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Borrowers refund Nu 240 million ESP funds after ACC review

Three borrowers have refunded a combined Nu 240.48 million to the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) pool following t...

May 16, 2026 2 mins read 3,238 views
MoESD moves to rebalance teacher distribution across schools

The Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD) has launched a nationwide review and redeployment exerci...

May 16, 2026 4 mins read 3,553 views
Triple demographic crisis could undermine 10X national economic vision

Bhutan is confronting a mounting demographic crisis that economists warn could unde...

May 16, 2026 7 mins read 1,697 views
Finance Minister proposes tax breaks until 2040 to achieve 25GW renewable energy target

The National Assembly yesterday tabled the Renewab...

May 16, 2026 2 mins read 1,851 views
GMC was a masterstroke

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 conflict drags on, investors are seeking to di...

May 16, 2026 2 mins read 2,641 views
Charity in the digital shadows

Charity has always been an inherent value of Bhutanese society. Neighbours lend a hand, communities pull together in sickness and death, and strangers step up in hard times.

May 16, 2026 2 mins read 462 views
MPs question long-term costs of Bhutan’s commitment to big cat conservation

Bhutan is set to formally adopt the framework agreement establ...

May 16, 2026 2 mins read 923 views
Whose face are you wearing?

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.

May 16, 2026 4 mins read 551 views
Bhutan Cancer Society strengthens rural outreach and patient-centred care

The Bhutan Cancer Society (BCS) continues to strengthen its role in cancer...

May 16, 2026 3 mins read 826 views
Govt. scraps Pongchola airport project after feasibility review

The government has dropped the proposed airport project at Pongchola in Mongar after technical reassessm...

May 16, 2026 3 mins read 1,107 views
Great Yeti Quest festival draws thousands, boosts Sakteng’s economy

Trashigang—The three-day Great Yeti Quest festival drew around 8,000 visitors to Sakte...

May 16, 2026 2 mins read 830 views
Govt. proposes Nu 153.3B budget for FY 2026-27

The government has proposed a budget of Nu 153.3 billion for the fiscal year 2026–27, representing 30 percent of the 13th Plan’s total outlay.

May 16, 2026 7 mins read 915 views
NC reviews progress on healthcare system recommendations

May 15, 2026 4 mins read 1,738 views
Media and institutions seek common ground in changing information landscape

Amid growing concerns over misinformation, declining public trust an...

May 14, 2026 4 mins read 1,521 views
འཛམ་གླིང་བཟའ་སྤྱོད་ལས་རིམ་གྱིས་ ཟས་བཅུད་དང་ གློ་བུར་གྲ་སྒྲིག་གི་ རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་འབད་དོ་ཡོདཔ།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་མི་རློབས་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༨༦ དེ་ཅིག་གིས་ ཚོད་བས...

May 14, 2026 7 mins read 304 views
ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ ཕུཊི་བཱོལ་རྩེད་ཐང་གི་ ས་བསླང་རྟེན་འབྲེལ།

༉ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༥ པའི་ཚེས་༨ ལུ་ ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་ལུ་ རྒྱལ་ས...

May 14, 2026 5 mins read 330 views
དར་དཀར་དཔལ་ལ་སྨན་ཁང་ནང་ གསོ་བའི་འཕྲོད་བསྟེན་མཐའ་སྐྱོང་ གསརཔ་གཞི་བཙུགས།

༉ དབང་པོ་ལུ་ཐོ་ཕོག་མི་ཚུ་གི་དོན་ལུ་ སྨན་ཁང་ནང་འགྱོ...

May 14, 2026 6 mins read 293 views
དགོན་སྡེ་ནང་ ཆོས་ཆས་སྒྲ་སྐད་ཤུགས་ཆེར་གྱིས་ རྣ་བའི་དབང་པོ་ལུ་ ཐོ་ཕོག་དོ་ཡོད་པའི་གསལ་སྟོན།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ རྣམ་ཅོག་གུ་ལུ་ ཐོ་ཕོག་དོ་ཡོད་མི་དེ་...

May 14, 2026 7 mins read 320 views
Fighting online scams

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 entrep...

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 836 views
First phase of 104MW small hydropower projects begins operation

The three small hydropower projects - the 18MW Suchhu, 32MW Yungichhu, and 54MW Burgangchhu, are expecte...

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 3,052 views
RBP sends 30 police personnel to Lunana to bolster security, prevent illegal intrusion of cordyceps collectors

Punakha—The Royal Bhutan Police has deployed 28 po...

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 5,738 views
Thousands of dormant bank accounts pose fraud risk, FIs say

Thousands of bank accounts across the country’s financial institutions (FIs) have become dormant, holding idle funds...

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 3,545 views
NC to deliberate pension reform, tobacco control, and budget bills

The 37th Session of the National Council (NC), to be held from May 14 to June 16, will delibera...

