Carefully hidden gem in the Himalayas, the capital of BhutanThimphu is an extraordinary city that harmoniously combines thousand-year-old traditions and modernity, almost polished in a European way. Despite the fact that a Buddhist fortress-dzong has existed on this site since 1216, city life began to seethe here only in 1961 – when the King of…
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Bhutan 2008
Yearbook 2008 Bhutan. On March 24, elections were held for the National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament. Elections to the upper house had been made on December 31, 2007. These were Bhutan’s first free elections after a hundred years of absolute monarchy. The election to the National Assembly became a landslide victory for one…