Bhutan – change comes to the Himalayan "Happy Kingdom"

Bhutan's other name is "The Happy Kingdom." The small Himalayan country has one foot in the distant past and the other in the digital age. It's quite a balancing act for Bhutan's citizens. No other country has recently undergone more radical change than Bhutan. The millennium brought television,...

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