Bhutan’s national vaccination campaign is going well with large numbers of people getting vaccinated within a week to the extent that Bhutan is number two in the world when it comes to the share of people getting the first dose. Our health workers and the public must be congratulated for …

CHICAGO – Digital payments are attracting growing interest, and eye-popping numbers abound, as demonstrated by the US payment processor Stripe’s recent $95 billion valuation. Why all the excitement, and why now? At one level, the reason is straightforward: digital payments allow buyers to pay sellers without physical currency changing hands. Though the …

When Bhutan had the first case followed by imported cases in quarantine and the first local transmission outbreak in Phuentsholing we all desperately prayed for a vaccine. The situation became even more dire during our second outbreak in December 2020 as we saw how quickly the virus could come in …

Bangladesh – among Bhutan’s closest and friendliest neighbors has every reason to celebrate not one but two landmark events: the Golden Jubilee of Independence and Centenary Birth Anniversary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the architect of Bangladesh’s freedom struggle. The Father of the Nation would have been proud to see that …

The world including neighboring India are witnessing a rising second wave of COVID-19 infections. This second wave is led by new strains and mutations of the virus that are spreading faster and stronger. If there is one thing that the pandemic has shown, it is that societies that have trust …

LONDON – The first vaccine deliveries by the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) facility to Ghana, Nigeria, and Ivory Coast brought a glimmer of hope to African countries keen to start immunizing their populations against the disease. But while COVAX is ramping up deliveries, its mission to provide rapid, fair, and equitable access to …

A good reason that many of us are hale and hearty today and are not afflicted by anything from polio to small pox is due to the many successful vaccination programs. If one looks at the infant mortality rate of children in Bhutan before vaccinations and modern medicine, it was …

By Usha Drukpa The World Bank (WB) launched a new report on 4th March titled Better Jobs and Brighter Futures: Investing in Childcare to Build Human Capital. The report provides evidence that the childcare matters for building human capital, especially that of women’s employment and productivity. It points out to the …

In 2011, based on investigative reports by the Editor of this paper a special RAA report said that in 2007 the actual legal Bhutan Lottery turnover in India was Nu 263.6 bn but Bhutan was only getting a fractional Nu 210 mn of this. Bhutan being taken for such a …

The Check-Post Management System (CPMS) is found to be handy, effective and useful, especially in contact tracing during the outbreak of COVID-19 in the community due to access to instantaneous information on the movement of people. Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) along with the Department of Information Technology & Telecom (DITT) …