Four Bhutanese athletes will be leaving for the 48th Asian Bodybuilding and Physique Sports Championship and Annual Congress in Macau, China on August 23. The four athletes will be accompanied by the General Secretary of the Bhutan Bodybuilding Federation. The event will take place from August 26 to September 1. …

The launch of Green Public Procurement (GPP) in Bhutan is a strategic approach to scale up the public demand to procure environmentally and socially preferable goods, services, infrastructure, and to bring sustainability logic into the consumption and production habits in Bhutan. According to the European Commission, GPP is defined as …

A Journalists Association of Bhutan (JAB) study on the situational assessment of Journalists in Bhutan showed that the current media situation in the country is ‘very bad.’ The survey covered 90 journalists working in 16 media organizations and 29 former journalists. The primary objective of the study was to identify …

Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay was called on by Ms. Lakshmi Venkatachalam, Vice President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and her delegation at the Gyalyong Tshogkhang on 21st August. Lyonchhen conveyed that he was very happy to receive the Vice President and said that Bhutan would continue to draw inspiration from …

The Expressway has been in the news for some time now for its dividers, dangers, over speeding and pedestrians crossing any where they like. Many of the problems of the expressway were originally created by not properly planning, studying and consulting before its construction. The solutions of today being implemented …

As more than 2,300 graduates complete their National Graduate Orientation Program (NGOP) this year at the Royal Institute of Management Hall, there will be many important lessons. The RIM is located below Bhutan’s historic Semtokha Dzong which was also the first major Dzong built in Bhutan by Zhabdrung Nawang Namgyel …

His Majesty addressed the graduates on issues of nation building, education, employment, 11th plan, sovereignty, culture, unity, democracy and equitable development His Majesty began the Address by sharing two stories: a senior red-scarf official labored for many years with the objective to achieve success, and refused to be deterred even when …

There is more to the recent and heated Dzongkhag Tshogdu (DT) meeting in Trashiyangtse, in which local government leaders expressed apprehensions against the Kholongchu project hiring outsiders instead of the locals who would be affected by the project. The DT has raised objections saying that they heard that a labor …

Though sale of vehicle quotas have been banned for both MPs and civil servants since 2000 with the ‘Sales Tax, Customs and Excise 2000’, there has been little or no effect on the sale of vehicle quotas. The same Act which was amended as recently as 2012 even made it …

The Himalayan Environmental Rhythms Observation and Evaluation System (HEROES), Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment (UWICE), selected 17 schools from various ecological belts of the country to monitor and gather data on the temperature changes, snowfall and rainfall events and river flows in their region for a year. HEROES …