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During the Friday meet, the Prime Minister Lyonchhen (Dr) Lotay Tshering, in response to a question said that that the number of hotels in the country has increased over the years because of a flaw in the policy where fiscal incentives were provided to hotels indicating people should invest more …

The Royal Monetary Authority (RMA) , concerned with the rapid rise of loans to hotels touching around 27.935 bn in November 2018, did a comprehensive study on the issue led by the Department of Financial Regulation and Supervision (DFRS). The RMA report recommends that RMA in consultation with the Tourism …

Learning the irrelevancy and taxing nature of the syllabus practiced in the education system, the rationalized curriculum, also known as curriculum thinning will be implemented this academic session. The Director of the Royal Education Council (REC), Kinga Dakpa said the work started since the beginning of 2017 which involved the …

One of the new approaches of the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources (MoLHR) to address unemployment in the 12th FYP has been one of their plans to institute an Employment Responsibility System (ERS). “Employment Responsibility System (ERS) is one of the economic points that is covered under the National …

One of the 25 pledges in 120 days of the DNT government is that it would, ‘Initiate recruitment of domestic workers by reviewing and amending immigration rules and regulation and institute stringent monitoring standards and guidelines for that.” The issue is currently being looked at by a committee under the …

Highlighting some of the discussions held at the first ever National Tourism Conference, Lyonchhen (Dr.) Lotay Tshering said that there is humongous potential to take the tourism sector to the top. Lyonchhen said that going by the statistical importance given by everyone on the tourist visiting Bhutan, permitting regional tourist, …

The Druk Water World’s plan to establish the first ever water sporting recreational center along the riverfront in Wangdue led to conservationists, expressing their astonishment and complete disapproval of such plans. Tshering Tobgay, the founder of Birds of Bhutan—a social forum actively engaged in conservation and scientific research of bird …

Chukha Dzongkhag celebrated the 39th Birth Anniversary of His Majesty The King at Chhukha Central School were about a thousand spectators came together.  The auspicious day was also marked at the Phuentsholing Sports Association (PSA) ground. The students from schools under Chukha Dzongkhag, school teachers, local community and Thromde contributed …

Despite instructions from ACC to take administrative action, media reports and complaints by parents the government chose to defend the Ministry of Labor and Human Resource officials involved in the Japan case. The Prime Minister Lyonchhen (Dr) Lotay Tshering claimed that the investigation is not over as the Office of …

With the main objective to exchange ideas and explore new areas of cooperation to promote trade and commerce, the two day Bhutan-Bangladesh commerce secretary level meeting was held on Tuesday and Wednesday in the capital this week. The Bangladeshi delegation was led by Md. Mofizul Islam, Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, Government …