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Gelephu questions

After the announcement of the Gelephu Mindfulness City there has been a rash of questions demanding immediate answers over land acquisition, investors, infrastructure details and more. There is either extreme optimism on one side or fearful predictions on the other side. It is natural that a project of such magnitude …

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Mindfulness City

When talk about the Gelephu City first emerged many months ago, many imagined it would be full of skyscrapers and resemble any other city in the world. However, the final vision of the Mindfulness City revealed before us has many things going for it. Given our location, resources and stage …

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Reality Check

For a while now, Bhutan has witnessed an unprecedented migration as thousands of mainly young Bhutanese have been leaving for the foreign shores of Australia, Canada and UK on student visas to be able to earn a degree and earn money.  The aim for many was to work for extended …

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From a security state to an economic one

If one looks at why Bhutan does not grow economically or the barriers to economic growth then it often has to do with the security obsessed mentality of Bhutan. As a small Himalayan country, Bhutan went through the traumatic situation of seeing its cultural and religious cousins being gobbled up …

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The Google Trial’s Dangerous Secrecy

WASHINGTON, DC – The largest antitrust trial of the modern internet era, which wrapped up last month, has pitted the world’s most popular search engine, Google, against the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). The case hearkens back to the DOJ’s landmark lawsuit against Microsoft in the 1990s, but with a critical difference: most …

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What the voters want

The primary round results are in and the biggest message from the voters is that they want change as the two parties in the final round were not even in Parliament. It is clear that the voters were not happy with the performance of both the ruling DNT and opposition …

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