Latest Bhutan News

What makes people happy? California lawmakers want to find out

Mar. 16, 2024 13:11 PM EDT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Assemblyman Anthony Rendon likes to spend his spare time away from the Capitol in Sacramento with his 4-year-old daughter back home near Los Angeles. Last weekend, he took her ice skating and to an indoor playground, then let her get a donut after she agreed...

A party like no other? Asia's richest man celebrates son's prenuptials with a star-studded bash

Mar. 04, 2024 13:27 PM EST

NEW DELHI (AP) — What happens when the son of Asia's richest man is about to get married? His father throws a three-day prenuptial bash four months before the actual ceremony. Tycoons from around the world, heads of state, as well as Hollywood and Bollywood stars...

India's richest man is bringing Rihanna and 1,200 guests to a pre-wedding bash for his son

Mar. 01, 2024 06:47 AM EST

JAMNAGAR, India (AP) — It might be the biggest party this small west Indian city has ever seen. As billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani prepares for the wedding of his son this summer, he's expecting billionaires from around the world, heads of state, and Hollywood and Bollywood royalty to...

Movie Review: A village in Bhutan learns about democracy and teaches us, too, in ‘Monk and the Gun’

Feb. 07, 2024 12:36 PM EST

“Why are you teaching us to be so rude?” the elderly village woman asks a Bhutanese election official in “The Monk and the Gun.” It’s a question both poignant and biting, because the “teaching” this woman is resisting is something much of the outside world considers a...