Ogyen Choling Foundation marks Silver Jubilee with new permanent exhibition

Permanent exhibition

Bhutan’s growth paradox: Strong banks, struggling borrowers

Financial institutions in the country continue to be profitable, with rising deposits and a rebound in credit...

His Majesty graces Gyalsung Passing Out Parade

His Majesty The King graced the Passing Out Parade ceremony of the Gyalsung Training 2026 Batch – Cohort 1 at Gyalsung Academy, Gyalpozhing, Mongar. From G...

Cambridge curriculum brings new assessment model, ends class IX and XI retention

Class IX and XI students will no longer be retained u...

Bhutan resumes WTO accession process after 17 years

The government has formally resumed Bhutan’s accession process to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), nearly two decades after negotiations stalled, as the country seeks deeper integration into the global economy and prepares for its post-Least Developed Country (LDC) transition.

Bhutan to pilot green finance taxonomy from June

Bhutan will begin testing its expanded Green Finance Taxonomy 2026 with a six-month pilot from June to November, before rolling it out nationwide in...

A missed opportunity

The Thromde election process has begun, with the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) notifying registered voters in Thimphu and Phuentsholing thromdes who are eligible for postal voting to register for the postal ballot facility.

A stronger path for smoker's future

Tomorrow, on 31 May, the world observes World No Tobacco Day, an annual occasion convened by the World Health Organization to expose the evolving strategies of the tobacco and nicotine ind...

Understanding the human side of Bhutanese politicians

This is a personal reflection from someone who once looked at politics from the outside, and now experiences it from within.

Reflections from the first six months in Bhutan

My family teases me that I took the scenic route coming here—I think what they are trying to say is that I have a multidisciplinary background –I am Ind...

Two cordyceps collectors die in separate incidents in Lunana

Punakha—Two men died in separate incidents while harvesting cordyceps in Lunana on May 15 and May 17. The first...

Ask Mr Bhutan: “Money can’t buy happiness.” Is it true, when everything is dependent on money?

Once born into a physical body, there are certain...

Duchen Nga Zom: What a butter lamp and a few flower petals can teach us

Duchen Nga Zom is a duzom—an auspicious convergence of sacred time within the Buddhist calendar, marked by the meeting of five of the Buddha’s enlightened deeds: his conception, birth, defeat of Mara, enlightenment, and parinirvana.

Young chess champion’s unflinching truth

Ngawang Kheychok, 17, has a childhood best friend, a pretty girlfriend, and a reputation that precedes him. His favorite subjects are mathematics and physics. He’s pop...

Monsoon floods continue to disrupt lives and livelihoods in Phongmey

For the people of Phongmey Gewog, about 30 kilometres north of Trashigang town, the onset...

SOFF-backed upper-air facility set to transform forecasting accuracy and early warning systems

The country’s first Upper-Air Observation Facility...

Our energy future begins at home

We exported approximately Nu. 24.3 billion worth of electricity in 2025, mainly to India. Over the same period, we spent close to Nu. 19 billion importing diesel, petrol, and jet fuel.

BNB observes International Menstrual Hygiene Day at Pemacholing Nunnery

Bhutan National Bank (BNB) marked this year’s International Menstrual Hygiene Da...

National rollout of HAT programme to strengthen adolescent resilience

Bhutan has expanded its flagship adolescent mental health initiative to 166 schools ac...

Bhutan Cancer Society bridges cancer care gaps

For a growing number of Bhutanese cancer patients, the biggest obstacle isn’t the disease, it’s the cost of treatment that remains beyond reach even with t...

Sonam Dema makes strong comeback to national archery as compound athlete

National archer Sonam Dema, 30, has made a strong return to competition as a compound archer after nearly a decade on Bhutan’s recurve team.

DPR work begins for 404MW Nyera Amari Hydropower Project

Bhutan aims to generate around 25,000MW of hydropower capacity by 2040. The country is currently generating about 3,600MW, wh...

MoENR developing relief framework for wildlife conflict victims

Human-wildlife conflict once again emerged as a pressing concern during today’s National Assembly Questi...

NA endorses Bhutan–Singapore Tax Agreement

The National Assembly (NA) today endorsed the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) between Bhutan and Singapore, a step toward strengthening economic and t...

National Assembly passes expanded GST exemption Bill

CVEC campaign promotes mental well-being, inclusion, and gender equality in schools

Samtse— Growing concerns related to student well-b...

Clean Friday builds shared responsibility for waste management and beautification in Samtse

Samtse—By mid-afternoon, the heat over Samtse sett...

Dragon Girls maintain strong performance in ongoing SAFF Women’s Championship

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སྣུམ་འཁོར་ཇོ་བདག་གི་མིང་ཐོ་སྤོ་སོར་འབད་མི་ མང་སུ་ཐོན་ཡོདཔ།

༉ འབྲུག་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་དང་སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་དབང་འཛིན་གྱིས་ སྤ...

MoHA drafts national guidelines to strengthen museum and heritage management

The guidelines apply to public, private and community-based organ...

From kitchen waste to green gold

Phuentsholing—The first thing visitors notice at the Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in Phuentsholing is not the smell of waste, but the sight of flowers and plants thriving beside rows of greener...

