The 700-acre Jigmeling Industrial Estate in Gelephu slated to be the country’s first special economic zone could seriously question Bhutan’s conservation credentials as it falls along the Dolongang elephant corridor. This high profile poster project, supported by international financial organizations and could possibly have top investors like Tata, will further …

Changes are coming – in big and small ways.   The fact that Bhutanese contractors did not have a share in the hydropower pie was an issue much wrangled about by Bhutanese entrepreneurs who aimed to make it big in the area. But the government had closed the doors of …

As a child, I remember I was incredibly fascinated by baking. It amazed me how a person could just whip up some eggs, milk, flour, sugar,butter and create something so gorgeous. It was make believe; it was stuffs of fairy tales. Mind you, this is Bhutan we are talking about. …

Ideas spread like virus. They are contagious, that is what Malcolm Gladwell’s famous best-seller, The Tipping Point says. Since the stabbing case last December, there have been 13 cases as of now, seven in the capital alone. One wonders if this is more than just a crime trend that has …

The DPT Vice President’s involvement in a 10-acre land grab in Thimphu reveals once again how a powerful few can bend laws to amass assets worth millions overnight. This is corruption pure and simple. Questions now must be asked of the entire land administration system in the country. The fact …

Three political parties, the existing PDP, the yet to be formed third Party of Dr Tandin Dorji and the recently announced fourth party have all asked for an ACC investigation into the Thimphu land scam involving the current DPT Vice President, Chang Ugyen. Members of these parties are also questioning …

Tshering Chonzom, head of the Radhi weavers group, saw the Dorjibi weaving center in Bumthang on BBS TV and wondered why she was still waiting. Today she is in Thimphu (again), seeking funds for her own geog’s weaving center, whose growth, so far, has been rickety at best. “I am …

Kuenzang Choden/Thimphu The Bhutanese has found that the vice president of the ruling Druk Phuensum Tshogpa, Chang Ugyen is involved in a Nu 300 million land scam in Thimphu. The land scam involves the misappropriation of around 10 acres of government and community land in and around Babesa, Thimphu in …

Orong school session begins with rituals to appease wrathful Serpent The elderly who stays near Orong school says that it’s the wrath of a serpent deity (klu), whose abode was destroyed to build the school boys toilet, caused the death of two students last December. A special medical team confirmed …

Bhutan’s first broadsheet newspaper The Bhutanese will be launched today morning in a simple function at the Chubachu office on the auspicious occasion of His Majesty the King’s birthday. The newspaper though planned as a daily newspaper had to launch as a bi-weekly after a recent and substantial increase in …