Falling prices and unpaid dues leave Bhutanese potato exporters in debt
Bhutanese potato exporters are losing millions of Ngultrum to Indian buyers who fail to pay, while prices continue to fall and about 30 trucks remain unsold.
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Bhutanese potato exporters are losing millions of Ngultrum to Indian buyers who fail to pay, while prices continue to fall and about 30 trucks remain unsold.
The civil service entry-grade system for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) professionals has undermined employee mora...
A forestry clearance meant for 100 square metres of public amenities has become the centre of a ca...
Toyota’s authorised distribution arrangements in India generally...
Falling farm-gate prices, rising feed bills and difficulty finding buyers are squeezing piggery farmers in the country, exposing a gap between the government’s price-support measures and what farmers actually earn.
Addressing the Fourth PEMA Symposium on 10 October, Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen asked a question that every Bhutanese, and particularly every lawmaker, should sit wit...
Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen delivered a strong message and laid down a clear vision for the future of our young children hereon during the Fourth PEMA...
What became one of Buddhism’s best-known architectural forms began with a simple instruction at Kushinagar, near the end of t...
Eastern dzongkhags are preparing tourism action plans to identify local attractions, address infrastructure gaps and develop community-based tourism.
Farmers in Tashicholing are struggling to protect their crops from wild animals, with overgrown priva...
Women entrepreneurs running businesses in sectors from landscaping and food production to software development and digital content shared their experiences, and the challenges of financing and growing their ventures, during a discussion at the Startup Centre in Thimphu yesterday.
Asanga Mobility, the representative of BYD in Bhutan, opened its new showroom in Babesa on October 14...
The road to Athang Tsho climbs, dips and jolts its way through the remote reaches of Athang Gewog in Wangdue. From Wangdue town, the 55.4-km drive takes two hour...
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has proposed a Nu 38.59 million workplan for...
Pemadruk Bhutan Duty Free, together with Singapore contemporary art gallery Ode to Art and acclaimed Chinese sculptor Xie Aige has launched ‘A Journey Between Heaven, Humanity and Self’ — an exclusive sculptural collection created for Bhutan and available only at Pemadruk Bhutan Duty Free.
Bhutanese businesses must demonstrate commercial v...
Paro FC Head Coach Pushpalal Sharma is targeting a place in the knockout stage of the AFC Challenge League...
Three years ago, Rinchen Cheda was taking his first steps in organised football. Today, at 18, he is preparing for the possibility of representing Paro FC on the continental stage.
Royal Institute of Management (RIM) today launched a Digital Skills Academy and a Construction Management Programme to enhance digital capabilities and strengthen infrastructure project management in Bhutan.
Holding a painting of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, Grade 10 student Jamyang Pem...
Drukair, Royal Bhutan Airlines, has joined the International Air Transport Association (IATA), following its successful registration u...
Few things are as basic to students as a textbook. Yet as the 2026 academic session winds down, students of Classes IX and XI, the fir...
Bar owners in Thimphu have questioned the fairness and consistency of tobacco-control enforcement, saying penalties were imposed without adequate warning.
The Dzongkhag Veterinary Hospital (DVH) in Lhuentse has been operating without a veterinary doctor for more than five year...
The Hindu Kush Himalaya is facing a water future marked by continued glacier loss, increasin...
The Government of India handed over Nu 2.9 billion to Bhutan for projects under the 13th Plan, covering education, skills development, infrastructure, weather forecasting...
Lhuentse—The construction of a new 204-square-metre bus terminal has begun in lower Phaling town, bringing hope to transport operators and travellers who have endured more than five years without proper bus parking and booking facilities.
Royal Thimphu College will host the Rethinking Economics Festival 2026 fro...
Thirty-two runners, including 23 Bhutanese and nine international participants, have registered for the 25-kilometre Laya Run scheduled for October 23 during the ninth Royal Hi...
I am writing to you as a voter from South Thimphu...
For a small business, getting a new customer can be exciting. But keeping that customer coming back is often much more valuable.
Days before the Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) elects its next president, two candidates barre...
Three years after Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan (KGUMSB) launched its first in-countr...
