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Ministry of Works and Human Settlement (Dzongkha: གཞི་རྟེན་མཁོ་ཆས་དང་སྐྱེལ་འདྲེན་་ལྷན་ཁག།; Wylie: gzhi rten mkho chas dang skyel 'dren lhan khag) renamed the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport [1] is a ministry of Bhutan responsible for quality and sustainable infrastructure, efficient transportation services ...
14 January - Bhutan reports its first 14 cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in people who travelled abroad. [ 1 ] 23 September - Bhutan reopens, scrapping COVID-19 related restrictions.
Category: 2022 in Bhutan. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This page was last edited on 11 July 2022, at 08:06 (UTC).
Bhutan's hydropower potential and its attraction for tourists are key resources. The Bhutanese Government has made some progress in expanding the nation's productive base and improving social welfare. In 2010, Bhutan became the first country in the world to ban smoking and the selling of tobacco. In order to stamp out cross-border smuggling ...
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck [a] (born 21 February 1980) is the King of Bhutan.His reign began in 2006 after his father Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicated the throne. A public coronation ceremony was held on 6 November 2008, a year that marked 100 years of monarchy in Bhutan.
Bhutan's tourism policy was further revised in June 2022 to maintain its 'High Value, Low Volume' policy and all nationalities had to pay US $200 as a Sustainable Development Fee [10] per night to obtain a visa to Bhutan, while Indian nationals have to pay 1,200 INR to obtain a permit.
With the historic enactment of the Royal Monetary Authority Act of Bhutan 2010, and the appointment of Bhutan's first Central Bank Governor, Dasho Daw Tenzin by the 5th Druk Gyalpo on August 18, 2010, the status of the RMA has been elevated to that of an autonomous Central Bank with greater powers in terms of its mode of functioning and ...
In 2022, Bhutan's Finance Minister Namgay Tshering claimed that "there is a high degree of acceptability of the LGBT+ community in our society". In the same year, Tashi Choden Chombal, an openly lesbian woman was crowned Miss Bhutan 2022 and represented Bhutan in the Miss Universe 2022 pageant.