The latest visa data confirms what scenes at Paro International Airport have already suggested; the so-called “Australia rush” is far from over. In just the first six months of FY 2025–26, 5,916 Bhutanese were granted Australian visas, nearly matching the total for the entire previous financial year. If the current …

By Ajay Shah NEW DELHI – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has issued a battle cry in the global fight against deglobalization. In a historic speech at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, he called on the world’s “middle powers” to take a new approach to revisionist powers, a list …

With the rollout of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), public attention has largely been fixed on the price of goods. This debate, while important, has obscured a far more consequential shift taking place quietly in the background: the first-time taxation of a vast and diverse service sector that forms …

By Gordon Brown EDINBURGH – On January 27, US President Donald Trump’s second withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement will finally take effect. This follows his announcement on January 7 that the United States would leave an additional 66 international organizations, including 31 United Nations entities and 35 non-UN bodies, …

The World Bank Group’s Boards of Executive Directors in Washington today approved a financing package to increase the Kingdom of Bhutan’s hydropower generation, facilitate regional clean energy trade, expand economic opportunities, and create jobs. The 1,125 MW Dorjilung Hydroelectric Project located on the Kurichhu River in eastern Bhutan, will generate …

In 2024, the late Kinga Tshering was murdered over a pair of lagay in Hejo, Thimphu. On 21st November 2025 the Thimphu District court sentenced Karma Tshewang to life-imprisonment after being convicted of first-degree felony murder. The co-defendant Kezang Jamtsho was convicted for Accomplice Liability and was sentenced to 9 …

The Economic Stimulus Plan (ESP) Steering Committee has written to the Anti Corruption Commission on 16 January 2026 highlighting what action it has taken immediately  on the ACC’s findings and recommendation on the four ESP cases. As a follow up to the ACC letter and report the ESP Committee had …

There are four main reasons for the price increases under the new GST Tax regime. The first is that GST by itself increases prices of zero rated items under the old Bhutan Sales Tax by (BST) at least 5% and these are items like vegetables, cereals, medicines, fruits etc. This …

By Dorji Dhradhul (Creativity Catalyst) A Convergence of Vision, Evidence, and Timing Taken together, the survey findings do not merely endorse Bhutan’s past choices; they validate its future direction. They confirm that the values embedded in HVLV, mindfulness, regulation, respect, and responsibility are increasingly shared by a global constituency of …

By Jayati Ghosh NEW DELHI – There is a method behind the apparent madness of US President Donald Trump’s transactional, spheres-of-influence approach to geopolitics and the global economy. Nowhere has this logic been clearer than in his administration’s illegal abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and its ongoing efforts to …