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Bhutan

August 2024

  • Paige McClanahan in Paris.

    Overtourism and the climate crisis
    The good tourist: can we learn to travel without absolutely infuriating the locals?

  • Kinzang Lhamo runs through the line on the Esplanades des Invalides to finish the women’s marathon.

    Fans unite in Paris to rouse Bhutan’s Kinzang Lhamo for marathon effort

July 2024

  • AGENT OF HAPPINESS

    Agent of Happiness review – serene, slow-burning documentary from Bhutan

    In the famously content Buddhist country, a government inspector interviews citizens to measure their wellbeing in a gently humorous film that doesn’t avoid dark themes
  • (l-r) Dorottya Zurbó, Amber Kumar Gurung, Guna Raj Kuikel, and Arun Bhattarai.

    ‘Are you rich in goats?’: chronicling the extraordinary work of Bhutan’s ‘happiness surveyors’

    The co-directors of the engrossing and funny new film Agent of Happiness discuss the pressures of documentary making, living with parents and why they can’t work alone
  • The impossibility of putting a number on happiness is quickly revealed … Agent of Happiness.

    Agent of Happiness review – Bhutan surveyors attempt to analyse joy

    Two assessors ask questions but it’s the detail and nuance that is so compelling in this gently absorbing documentary

January 2024

  • Phuntsho Tshering in the documentary, Bhutan Mountain Man by film-maker Arun Bhattarai

    The Guardian documentary
    Bhutan Mountain Man: video diaries from a lone glaciologist

  • The Guardian documentary
    Bhutan Mountain Man: video diaries from a lone glaciologist

December 2023

  • Satish Kumar in Devon

    ‘Act out of love not anger’: green trailblazer calls for unity in movement

    Satish Kumar, founder of ecological college in Devon, says a brighter future requires compassion and long-term thinking

September 2023

  • ‘The more you experience happiness, the more it gets deeper, vaster, resistant to circumstances …’ Matthieu Ricard

    The G2 interview
    The world’s happiest man? Matthieu Ricard on the secrets of a serene, successful, satisfying life

    The Buddhist monk and bestselling author’s latest book tells the story of his spiritual journey. He discusses joy, suffering and how to foster happiness and health

March 2023

  • Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom features a non-professional cast and a yak called Norbu.

    Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom review – Bhutan school drama is a breath of fresh air

    A disillusioned teacher is sent to a remote Himalayan school in this charming, visually stunning first feature
  • Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

    Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom review – heart and feet-warming tale of a Bhutan village

    A 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 drama
  • ‘You feed him according to how much dung you want’ … Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom.

    ‘They’d never seen sliced bread’: how a tiny film about Himalayan yak-herders conquered the world

    Filmed 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 GDP

February 2023

  • A screen capture of a telecast showing Karan Rai, of Louisville, Kentucky, singing on the Nepali version of the Voice, which he won, the culmination of a remarkable journey that began with his birth in a Nepali refugee camp.

    Louisville singer born in refugee camp wins Nepal’s The Voice

    Karan Rai prepares for international tour after victory on TV singing competition

February 2022

  • Paro Taktsang, the Tiger’s Nest Monastery in Paro valley, in the west of Bhutan.

    Weatherwatch
    From icy mountains to subtropical lowlands: Bhutan’s varied climate

    Buddhist kingdom has three distinct zones as altitude rises from south to north

January 2022

  • A health worker gives a coronavirus vaccine to a woman in Bhutan

    ‘Felt like a bullet’: Bhutan prime minister mourns rare Covid death

    The remote Himalayan nation of around 800,000 people has recorded fewer Covid fatalities than almost any other country

December 2021

  • composite of animals passing roads via wildlife bridges

    Biodiversity: what happened next?
    Animal crossings: the ecoducts helping wildlife navigate busy roads across the world

  • Bhutanese refugees

    Welcome to Blacktown
    Inspiration, not charity: how refugees from Bhutan thrived in Blacktown

July 2021

  • BHUTAN-HEALTH-VIRUS-VACCINE<br>A health worker inoculates woman with the jab of the Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a temporary vaccination centre in Thimpu on July 26, 2021. (Photo by Upasana DAHAL / AFP) (Photo by UPASANA DAHAL/AFP via Getty Images)

    Bhutan’s rapid Covid vaccine rollout hailed as international success story

    More than 85% of adults in the tiny Himalayan kingdom were given a second dose in just one week

December 2020

  • Separate destinies … Sing Me a Song.

    Sing Me a Song review – sombre Bhutanese internet love story

  • The Bhutanese and Israeli ambassadors to India at a ceremony to establish diplomatic relations between their two countries, held in the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, India.

    Israel establishes 'formal diplomatic relations' with Bhutan

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