(UNITED NATIONS) — Should happiness figure in a nation’s bottom line? And should the concept of Gross National Product be replaced by Gross National Happiness? Bhutan’s Prime Minister Jigmi Y. Thinley told a high-level U.N. meeting Monday that it not only should but that it must if mankind is...

Lyonchoen Jigmi Yoezer Thinley, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan, is interviewed for the UN’s news outlets, on the high-level meeting his Government convened in the General Assembly on 2 April 2012 on “Happiness and Well-being: Defining a New Economic Paradigm”. Bhutan is the originator of the “gross...

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...

Yuba Sansar 1 April 2012...

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,...

By Bhagirath Khatiwada People in Bhutan live a submissive and dictated life under the autocratic rule of the regime… Hundreds of political prisoners are still facing inhumane torture in Bhutan jails simply because they raised their voice for human rights and democracy in the country Bhutan is a landlocked...