Bhutan

Singapore, Bhutan call for carbon credit project applications

At the National Memorial Chorten, people turn prayer wheels – a spiritual practice believed to accumulate merit and cleanse negative karma.

Bhutan’s double bet: Mindfulness and nature to drive tourism and investment

Ed Sheeran on stage in Bhutan.
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Ed Sheeran and Bhutan show the way ahead for music tourism

Ed Sheeran performing in Bhutan.

Music tourism the Bhutanese way

Since Bhutan started welcoming tourists in 1974, it has built its reputation on low-volume crowds and high-paying guests, drawn to sweeping Himalayan mountain vistas and Buddhist monasteries perched on cliffs.

Bhutan making it easier to visit to revive economy

Bhutan said the “Gelephu Mindfulness City” (GMC) will lie in a special administrative region with separate rules and laws that will aim to be an economic corridor linking South Asia to South-east Asia.

Buddhist Bhutan to build ‘mindfulness city’ to woo investment, create jobs

Former Changi Airport Group (CAG) and Surbana Jurong chairman Liew Mun Leong (left) has been appointed as CEO of Bhutan's Gelephu Mindfulness City. Former CAG CEO Lee Seow Hiang (right) has been appointed as a board member.

Liew Mun Leong, Lee Seow Hiang appointed to board of Bhutan’s new economic hub

The luxurious tented suites of andBeyond Punakha River Lodge bring guests closer to Bhutan's flora and fauna.
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andBeyond in Bhutan: Fusing luxury and sustainability 

A hiker on the Trans-Bhutan Trail
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Legendary Trans-Bhutan Trail reopens to the world

What Bhutan offers the world is not a top-of-the-world ranking, but a very useful holistic way of analysing every state initiative for society.
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Covid’s 'great reset': Taking a leaf from Bhutan