The Ministry of Health which used to share the weekly dashboard with the number of COVID-19 positive cases quietly stopped doing so more than a month ago. There is no longer much advice on avoiding unnecessary mass gatherings, and most indoor meetings are occurring without facemasks. The talk of getting …

On the occasion of the 11th Royal Wedding Anniversary many people shared a picture of His Majesty The King with Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen from last year. The picture was notable as it showed the large amount of weight lost by His Majesty and the visible stress of the pandemic …

NEW YORK – Economists are supposed to be good at understanding risk. Decision-making in the face of uncertainty, after all, is the discipline’s bread and butter. Yet at a time when real-world risks – geopolitical, macroeconomic, financial, public-health, and environmental – are piling up, many economists seem to be at …

Bhutan lost a living legend and a national treasure, in the form Ap Dopay, the last great master of traditional Bhutanese music known as Zhungdra. He died on 28 September 2022 at the age of 89 after a bout of illness. Below is a feature written on him, 11 years …

It all started with the compulsory resignation of two women foresters which an initially mistaken press release said was for talking to the media, though the actual reason as stated by the Ministry was for insubordination or refusing to follow transfer orders. This was also in the backdrop of the …

Bhutan saw its first school opened in 1914 in Haa and subsequently, especially from the 1960’s, modern education spread far and wide across Bhutan. Modern education in Bhutan started off with government officials having to convince and even order farmers to take their children off the farm and send them …

LONDON – Scientists have longed warned that climate change will adversely affect weather patterns and living conditions around the world. These warnings are now turning into a painful reality. Worse, the range of possible outcomes has proven to be increasingly “fat-tailed”: extreme weather events such as heatwaves, severe storms, and floods are …

There is a blunt truth why people leave for Australia, America or Canada, and currently mostly to Australia.  While local research and data, news and noises tend to portray reasons for leaving like, workload, hierarchy, lack of amenities, work atmosphere, lack of incentives and recognition and other reasons -the hidden …

For a long time, Bhutan has been content to not be like countries in the neighbourhood, and we have rightly been proud about our clean environment, small population, stability and relatively better social and economic indicators than most of our immediate neighbours. However, a series of rude economic shocks in …

The Australia Rush has now developed into a full herd rush as large numbers of the young and even middle-aged professionals head there. However, there are four important things to consider. The first is that this is coming at the loss of very important manpower for Bhutan in the form …