The death of a young baby in Dagana due to ‘lack of fuel’ in the Ambulance has caused much outrage and rightly so. The District Health Officer in an interview to The Bhutanese said, ‘the budget for ambulance fuel is not enough because of the increase in the cost of …

The Ministry of Health (MoH) said that 7,664 cases were registered suspecting dengue fever from 18 Dzongkhags whereby Phuentsholing hospital contributed the highest with 87 percent of them. The MoH so far has confirmed 1,989 cases using the Rapid Test Kit. Two additional deaths were reported due to dengue and …

In many ways the 2008-18 was a lost decade for private sector development. The main reason is that the governments and the bureaucracy were obsessed by 10,000 MW by 2020. We were told that hydropower is the silver bullet to our economic woes. In the middle of the 2012-13 Rupee Crisis …

NEW YORK – When I was a bright-eyed eighth grader in my native Sri Lanka, I couldn’t wait for my first sex education class. In our early teens, my classmates and I were as curious as we were clueless about sex and sexuality. Yet, instead of receiving reliable answers to …

The program has been criticized in Japan and internationally for a high rate of deaths and abuse of foreign workers The Labour Minister says that Bhutanese youth will not encounter such programs and it will be well monitored One would have thought that the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources …

One of the most important developments in the 12th plan is the large scale decentralization of budget and authority to the local governments in 205 Gewogs and 20 Dzongkhags across the country. The concept of Wangtse Chirphel or decentralization is an important one in the evolution of Bhutanese democracy. There …

NEW DELHI – The process of selecting the International Monetary Fund’s next managing director must change. In particular, the tradition of choosing a European for the post – based on an unfair and anachronistic “gentlemen’s agreement” reached with the United States when the institution was established 75 years ago – …

Thimphu TechPark will soon build its own IT team where they will cater to the needs of the people, in terms of services related to IT. This is in a long list of developments in the IT Tech Park gearing Bhutan for the fourth industrial revolution. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) …

In 2018 Bhutan launched its first satellite into space. The satellite program did not happen overnight but was the culmination of at least two years of preparation in training the four Bhutanese space engineers, building and launching the CubeSat and building a ground station as part of a project envisioned …

NEW YORK – “Tilt” is a word with a history in South Asia. Nearly a half-century ago, Pakistan’s government brutally repressed its citizens in the eastern part of the country. Millions of refugees streamed into India, which mobilized its armed forces. Pakistan attacked, and India responded. Full-scale war ensued. When …