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Phuntsho Tshering is Bhutan’s glacier specialist and the only person authorised to climb the Himalayan country’s sacred mountains. He spends months away from home measuring the rapidly melting glaciers, while faithfully recording videos on his phone fo…
Read MorePhuntsho Tshering is Bhutan’s glacier specialist and the only person authorised to climb the Himalayan country’s sacred mountains. He spends months away from home measuring the rapidly melting glaciers, while faithfully recording videos on his phone fo…
Read MoreA trainee teacher’s dreams of becoming a singer are interrupted when he is posted to the world’s remotest school in Pawo Choyning Dorji’s gentle dramaThis gentle, sweet-natured movie is the debut feature from Bhutan-born and US-educated film-maker Pawo…
Read MoreFilmed in a remote Bhutan village, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom captures a way of life that is rapidly vanishing. Its Oscar-nominated director talks about growing up in a country where prosperity is measured by happiness, not GDPIt took eight days fo…
Read MoreThe remote Himalayan nation of around 800,000 people has recorded fewer Covid fatalities than almost any other countrySee all our coronavirus coverageBhutan’s success in avoiding coronavirus is almost unrivalled but a rare patient death – just the king…
Read MoreIndia’s tiger corridor and Australia’s possum ‘tunnel of love’ are among the myriad infrastructure projects providing safe passageHow creating wildlife crossings can help reindeer, bears – and even crabsRead more in our series Biodiversity: what happen…
Read MoreRefugees are not vulnerable they just need help to play to their strengths, says Om Dhungel, a ‘Blacktown boy’ from BhutanRead the rest of our series Welcome to BlacktownWhen I meet Om Dhungel in a cafe near his home, he tells me about Merryn Howell. “…
Read MoreMore than 85% of adults in the tiny Himalayan kingdom were given a second dose in just one weekSee all our coronavirus coverageBhutan has inoculated most of its eligible population with second doses of Covid-19 vaccinations in a week, in a speedy rollo…
Read MoreFrench documentarian Thomas Balmès checks in with the Himalayan monk he filmed back in 2013 to find him addicted to online romanceIn 2013, French documentary-maker Thomas Balmès made a film called Happiness, about an eight-year-old monk called Peyangki…
Read MoreHimalayan kingdom is latest country to recognise the Jewish state in a normalisation dealIsrael established diplomatic relations with the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan on Saturday, the Israeli foreign ministry said, in the latest of a string of normalisa…
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