NEW YORK – We are at the halfway point for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (from 2015 to 2030), but we are not halfway to achieving them. In fact, in many critical areas – from poverty to food security – progress has been reversed in recent years, owing to severe and compounding crises. In …

Incoming tourists can now visit the Bhutan National Bank (BNB) counter at the Paro International Arrival Terminal to download the MyPay Wallet App available on both Android and IOS operating systems. The Bhutanese SIM cards can be bought at the TashiCell or Bhutan Telecom counters located at the exit gate …

Bhutan is set to graduate from the Least Developed Countries (LDC) category of the poorest and most vulnerable countries by December 2023. This comes at a time when Bhutan is facing a series of crises like an economic crisis, depleting reserves, huge migration outwards of its professionals and youths and …

Doha, 9 March – The Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) in Doha, Qatar ended today with member states committing to measures to deliver on the Doha Programme of Action, a ten-year plan to put the world’s 46 most vulnerable countries back on track to achieving …

We have all been talking and debating about the large numbers of youths and professionals headed to Australia in recent times. It is now time to accept that this is Bhutan’s biggest crisis in recent times. It is also important to note that the loss is not only to Australia …

MUNICH – In the year since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war has evolved in ways few predicted. The conventional wisdom was that Russian forces would quickly overwhelm the overmatched Ukrainians and take possession of much more of the country than they gained in 2014. Others went …

Most of us have seen enough clichéd Hollywood movies expounding on the incredible power of hope against all odds. However, it is particularly relevant to us in these gloomy times as droves of people leave for foreign shores and businesses are not doing great. There is almost a national depression …

MADISON, WISCONSIN – China’s population decline, which the Chinese government officially confirmed in January, has led many observers to wonder if the country’s current demographic trends threaten its stability. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, China’s population shrank last year for the first time in 60 years, nine years earlier than government projections …

Even almost a year later the talk of the town or the nation is still the huge Australia rush, which only seems to be getting bigger by the day with no end in sight. It cannot be denied that the main cause of the rush is economic in nature as …

CAMBRIDGE – Microsoft is reportedly delighted with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a natural-language artificial-intelligence program capable of generating text that reads as if a human wrote it. Taking advantage of easy access to finance over the past decade, companies and venture-capital funds invested billions in an AI arms race, resulting in a technology that …