Bar owners are still waiting for new bar licenses to be issued after the Economic Affairs Ministry proposed lifting the ban of issuance of new bar licenses after a decade. Pema Tenzin, a bar owner from Thimphu has been running the business since 2014 on a leased license. Pema said …
Read More »Miss Bhutan Pageant being organized after a decade
The first Miss Bhutan pageant was held in 2008 with actress Tshokey Tshomo Karchung as a beauty pageant title holder. She took part in the Miss Earth 2008 beauty pageant, Miss Young International in Taiwan, and Miss Safari 2008 in Kenya The second Miss Bhutan was held in 2010 where Sonam Choden Retty was …
Read More »Bhutan makes its debut at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics with a para athlete who qualified on her own performance
Bhutan has made its debut at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics Games, which is the 16th edition of the games, on 24 August. Also as a first, a Bhutanese female para-athlete, Chimi Dema, 28, is representing Bhutan at the Games. She was the proud flag bearer during the opening ceremony. Like …
Read More »Criminal charges for fronting from next year
Ministry of Economic Affairs(MoEA) held it’s first awareness program on fronting to the business community on 19th of August 2021 in two sessions with different sets of business community and associations. During the awareness program, officials of MoEA thoroughly introduced the concept of fronting, laws governing fronting, negative impacts of …
Read More »Bhutanese Olympic athletes share how Bhutan can bring medals in the future
Bhutanese Olympic athletes shared their views on how Bhutan can improve and bring home medals in the coming Olympics. Lenchu Kunzang, the shooter, said that in order to win in the Olympics, the most important thing needed is endless physical and mental training and a good diet. She added that …
Read More »Tobacco addicts trying to quit tobacco not happy with the ban being lifted
Due to the increasing number of tobacco smuggling incidences along the porous southern borders and to reduce the threat of COVID-19 transmission, the ban on sale of tobacco was lifted. An official from the Bhutan Narcotics Control Agency (BNCA) said that number of tobacco consumers willing to quit tobacco has …
Read More »Beskop Tshechu, an alternative platform for filmmakers
Beskop Tshechu arose out of a need for an alternative platform, for filmmakers and audience alike, to make films a memorable affair. The founder of Beskop Tshechu, Dechen Roder, said as in the past, films were only shown in theaters and on TV, there were some filmmakers were trying to …
Read More »Shops still selling overpriced tobacco to clear out old stock
Even with the ban of tobacco sale and import lifted, some of the tobacco consumers still complain about buying cigarettes at high costs, same as before when the ban was on. Tenzin Dorji who is a smoker said he cannot make it to the tobacco outlets as he lives far …
Read More »Bhutanese Olympians win hearts with their performance at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Archer Karma faced India’s Deepika Kumari in the women’s individual recurve archery in Japan on 28 July at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Karma lost all the three sets to Deepika Kumari. However, she maintained a competitive game with India’s best archer. The three sets scores were 26-23, 26-23 and 27-24 …
Read More »Bhutan enters Olympics for the first time through qualification
The first Olympic games that Bhutan participated in was in 1984 with 6 participants; 3 females and 3 males, in archery only. Later Bhutan also participated in shooting in the Olympics held in London, UK in 2012 followed by the Olympics in Rio, Brazil in 2016. Bhutan was participating in …
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