BARBARA CROSSETTE, a former New York Times correspondent in Asia, is the author of "So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas." IT OFTEN COMES as a bewildering surprise to ...

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Voting in the first phase of elections to the National Assembly – the fourth since the Himalayan kingdom democratized in 2008 – will take place on November 30. In this April 23, 2013 file photo, a ...

For decades, Bhutan cultivated a reputation unlike any other nation in South Asia. It projected itself as a kingdom that measured happiness over wealth, cultural balance over reckless growth, and ...

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The Himalayan nation of Bhutan, often described as a "Shangri-La" where happiness is equated to wealth, is holding elections this week. But the Lhotshampa people, brutally driven out of the small ...

The tiny Himalayan monarchy of Bhutan held its first democratic election, handing a parliamentary landslide victory to former Prime Minister Jigme Thinley’s party, according to unofficial results. The ...

The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has leapt in one day from an absolute monarchy to a democracy. Bhutan is a tradition-bound land, where people revere their monarch — so much so that the young ...

Sabrina Soares explains how Bhutan progressed from a monarchy to a parliamentary democracy. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to building ...