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Bhutan Premier League 2026 underway with more competitive edge expected

The BoB Bhutan Premier League (BPL) 2026 is currently underway with high anticip...

May 06, 2026 2 mins read 1,635 views
BOC launches major reforms to upgrade national sports ecosystem

With Bhutan aiming for His Majesty’s Gelephu Mindfulness City and a tenfold GDP boost, the BOC says spor...

Apr 08, 2026 2 mins read 4,938 views
Compound archers set new milestone with semi-final finish

They lost the semi-final 228–232, but their performance remained an exciting moment for the archery community and fans. Th...

Mar 27, 2026 2 mins read 6,096 views
Young boxer chases bigger dreams

Young and energetic, Chimmi Wangmo, 23, from Chagsakhar, Mongar, is stepping not just into the boxing ring, but into the ring of her future. With every jab, every dodge, and every drop of sweat, s...

Mar 25, 2026 1 mins read 5,435 views
Newcomer Samdrupjongkhar FC on track for BPL 2026

Mar 11, 2026 2 mins read 7,374 views
Newcomer Samdrupjongkhar FC on track for BPL 2026

Mar 11, 2026 2 mins read 5,070 views
Sangay steps up under BEAST programme

Mar 04, 2026 1 mins read 6,653 views
From early passion to national team

Feb 28, 2026 2 mins read 5,191 views
Bhutan faces Bahrain in Men’s T20I Quadrangular Series opener today

The Thailand Open Men’s T20I Quadrangular Series 2026 begins today. Host Thailand take...

Feb 25, 2026 2 mins read 2,935 views
From Samdrupjongkhar to Paris: Lam Dorji excels in recurve archery

Bhutanese national recurve archer Lam Dorji’s rise from a curious teenager to an Olympic archer...

Feb 21, 2026 2 mins read 3,502 views
National athletes strike big in 2025

The national athletes made a remarkable mark in 2025, excelling across traditional, modern, and emerging sports while gaining valuable exposure at regional and international competitions.

Feb 18, 2026 3 mins read 3,020 views
Boxer Tashi Yoezer targets greater international success

Feb 14, 2026 1 mins read 5,728 views
Dechen Dorji records steady progress in Bhutanese boxing

Feb 04, 2026 1 mins read 5,118 views
Bhutan Road Runners cover west to east in epic cross-country run

Two members of the Bhutan Road Runners, Dilip Rai, 39, and Phurba Tshering Lepcha, 25, recently compl...

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 4,768 views
Meet Gawa Zangpo, Bhutan’s rising long-distance runner

Jan 24, 2026 2 mins read 6,462 views
GST likely to impact sports sector

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime is likely to affect the sports sector, as several sports-related goods that were previously exempt now attract a five percent tax.

Jan 10, 2026 2 mins read 4,828 views
Putting Bhutanese cricket on global map

Jan 07, 2026 3 mins read 6,495 views
National School Games resume after five-year

Sarpang—Tshering Penjor, a Class XII graduate of Dorokha Central School in Samtse, makes his national debut as a member of the school boys volleyball team that s...

Dec 30, 2025 3 mins read 5,014 views
319 young athletes participate in BFF Academy’s annual football selection

The Bhutan Football Federation (BFF) Academy in Thimphu recently hel...

Dec 26, 2025 2 mins read 5,688 views
Tendruk CS dominates National Unified Champion School Competition

Tendruk Central School (CS) in Samtse was the overall champion of the first National Unified Champion School (UCS) Competition held in Thimphu from December 21 to 23. The school displayed  exemplary strength, sportsmanship, and inclusion.

Dec 25, 2025 2 mins read 4,871 views
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Where the rivers run through, youth find reasons to stay

May 06, 2026 2 mins read 2,439 views
Nationwide drug prevention campaign “Yes, We Care” begins in Samtse

"Yes, We Care" launches a nationwide outreach to shield its youth from substance abuse.

May 06, 2026 2 mins read 1,312 views
Ancient remedy finds new life as rhododendron wine

Trashigang—In the high-altitude village of Merak in Trashigang, where spring transforms the hillsides into a sweep of bl...

May 06, 2026 2 mins read 1,809 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 4,689 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 5,991 views
A memoir of hustle and heartache

May 11, 2026 3 mins read 164 views
From monastery to street: A Bhutanese case for rap

May 11, 2026 4 mins read 182 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 1,393 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 1,053 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 5,291 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 1,047 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 3,229 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 2,361 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 2,311 views
The trap of spiritual materialism

Apr 13, 2026 4 mins read 2,681 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་ཁར་ ཇའེ་སྒང་ལུ་སྡོད་དགོཔ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ འདི་བཟུམ་གྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དེ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཐོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཐབས་ལམ་ཚུ་ འདི་དང་འདི་ཟེརཝ་ཅིག་ ག་ནི་ཡང་ མ་འགྲིགས་པར་ ལུས་ཏེ་འདུག།

May 11, 2026 6 mins read 84 views
When will we feed ourselves?

May 09, 2026 2 mins read 740 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 1,709 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 4,044 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 2,219 views
Unshackling the state

Apr 22, 2026 2 mins read 2,174 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 1,950 views
A costly fiasco

Apr 11, 2026 2 mins read 3,315 views
Living hand to mouth

Apr 08, 2026 2 mins read 2,681 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 5,917 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 6,313 views
Government, telecos at odds over 50% data price cut

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 12,900 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 9,222 views
ESP Steering Committee to review Nu 575 million in unspent, recovered funds

The Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) Steering Committee will review how to reallocate Nu 574.73 million in unspent and...

Jan 31, 2026 2 mins read 8,008 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 2,231 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 3,191 views
When Words Create Worlds

Mar 30, 2026 4 mins read 2,357 views
Where to find the best momos in Thimphu

Mar 16, 2026 1 mins read 4,144 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 3,312 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 2,932 views
Culture under threat?

Mar 28, 2026 2 mins read 4,340 views
Promises and performance

As the government undertakes the mid-term review (MTR) of 13th Plan activities across dzongkhags, its performance must b...

Mar 25, 2026 2 mins read 3,474 views
Policy versus ground reality

The conflict in the Middle East, coupled with the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, has forced many Bhutanese to adju...

Mar 21, 2026 2 mins read 3,719 views

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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་ཁར་ ཇའེ་སྒང་ལུ་སྡོད་དགོཔ་བྱུང་དོ་ཡོདཔ་ད་ འདི་བཟུམ་གྱི་ དཀའ་ངལ་དེ་ ལོ་ལེ་ཤ་ཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཐོན་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ལས་ ད་ལྟོའི་བར་ན་ཡང་ ཐབས་ལམ་ཚུ་ འདི་དང་འདི་ཟེརཝ་ཅིག་ ག་ནི་ཡང་ མ་འགྲིགས་པར་ ལུས་ཏེ་འདུག།

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