EDITORIAL

The Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) is seeing its fourth round of thousands of volunteers from all parts and walks of life. The GMC maybe a project meant to attract international investors, but it now has major buy in and ownership from every Bhutanese. Knowledge about the project was first shared …

This week this paper faced a peculiar situation as there was a slew of new and old crime cases that this paper was following up, but each time, we came up against an invisible new information barrier in the Royal Bhutan Police.  When our reporter contacted the respective police station …

In 2008, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visited Bhutan’s first democratic Parliament and announced that India is committing to 10,000 MW by 2020. This commitment was made as hydropower had become one of the key cornerstones of the Bhutan-India relationship. The projects were even identified along with the cost and …

When the Livestock Bill of Bhutan 2025 was introduced in Parliament, there was a clear attempt by some MPs to politicize the issue. The Bill is not encouraging slaughter houses but only retains the provisions of the old Bill that already permitted slaughter houses. The new bill was an attempt …

The death of 33-year-old Biren Kumar Kafley in police custody is one of those cases that tests public trust in law enforcement, institutional transparency, and the rule of law itself. The Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) and its Narcotics Division have given their version of events that Biren attempted to escape, …

The Global Peace Prayer Festival has drawn to a close and it can be said that it was a grand success. Bhutan has always called itself the last Vajrayana Buddhist country and rightly so, but there was always a sense of insecurity about the term, almost like a last man …

A great deal has been written and analyzed about His Majesty The Fourth King over the years, and more will be written in the years to come. It is also not just books, academic papers, news articles and videos, but the Great Fourth, through his wise leadership and heroics, is …

Two recent examples not only show how difficult it is for entrepreneurs in Bhutan, but how the system can turn vindictive when they raise their voices.  The National Post Harvest Center (NPHC) and the Department of Agricultural Marketing and Cooperatives (DAMC) had come under some criticism a few months ago over …

The unfolding PandoraBiz SRC case has become a textbook example of how slow and reactive regulation can enable fraudsters to thrive, and how ordinary Bhutanese citizens are left to pay the price. The tragedy is not only that so many fell for it, but that regulators knew about Sandeep’s activities …

For years now as we scrolled on Facebook, we must have come across PandoraBiz or its owner at some time sounding very serious and making different claims of earning well through Crypto Trading. Be it regulators, the media and ordinary people we took it at face value and probably presumed …