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 1,964 views
Sakteng’s journey of progress

May 13, 2026 3 mins read 3,247 views
Arbitration seen as crucial tool to attract FDI, says BADRC

As Bhutan gears toward achieving a 10X economy, the flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) will remain a crucial fa...

May 13, 2026 4 mins read 1,690 views
Quarterly survey reveals shifting trends in agriculture and livestock sector

The agriculture sector is showing early signs of transition from...

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 1,500 views
International Nurses Day 2026

May 13, 2026 3 mins read 586 views
What shapes Bhutanese citizens’ verdict on government performance

In electoral politics and routine commentary, government performance is often read through a...

May 13, 2026 5 mins read 574 views
Social media exposure of vulnerable groups raises concerns over ethics and dignity

The programme focused on strengthening ethical and...

May 12, 2026 2 mins read 2,807 views
ASF outbreak deepens uncertainty for pig farmers

May 12, 2026 4 mins read 2,698 views
Poultry mismanagement fuels egg crisis, MoAL must stabilise supply chains immediately

The spike in egg prices is the result of deeper st...

May 12, 2026 3 mins read 2,546 views
Parliament session to deliberate budget and critical national Bills

The Fifth Session of the Fourth Parliament of Bhutan will be held from May 14 to June 17, 20...

May 11, 2026 2 mins read 2,758 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 1,246 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 1,034 views
ནུས་ཤུགས་ལས་སྡེ་ནང་ རིག་རྩལ་གོང་འཕེལ་གཏང་ནི་ལུ་ ཊ་ཊ་གློག་མེ་ལས་སྡེ་དང་མཉམ་འབྲེལ།

༉ འབྲུག་པའི་གཙང་སྦྲ་དང་ལྡན་མི་ ནུས་ཤུགས་རྒྱ་སྐྱེད་...

May 11, 2026 5 mins read 338 views
GMCA invites bids to redesign Gelephu Old Town

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 5,456 views
Through chemotherapy, lockdowns, and stigma

At just 32, Tseltrim Zangmo thought she was just tired; she ended up fighting Stage 3 breast cancer. Her message to the world: "I will not say I am cancer-free, but...

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 3,553 views
Gyalwa Dokhampa’s Drukpa Mindfulness and Yoga Centre in GMC to offer sanctuary for a restless world

Blending Buddhist wisdom with modern wellness appr...

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 1,760 views
Value-based governance: Could Bhutan pave the way for a sovereign GNH-driven approach to fighting corruption?

Bhutan is a global leader in sustainability and so...

May 09, 2026 6 mins read 1,046 views
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom bridge in the sky

The bond between the two Kingdoms of Bhutan and Thailand has always been rooted in shared reverence and wisdom. This gained a new altitude, literally...

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 2,754 views
Building up Bhutan's arbitral future together

A nation's maturity as a legal jurisdiction is measured not merely by its courts but by the strength of its dispute resolution architecture. This week, the Bh...

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 895 views
When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 1,293 views
Bhutan’s rising suicides deepen economic and demographic strain

One life is lost every 84 hours. Bhutan’s rising suicide rate is no longer just a public health cr...

May 09, 2026 8 mins read 4,757 views
Fuel subsidy unsustainable as annual cost could reach Nu 14.4B

With a price tag of Nu 14.4 billion annually, can Bhutan really afford to keep subsidizing your fuel?

May 09, 2026 4 mins read 3,359 views
Over 200 intruders enter Lunana cordyceps sites

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.

May 09, 2026 3 mins read 3,095 views
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Quarterly survey reveals shifting trends in agriculture and livestock sector

The agriculture sector is showing early signs of transition from subsistence-based farming towards more commercial production, supported by improved market access, better inputs and modern farming practices, according to the latest quarterly data.

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 1,500 views
Social media exposure of vulnerable groups raises concerns over ethics and dignity

The programme focused on strengthening ethical and responsible reporting on issues affecting marginalised groups, partic...

May 12, 2026 2 mins read 2,807 views
ASF outbreak deepens uncertainty for pig farmers

May 12, 2026 4 mins read 2,698 views
Poultry mismanagement fuels egg crisis, MoAL must stabilise supply chains immediately

The spike in egg prices is the result of deeper structural disruptions in the poultry sector, compounded by inflationary...

May 12, 2026 3 mins read 2,546 views
Parliament session to deliberate budget and critical national Bills

The Fifth Session of the Fourth Parliament of Bhutan will be held from May 14 to June 17, 2026, during which lawmakers w...

May 11, 2026 2 mins read 2,758 views
GMCA invites bids to redesign Gelephu Old Town

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 5,456 views
Through chemotherapy, lockdowns, and stigma

At just 32, Tseltrim Zangmo thought she was just tired; she ended up fighting Stage 3 breast cancer. Her message to the...

