SHANGHAI – China’s traditional industries are suffering. In the last five years, the country’s northeastern region – once a hub of basic industries like oil and steel – has been facing accelerating decline, as have the rich mineral resource centers in places like Hebei and Inner Mongolia. Over the last …

This paper in December 2017 broke news of an additional 11th session by June 2018 to fulfill a constitutional obligation of two sessions a year and to pass the current budget which consist of salaries, maintenance expenditure etc. However, a new concern that is cropping up is the need to …

In 2017 3,844 graduates applied for 494 RCSC vacancies which would leave out 3,350 graduates. Of this one could estimate that the smaller government corporate sector takes in another 350 still leaving behind 3,000. It is clear as day that the only viable job option for this remaining 3,000 is …

As Bhutan is gearing up for the third parliamentary election which is to be held this year, we have already started seeing a lot of public debates and discussions on social media about which party should be elected next and why. With about five political parties already registered to join …

An incident that occurred in the premises of The Bhutanese newspaper helped give us some insight into one aspect of ‘youth unemployment’ in the country The Bhutanese recently floated a vacancy for a Finance/Accounts officer for The Bhutanese Newspaper. The company was willing to offer Nu 12,500 per month as …

The Royal Insurance Corporation of Bhutan Limited (RICBL) CEO Namgay Lhendup and Executive Director (ED) Sonam Dorji on Wednesday had claimed they are stepping down from their post taking ‘moral responsibility’ for what they said were ‘alleged operational lapses’ under their tenure. They said that they submitted their resignation in …

For the past few months the nation has been in the grip of an intense debate on Zhemgang Dzongkhag Tshogdu’s resolution on the ‘Gho and Kira,’ adamantly pushed by its Thrizin who is also the Goshing Gup. Coincidentally the Anti Corruption Commission in early May 2017 detained and questioned the …

TOKYO – Even as a wave of right-wing populism is sweeping Europe, the United States, India, and parts of Southeast Asia, Japan has so far appeared to be immune. There are no Japanese demagogues, like Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, or Rodrigo Duterte, who have exploited …

The government has requested the ACC to investigate certain alleged malpractices in the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources’ training programs for youth sent to India and Japan. The main needle of suspicion is on the private agents but malpractices within the Labour ministry cannot be ruled out yet. The …

It is very sad to know that out of 361 suicide cases recorded by the Royal Bhutan Police and health facilities across the country from 2009-2013, 66 percent of the victims constituted married people. This means that it’s not only youth who are dying by suicide in Bhutan. Many parents …