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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.
Since November 2009, radio airs for 24 hours a day (23 hours and 21 minutes taking into account pauses and connection breaks), with the low listening times of 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. featuring repeats of the previous day's schedule. 14 hours and 45 minutes of each broadcast day is broadcast in Dzongkha, with 3 hours and 45 minutes broadcast in English ...
Below is a list of newspapers published in Bhutan. [1] [2] Bhutan Observer — English and Dzongkha; formerly bi-weekly, now only online; Bhutan Times — English; weekly; Bhutan Today — English; bi-weekly; Bhutan Youth — English; The Bhutanese [3] — English and Dzongkha; weekly; Business Bhutan — English and Dzongkha; weekly; Daily ...
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% ...
Location of Bhutan. Bhutan is a landlocked country and the second largest Himalayan state in Asia. Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it is bordered by China in the north and India in the south. Bhutan is separated from Nepal by the Indian state of Sikkim and from Bangladesh by the Indian states of West Bengal and Assam.
The forums of news portals such as U.S.-based The Bhutan Times (unrelated to the Bhutan Times newspaper) are much less moderated. The website was temporarily blocked by BICMA, Bhutan's media regulatory body, in 2007. [7] Government officials said forum discussions on bhutantimes.com were too critical of Minister Sangey Nidup, maternal uncle of ...
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The Bhutanese is a newspaper based in Bhutan. It was founded by the investigative journalist Tenzing Lamsang in February 2012. Originally it was published bi-weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays but, since August 2013, only weekly on Saturdays to focus on a weekly format. The paper is written mainly in English with a Dzongkha language section.