Also gives more rights to private landowners than before One of the unspoken fears of a private landowner in Bhutan is to have his or her land being acquired by the government for some local or national project. However, the new Land Acquisition and Compensation Rules and Regulations, 2022 (LACRR …

Encroaching on government land is almost a national past time in Bhutan with around 7,000 such known cases of clear encroachment prior to 2019. Private fences or boundaries seem to mysteriously move on their own into government areas, and after a few years the encroacher will be found proclaiming how …

While opinion and facts may differ, hard data tells its own story and the data on Australian visas granted to Bhutanese over the last 17 years show that the rush of Bhutanese to Australia has been building up pace over time starting from as far back as 2005 onwards. The …

While Bhutanese have been going to Australia in large numbers over the years to study and work, there has been a sharp uptick in not only Bhutanese going there in recent years, but also in numbers availing the Permanent Resident (PR) visa which allows Bhutanese to stay permanently in Australia …

The Ministry of Finance committee is working on a proposal of paying civil servants two types of wages. One would be a basic pay that would include all allowances like house rent allowance etc. and the other component would be variable pay which would be paid only at the end …

A boycott to import all potatoes or cash crops from Bhutan from 5 September 2022 onwards announced by 23 major importers in Jaigaon went on for around seven to eight days before fizzling out. According to sources the boycott fizzled out due to a combination of pressure from authorities in …

As thousands of Bhutanese leave for Australia, one major issue is, if they are lost for good along with their future children or will they be coming back? The former President of the Association of Bhutanese in Perth Incorporated (ABPI), Tshewang Rinzin, feels that most Bhutanese will come back from …

In a clear uptick compared to past years, a total of 818 civil servants across agencies voluntarily resigned much before their tenure in the last eight months from 1st January to 31st August 2022. It is expected that most of these civil servants have headed to Australia. The average resignation …

With a large number of Bhutanese heading to Australia these days, there are three pertinent questions that people are asking. The first question is, are there are any risks and difficulties for people going there now and in the near future? The second question is, what is the push factor …

A former journalist who is settled in Canberra, but did not want to be named, said that what has changed these days with Bhutanese coming to Australia is that even in terms of blue collar jobs Bhutanese have moved up the blue collar ladder, and many young people come and …