In the recent past whenever questions arose about the Puth Group, some people online put up a 26 January 2024  e-commerce license of a man named Phuntsho Wangdi to give the scheme an air of legitimacy. The Bhutanese tracked down Phuntsho Wangdi who is based in Thimphu and asked him …

Around a week ago a 6-member group of Chinese tourists spent around 6 nights in Bhutan staying in the top end luxury hotels in Amman Paro and Sixth Sense in Thimphu with room rates of around USD 2,000 per night. The total tour package for Bhutan including air tickets was …

As of 3rd May afternoon the Department of Revenue and Customs (DRC) has collected a total of Nu 469 million (mn) in property taxes. Of the 199,800 people who are eligible to pay property taxes a total of 161,275 have paid which leaves 38,525 who are yet to pay. The …

The Druk Holdings and Investment (DHI) is entering the Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibition (MICE) tourism space in collaboration with an international company called G 9 Investments. The company formed is the Bhutan Global Mindfulness & MICE Holdings and Pvt Limited (BGMMH). This company is registered in Singapore through the …

These days Druk Air is flying regular flights to the domestic airports in Bumthang, Gelephu and Yonphula but it is doing so for a loss. It is not like the flights are empty as people are flying, especially to Yonphula, but the economics is not making sense. The Druk Air …

At 138 pages the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Manifesto was by far the longest and most detailed of the five competing political parties. By comparison the Opposition Bhutan Tendrel Party (BTP) which had the shortest manifesto, had only 63 pages. At one level the PDP manifesto arose from experience in …

One of the current government’s most popular and discussed pledges is the offer to give Nu 10,000 per month for the birth of a third child till the age of three. A study done on the matter based its projection on the number of third child born in the last …

The current government had made a pledge to increase the Rural Life Insurance (RLI) sum from Nu 30,000 to Nu 150,000. However, this means that the insurance premium to be paid will increase from the current Nu 121.15 million (mn) a year to Nu 652.36 mn a year, which is …

Government Secretaries until recently have had a fixed tenure of five years after which they retire, provided they don’t retire earlier due to the retirement age. However, a closer look at the Bhutan Civil Service Rules (BCSR) 2023 released in December 2023 by the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) shows …

Recently the Bangladesh Embassy issued a press release on the visit of the Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen. Buried in the press release was an important line which said that the Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh raised the issue of Sustainable Development Fees (SDF) for tourists and requested to reduce …