The inhabitants of Bhutan’s Lauri Gewog region continue the custom of spinning yarn from nettle plants. According to Bhutan Live, they are also making a nice money from it. The practice of making …
Enough money to pay civil servants: FM
As of December 31, 2022, Bhutan had 30,194 regular civil servants and 4,853 on contract. The MoF with the view to strengthen the public financial management developed a digital electronic Public …
Doklam crisis: Bhutan-China talks raise concerns for India
Bhutan is watching whether India and China could resolve their boundary issues, says Prime Minister Lotay Tshering in an interview in Brussels. The interview hints at the border settlement between …
Bhutan’s Long-Serving Political Prisoners Should be Released
The ruling elite, from the Ngalop community, had come to see the Nepali-speaking community as a threat to Bhutan’s cultural identity and their own dominant position. New, discriminatory …
Uniqueness of Bhutan’s Democracy
The recent Round Table Meeting in Thimphu is a reaffirmation of Bhutan’s preparedness and readiness to graduate from the status of the Least Developed Nation to a middle-income country. It is …
Bhutan PM’s no intrusion comment adds to India’s discomfort
“It is not up to Bhutan alone to solve the problem,” Tshering has said in a recent interview with the Belgian Daily La Libre. “There are three of us. There is no big or small country. There are three …
Thakuri salvages draw for Nepal
Deepak Raj Singh Thakuri scored the equaliser in the dying moments as Nepal salvaged a 1-1 draw with Bhutan in the Prime Minister Three Nations Cup here at the Dasharath Stadium today. The draw was …
Nepal to play against Bhutan today
Nepal and Laos both have three points each and Bhutan is yet to open their accounts on the points table. The national men’s football team will play against Bhutan on Tuesday in the last group match …
Women “loan sharks” grab victims by the jaws
The woman, 52, issued two cheques amounting to Nu 15.6M to be withdrawn from Bhutan Development Bank Limited … and evidence proving the money she borrowed was on the pretext of property transaction.
B20 events in India’s North East open door for opportunities in Bhutan
The third B20 event was concluded in Sikkim last week at Chintan Bhawan Gangtok The topic for this B20 meeting was opportunities for multilateral business pa …