Number set to cross well over 15,000 once 12-month figure for 2022-23 FY is released This paper in April 2023 had reported 10,755 Bhutanese got visas to Australia in the last nine months from 1 July 2022 to 31st March 2023. However, that number has now jumped to 13,683 in …

Bitdeer has announced that a 100 MW mining datacenter located at Gedu, of which DHI is a strategic partner, will start mining operations by this month. Linghui Kong, Chief Executive Officer of Bitdeer made the announcement on Yahoo Finance News. Around 10,000 mining machines arrived at the Gedu datacenter by …

On the 14th of June 2023 a Druk Air flight to Delhi via Kathmandu encountered a bird hit while in Paro Airport. However, the flight carried on as the system did not show any problems with the plane and so a review was done and they carried on. However, after …

Earlier Acting Finance Secretary said no money in the budget for SOEs hike Two weeks ago this paper carried a story quoting the Acting Finance Secretary Leki Wangmo saying there are no resources within the government’s finance to accommodate a 50 percent (pay hike) subsidy to any Ministry of Finance …

The Prime Minister Dasho (Dr) Lotay Tshering inaugurated the new extra corporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) machine service at the JDWNRH this morning. The machine uses high energy waves to break down Kidney Stones of 2.5 cm into dust without any invasive surgery. It can even go up-to 3 cm …

However, Finance Minister still defensive about NSB calculation On 23 June 2023 before the deliberations on the Annual Budget of 2023-24, the Economic Affairs Committee (EAC) of the National Council pointed to a story done by The Bhutanese Newspaper on 10 June 2023 titled ‘How we could be underestimating real …

It is well known that Bhutan has been contributing soldiers and police personnel to the United Nations Peace Keeping (UNPK) missions since September 2014. Other developing countries who contribute troops for such missions deduct 5 to 10 percent of the Mission Subsistence Allowance or Individual Reimbursement of their soldiers. Some …

With the Acting Secretary of the the Ministry of Finance, Leki Wangmo making it clear there is no special funds in the budget to give a 50 percent pay hike to MoF State Owned Enterprises unless they can afford it, the weak financial status of these SOEs come into light …

Normally, whenever there was a civil service pay hike in the past, it would be followed by the State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) under the Ministry of Finance (MoF) getting one a month or a few months later. This time, the expectation is no different from the under 3,000 or so …

The National Assembly today sent out a press release saying that the Speaker accepted the resignation of Karma Donnen Wangdi, former Minister for Information and Communication with effect form 19 June 2023. The release says the Speaker accepted the resignation as per section 18 of the National Assembly Act 2008. …