Bhutan News News Bhutan » Life: Enlightenment Upon Request: Bhutan Looks to the Future
The runway at Paro airport, in the landlocked Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan, is considered to be one of the most dangerous in the world. Only 50 pilots are certified to take on the tightly choreographed ...
News Bhutan » Life: Creating a Future for Healthy Forests in Bhutan- Bhutan For Life
A model for Asia. And the world. It is a small country in the distant Himalayas, known for being one of the happiest places on Earth. But Bhutan also is one of the most important players in the global ...
News Bhutan » Life: Welcome to Bhutan, the tiny Himalayan kingdom where happiness is more valuable than money
In the 1970s, the leaders of Bhutan — a tiny Himalayan country of only 750,000 people — decided that "Gross National Happiness" was a more valuable measure than Gross Domestic Product. Since then the ...
News Bhutan » Life: How social media is breathing new life into Bhutan's unwritten local languages
Dechen, 40, grew up in Thimphu, the capital city of Bhutan. Her native language was Mangdip, also known as Nyenkha, as her parents are originally from central Bhutan. She went to schools in the city, ...
News Bhutan » Life: Refugees from Bhutan embrace new life with hope and anxiety
DAMAK, Nepal, March 25 (UNHCR) - More than 100 refugees from Bhutan left their camps in Nepal over the weekend for onward travel to the United States, kicking off one of the world's largest ...
News Bhutan » Life: How social media is breathing new life into Bhutan’s unwritten local languages
Dechen, 40, grew up in Thimphu, the capital city of Bhutan. Her native language was Mangdip, also known as Nyenkha, as her parents are originally from central Bhutan. She went to schools in the city, ...