While there has been a lot of recent focus on the Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) Pyramid Scheme selling Enagic Water Ionizers in Bhutan, there is another MLM Pyramid Scheme that is growing in Bhutan in the form of QNet. The modus operandi are very similar, in that people can become members …

The Bhutanese has found that the two masterminds behind the major Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) Pyramid Scheme in Bhutan selling expensive Enagic Water Ionizers are two men named Mike Dreher and Darren Ewert based in Vancouver, Canada. The couple run a large online network called the ‘Dream Team’, which is the …

With the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) completing the assessment of 62 executives at the Secretary and Director General level, and finding 50 percent of them not meeting expectations, the next lot of executives who will be assessed will be 59 Directors in the 10 ministries and various autonomous agencies …

Nobody really knows the numbers, but popular social media sites in Bhutan, like Facebook and Instagram, are seeing the increasing presence of hundreds of mainly women, and even some men, declaring themselves as ‘Digital Business Owners,’ with their own personal websites through which you can register to “Run a Digital …

The problem with the Japan based Enagic company and its expensive water ionizing machines which produce ‘Kangen water’ is not only the Multi Level Marketing Pyramid Scheme (see main story) in Bhutan and the financial risks for its members, but its distributors across the world and in Bhutan have made …

The big question of the month is, how did the recent second outbreak in ‘low risk’ Wangduephodrang occur? There is no official explanation for the outbreak yet, but it was caused due to a combination of pressure factors, like getting on with hydro project works, and situational issues, like laxity …

Apart from the biggest outbreak in Wangduephodrang, the border towns of Phuentsholing, Gelephu and Samdrupjongkhar have also seen outbreaks with community cases. Phuentsholing  Phuentsholing, till 24th January has 173 active cases. It all started on 6 January 2022, with a 37-year-old expatriate woman testing positive for Omicron from Lucky Restaurant …

With the 7th January 2022 Executive Order of the Prime minister banning Drayangs, a new question is if this ban violates Constitutional Rights and laws and its future impact. The paper talked to former Judges and practicing lawyers to get their view on the issue. A lawyer the paper talked …

Until recently, Lyonchhen Dasho (Dr) Lotay Tshering was very clear that Drayangs would have to undergo some reforms to re-open, but the sudden Executive Order of 7th January 2021 to close down all Drayangs caught many by surprise and has caused much controversy. Now, the Prime Minister in his first …

In the first ever in person meeting with Indian ministers in more than two years, the Minister of Economic Affairs Loknath Sharma went to Delhi on January 10 with a host of issues from difficulty in exporting vegetables to hydropower to the third internet gateway. Lyonpo met the Indian Power …