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Lisa DeJong/The Plain DealerDhan Basnet watches his wife, Dika, comb the hair of their daughter, 10-year-old Durga, at their home in Lakewood. They and other immigrants from Bhutan are ...
Bhutan's decision-makers appear to be focused on reaching a deal in the north that is separate from India and its concerns.Beijing's yearslong construction plan has changed the reality on the ...
In Bhutan, empty houses are called gungtong. Most people fear that gungtongs are guarded by giant snakes or that ghosts live inside, said Sonam Jamtsho, media spokesperson and planning officer for ...
From remote private islands to hilltops that seem impossible to access, homes can be found in extreme locations around the globe. A monastery on a Bhutan rock face houses monks, some of whom don't ...
The pandemic may have shut down much of Bhutan’s public life, but its prime export, hydropower, has flourished. With early rainfall, Druk Green Power Corporation has recorded an estimated 14% ...
A Buddhist kingdom lying in the Himalayas between China and India, Bhutan has some 700,000 residents, most of whom live in the cities of Thimphu and Paro in the west.
Bhutan police can raid homes of smokers in a search for contraband tobacco and are training a special tobacco sniffer dog in a crackdown to honor a promise to become the world's first smoke-free ...