At 7:30pm Thursday night, a white Bolero pickup slid off the icy road some 10kms from Tsimasham. Dil Bahadur Biswa was driving supplies from Phuntsholing to his shop in Trongsa when he had to brake after encountering a truck headed the other way. Without any traction the pickup slid off …

Seven men from Chukha and Phuntsholing have been charged with the illegal transaction of two unlicensed firearms at the Chukha District Court. The two matchlock guns (khanduwas) had been transacted between five while two had witnessed the transactions taking place but failed to inform the police. On 30 December 2016, …

High schools and colleges are on breaks and Thimphu is crowded. Given the already high concentration of vehicles in the Thimphu region (53 percent), traffic is slower than ever in the winter months. While not as bad as conditions in regional countries like India, Nepal or Bangladesh, for the average …

Yet again gutted, fires are occurring with an unpleasant regularity in Chamkhar town. The fourth, and latest, started at 8:40pm on Wednesday night and razed 23 shops in six houses to the ground in two hours. Aum Lemo was starting a khuley and ema datsi dinner when the power died. …

Jigme is the most well known Bhutanese name in Thailand    When His Majesty the King, then the crown prince, visited the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s 60th anniversary in November 2006, Thailand noticed. Dubbing him “Prince Charming”, the Thai media ran story after story about the dapper, young bachelor with …

Stories abound around the country and, thanks to social media, around the world about the humbling deeds proffered by a humble King.  His Majesty The  King has cooked at a community school in Mongar for children undergoing the trauma of an earthquake that left their homes in ruins, slept in …

Since 2004, the concentration of PM 10 has more than doubled In his TED talk earlier this year, Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay famously stated that Bhutan is not only carbon neutral it is carbon negative. While it is true for the nation as a whole, urban centers like Thimphu have …

Drujeygang Tseza MP Karma Dorji, a former teacher, questioned the Minister of MoLHR on the employment prospects for the increasing education graduates particularly from the colleges of Samtse and Paro and what plans the government had to ensure that these trainees find jobs upon graduation. “There are currently 839 teacher …

One evening in a seven-bed room of a tourist resort in Punakha, five tour guides and drivers in boxers and vests lay in their beds swapping stories, as they relaxed after, a hard day’s work. One industry veteran had just returned from a visit to the phallic village of Chimi …

On November 9, the High Court passed its judgment on the case of illicit trafficking of Spasmo Proxyvon Plus capsules, upholding the Mongar District Court’s conviction and sentence. This is the first case of its kind that the High Court has had to judge. Jamyang from Barpang Geog in Mongar …