Laya, located at 3,800 metres above sea level, is the second-largest gewog among the four in Gasa, with a population of 1,108 and approximately 286 households. It is one of Bhutan’s most remote ...

But there are those with different skills from remote districts who have found a similar place with lucrative pay for work. They call it ‘Austra-Laya’. Laya gewog is situated 3,800 metres above sea ...

In its first iteration in 2022, the 125-mile route – which covers some of the toughest terrain of northern Bhutan – required ... and women from the village of Laya (at 3,820m/12,532ft, the ...

It is one of a string of Chinese settlements that also fall well within the border shown on official maps of Bhutan – a Buddhist kingdom of fewer than 1 million people that’s never agreed on a ...

Her Bhutan adventure was documented in the short ... The journey to the festival, held in the remote village of Laya, which is 4,000m above sea level, was arduous. It included a four-hour hike ...

Shy and innocent, 16 year old Dorji Om always thought that life in the urban areas was utopian unlike in her community in the high, cold mountains of Laya. As she heard of new developments in the ...

Comparatively less attention is given to China’s much smaller neighbors Bhutan and Nepal, which have far fewer resources to defend their legitimate territorial claims. China’s recent public ...

King Jigme of Bhutan recalls that when he was studying in America, his classmates would scoff in disbelief when he told them there were tigers and elephants in his Himalayan homeland. Like many ...

She played the piano for Bhutan’s King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck ... The journey to the festival, held in the remote village of Laya, which is 4,000m above sea level, was arduous.

Why, then, has China appropriated part of a neighbor’s territory? That neighbor is Bhutan, a country with which China has said for decades it is keen to have formal diplomatic relations ...

Bhutan’s growing Bitcoin empire revealed, with over $780 million in BTC acquired through extensive mining operations powered by the nation’s renewable energy resources. South Asian country Bhutan, a ...