By Richard Haass NEW YORK – US President Donald Trump spent much of the last week of October in Asia. He managed to bring about ceasefires on several fronts of a trade war largely of his own making, after imposing tariffs on friends and foes alike. What he did not …

By Madhurima Sarkar-Swaisgood, Prangya Paramita Gupta, Shashwat Avi, Consultant & Sanjay Srivastava The Himalayan arc from Bhutan through Nepal and India into Pakistan has always followed the rhythm of the monsoon. In 2025, that rhythm became deadly. Rain that sustains agriculture and rivers turned destructive, testing the capacity of mountain …

By Thukten Tenzin As I walked through the main entrance of the Wangduechhoeling Palace, a wave of awe and reverence stopped me on my tracks. Stepping into the heart of the Monarchy’s history, every brick and stone seemed to whisper tales of our forefathers’ strength, vision, and resilience. I was …

The unfolding PandoraBiz SRC case has become a textbook example of how slow and reactive regulation can enable fraudsters to thrive, and how ordinary Bhutanese citizens are left to pay the price. The tragedy is not only that so many fell for it, but that regulators knew about Sandeep’s activities …

By Shoumitro Chatterjee and Arvind Subramanian WASHINGTON, DC – China’s rising trade surplus is once again causing unease in the United States and Europe. But the real casualties from this new “China Shock” will not be in the West. They will be in the developing world, where hundreds of millions …

By Juan Manuel Santos BOGOTÁ – On my first day in office as Colombia’s president just over 15 years ago, I met with the leaders of four indigenous peoples in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta – the Kogui, Arhuaco, Wiwa, and Kankuamo. As we stood together in the shadow …

For years now as we scrolled on Facebook, we must have come across PandoraBiz or its owner at some time sounding very serious and making different claims of earning well through Crypto Trading. Be it regulators, the media and ordinary people we took it at face value and probably presumed …

By Harold James PRINCETON – In an age of shifting geopolitics, many countries’ strategic planning includes imaginative exercises in weaponizing their positions in the world. While Russia and China have been moderately successful at this game, America’s efforts have already boomeranged back on it. Russia thought energy dependence would force …

The overtopping of the 1,020-MW Tala Hydropower Project, the single largest revenue-earner for Bhutan is more than an isolated technical failure. It is a wake-up call on operational discipline, maintenance culture, and accountability in one of the country’s most critical infrastructures. According to officials, the overtopping occurred after power supply …

Contributed By Yangday LaThe phrase “Thabs la mkhas pa,” often translated as “skill in means,” has echoed through many conversations in the conference hall of Jamyang Resort this week. Traditionally, it refers to the wisdom of finding creative, compassionate ways to share the Dharma and meet the needs of all …