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DrukAsh, Thimphu (2026)

02/05/2026

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*is bhutan slowly becoming japan? Not in terms of economy but with the declining birth rate in rapid phase.

*Bhutan’s Declining Birth Rate: A Quiet Shift That Could Reshape Our Future*

From my point of view, Bhutan’s falling fertility rate is one of the most important trends we’re not talking about enough. The rate dropped from 6.6 children per woman in 1980 to around 1.8 in 2023, now below the 2.1 needed for a stable population without immigration. NSB projections show our population will start shrinking after 2047.

*Why it matters for Bhutan’s future*

1. *Workforce & economy*: Fewer young people means fewer workers to support hydropower, tourism, farming, and new industries. Tax base shrinks right when we’ll need more healthcare spending.
2. *Caring for elders*: Bhutanese culture deeply values caring for parents. But with 1-2 kids per family, the burden on each child becomes heavy. The traditional family safety net thins out.
3. *Security & sovereignty*: A small population in a geopolitically sensitive region matters. Our strength has always been people, not size. A shrinking, aging society weakens long-term resilience.
4. *Dzongkhags emptying*: Young people already move to Thimphu/Phuentsholing or abroad. Low birth rates will accelerate rural depopulation, leaving villages with only elders and making local culture harder to sustain.

*What’s driving it?*
It’s not just “modern values”. Real pressures: cost of living in urban Bhutan, women pursuing education/careers, housing shortages, job insecurity, and many young Bhutanese working abroad in Australia, Middle East, etc. Having kids feels risky when parents worry about giving them a good life.

*Measures the government could consider*

1. *Make parenting affordable*
- Subsidized childcare in Thimphu/Phuentsholing where jobs are
- Housing quotas for young families in NHDCL projects
- Extend paid maternity leave and add paternity leave so fathers can share load

2. *Support rural families*
- Direct cash transfers for 2nd and 3rd child in villages to slow rural emptying
- Improve rural schools + healthcare so parents don’t feel they must move to cities for kids’ future

3. *Change work culture*
- Incentivize private companies to offer flexible hours for parents
- Government lead by example: 4-day weeks or remote work options for civil servants with young kids

4. *Address migration*
- Create real incentives for Bhutanese abroad to return: land, startup grants, job matching
- If diaspora stays abroad, make it easier for them to support parents back home without guilt

5. *Shift the narrative*
- Campaigns that honor both career and family. Right now society often makes women choose.
- Engage Dratsang and local leaders to promote family in a way that fits modern Bhutanese life, not just tradition

*The hard truth*: You can’t force births. Countries like South Korea and Japan spent billions and still have ultra-low fertility. Bhutan’s advantage is our small size and GNH framework. We can design policies that actually fit our culture, instead of copying others.

The goal isn’t just “more babies”. It’s making Bhutan a place where young people _want_ to build families because they feel secure, supported, and hopeful.

If we wait until 2047 when population peaks, we’ve waited too long. The time to act is while our workforce is still young.

What’s your take? Do you feel this pressure among your friends/family?

07/04/2026

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07/04/2026

Second appeal to government of bhutan.

Government stated that till now there is no any immediate emergency to evacuate the bhutanese living in gulf amid the ongoing tension in the region, what! Are they waiting for bhutanese to die and have destruction in region than only they will consider as an emergency alaram. We request government to act before its too late, govt cant wait to be emergency and let people to die in unknown land. I restate my earlier pharase of first appeal; we would love to die in our own soil rather than in foregin land and we would love to eat emadatsi than biryani. Every night we go to bed without any assurance of being alive next moring in this situation.

To: His Excellency Dasho Tshering Tobgay Honorable Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bhutan

Subject: Second Urgent Appeal for the Immediate Evacuation of Bhutanese Nationals in the Gulf Region Amidst Rapid Military Escalation

Your Excellency,

We write to you today with a sense of profound urgency and increasing alarm. Following our initial appeal, the security landscape in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region has deteriorated to a critical tipping point. With the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the intensification of missile and drone exchanges across the region, the window for a safe and coordinated exit for our fellow citizens is rapidly narrowing.

As of April 2026, over 7,800 Bhutanese remain in the Gulf, with the vast majority—over 5,500—concentrated in Kuwait, which sits precariously close to the current zone of hostilities. While we acknowledge the government’s previous stance that evacuation was not yet "deemed necessary," the "ground realities" you previously cited have now shifted from diplomatic tension to active, large-scale regional conflict.

