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 …

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 …