“There are many national policies and plans to prioritise but most important of all, we must empower the next generation. No matter how we think and reflect, study and analyse the situation, the answer lies in strengthening the youth–our children.”
-His Majesty, National Day, 2017
KEY FACTS ABOUT BHUTAN
Area – 38,394 Sq. km
Forest Cover –71%
Population (2017) – 735,553
Dzongkhags – 20
Dungkhags – 15
Gewogs – 205
Thromde – 4
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Aesop’s Fables
Aesop’s fables are timeless. They are very much applicable to us today. Told in simple language, these moral-packed stories are both illuminating and enlightening.
My Space
My Space is a sanctuary for creative engagement. Come—readers and writers—share your creative work with us
གློག་ཡིག་དཔེ་དེབ།
སྲུང་རིགས་སྣ་བསྡུས།
སྲུང་རིགས་སྣ་ཚོགས་ཟེར་མི་དེ་ སྤྱིར་བཏང་ སྔོན་དང་ཕུ་གི་དུས་ལུ་ བྱུང་མི་དང་ དཔེ་དོན་གཉིས་ སྦྲེལ་མར་སྦེ་ཡོད་མི་ལས་ འབྲེལ་གཏུགས་འབད་མི་ དེང་སང་གནས་སྟངས་དང་བསྟུན་པའི་ གསར་རྩོམ་ཚུ་ཨིན། སྲུང་གི་བརྗོད་གཞི་ངོ་མ་དེ་ སེམས་ཅན་དང་ མི་ཚུ་གི་ ལོ་རྒྱུས་ལུ་ གཞི་བཀོད་འབད་རུང་ དེ་གིས་ དེང་སང་གི་ གནད་དོན་དང་བསྟུན་པའི་ རེ་རེ་བཞིན་དུ་ དྭངས་སེལ་འབད་དེ་ དཔེ་སྟོན་འབདཝ་ཨིན།
Words and Usage
FERRY or CONVEY?
FERRY in the sense of transportation means movement with the help of or on a ship or a boat.
CONVEY, on the other hand, a verb too, means to take or carry someone or something to a particular place.
CONVEY also means expressing a thought, feeling, or idea so that it is understood by other people. This is the other meaning of CONVEY.
So, as we are situated in the heart the High Himalayas (where seas and oceans, boats and ships have no relevance, you do not FERRY goods but CONVEY them on the lorries (not trucks!), so that our people have a continuous supply of essential items, food and vegetables included.
Know your constitution
Know your Constitution, as it is being called, is a compilation – condensed and simplified – contents of the Constitution.
Mindfulness activities for kids
Spend a few hours doing one or a few of these every day. Slowing as they become your habit, you become aware of things around you. You become mindful.
FEATURED BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
As for the kids in your family who may be stuck at home away from school, we’re also releasing our Snow Leopard Readers as free ebooks! The books available in both English and Dzongkha, is part of our Snow Leopard Conservation Education Program for schools in rural areas of Bhutan to teach lessons on Bhutanese values in conservation. The stories were written by Bhutanese teachers and illustrated by local artists with support from the Royal Education Council.
Druk Gyalpo’s Relief Kidu
The Druk Gyalpo’s Relief Kidu would provide immediate relief to distressed individuals. Besides defraying the cost of living expenses and sustaining demand for goods and services, the Relief Kidu would also boost morale and provide assurance of hope despite current hardships.