You are driving along the expressway or visiting a friend or family member in Babesa and before you know it the odour of the open air sewage plant hits you. It is much worse for local residents who have to live with the ‘bad smell’ in the area. Well this …

All professional drivers, which include drivers of trucks, passenger buses and commercial vehicles should be tested mandatorily for drug use. This was proposed during the first stakeholder meeting of RSTA Rules and Regulation 2017. “RSTA is committed to protecting the safety, health and well being of the public from the …

The Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) and the World Bank signed a USD 4 million grant today to help Bhutan manage public funds more effectively and improve procurement and budgetary systems, with the over reaching goal of strengthening delivery of Public services and enhancing governance. “Sound public financial management is …

The Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) and the World Bank this week launched the USD 8 million Food Security and Agriculture Productivity Project (FSAPP) to support efforts to reduce rural poverty, food insecurity and malnutrition to benefit the Bhutanese people. The project is designed to reduce the country’s reliance on …

Are Bhutanese protected as consumers in case of products with defects and the producer incurs a legal liability for producing unsafe products? Yes say officials of the Office of Consumer Protection (OCP). “According to the Consumer Protection Act of Bhutan 2012, in determining what a person is generally entitled to …

The Bhutan Network for Empowering Women (BNEW) is coaching, mentoring and nurturing women to build leadership capacity and skills as the next general election in 2018 draws near. BNEW has conducted Leadership Workshops for elected women in local government. The fourth workshop, which is yet to be completed, gathered 160 …

This is the leading female cancer in Bhutan is preventable with early detection Cervical cancer is the leading female cancer in Bhutan. It is caused by a virus called human papillomavirus (HPV), which can be contracted through sexual contact. However, there are many types of the HPV virus and not …

Every winter thousands of Bhutanese head for Bodh Gaya and other Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India through local operators that organize the pilgrimage tours. The tours and numbers of Bhutanese pilgrims have been growing dramatically over the last few years. The Bhutanese newspaper, in an investigative report, in January this …

Emma Slade who traded a high-flying international banking career to become a Buddhist nun, spoke about how she broke out of the labyrinth that is a banker’s world to embark on a journey of spirituality during one yesterday’ session of the Mountain Echoes Lit Fest in Thimphu. Emma Slade also …

Eight households in the capital, during the past few months, experienced flooding during heavy rainfall because of clogged drains according to the Thimphu Thromde. “Most blockage are caused by unsuitable waste flushed down by heavy rainfall but often times, even when the drain pipes are not totally blocked, its ability …