Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck honored Laurene Powell Jobs with the inaugural Bhutan GNH Medal, a rare national honor. At the ceremony yesterday, Queen Jetsun Pema joined her husband ...

A witness to the event attributed the problem to the recent translocation of monkeys from Trongsa to Royal Manas National Park. “The Trongsa’s monkey is now creating a problem here,” he said. I couldn ...

Queen Jetsun Pema of Bhutan, often heralded as the ‘Kate Middleton of the Himalayas’, joined her husband, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, to bestow a rare national honour upon Laurene Powell Jobs ...

In December 2023, Bhutan’s King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck announced the GMC as part of “wholesale” reforms of the nation’s economy to combat challenges such as 29% youth unemployment ...

Under RSSC, there are around 180 contributing members and around 60 non-contributing members. Besides RSSC, the Office of the Gyalpoi Zimpon and Zhung Dratshang also look after elderly citizens who ...

But Bhutan has long played by its own rules. It was an absolute monarchy until 2006, when King Jigme Singye, father to the current monarch, unilaterally chose to devolve power to a parliamentary ...

The Queen of Bhutan, Queen Jetsun Pema, accompanied her husband, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, to confer the inaugural GNH Medal upon Laurene Powell Jobs, the billionaire philanthropist and ...