His Majesty The King graced the Passing Out Parade ceremony of the Gyalsung Training 2026 Batch – Cohort 1 at Gyalsung Academy in Mongar.

The Passing Out Parade ceremony of the Gyalsung T...

ཟམ་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་འབད་ནི་ ཕྱིས་ཏེ་ལུས་མི་གིས་ བསམ་རྩེ་རྒེད་འོག་༥ ལུ་ བར་ཆད་འབྱུང་ནི་ཨིནམ།

༉ གནམ་བྱཱར་གྱི་དུས་ཚོད་རན་དོ་ཡོད་མི་དང་བསྟུན་ བསམ་རྩེ་ལུ་ཡོད་པའི་རྒེད་འོག་ལྔ་ ཉེན་ཁ་ཅན་གྱི་གནས་སྟངས་ནང་ ལྷོད་དེ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ དེ་ཡང་ བསམ་རྩེ་རྟེན་འབྲུ་གཞུང་ལམ་བདའ་སྟེ་ ས་གནས་ཇི་ཏི་ལུ་སྒྲིག་ཟམ་རྐྱབ་ནིའི་ལཱ་དེ་ ལས་འཆར་དང་འཁྲིལ་ འབད་མ་ཚུགས་པར་ ཕྱི་བཤོལ་སྦེ་ར་ ལུས་ཡོད་མི་ལུ་བརྟེན་ཨིན་པས།

ཕགཔ་གསོ་སྐྱོང་འཐབ་མི་ སོ་ནམ་པ་ཚུ་ལུ་ རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར།

༉ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ནང་ ཕག་ཤ་གི་ གོང་ཚད་ཡར་འཕར་དང་ འཐོབ་ནི་ལ...

གྲོང་གསེབ་མཐའ་ཟུར་གྱི་མི་སེར་ཚུ་ ལྕགས་སྐུད་དྲ་མིག་གི་ ར་བ་བསྒོར་ནིའི་ལས་རིམ་ནང་ ཚུད་ཐབས་མེད་པའི་གདོང་ལེན།

༉ སོ་ནམ་དང་ སྒོ་ནོར་བློན་པོ་ ཡོན་ཏན་ཕུན་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་...

ཀེམ་བི་རེཆ་དང་རིམ་སྒྲིག་འབད་མི་ རྩ་གཞུང་ལག་ལེན་འཐབ་ནི་ལུ་ གྲ་སྒྲིག་ཡོད་ལུགས་ཀྱི་དྲི་བཀོད།

༉ སློབ་གྲྭ་ཚུ་ནང་ སློབ་དེབ་དུས་ཚོད་ཁར་ མ་ལྷོད་མི་ད...

Women turn abandoned Dogak school into farming project

Mist hangs low above the abandoned campus of the former Dogak Community School in Gozhi Gewog in Dagana. Bushes crawl over cracked pathways. Wild grass has swallowed the football ground. The whitewashed academic block stands silent beneath rusted roofing sheets, overlooking five acres of land that remained untouched for years after the school closed in 2017.

Wildlife conflict deepens as elephants adapt

Samtse—A fatal elephant attack in Tashicholing Gewog, Samtse, yesterday has renewed concerns over the growing challenge of managing human-elephant conflict in Sa...

Seasonal forecasts help farmers adapt to warming climate and erratic rainfall

Bhutan has warmed by 0.3°C to 0.5°C in recent decades, with ra...

NA endorses expansion of GST exemptions to cover essential goods and welfare items

The National Assembly (NA) endorsed the proposal t...

Govt. reviews tax concession for Bumthang’s restricted zones

The Ministry of Finance  is reviewing tax concession measures for development-restricted areas surrounding Local Area Plans (LAPs) in Bumthang, Finance Minister Lekey Dorji informed the National Assembly on May 25.

Chain-link fencing: somebody’s gain, another’s loss

Chain-link fencing is perhaps one of the most viable solutions policymakers have managed to narrow down in the long and difficul...

Bhutan’s WTO path: Learning from the Global South

Bhutan’s decision to restart its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) comes at an important junction. Since graduating from Least...

Why anthropological skills are an essential career asset in the age of AI

We have entered a transformative era where Generative Artificial Intellige...

Bhutan’s electricity tariff dilemma is about who pays the risk premium of clean development

Electricity tariffs are rarely just electricity ta...

Haa wetlands emerge as new frontier for Black-necked Crane breeding

Black-necked cranes are not usually summer birds in Bhutan. Flying over the mighty Himalayan...

Arbitration offers control, confidentiality, and finality

The Constitution of Bhutan is among the few in the world that expressly recognises the importance of alternative dispute r...

Falling Goleng numbers threaten Brokpa pastoral livelihoods

For many Brokpas, domestic animals are the cornerstone of both their livelihoods and their social and religious trad...

Great Yeti Quest Festival proves profitable for Sakteng’s homestay owners

Trashigang—For homestay owners in Sakteng Gewog, the three-day Great Yeti Quest Festival that ended on May 10, brought a sharp rise in guests and earnings.

High NPLs and weak financing systems continue to hinder agriculture sector

Agriculture and livestock sector is opening up more widely to foreign investments, yet the growth continues to be constrained by limited access to finance, rising non-performing loans (NPLs), weak institutional co-ordination, and poor data systems.