PARIS – The sham trial of Kem Sokha, the leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), is underway in Phnom Penh. How the international community responds will send a powerful signal to Hun Sen, the world’s longest-serving prime minister, about his ability to continue to trample on Cambodia’s democracy …

The Land Use Certificate (LUC) project under His Majesty’s People’s Project at Kerong under Choekhorling gewog is benefiting a group of 9 youths (3 females and 6 males) from Pemagatshel who are all educated. His Majesty The King awarded them with a land so that they can use it for …

The Prime Minister has come up with a bold new proposal to do away with the traditional five year planning system. He has two main arguments around it. The first is that by the time a new party comes to power the five-year plan is already drafted and made by …

NEW YORK – US President Donald Trump’s order to assassinate Iran’s General Qassem Suleimani while on an official mission to Iraq was widely hailed in Trump’s jingoistic Republican Party. Government-sanctioned murders of foreign officials, clerics, and journalists are commonplace nowadays. Yet there is something special about America’s bloodlust against Iran. …

The revised monthly allowances and daily allowances for the folk dancers and mask dancers in the dzongkhags is generating interest among the people to join the dancing profession. In the past years, dzongkhag officials faced numerous challenges in order to get dancers for Tshechu and other functions. Now, with the …

Phuentsholing town will soon have a satellite clinic, which will run more or less like a hospital. The satellite clinic is expected to ease the congestion in Phuenstholing general hospital as a huge number of people come in for check up and other medical needs. Phuentsholing Thromde has identified the …

In 1999, the then Council of Ministers came up with a document ‘Bhutan 2020: A vision for Peace, Prosperity and Happiness’. The vision document set broad targets in a range of social and economic areas. Today, the report card on the Bhutan 2020 is a mixed bag. While a lot …

The economy does not look good with growth hitting 3.03 percent in 2018 and credit slowing down significantly coupled with high Non Performing Loans. The strains are showing with many private associations and companies approaching the government for help. Some would say this is the typical boom and bust cycle …

MUMBAI – I write this not as a professional economist, nor as a policymaker, but as a citizen of a tiny planet that is spinning through a vast universe that we barely understand. I write this “As the clever hopes expire / Of a low dishonest decade,” and as “Waves …

Whenever one looks at the history of any nation one will always notice some pivotal periods in its history that have played a major role in shaping it be what it is today. Bhutan has similarly arrived at a juncture in our history where have taken a call under the …