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Kuensel is published from the capital, Thimphu, and Kanglung, Trashigang, in eastern Bhutan where a press was set up in 2005. This has ensured that the paper is available in all districts on the day of publication. Kuensel was the sole newspaper in Bhutan up until April 2006 when it was joined by the Bhutan Times (and by the Bhutan Observer in ...
Bhutan has about 295,000 Internet users, 25,200 landline subscribers, and 676,000 mobile phone subscribers. [12] Bhutan's only Internet service provider is Druknet which is owned by Bhutan Telecom. The mobile subscriber in 2014 was at 14%. As the market began to mature in 2015 it was 5% and 2% in 2015 and 2016, as market penetration reached 88% ...
Below is a list of newspapers published in Bhutan. [1] [2] Bhutan Observer — English and Dzongkha; formerly bi-weekly, now only online; The Bhutan Times — English; weekly; Bhutan Today — English; bi-weekly; Bhutan Youth — English; The Bhutanese — English and Dzongkha; weekly; Business Bhutan — English and Dzongkha; weekly; Druk ...
A new group is among the two political parties chosen by Bhutan's people to contest its fourth free vote since democracy was established 15 years ago, while the outgoing ruling party was knocked ...
News organisations - Kuensel, Business Bhutan, The Bhutanese, BBS website Government and NGO publications - UNDP Monarchy and Democracy in the 21st Century, by Bhutan Centre for Media and Democracy. Academic - Druk Journal, Journal of Bhutan Studies
In 2021 the BMF released a report detailing the use and impact of social media in the country. According to the report, about 90 per cent of Bhutanese citizens use at least one social media site for their main source of information. Facebook is the primary site for encountering disinformation on social media, with word of mouth coming a close ...
9 January – 2023–24 Bhutanese National Assembly election (second round): Voters elect 47 members of the National Assembly. [1] Holidays
The Bhutan Times is Bhutan's first privately owned newspaper, and only the second in the country after the government owned and autonomous Kuensel.Its first edition, with 32 pages, hit newsstands on April 30, 2006, [1] with a high-profile interview of Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, the young crown prince of Bhutan, who had recently been designated to succeed his father as king in 2008.