Tag Archives: Bhutan

With this PTA, some 100 Bangladeshi items are to get duty free access to the markets in Bhutan while about 34 items from Bhutan will get access to the Bangladeshi market -- with much more room to grow and explore.

Timely new book warns India and China about dangerous manipulations in the Buddhist Himalaya.

Black-necked cranes are classified as vulnerable and globally threatened, and they are also considered sacred in many communities along the Western Himalayan region, from China to India.

Bhutan’s population will stay below the one million mark even by 2047, which is in the next 28 years, says Population Projections Report for the South Asian kingdom.

Policymakers in South Asia should consider that while proximate environmental conflicts are the key impediments to region's hydro projects, environmental factors can also be instrumental in building lasting peace.

With the world focused on the scary possibility of war on the Korean Peninsula, not many people paid much attention to a series of naval exercises this past July in the Malacca Strait, a 550-mile long passage between Sumatra and Malaysia through which pass over 50,000 ships a year.   With President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un …

China has been assiduously working to encircle India both on land and sea, with the eventual aim of capturing markets and relegating India to a secondary position, says one former general of Indian Army.

Flash floods, sediment deposits and low river levels could make trouble for the Himalayan country’s dam plans – the bedrock of its green economy.

Bhutan is developing wind and solar to reduce its reliance on hydropower and reduce electricity imports every winter.

From the very beginning, Bhutan took an unusual path to democracy. It was decreed by the Fourth King as his ‘gift’ to the nation. But although his citizens could not refuse the gift, the question of whether they have fully accepted it remains unanswered.