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Amid a brain drain and economic woes, Bhutan has used cryptocurrency to double the salaries of its civil servants.
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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]](/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]](/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]](/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]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2021-06-16T083721Z_19783324_RC2I1O9ZEV42_RTRMADP_3_NEPAL-BHUTAN-FLOODS.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Bhutan vaccinates 60% of population against COVID in record time
Tiny Himalayan nation says 470,000 out of 770,000 people administered first shot of a two-dose vaccine donated by India.
![A health worker inoculates a Buddhist monk sitting in front of a portrait of Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, at Lungtenzampa Middle Secondary school in Thimphu [File: Upasana Dahal/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/000_96V2ER.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
UN sounds alarm over COVID deaths of children in South Asia
Pandemic may have indirectly contributed to around 228,000 additional child deaths in 2020, UN report says.
![A Nepalese man puts a mask on his child's face [File: Niranjan Shrestha/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AP_20111524055582.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Top Bhutan general, judges detained in alleged overthrow plot
The three are accused of plotting to overthrow country’s top military officer by involving him in a corruption scandal.
![Former Royal Bodyguard Commandant Brigadier Thinley Tobgay, Supreme Court Justice Kuenley Tshering and top district court judge Yeshey Dorji appeared in court on Wednesday after being detained at their homes [File: Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/000_1MZ54H.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
