A lot of the corruption allegations and prices centered around Nepal but a ACC team never left for Nepal ACC used information from one of the accused traders in Nepal to find out Gypsum prices From the beginning, it was clear that the cross border nature of allegations of corruption …
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OAG’s press release on Freedom of Speech fails to stand the test of Free Speech
The Office of the Attorney General on 3rd June issued a 3-page press release titled ‘Freedom of Speech and Rule of Law,’ giving its view on freedom of speech, defamation, the Penjore case and its own powers. The highly legal language of the release soon had many people scratching their …
Read More »PM says Penjore has not defamed Govt but will not restrain OAG on defamation case
NA Human Rights Committee to review the case In a clear statement the Prime Minister Dasho (Dr) Lotay Tshering said that as far as he knows Penjore has not done anything against or defamed the government, the cabinet ministers and their agencies. Lyonchhen also made it clear for the second …
Read More »90 children aged below 18 years are COVID positive
A total of 90 children who are COVID-19 positive in eastern dzongkhags and in Phuentsholing are doing fine, and most of them are asymptomatic and are in non-hospital isolation. Currently, there are two toddlers below one year who are COVID-19 positive, eight children aged between one year to three years, …
Read More »Bhutan may get AstraZeneca vaccines from USA in the second round
The Bhutanese in a telephonic press conference asked the US State Department Coordinator for Global COVID-19 Response, Gayle E. Smith, about what had happened to Bhutan’s request for around half a million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, when it’s FDA would approve its 60 million AstraZeneca doses for export and …
Read More »ACC’s incomplete and shoddy investigation in the Gypsum case
It was always evident that the ACC’s investigation of corruption allegations around Gypsum would be its most difficult case, and this paper said as much when they started their investigation. The reason being that this was ACC’s first attempt at a cross border investigation and all the main information, wrong …
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