EDITORIAL

One of the biggest complaints of ordinary people in Bhutan over the years has been that you cannot get your work done if you do not know someone in an office. This simple line says much more than a voluminous consultant’s report on the problems of governance and service delivery. …

While the first democratic elections in 2008 signaled Bhutan’s turn into a democracy, it also came with a heavy price of political partisanship and divisions. New fault lines opened up in a small country and society that could ill afford it. However, since then, it must be said that every …

As the massive pay hike was rolled out last week there were many grateful people but there were also many who complained that others got more or they got less than expected. The private sector and others outside the charmed circle of these 30,000 civil servants watched on amazed as …

As per the latest data, 15,552 Bhutanese have got visas to Australia in a 12-month period from July 2022 to June end 2023. This is almost as much as Bhutanese moving out in the last seven financial years. It should be clear by now that we have a full scale …

For a long time, the world talked about climate change as something that would be in the future decades down the line once certain temperatures are crossed or carbon in the atmosphere reaches a certain limit. However, the reality is that climate change is already happening and its impacts are …

More than 15,000 Bhutanese will have gotten Australian education visas in a 12-month period from July 2022 to June 2023. This does not take into account an increasing flow towards Canada and the UK and the more than 8,606 who moved to the Middle-East in the last 10 years. On …

The Cabinet in a 5 June 2023 letter to the RMA put forth a wish list of 8 points all to do with the monetary sector. As a result of that letter the RMA suspended the commercial housing and hotel loans and increased the incentive for remittance from 2 to …

The 13 State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) under the Ministry of Finance have always been in a strange no man’s land for many years. They are not government departments and hence neither civil servants or even public servants. On the other hand, they are not a part of the well resourced …

There is an old saying that if something is too good to be true, then it probably is. Until recently, many professionals and young graduates headed in droves to Australia on student visas with the main intention of making some money and building a life there. However, it was not …

This paper, since its establishment in 2012, has always believed in the value of impact journalism. We write stories not only for the sake of writing them, but also to bring about change and an impact. This may be frowned upon in some circles, but journalism should not be mistaken …