Your Excellency, the Bhutanese people have always found strength in the protection of the Golden Throne and the proactive care of our government. However, the psychological distress and physical danger facing our brothers and sisters in the Middle East have reached an unsustainable level.

We cannot afford to wait for a total blackout of communication or transportation. We pray for your swift and decisive leadership to bring our citizens home before the "Safe Routes" mentioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs cease to exist.

In the service of the tsa wa sum

Concerned Citizens and Families of Bhutanese Workers in the Gulf Dated: April 7, 2026

30/03/2026

IRAN WAR - WATER HAS SERIOUSLY BECOME THE MOST DANGEROUS BLIND SPOT OF THIS ENTIRE WAR!

Iran's military command, Khatam Al-Anbiya, issued a direct statement this week:

"If Iran's fuel and energy infrastructure is violated by the enemy, all energy, information technology and water desalination infrastructure belonging to the US and Israel in the region will be targeted."

They didn't say oil. They said water.

A UN official, Iranian scientist and water expert Kaveh Madani warned publicly on Sunday that desalination plants across the Middle East could be struck "within the next few days."

He said: "The driest region of the world might see a real water war."

Now let me give you the facts most people don't know.

The Arabian Peninsula is a desert.

There are almost no rivers. Almost no natural freshwater. The entire region relies on desalination plants, massive coastal facilities that take seawater and remove the salt for survival.

The numbers tell the story clearly.

- Kuwait: 90% of all drinking water comes from desalination.
- Bahrain: 100% of drinking water. From desalination.
- Qatar: nearly 100% of drinking water. From desalination.
- Oman: 86%.
- Saudi Arabia: 70%.
- UAE: 42%.

The Middle East holds 6% of the world's population but less than 2% of its renewable freshwater.

There are approximately 5,000 desalination plants across the region. Over 400 of them are in the Gulf.

And here is the most critical fact: more than 90% of the Gulf's desalinated water comes from just 56 plants.

56 plants.

For 100 million people.

And Iran knows exactly where they are.

All of them sit on coastlines. Right along the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea. The same waterways Iran already controls militarily.

A water economist named Esther Crauser-Delbourg said it directly to AFP this week:

"The first side that dares to attack water triggers a war far more enormous than the one we have today."

Far more enormous.

Not larger. Not worse. Far more enormous.

Because oil shocks damage economies.

Water shocks collapse societies.

There is no strategic petroleum reserve for water. There is no IEA emergency release for water.

You cannot pump extra water the way you pump extra oil.

A 2008 US diplomatic cable later published by WikiLeaks warned that Riyadh, the Saudi capital, might have to "evacuate within a week" if the Jubail desalination plant or its pipelines were seriously damaged.

Evacuate a capital city. Within one week. Because of one plant.

My rich dad used to teach me something he called the hierarchy of needs in a war economy.

He said: "When oil is disrupted, markets panic. When food is disrupted, governments fall. When water is disrupted — civilizations end."

We are now in a war where all three are being threatened simultaneously.

Oil is already disrupted. Brent crude up 50% since February 28.

Food prices are rising globally as fertilizer shipments through the Strait are blocked and 50% of global urea exports move through the same waterway.

And now water is on the table.

I am not saying the desalination plants will be struck.

I am saying the threat is real, confirmed, and being tracked by the UN.

What the CIA said in 2010 remains true today: disrupting desalination facilities in most Arab countries "could have more serious consequences than the loss of any other industry or commodity."

Any. Other. Industry. Or. Commodity.

That includes oil.Iran has already started hitting the water destilation plant in middle east. Almost every country dont have

Bhutan government is waiting for war to esclate further that there will be point where iran will attack the civilian area and let people die than only they will plan to evacuate bhutanese living in middle east.

Creadit:Robert kiyosaki

15/03/2026

We would love to die in our own soil rather than in foregin land. We love to eat emadatshi rather than eating biriyani . Everynight we go to bed but without a sleep its getting morning.

*Urgent Appeal to the Royal Government of Bhutan*

To the Hon'ble Prime Minister and Government of Bhutan,

We, the Bhutanese community living in the Gulf region, urgently request your immediate intervention to facilitate our evacuation from the region due to escalating tensions.

