It has been 15 days since the announcement of the election period on 3rd November, and Bhutan is in the thick of election campaigns by five competing parties, but the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) has not received a single complaint from any party against another party. This is highly …

The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) in a period of around a week has got two cases where the husbands in marriages are being charged with rape of child above 12 due to their wife being underage. The first case is where a father and mother in Paro had …

The Bhutanese talked to the five Party Presidents with two simple questions. The first was on their chances of going to the General Round of the National Assembly Elections 2023-24, of which all Presidents are confident, and the second query was on the reasons for their optimism. The sequence below …

The National Assembly Elections are a national election, but it is also true that there are major geographical electoral regions in the country, like the East, South and West, that can determine who gets through to the General Round and also form the government. While DPT swept the whole country …

In the last financial year from July 2022 to June end 2023 a record number of 15,552 Bhutanese got visas to Australia which was around the same number of Bhutanese moving out in the last seven financial years. It was expected that this rush would slow down this financial year …

It has been learnt that the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has dropped the Abuse of Function case against the former PDP Ministers Dasho Dorji Choden of Ministry of Works and Human Settlement and Namgay Dorji of Ministry of Finance. The ACC had charge sheeted an Abuse of Function …

The Finance Minister Namgay Tshering has been charged in the National Cottage and Small Industries Bank Ltd (NCSIBL) investigation of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Lyonpo is charged with the illegal appointment of his former brother-in-law Tshewang Tashi as a Board Director in the CSI Bank. The ACC investigation revealed that …

Map of Strategic Sites in Paro and Thimphu showing their land use mix and neighbourhood groupings Thimphu and Paro maybe located into two different valleys but the two places have become synonymous with each other over time as both places boomed and the transport infrastructure improved between them. The Prime …

Sri Lanka was hit by a major economic crisis when it failed to meet its debt obligations and saw shortages of fuel and essentials, massive inflation, drop in reserves and a steep drop in its currency value in 2022. Its GDP shrank by 8% and poverty almost doubled from 13% …

There are growing reports and increasing concerns of tax evasion in the tourism industry as tourists now only have to pay the USD 100 per day SDF and what they do and how much money they spend after this is up to them, which makes it difficult to track their …