Category: Culture

Lhuentse: Six Jangchub chortens in Lhuentse were robbed of their züngs within the past two weeks. Five of the chortens vandalised and robbed were in Wambur village under Tsenkhar gewog, while the sixth was in Menji gewog. The first two chortens were robbed in Wambur on June 24, and three...

A Bhutanese documentary was screened in second day of the ongoing South Asian Documentary Festival at Kuuch Khaas in Pakistan. The festival brings in a number of documentaries from across the region. The 10-minute short film “Bhutan: Land of Thunder Dragon” journeys through the chronicles of gods, goddesses, monks,...

Andrew Buncombe visits Bhutan to find out if its people really are as content as they claim to be. By Andrew Buncombe Within a stone’s throw of Bhutan’s legendary Tiger’s Nest, with lungs burning and heart pounding, misery descends. Smug, grinning hikers are making their way along the narrow,...

BHUTAN will lead a United Nations (UN) conference next Monday, where the world body will implement a resolution recognising happiness as a fundamental human goal. Resolution 54/309 was initially adopted by the General Assembly in July last year, when Bhutan was given the responsibility to come up with practical...

It has almost been two years that I have never seen colours. That does not mean I have turned colour-blind but sentiments coming out of my heart as I severely feel the loss of those colourful days before making Australia my home. Colours form the integral part of human...

The Australian Day, celebrated on January 26 this year, as usual, laid another step towards homogeneity of multicultural communities in Australia. Despite being hundreds of communities living together, the country is advancing and staying calm and peaceful. One of the principles behind ‘One Nation One People’ policy government adopted,...