Month: July 2018

Cross border trade between Bhutan and India has been an ancient practice. It has burgeoned today to an extent where Bhutan’s trade with India constitutes almost 90% in terms of import and export. India still continues to be Bhutan’s major trading partner. However, trading at the border doesn’t happen as easy as one would imagine. […]

Describing that it was time for the party to elaborate on its slogan by putting it into proper context as opposed to numerous interpretations being made for now, Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) formally introduced their party’s slogan ‘Narrowing the Gap’ for the 2018 elections in a press conference yesterday. To narrow the income gap, DNT […]

The country’s oldest and the largest commercial bank, Bank of Bhutan (BoB), implemented Intellect Digital Origination last week. Intellect Design Arena Ltd, a specialist in applying true Digital Technologies and a global leader in Financial Technology across banking and insurance, reportedly implemented an end-to-end credit decisioning system for both retail and SME line of businesses […]

With the third parliamentary elections looming, the Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party (BKP) has declared five new candidates last week, who would be representing the party in the 2018 elections, thus having had declared a total of 46 candidates as of now. On Thursday, the party launched two additional candidates – 26-year-old Damcho Zangmo and 39-year-old Tshering […]

Bhutan was bestowed the Country Award for the Asia and Pacific region during the 7th annual Global Inclusion Awards 2018 that was held early this month at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) stated that it is deeply honored to be globally recognized during the Global Inclusion Awards 2018, organized […]

The top four will represent Bhutan at the grand finale in Bangkok in September Twenty–one Bhutanese youth have completed participation in the first–ever Digital Camp that was organized at the Royal Institute of Management (RIM) in Thimphu from July 5–12. Participants also took part in the national round of Digital Challenge held at the RIM […]

In order to enhance customer service and facilitate easy access to service delivery, T-Bank opened a branch office in Trashigang on July 9. The branch office was set up in Trashigang to extend banking services. Trashigang T-Bank Branch Manager Saha Bdr Biswa said that the branch office will provide all types of banking services including […]