SAARC youth entrepreneurs gather in Paro
Bhutanese Prime Minister Jigmi Thinleyis set to inaugurate the SAARC Chamber of Commerce (CCI) Youth Convention in Paro today (21 April). This year’s youth convention has been themed under “Light Tomorrow with Today”. The inauguration will be followed by technical session. SAARC ICC chairperson Vikramjit Singh Sahney has also...
Spain testing its economic confidence
While major secondary markets, except in US, around the world are getting to positive signs of improving economic performances, Spanish still look bleak to improve their internal situation. Spanish are waiting for a new debt auction offer from the government today. The Treasury is auctioning between Euro 1.5 to...
Two more routes for Bhutan-Bangladesh trade
Bhutan’s trade with Bangladesh is likely to get boosted with two new shipment routes offered by India. The southern neighbour, responding to Bhutan’s requests, has allowed Bhutan to use two new land customs stations at Meghalaya. Bhutanese Embassy in Dhaka has informed the government of Bangladesh about Indian decision...
The UN happiness conference begins
The global conference on happiness initiated by the UN and coordinated by Bhutanese government has begun in New York half an hour before. Addressing the inaugural session of the conference, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said, failure of the GDP to address the social progress and other fundamental aspects...
Is Bhutan the happiest place in the world?
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,...
UN makes ‘happiness a goal’
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...