A section of people under the lango gewog in Paro have claimed to have seen a fish which is more than 90 kilos. The first sighting was reported by a villager Phurba who was mesmerized by its sheer size and the condition of the surrounding it was thriving on. Following …

Eating is daily business, eating Beef has become refined Business and selling Beef is good business. Simple rules they are, to keep with them is a win-win for each quarters. A simple shift in meat market dynamics however has disrupted the equilibrium on all sides of exporters, importers and buyers …

Dr David L Luechauer has caused quite a stir in Bhutan with his open criticism of GNH. He taught with the Gaeddu College of Business Studies as a lecturer for a year but had to cut short his two year stint due to his wife’s health concerns. He is teaching …

TashiCell on August 15 went full circle to achieve nationwide coverage as 960 mobile subscribers in Lhuentse connected to its network. Five year old TashiCell, Bhutan’s first and only private cellular service provider has now upped its customer base to 133,000 registered and active users. The nationwide connection was achieved …

Chicken meat production in eastern Bhutan is a business that majority desisted to undertake due to religious stigmas but a lone farmer rose to the occasion and started a farm. It’s now been a few months and the farmer, Sonam Wangdi, is more than glad he did not ‘chicken out’ …

As of the latest count Bhutan has around 76,360 Facebook accounts which are 11 percent of the total population and up to 5,000 Twitter accounts. In the case of Facebook the majority demography are of the ages of 18-34 who make up 74 percent of the accounts. Those between 13 …

Local Gyelpozhing residents expressed their concerns on how effectively the ‘government lawyer’ or the Office of the Attorney General would be able to prosecute the case against senior members of the government involved in the case. Gyelpozhing town tshogpa Gyembo Dorji said, “Many people here in Gyelpozhing feel that the …

In this article we examine structural issues in the RTI Bill which are needed to be addressed  to make RTI more effective .   Unfair Timeline Though the actual time period under section 19 in which to give information is 30 days and 48 hours for life and liberty cases …

After the first Chikungunya fever outbreak in Bhutan on 30 July, a total of 215 samples were received by Public Health Laboratory (PHL) as of 31 August out of which 64 tested positive. This is what the Public Health Laboratory (PHL)’s ‘Report on Chikungunya outbreak in Bhutan’ stated. A total …

By Dr. David L. Luechauer 1.  The average person on the street and worse the educated of the Business School (Gaeddu College) simply lack any deep understanding of what GNH means.  They can parrot the principles and espouse the mantra but look at their daily decision making and living and …