The situation is becoming increasingly precarious, and we are concerned about our safety and well-being. Many of us are facing difficulties in accessing basic necessities like water, particularly in Salmiya, Kuwait, where a significant number of Bhutanese reside. Its been two days without water and not sure about tomorrow.

We humbly request the government to expedite the evacuation process, ensuring our safe return to Bhutan. We appreciate your prompt attention to this matter.

"If not now than it will be too late for tomorrow.

Sincerely,
The Bhutanese Community in the Gulf

01/03/2026

What is 5500+ bhutanese in kuwait. Why government dont have a exact number of their citizen in oversea? How they will act in the time of emergency like today when they dont know the exact number of people.

01/03/2026

Bhutan has taken a crucial step to promote football in country with the help of FIFA fund. Country inagurated FIFA arena at loseling middle secondary school in recent time. Its is very good news for bhutan sport but why always all project comes for thimphu only. Is it beacuse of being capital and why government always do investment on city area only. Do they think people in rural area dont play sports or they think that investing im rural is not profitable for government.

Every major investment in soprts are done only in city area, if this trend goes for years dont think that there will be growth in football. Suppose if one youth of rural area wants to participate in football selection than they need to come all the way from their hometown to thimphu, those are the only who can afford to travel to thimphu but what about who dont have money to come to thimphu despite of having talent and passionate about sports, so in that way someone dream is being crashed by imbalanced regional development and lack of opportunity for them. Later on they will say bhutan is not able to perform in internatonal stage.

Please BFF have a proper balanced development interms of infrastracture and facelities in every part of the country, not only in urban areas as if only urban people will represent country in international stage and make nation proud.

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21/02/2026

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19/01/2026

What is the problem with bhutan football ? Why there is no improvement in bhutan football. Bhutan has shown a very bad performance in recent times additionally ranking has also drop down to 192 from 186.
Bhutan perticpate in SAFF futasl tournament and till now not a single win. Is there problem with player or is with management. Instead of scouting the vibrant, small-sided street games and local tournaments across Bhutan’s 20 dzongkhags, the federation often defaults to the same "known faces" from the national football squad.By treating the futsal team as a secondary outlet for existing national football stars, the Bhutan Football Federation (BFF) effectively shuts the door on thousands of young players who specialize in the court game.Talent outside the capital is frequently overlooked.same group of players continues to be selected despite a consistent track record of failure. This "revolving door" policy prevents fresh blood and new strategies from entering the locker room.
Transparency is the bedrock of any successful national team. However, in Bhutan, the selection process is often criticized as being opaque and exclusionary.
If the process goes in sameway than we would be last in the world. We need to have a emmidate change in strategic and opportunity schould be given based on talent not on background of player.

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01/01/2026

From the street of Lhamoy Zingkha to changlingmithang stadium. Dilip Monger story is not less than story of Messi, he started playing in senior school team since he was class three. His journey began in very unprecedented way and turn to be inspiration for many football youth of lhamoy zingkha. Despite of facing some physical challenges with his height he prove that if we have talent and optimistic view than physical problem can't be barrier to reach his destination. He has gain a lot of popularity and prestige once he started playing in senior school team that teams from India use to come to school to get him in their team. They would pay him around 1000 to play one match, he has bring lot to trophy to trophy cabinet of school and other team. He was often regarded as Messi of lhamoy zingkha(kalikhola) due to his height and from playing style he was Ronaldo of street. Soon he completed his middle school and he went to play winter league in Thimphu for the first time, that league was the big turning point for his carrier. From that time specter of UAFC has approached him to play for their time. He wrote the history for himself and lhamoy Zingkha as he became one of the first player to play in Bhutan Premier League, Bhutan first division league from the street of Lhamoy Zingkha. He spend his two years in UAFC and he shine like a star in team. Very soon he finished his contract with UAFC and he joined with Transport United one of the Bhutan biggest club. Their he couldn't perform up to his expectations due to knee injury.

After recovering from injury he join with RTC FC for full scholarships and he show tremendous work for team and himself. In 2022 he got a call up for Bhutan senior national team for the first time to play against Bangladesh and he became the second player to play for national team after Lungtok Dawa, that was a joy moment for whole community of lhamoy zingkha and for himself.
Once again he is representing bhutan in global stage in Thailand for Futsal Championship.

His journey from the street of Lhamoy Zingkha to Thaild was a nothing but true inspiration for youth of Bhutan.
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