The whole idea of The Bhutanese started in 2011, as a newspaper that would focus on in-depth and investigative journalism and also push the envelope.  A difficult birth The paper was subject to an extraordinarily long licensing process by BICMA from October 2011 to February 2012. Even after completing all …

While the investigative and critical stories listed here in the last 10 years of The Bhutanese are not as high profile as the ones listed in the main story above, they also deserve a mention. 2012-2013 In its fifth issue on 7 March 2012, this paper questioned why the High …

The launch issue of 21 February 2012 also followed up on a series of investigative stories done by the writer on corruption in procurement in the Health Ministry when the writer was in Kuensel in 2009 which also resulted in ACC investigations and prosecution by the OAG. The issue also …

There is a growing voice especially on social media to do away with lockdowns and other restrictions, like for travel, with the main argument being that Omicron is ‘mild’ and there is a greater damage from lockdowns and restrictions than the virus. So with elections in a year’s time and …

In the second round of mass testing done on 10 February 2022 a lady tested positive from a Norzin Tag building. The lady had gone to meet her father and brother who stay in the basement of the Druk Shopping Complex before there were positive cases there. The father and …

On Friday 18 February the Ministry of Health dashboard detected three community cases from Changbandhu. The cases were from one family with a family member working in the Royal Academy of Performing Arts (RAPA). The MoH tested the entire RAPA staff and dancers and cordoned off the entire RAPA institute …

The small town of Nganglam, with around 5,000 people, has had 249 cases of COVID-19, which comes to an average of one in every 20 people in the town testing positive. There is fear, and also anger, among the local residents there who feel such high numbers would not be …

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 …