The case of water and electricity being cut to a building in Damphu for Sunday religious gathering in the Karaoke Hall has attracted much interest. The Dzongda seems to have been driven by a fear of the particular religion allegedly spreading rapidly in Tsirang Dzongkhag, and from the comments online …

By Mark LaPrairie In the late 1980s, one of my students at a school in eastern Bhutan, a grade 7 boy, was teasingly called “Pho-ley Mo-ley” by other students. He had a feminine walk, soft voice and made facial and hand gestures like a girl. Today, he would likely identify …

No Member of Parliament or party candidate will say it, but one of the main reasons why the National Assembly MPs made such a strong push for the Prado Quota is in part to recover their election expenses. The Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) does provide Nu 150,000 per candidate …

In 2023 when there was no money in the treasury due to the poor state of the economy, the government gave a 50 percent pay hike for MPs, civil servants and public servants which would cost Nu 6 bn a year. This was money Bhutan did not have and the …

A large batch of Bhutanese families are leaving this year as part of the Diversity Visa recipients of the USA. One such family had a civil servant husband and a wife with a job in the private sector, their own house and they had no real economic motives to move …

The victory of President Donald Trump offers important lessons for all countries across the world, including Bhutan, and it is thus important to understand why he won, especially since USA is the sole superpower on the global stage. The victory of Trump is a clear backlash to unrestrained globalization since …

By Gernot Wagner NEW YORK – Elections are supposed to clarify policy uncertainties, and on the economic front, Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris has done just that. All three major US stock indices and US Treasury yields jumped the morning after Election Day, reflecting expectations of both strong economic growth and …