Tens of thousands build 108 Buddhist stupas for Bhutan ‘mindfulness’ city
Bhutan is building a ‘mindfulness’ city to drive economic growth and persuade more young people to stay.
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Himalayan glaciers may lose 75 percent of ice by 2100: Report
Melting of glaciers to cause flooding and water shortages for nearly 2 billion people who live downstream, report says.
Ex-Nepal ministers among 30 charged in US-bound refugee scam
Prosecutors say huge amounts of money collected from hundreds of Nepalis to send them to the US as Bhutanese refugees.
Bhutan holds high-altitude race to highlight climate dangers
South Asia’s only carbon-negative country is vulnerable to the effects of climate change which is recently speeding up.
Climate crisis made South Asia heatwaves ’30 times more likely’
Study says heatwaves in the region should be ‘rare’ but current level of global warming made them 30 times more likely.
What sets Bhutan’s first ever Oscar nominated film apart
The tiny Himalayan nation’s Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom is competing for the Best International Feature Film award.
‘Felt like a bullet’: Bhutan PM mourns kingdom’s rare COVID death
Himalayan kingdom that has recorded just four coronavirus deaths sees surge in infections linked to the Omicron variant.
Home in India, job in Bhutan: Border shutdown hits Assam workers
Ban on entering Himalayan kingdom results in loss of livelihoods for hundreds of daily wage earners on the Indian side.
![An Indian truck on its return journey from Bhutan [Maitreyee Boruah/Al Jazeera]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Picture-7.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Bhutan vaccinates 90 percent of adults against COVID in a week
UNICEF hails mass drive as ‘arguably the fastest vaccination campaign to be executed during a pandemic’.
![A health worker inoculates an elderly man with the jab of the COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre in Thimphu [Upasana Dahal/AFP]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/000_9FE8ME.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
After one COVID death, Bhutan king treks nation to stop another
For months, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck has been travelling by foot, car and horse to oversee pandemic measures.
![Bhutan's king during his visit to a remote village to oversee measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease [Royal Office for Media/Handout via Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2021-06-25T075810Z_984966749_RC2SVN9TBYNO_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-BHUTAN.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Many killed in monsoon flash floods, landslides in Bhutan, Nepal
The two Himalayan nations have been lashed by heavy rains in the last three days as the annual monsoon season begins.
![A general view shows houses hit by flash floods along the bank of the Melamchi river in Sindhupalchowk, Nepal [Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2021-06-16T083721Z_19783324_RC2I1O9ZEV42_RTRMADP_3_NEPAL-BHUTAN-FLOODS.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
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