Addressing the Fourth PEMA Symposium on October 10...
When we speak about mental health, who do we imagine we are speaking about? Someone who is unwell? Someone receiving treatment? Someone whose struggles are visible to us? The truth is, we are speaking about all of us.
Bhutan finished 47th among 185 countries and territories at the 2026 FIRST Global Challenge, held in Incheon, Republic of Kor...
Bhutan has successfully tested a siphon system near the outlet...
༉ དུས་ཅི་ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༢ པའི་ནང་ ཕ་རནསི་ལུ་ འབྲུག་པའི་ད...
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཆུམ་ལང་མ་ཚུགས་པའི་གནད་དོན་ལུ་བརྟེན་ ནང་འཁོད་ཐོན་སྐྱེད་བརྒྱ་ཆ་༢༥ མ་གཏོགས་མེད་མི་གིས་ ཆུམ་ནང་འདྲེན་དོན་ལུ་ དངུལ་ཀྲམ་ཐེར་འབུམ་ལས་བཅད་དེ་ ཟད་འགྲོ་བཏང་ཡོད་རུང་ ཆུ་ཞིང་ནང་ གནང་བ་མེད་པར་ སྡོད་ཁྱིམ་ཁྲིམས་འགལ་ཐོག་ལས་རྐྱབ་མི་༨༦༨ ཐོ་བཀོད་འབད་དེ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
Bhutan recorded 26,040 tourist arrivals in September this year, an increase of 5,789 compared with the same month last year,...
༉ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ འབྱ་ཞིང་ཚུ་ ཉམས་སྲུང་འབད་མི་ལས...
༉ ཕྱི་རྒྱལ་ཨསི་ཊེ་ལི་ཡ་རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ སློབ་ཕྲུག་གསར་པ...
༉ འཇིགས་མེད་ཆོས་གླིང་རྒེད་འོག་ནང་ འཁོར་ལམ་གོ་རིམ་ག...
Founding Chief Executive Officer of Zhabto Infra Limited, Pema Wangchuk, has been honoured with the International Atal Award 2026 at the...
༉ སྤུ་ན་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་ ཆུ་སྦུག་རྒེད་འོག་ བསྟན་པ་ཁ་གཡུས...
༉ ལྷུན་རྩེ་ ཕ་གླིང་ཁྲོམ་ཁར་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་འཐབ་མི་མང་ཤོས་ཅིག་གི་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་དེ་ ལེགས་ཤོམ་འགྱོ་མ་བཏུབ་མི་དང་ འོང་འབབ་མར་བབས་སོང་མི་ ཚོང་མགྲོན་པ་དེ་ཅིག་ར་ འོང་ནི་མེད་མི་གིས་ ཚོང་འབྲེལ་འཐབ་ནི་ལུ་ དཀའ་ངལ་ཐོན་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་པས།
A former student, known as the Golden Boy, earned money by performing at school farewell events and concerts before taking his talent to the streets.
Holding a painting of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo, Grade 10 student Jamyang Pema Yangsel explains how the golden dragon beside the King and the sheep she is holding reflect her understanding of his legacy.
Drukair, Royal Bhutan Airlines, has joined the International Air Transport Association (IATA), following its successful...
The Dzongkhag Veterinary Hospital (DVH) in Lhuentse has been operating without a veterinary doctor for more than five ye...
Bar owners in Thimphu have questioned the fairness and consistency of tobacco-control enforcement, saying penalties were...
The Government of India handed over Nu 2.9 billion to Bhutan for projects under the 13th Plan, covering education, skills development, infrastructure, weather forecasting, disability services and other sectors.
The Hindu Kush Himalaya is facing a water future marked by continued glacier loss, increasingly variable river flows and...
Lhuentse—The construction of a new 204-square-metre bus terminal has begun in lower Phaling town, bringing hope to trans...
Royal Thimphu College will host the Rethinking Economics Festival 2026 from October 15 to 18 under the theme "Setting St...
Thirty-two runners, including 23 Bhutanese and nine international participants, have registered for the 25-kilometre Laya Run scheduled for October 23 during the ninth Royal Highland Festival in Gasa.
