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It is possible to divide Bhutan's population into three broad ethnic groups, though the distinctions blur in places. Southern Bhutan is inhabited mainly by Nepalese farmers who arrived in the ...

Petty thieving, pick pocketing, cheating, bribery are the vices that have not yet touched the local Bhutan population (670,000). Tourist guides do not demand exorbitant tips, hotel staff does not ...

In Bhutan, from 2019-2020, RSPN had recorded 590 crane arrivals in the country. Jigme Tshering said that although the general population trend has been increasing, at the local level, there were ...

The findings, gathered over a three-week period between November and December last year, reveal that significant segments of Bhutan’s population face heightened risks of hypertension, diabetes, ...