A large portion of the credit for Bhutan’s press freedom ranking falling in recent years must be given to the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC). Civil servants stopped talking to the media from 2022 when two foresters were terminated for speaking to the media and this was soon followed up …

By Angela Bandemehr & Albert Park WASHINGTON, DC/MANILA – Lead is everywhere, often hiding in plain sight – in the water you drink, the air you breathe, the food you eat, your personal care products, and your children’s toys. Despite being a useful metal, it is highly toxic and difficult to detect: …

In 2022, after the Supreme Court pronounced the verdict in the Trongsa Land Scam, the JDWNRH President and former Trongsa Dzongda Lhab Dorji stabbed an ACC Director while his family members also attacked ACC officials. This is even though it was a well-documented and investigated land scam case with no …

Bhutan in 2013 had 12 newspapers, 6 radio stations and 2 magazines.  In the last 10 years 5 private newspapers, 3 radio stations and 2 news magazines have shut down leaving behind 7 newspapers and BBS. Until 2010 the situation was fine with 10 newspapers all doing well.  However, government …

By Ruti Teitel NEW YORK – US President-elect Donald Trump clearly does not intend to pursue a “good neighbor” policy. He has been mocking Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by calling him ‘governor’ while proclaiming that a country of 40 million people should become the 51st US state. His first …

For many Bhutanese Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) is something that cannot happen to them, but only to someone else until they get a NCD like diabetes, blood pressure, gout etc. In our current society a sense of complacency and invincibility where people think they have time or that their body can …

By Aasim M. Husain KARACHI – Pakistan’s long history of fiscal mismanagement has saddled the country with a crushing debt burden. Interest payments on the public debt consume a staggering 60% of government revenue. And external-debt repayments coming due over the next five years amount to nearly $70 billion, dwarfing …

Ever since the inception of the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) project, one of the main questions of the people from the remaining 19 Dzongkhags has been on how it will or will not impact them. The Diamond Strategy announced by His Majesty during the 117th National Day now makes it …