Days before the Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) elects its next president, two candidates barred from the...
Every day, roughly 38 Bhutanese walk into a car showroom or apply for an import letter, ready to spend on the second-largest purchase of their lives. That should be a buyer’s market. Instead, the rules governing it are written for sellers.
The recent election of the National Assembly Speaker, won by a member of the opposition party for the first time, has dominated public discourse, with many drawing their own conclusions and speculating about wh...
Phuentsholing and Jaigaon are twin border towns with a shared business ecosystem. They depend on each other for trade, employment, and services. At the same time, they also compete for the same customer base.
As a resource-strapped country, we cannot afford to waste public funds. Yet it keeps happening. Several projects built with scarce public funds and donor money are either sitting idle or falling apart. Wh...
The findings from the Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority’s (CCAA) latest study should worry anyone who cares about the future of Phuentsholing.
Recent reports of an airborne geophysical survey identifying significant anomalies of tungsten, copper, and other precio...
The drivers who keep Thimphu’s city buses running deserve more than gratitude. They deserve fair pay for the hours they put in. City bus drivers work more than 12 hours a day, clocking in 120 hours of overtime in...
An initiative worth pausing to reflect on this week is the collaboration among three key agencies to review Bhutan’s bus...
More than seventy percent of international visitors to Bhutan now enter the country by land rather than through Paro International Airport. Phuentsholing alone accounts for the overwhelming majority of those arrivals. One of the ob...
Bhutan will begin testing its expanded Green Finance Taxonomy 2026 with a six-month pilot from June to November, before...
The country’s startup ecosystem has helped many young entrepreneurs launch their businesses, but founders say support be...
There is a particular kind of courage required to make a film almost entirely without dialogue, trusting landscape, sile...
When the doors of Little Bhutan closed during the pandemic, Bangkok lost more than just its only Bhutanese restaurant. F...
Lama, as a young guy, I’m concerned about the future. What do you think will be the biggest issue for the planet within...
Set against the quieter surroundings of Lower Taba, Vietnam Corner brings a distinctive slice of Vietnam to Thimphu’s gr...
No, I didn’t watch the video. Unless I were acting in a law enforcement capacity, I would not view this kind of footage....
Sky-rocketing house rents are a grim reality haunting the capital city’s residents. While this was once a burden shoulde...
Every single day, Bhutan adds 38 new petrol and diesel vehicles to its roads. In just the first six months of this year,...
The Film Association of Bhutan (FAB) has lost its legal standing as a Civil Society Organisation following its deregistr...
As voters head to the polls today to elect the Thrompons and thromde thuemis of Thimphu and Phuentsholing, the most stri...
Bhutan's rich forests are not only a source of clean air, water, and wealth. Hidden within the thickets is also a web of...
Bhutanese potato exporters are losing millions of Ngultrum to Indian buyers who fail to pay, while prices continue to fall and about 30 trucks remain unsold.
Read MoreThe civil service entry-grade system for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) professionals has undermined employee morale and talent retention, with broader implications for the country’s digital transformation goals.
Read MoreA forestry clearance meant for 100 square metres of public amenities has become the centre of a case involving a 2.199-acre land allocation and the unauthorised construction of a private lodge, Bhutan Jungle Lodge, in Goenshari on State Reserved Forest Land in Punakha.
Read MoreToyota’s authorised distribution arrangements in India generally do not permit cross-border sales, Toyota Tsusho Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (TTAP) has clarified to the Competition & Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA), raising questions about the import authorisations issued by the Department of Trade (DoTr) for Bhutanese consumers to buy vehicles directly from India.
Read MoreFalling farm-gate prices, rising feed bills and difficulty finding buyers are squeezing piggery farmers in the country, exposing a gap between the government’s price-support measures and what farmers actually earn.
Read MoreAddressing the Fourth PEMA Symposium on 10 October, Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen asked a question that every Bhutanese, and particularly every lawmaker, should sit with: when punishment is so disproportionate to the seriousness of the crime, “what message are we sending to survivors, to perpetrators and to society as a whole?”
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