Bhutan’s lawmakers appear to not have learnt their lessons from the originally draconian Tobacco Act that locked up dozens of ordinary Bhutanese for even possessing small amounts of tobacco. Now, the National Assembly is on the verge of brining in a new section into the Penal Code of Bhutan that …

Mileage to not go down, Red Kabney allowance removed, Vehicle quota monetization looked at After gathering extensive feedback from the public, media, social media, its MPs, other political parties and other stakeholders the Cabinet’s version of the Pay Commission recommendation has a much bigger hike for junior and mid-level civil …

For many years, Bhutan has been making it to the top of international destinations and it has also been used to getting rave reviews from international news outlets, travel magazines, blogs, celebrities and tariff paying tourists. However, the edges are starting to fray as Bhutan’s exclusive tag is now increasingly …

The troubled right bank of the 1200 MW Punatsangchu I project which was undergoing extensive strengthening saw a portion of the right bank slide down on 22 January 2019. It now emerges that this latest slide in the right bank will affect around 100 to 200 meters of the East-West …

As if the rise of regional tourism and undercutting is not bad enough, Bhutan’s tourism Industry is seeing the rise of a new kind of challenge which is fronting in the tourism Industry -where foreign tour companies use Bhutanese tour licenses to run their business in Bhutan. The result is …

Before the Education City project was cancelled by the PDP government in 2014, due to the National Land Commission pointing out violations of the Land Act 2007, the Education City project had been awarded by the DPT cabinet in April 2012 to a consortium of Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services …

To delay Commissioning of project by around a month The 720 MW Mangdechu Hydroelectric Project was supposed to spin its first turbine and export power from its first 180 MW turbine on 10th May 2019. The second turbine was supposed to start from 24th May with the third turbine coming …

A recent piece of advice by the Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) party to the cabinet on the pay commission report took the government by surprise. At a time when even the DPT and the PDP had not yet criticized the government, its own party consisting of those outside Parliament sent …

Be it Thimphu, Paro, Phuentsholing or Bumthang, there is a growing crisis of oversupply of hotels leading to dwindling hotel occupancy rates and along with it rock bottom rates. This is also encouraging cheaper tours and budget tourists to come to Bhutan. So far, it has only been hotels owners …

In what will be good news Kinley Wangchuck (second from right in the photo), an 18 year old student with hearing loss, and his family will not be deported from Australia. Australian Immigration Minister David Coleman MP has used his discretionary powers to grant permanent residency to Kinley and his family. This …