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    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      Travel
      I went on a £30,000 fishing trip — and didn’t get a bite

      The golden mahseer is Bhutan’s national fish, a Buddhist good-luck symbol and a bucket-list catch for anglers. But it can be elusive . . . 

      A man stands fishing in a rocky mountain landscape
    • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
      Bhutan turns to crypto in search of fast growth

      Himalayan kingdom teams up with Singapore’s Bitdeer as it seeks to raise cash to mine digital currency

      Water flows through tunnels at the Punatsangchhu hydroelectric power project in Wangdue, Bhutan
    • Friday, 23 September, 2022
      Travel
      Hidden Himalayas: hiking the new Trans-Bhutan Trail

      Bhutan is finally reopening its borders this weekend — and launching a 400km footpath across the country

      A man standing on a rocky promontory overlooking a lake
    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      Travel
      Bhutan’s bold plan to introduce the world’s highest tourist levy

      Himalayan kingdom will finally reopen borders in September — but with a ‘sustainable development fee’ of $200 per person per day

      Buddhist monks in the town of Trongsa in Bhutan
    • Wednesday, 12 August, 2020
      HTSI
      A natural high: 14 of the best mountain escapes

      Jean Nouvel, Sean Scully, Diane von Furstenberg and others reveal their ultimate hillside retreats 

      The Dolomites at sunset
    • Friday, 10 January, 2020
      Asia and Australia holidays
      To Bhutan, in a wheelchair

      Refusing to be daunted by thin air or high peaks, one family finds an uplifting experience in the Himalayan kingdom

      Punakha Dzong is arguably the most beautiful dzong in the country,
    • Friday, 1 March, 2019
      Undercover EconomistTim Harford
      Why happiness is easy to venerate and hard to generate

      Moaning about the deficiencies of measurement will not help us focus on what matters

      Iron Chain Bridge of Tachog Lhakhang Monastery, Paro River, Bhutan
    • Friday, 14 September, 2018
      Life & Arts
      The pursuit of (gross national) happiness — and yetis

      FT columnist and literary critic reports from Bhutan, where positivity — and the ‘migoi’ — are high on the agenda

    • Wednesday, 15 August, 2018
      FT Best ofBest of Travel 2018
      A quest to see the elusive blue poppies of Bhutan

      The country’s national flower grows on remote Himalayan mountainsides and blooms only briefly

      Punakha Lodge Terrace and Main Farmhouse
    • Monday, 28 August, 2017
      World
      India and China agree to disengage troops after border stand-off
    • Friday, 25 August, 2017
      Telecoms
      India challenges Chinese companies on data security

      Browser and smartphone makers are asked to show that customer data are kept safe

      Images Of UCWeb Inc. UC Browser As Alibaba-Backed UCWeb to Boost Spending by 67% to Expand Overseas...UCWeb Inc.'s UC Browser application icon, top right, is displayed next to an Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. icon on an Apple Inc. iPhone 5s in an arranged photograph in Hong Kong, China, on Wednesday, May 7, 2014. UCWeb, the browser maker and app distributor backed by China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., said it plans to raise spending by 67 percent to build products, add talent and expand overseas including in India and Russia. Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg
    • Thursday, 17 August, 2017
      Chinese politics & policy
      China video mocks India over Himalayas border stand-off

      State news agency’s video shows actor with fake beard, turban and goofy accent

      Screenshot of a Xinhua video titled 'The Spark: 7 Sins of India' ( http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-08/16/c_136531175.htm)
    • Sunday, 13 August, 2017
      Global InsightAmy Kazmin
      China and India rivalry smoulders in Bhutan

      Beijing woos Himalayan kingdom, the last outpost of Indian dominance in South Asia

      The stand-off is one of the most serious confrontations since the two Asian neighbours fought their 1962 border war
    • Sunday, 6 August, 2017
      News in-depthChinese politics & policy
      Himalayan impasse highlights China-India tensions

      Showdown over small piece of land reflects bitter rivalry between Asian powers

      (FILES) This file photo taken on July 10, 2008 shows a Chinese soldier (L) next to an Indian soldier at the Nathu La border crossing between India and China in India's northeastern Sikkim state. A border standoff between Chinese and Indian troops on a remote Himalayan plateau has heightened long-standing tensions while ensnaring a tiny kingdom, Bhutan, between the two nuclear-armed powers. The row has festered for more than a month by the end of July 2017 as India and China refuse to back down in the distant but strategically key territory, reflecting the historic mistrust between the Asian giants. / AFP PHOTO / DIPTENDU DUTTA
    • Monday, 24 July, 2017
      Chinese politics & policy
      China threatens India over Himalayas border dispute

      PLA to defend territory ‘at all costs’ in spat over area also claimed by Bhutan

      The stand-off is one of the most serious confrontations since the two Asian neighbours fought their 1962 border war
    • Friday, 7 July, 2017
      Chinese politics & policy
      Xi and Modi decline meeting as border dispute hots up

      Frostiness over contested area marks deterioration in India-China relationship

      montage: Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping
    • Friday, 5 February, 2016
      Alan Beattie
      Since you asked: The best days of your life are to come

      The UK statistics agency points to the 65 to 79 age group as the happiest, writes Alan Beattie

      Senior couple cycling in park
    • Friday, 26 June, 2015
      European companies
      Drones get a new mission: saving lives in the Mediterranean

      Unmanned aerial vehicles, long used by the military, are helping in humanitarian disasters

      A drone's eye view of a migrant boat in the Mediterranean; the Migrant Offshore Aid Station with the drone on deck; and the Schiebel helicopter
    • Friday, 10 April, 2015
      Life & Arts
      A dragon’s eye view: hot-air ballooning in Bhutan

      After a decade of planning, hot-air ballooning has arrived in the ‘Land of the Thunder Dragon’

      The hot-air balloon fills, watched by monks
    • Friday, 19 December, 2014
      FT DataRobin Kwong
      Video feature: Refugees in America
    • Friday, 12 December, 2014
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    • Monday, 22 September, 2014
      Indian business & finance
      Nepal launches hydropower growth plan with $1.4bn deal
      A picture shows this year's biggest release of water from the sluice for flood prevention at the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, central China's Hubei province, on July 20, after relentless torrential rains hit Yangtze River areas. The massive water flow on the Yangtze was expected to pose the biggest test for the Three Gorges Dam -- the world's largest hydroelectric project -- since it was completed in 2006, as rivers throughout rain-hit regions have risen to or beyond their warning levels, flooding numerous towns and cities. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read AFP/AFP/Getty Images)(Photo Credit should Read /AFP/Getty Images)
    • Friday, 5 September, 2014
      Life & Arts
      Travel updates: Bhutan, London and Switzerland

      Bhutan’s 13-day adventure tour, London’s Artist Residence hotel and Switzerland’s Golden Autumn Days package

      The Grand Hotel Kronenhof in Switzerland
    • Friday, 18 April, 2014
      Life & Arts
      The tour de Bhutan
    • Friday, 21 February, 2014
      Asia-Pacific companies
      Nissan to provide Bhutan with electric cars
      Nissan Leaf
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