There are three important lessons to learn from two news stories this week. The first two lessons are from the case of DB Chhetri. This case has attracted much discussion on social media and people have jumped to their own conclusions. The social media has effectively become a court of …

There is no doubt that when it comes to counting friends in South Asia, India will count Bhutan as its closest friend and vice versa. One of the bedrocks of this relationship is a sense of mutual trust, and that leads to the two countries making special exceptions for each …

BUDAPEST/PHILADELPHIA – Hungary’s autocratic prime minister, Viktor Orbán, was expected to win re-election to a fourth consecutive four-year term this weekend, owing to a rigged electoral system and a largely state-controlled media that made it impossible for the united opposition to reach many voters. But the scale of Orbán’s victory …

The government has been under tremendous pressure to open relaxations, and so far it has been ahead of schedule doing away with more and more restrictions by the day. This is as cases start shooting up, testing is only for the symptomatic, red homes are lifted and the testing and …

A lot of the attention of the recent leadership assessment has gone on the senior executives being managed out, but the actual Civil Service reforms are much deeper and wider. As His Majesty said in the past, the success or failure of Bhutan as a nation rests primarily on the …

With the recent transition into Living with the virus and preparation of Covid dedicated hospitals, it is clear that our country has decided to survive along with the disease. Bhutan has not yet faced a worse-case scenario situation because of the divine leadership and intervention by His Majesty and the …

TOKYO – Across Europe, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spurred a rethink of virtually all dimensions of security, from defense to energy. The war’s likely impact on security in East Asia, especially in Taiwan and Japan, has received far less attention. But the coming transformation may turn out to be …

When Omicron was found in South Africa in late November 2021 there was first a lot of panic over its higher transmissibility and mutations. However, within a few weeks there was global relief as clinicians in South Africa said it as ‘milder’ than the previous Delta wave in terms of …

LONDON – Russia has claimed, without evidence, that the United States is operating biowarfare laboratories in Ukraine. The US has dismissed the allegations as “preposterous,” and – along with NATO leaders – warned that the Kremlin might be seeking to manufacture a pretext for using chemical or biological weapons in its flailing military …