Dhanapati Sharma/ Gedu Pedestrians in Gedu can finally walk in peace with a footpath construction nearing completion, improving road safety and enhancing public infrastructure. The Gedu College of Business Studies (GCBS) partnered with the Dzongkhag Administration, Chukha to construct a 1.19 km pedestrian infrastructure from Gedu Zero Point to the …

With 31 MPs, the ruling People’s Democratic Party should have had no difficulty securing the post. Yet Opposition BTP candidate Tempa Dorji won 24 votes against 23 for PDP’s Lyonpo Tandin Wangchuk. The secret ballot has exposed the depth of discontent within the ruling party. The identities of the eight …

Why Bhutan Must Finally Outlaw Corporal Punishment, In Law, In School, In the Home By Thinley Tobgay If we would never call it discipline when an adult strikes another adult, why do we call it discipline when the victim is a child? Six out of every ten children in Bhutan …

By Minxin Pei CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA—Since its founding almost 77 years ago, the People’s Republic of China has had eight premiers. But only two—Zhao Ziyang and Zhu Rongji—deserve credit for the country’s economic rise. In the 1980s, Zhao translated Deng Xiaoping’s vision of “reform and opening up” into policy, pushing through …

The reaction to the Shaba Higher Secondary School case is deeply troubling. Instead of questioning how a teacher allegedly struck a 16-year-old child 22 times with a rubber pipe, sections of social media supported it. Some argue nostalgia-driven populism: that corporal punishment made past generations respectful and successful, and today’s …

By Emily Wang In one painting, someone is weaving a wedding dress. In another, people watch television. Elsewhere, a figure goes for a walk, flowers are collected, and a group gathers around an apple. These ordinary activities appear to take place while something larger and less certain waits in the …

By Dhanapati Sharma The recent report by The Bhutanese that 299 cases of bullying were reported in Bhutanese schools over the past two years makes every parent, educator, policymaker, and citizen rethink education and the education system. The increase in bullying cases from 116 in 2024 to 183 in 2025 …

Bhutan may have just received one of the most important pieces of economic news in its modern history. If the ongoing ground validation confirms the airborne survey findings, we could possess significant deposits of tungsten, copper and perhaps even rare earth minerals at a time when global demand for these …

The Special Audit Report on the Bhutan Integrated Taxation System (BITS) has become much bigger than the failed BITS 1.0. It now raises fundamental questions about accountability, governance and whether Bhutan can encourage innovation without creating a bureaucracy too afraid to act. The audit memos issued against the former Prime …

By Kaushik Basu NEW DELHI—During the seven years I served as chief economic adviser to the government of India and as chief economist at the World Bank, I came to appreciate what a strange discipline economics is. Parts of it amount to little more than organized common sense, which is …