This year’s Sundance Film Festival introduced the audience to a fascinating new documentary titled Agent of Happiness. Directed by Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó, this project took a closer look at ...

While much of the world is fixated on the quest for GDP growth, wealth, and modernity, Bhutan—a landlocked kingdom with a tiny population squeezed between India and China—has chosen a different path, ...

According to the Prime Minister of Bhutan, the overarching intent of the country’s tourism policy is to enhance the happiness and well-being of tourists. HE Dasho Tshering Tobgay, Hon. Prime Minister ...

EXCLUSIVE: We have your first look at Agent of Happiness, the documentary set in Bhutan that’s making its world premiere at Sundance in World Cinema Documentary competition. The country in the ...

Bhutan's fourth king, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, coined the phrase GNH in 1972 on the belief that people's happiness did not depend on the nation's economic wealth, said Tshoki Zangmo, information ...

"Happiness" is a right enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. Is it a better measure of human "progress" than "Gross National Product?" The king of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan proposed the ...

HONOLULU (Island News) – The Local Doctor is back with everyday solutions! Today on Good Morning Hawaii (GMH) Dr. Ira Zunin shared how Gross National Happiness (GNH) is doing in Bhutan. Dr. Zunin, the ...

A tourism official in my native Bhutan recently offered a defense on Facebook of the country’s so-called Gross National Happiness, writing after the U.S. proposed adding Bhutan to its “red list” ...

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When Jigme Singye Wangchuck was crowned king of the Himalayan nation of Bhutan in 1972, he declared he was more concerned with Gross National Happiness than with Gross Domestic Product. This probably ...