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Byline: Chencho Dema and Mike Ives 'Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom' was filmed on a shoestring budget in a remote Himalayan village. It's now an Academy Award nominee, a [...]

Byline: Chencho Dema and Mike Ives The Himalayan nation has given more than 60 percent of its people a shot. Some villages were reached by helicopter, and health workers hiked [...]

The Himalayan nation has given more than 60 percent of its people a shot. Some villages were reached by helicopter, and health workers hiked through ice and snow. THIMPHU, Bhutan [...]

The article informs about Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan on the eastern edge of the Himalayas, referred to as the last Shangri-La for its abundance of natural beauty, sustainable development and cultural heritage, has resisted financial returns of mass tourism in favor of conservation. It mentions that approach is aligned with a cultural philosophy in which the country's wealth and prosperity are measured through a national happiness index as an alternative to the gross domestic product.