EDITORIAL

There are three important lessons to learn from two news stories this week. The first two lessons are from the case of DB Chhetri. This case has attracted much discussion on social media and people have jumped to their own conclusions. The social media has effectively become a court of …

There is no doubt that when it comes to counting friends in South Asia, India will count Bhutan as its closest friend and vice versa. One of the bedrocks of this relationship is a sense of mutual trust, and that leads to the two countries making special exceptions for each …

The government has been under tremendous pressure to open relaxations, and so far it has been ahead of schedule doing away with more and more restrictions by the day. This is as cases start shooting up, testing is only for the symptomatic, red homes are lifted and the testing and …

A lot of the attention of the recent leadership assessment has gone on the senior executives being managed out, but the actual Civil Service reforms are much deeper and wider. As His Majesty said in the past, the success or failure of Bhutan as a nation rests primarily on the …

When Omicron was found in South Africa in late November 2021 there was first a lot of panic over its higher transmissibility and mutations. However, within a few weeks there was global relief as clinicians in South Africa said it as ‘milder’ than the previous Delta wave in terms of …

Right now, Bhutan is like a high diver perched at the highest dive board above the swimming pool nervously looking down. If we dive at the right time and with proper preparation, calculation, balance and technique then we will have dived successfully into phase two of our fight against COVID-19. …

The Health Minister Dasho Dechen Wangmo is worried these days. In an interview with the paper she said that the three things key to tackling COVID-19 is vaccines, restrictions or lockdowns and public cooperation. She explained this is how Bhutan managed to deal with three outbreaks of COVID-19, and each …

His Majesty The King turns 42 on 21 February 2022, but His Majesty will not be celebrating his birthday in the capital with his family, but instead His Majesty is on the frontlines providing leadership to quell a raging virus. Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, His …

We, Bhutanese, take great pride in our ability to survive against great odds, the ravages of history and external challenges – as a nation and as a people. This has also been noted by people, like former Indian Foreign Secretary, Nirupama Rao, who said that the Bhutanese are the best …

Albania emerged from the collapse of communism in the early 1990s and it had little or no controls and experience with capitalism. With an unaware population and no regulatory checks, the country, according to YouTube channel Rare Earth, saw an explosion of Pyramid schemes where even politicians, government officials and …