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 3,553 views
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom bridge in the sky

The bond between the two Kingdoms of Bhutan and Thailand has always been rooted in shared reverence and wisdom. This gai...

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 2,754 views
Bhutan’s rising suicides deepen economic and demographic strain

One life is lost every 84 hours. Bhutan’s rising suicide rate is no longer just a public health crisis. It is also a di...

May 09, 2026 8 mins read 4,757 views
Fuel subsidy unsustainable as annual cost could reach Nu 14.4B

With a price tag of Nu 14.4 billion annually, can Bhutan really afford to keep subsidizing your fuel?

May 09, 2026 4 mins read 3,359 views
Startups call for support beyond seed funding

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.

Mar 21, 2026 3 mins read 5,152 views
Whose face are you wearing?

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.

May 16, 2026 4 mins read 551 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 1,246 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 1,034 views
Café by the waterfall

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...

May 02, 2026 2 mins read 1,774 views
Where tradition meets treatment

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...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 1,455 views
Between Homes

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...

May 02, 2026 1 mins read 5,674 views
The true wealth of Dzambhala

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...

May 02, 2026 4 mins read 1,417 views
No amount of money can replace you

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...

Apr 25, 2026 4 mins read 3,701 views
You’re not what you think you are

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.

Apr 18, 2026 4 mins read 2,784 views
Sundays at Le Méridien

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.

Apr 13, 2026 3 mins read 2,695 views
GMC was a masterstroke

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 conflict drags on, investors are seeking to diversify away from Gulf nations, especially Dubai while navigating geopolitical tensions and global volatility.

May 16, 2026 2 mins read 2,641 views
Fighting online scams

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,...

May 13, 2026 2 mins read 836 views
ཕུན་ཚོགས་གླིང་གི་ཁྲོམ་སྡེ་ནང་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་མ་ལང་མི་དེ་ སྲིད་བྱུས་དང་ ཁྱིམ་བཟོ་ག་གི་འཐུས་ཤོར་ཨིན་ན།

༉ 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...

May 11, 2026 6 mins read 915 views
When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 1,293 views
Fuel crisis demands more than subsidies

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...

May 02, 2026 3 mins read 2,200 views
Demographic crisis demands bold reforms

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.

Apr 29, 2026 2 mins read 4,821 views
A bumper harvest shouldn’t brew a bumper crisis

This summer, the mountain slopes above Lunana are expected to offer a bumper yield of cordyceps, or Yartsa Goenbub. But...

Apr 25, 2026 2 mins read 2,673 views
Unshackling the state

Apr 22, 2026 2 mins read 2,661 views
The environmental toll of wars

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....

Apr 18, 2026 2 mins read 2,367 views
National debt to rise by 26%, reaching Nu 380 billion in June

The country’s national debt is expected to rise by nearly 26 percent this June compared to June last year.

Feb 25, 2026 2 mins read 6,391 views
Economy uncoils for strongest growth in years

The Year of the Snake became a defining moment for the country’s economy, as growth accelerated sharply following severa...

Feb 18, 2026 4 mins read 6,317 views
Tax system sees major changes and initiatives

The Wood Female Snake Year brought major tax reforms in the country with the passage of the Income Tax Act of Bhutan 202...

Feb 18, 2026 2 mins read 6,720 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 13,516 views
Dorjilung hydropower to raise GDP by 2.4%, generate 5,000 jobs

The 1,125MW Dorjilung Hydroelectric Power Project (DHPP) is expected to boost the country’s economy, raising gross domes...

Jan 31, 2026 3 mins read 9,896 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins read 3,099 views
Compassion in practice: Building a win-win healthcare system

Taking care of all members of society is a characteristic of a mature and compassionate nation; therefore, I strongly ad...

Apr 04, 2026 4 mins read 2,581 views
Happiness with Mr Bhutan

Studies and end of life accounts consistently show that many of us leave this world with the same stinging regrets: not...

Apr 01, 2026 4 mins read 3,547 views
When Words Create Worlds

Mar 30, 2026 4 mins read 2,707 views
Where to find the best momos in Thimphu

Mar 16, 2026 1 mins read 4,528 views
A costly fiasco

Apr 11, 2026 2 mins read 3,745 views
Living hand to mouth

Apr 08, 2026 2 mins read 3,080 views
A call for shared responsibility

The government’s directive to prudently use scarce public resources, fossil fuels (petrol and diesel) is a timely interv...

Apr 04, 2026 2 mins read 3,720 views
When the watchdog has no teeth

The Bhutan Media Forum concluded yesterday, bringing together media professionals, policymakers, and civil society membe...

Apr 01, 2026 2 mins read 3,330 views
Culture under threat?

Mar 28, 2026 2 mins read 4,762 views

Recents

GMC was a masterstroke

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 conflict drags on, investors are seeking to diversify away from Gulf nations, especially Dubai while navigating geopolitical tensions and global volatility.

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