained social construct, restricts human identity through a male-female binary historically designed to consolidate power and systematical...

May 03, 2025 3 mins read 4,848 views
Tarayana Fair celebrates two decades of grassroots change

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.

May 03, 2025 2 mins read 5,366 views
Samtse farmers struggle to build homes on registered wetlands

Samtse—Several landowners in Samtse are facing delays in building homes as their applications to construct on...

May 03, 2025 2 mins read 5,539 views
Major road upgrades underway in Sarpang under 13th Plan

Sarpang—Residents of Sarpang and Gelephu can expect a major uplift of their existing road networks as major infrastructure work...

May 03, 2025 2 mins read 7,888 views
Unleashing private sector potential

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...

May 02, 2025 2 mins read 8,372 views
GMC launches domestic bond offering for Gelephu Airport project

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.

May 02, 2025 2 mins read 15,236 views
CCAA records five complaints against QNET scheme

Despite being declared an illegal scheme in 2022, QNET, an online marketing company, has once again drawn the attention of the Competition and Consum...

May 02, 2025 2 mins read 9,758 views
Tarayana Foundation champions nature-based solution for sustainable communities

Access to clean and reliable water remains a basic neces...

May 02, 2025 3 mins read 5,863 views
A Bhutanese tale finds new life in Sri Lanka

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...

May 02, 2025 2 mins read 11,196 views
BoB Bhutan Women’s National League 2025 set to raise the bar

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.

May 02, 2025 3 mins read 10,689 views
ཨི་ཨེསི་པི་དང་ ཇི་ཨེསི་པི་ལས་བྱེདཔ་ཚུ་གིས་ ཁག་འབག་གནས་ཡུན་ འདྲ་མཉམ་མེད་པའི་ཉོགས་བཤད།

༉ གཞུང་གིས་ གཞི་རིམ་ལས་གཡོགཔ་(ཨི་ཨེསི་པི་)དང་ སྤྱི...

May 01, 2025 7 mins read 2,231 views
སོ་ནམ་དང་སྒོ་ནོར་ལྷན་ཁག་གིས་ སོ་ནམ་བཟའ་འཐུང་ལས་སྡེ་ལུ་ སེམས་ཤུགས་མཐུན་རྐྱེན་གསརཔ།

༉ སོ་ནམ་གཞི་སྒྱུར་དང་ དཔལ་འབྱོར་གོང་འཕེལ་མགྱོགས་དྲ...

May 01, 2025 7 mins read 2,107 views
ཨ་མོ་ཆུ་ཟམ་ཡོད་སར་ ལྟ་བཤལཔ་ལེ་ཤ་འོང་དོ་ཡོད་རུང་ ས་ཁོངས་ནང་ མཐུན་རྐྱེན་ཚུ་མེད་པའི་དཀའ་ངལ།

༉ 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།

May 01, 2025 6 mins read 2,719 views
ESP and GSP workers call out contract inequities

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.

May 01, 2025 2 mins read 9,253 views
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Former Phuentsholing Thrompon reflects on a decade of urban transformation, eyes third term

Looking back on the past 10 years, I feel deeply grateful, humbled, and proud of what we have achieved together

Jun 06, 2026 7 mins read 975 views
Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen graces inauguration of Her Expression Festival at VAST

Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen on June 4 graced the inauguration of Her Expression Festival and Her Expression Vol. IX, an an...

Jun 06, 2026 1 mins read 537 views
Lowland cordyceps discovery in India raises questions over Bhutan’s premium fungus economy

The discovery of cordyceps in the low-altitude forests of East Siang district in Arunachal Pradesh, India, has sparked c...

Jun 05, 2026 3 mins read 5,867 views
Riwo Exhibition Unites Himalayan artists in exploration of identity and continuity

Riwo: Identity and Continuity, a contemporary art exhibition held at the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology in Gangtok, Sik...

Jun 05, 2026 2 mins read 3,702 views
NC revisits reservations to the CRPD

The National Council today unanimously supported the already adopted reservations on Articles 23, 27, and 29 of the Amendment to the Reservations to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

Jun 04, 2026 3 mins read 1,807 views
National Council refers Livestock Bill back to Committee for review

The National Council continued deliberations on the Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025 today, directing the Economic Affairs...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,706 views
BRCS opens first Branch Emergency Operations Centre in Tsirang

Coinciding with the Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen, the Bhutan Red Cross Society (BRCS) inaugurated its...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,793 views
BTF opens office in GMC to strengthen support for southern region

Coinciding with the 36th Birth Anniversary of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen Jetsun Pema Wangchuck, the Bhutan Trust Fund for...

Jun 04, 2026 2 mins read 1,953 views
PM takes responsibility for fiscal deficit coordination failure

Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay accepted responsibility for a communication gap between the Ministry of Finance and the E...

Jun 04, 2026 4 mins read 5,509 views
Businesses propose action oriented public-private forum to address private sector woes

The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed the government to re-establish the high-level Private Se...

Dec 20, 2025 2 mins read 11,573 views
She Lives in the Mirror

Mar 16, 2026 2 mins read 6,457 views
When our pursuits for happiness become our chains

Mar 16, 2026 4 mins read 4,627 views
Pindarika: Myth, desire, and revenge on big screen

Mar 10, 2026 1 mins read 4,575 views
A night for silver screen in Punakha

For Bhutanese cinema, the National Film Awards have become something more than an annual ceremony. It is a barometer of...

Mar 02, 2026 2 mins read 4,335 views
What’s our contingency plan?

Mar 14, 2026 2 mins read 5,358 views
What an entrepreneurial bureaucracy must do

Mar 11, 2026 2 mins read 6,008 views
Urgent call to skill our youth

The key barriers identified in the report  - qualification mismatch, lack of experience, and inadequate training- are no...

Mar 07, 2026 2 mins read 6,540 views
Bracing for impacts of distant wars

Oil prices have already surged across major economies. If the blockade persists, the resulting supply shock will ripple...

Mar 04, 2026 2 mins read 5,558 views
Beyond the statistics

The rise in inflation may be termed moderate, but the average Bhutanese is experiencing that livelihood is becoming more...

Feb 28, 2026 2 mins read 5,599 views

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Dungkar Dzong-an icon of Bhutan’s transformation

The Dungkar Dzong in Pangbisa, Paro, is a vivid living monument to the era of transformation in Bhutan. The structure represents Bhutan’s architectural splendour at its best. In function, it is an icon of change, an expression of times to come. The concept is an ingenuous demonstration of how a proud past welcomes an exciting future.

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