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The Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS, Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱང་བསྒྲགས་ལས་འཛིན) is a state-funded radio and television service in Bhutan. [1] A public service corporation which is fully funded by the state and it is the only service to offer both radio and television in the kingdom, and is the only ...
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 ...
The Bhutan News app allowed subscribers to download the digital edition of each day’s newspaper and the Radiola app allowed people to listen on their phones to the three private FM radio stations. [11] The BMF further supported nine newspapers and three radio stations to develop and upgrade their online platforms. [11]
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% ...
National Assembly elections were held in Bhutan on 31 May and 13 July 2013. [1] The result was a victory for the opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP), which won 32 of the 47 seats. The elections were the second general elections to occur in Bhutan since former King Jigme Singye Wangchuck ushered in democratic reforms. [2]
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 ...
Bhutan's king appointed a nine-member interim government on Wednesday to oversee the Himalayan nation's parliamentary election, to be held within three months, a palace statement said. The free ...
A map of Bhutan. 14 December 2003: According to two separate testimonies made by ULFA commanders, a Royal Bhutan Army major visited an ULFA encampment claiming that Bhutan's king was planning to make a friendly visit on the next day. Having received the king on numerous other occasions, the operation that followed came as a complete surprise to ...