EDITORIAL

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 …

Bhutan, within a couple of years, has witnessed the growth of a massive Multi Level Marketing Pyramid Scheme in the form of Enagic selling ‘miracle water,’ or Kangen. This is not the first pyramid scheme in Bhutan and it won’t be the last, but what marks out Enagic as worthy …

The common refrain during any national crisis is to work together and to not point out any issues. However, with this attitude, we may never learn from our mistakes, and we will be condemned to repeat them. The massive Omicron outbreak in ‘low risk’ Wangduephodrang is a matter that concerns …

The Drayang ban by the government is not just about Drayangs, but it has far deeper implications. The arbitrary use of executive power by the elected government to take a decision based on morality and hearsay does not portend well for us. Today it could be drayangs, but tomorrow it …

This paper, in a first, is sharing the picture of a rapist convicted of a heinous crime of  rape of an eight-year-old boy. The media in Bhutan so far have refrained from printing the pictures of even convicted rapists, but this practice has to evolve with the times. Traditionally, media …

With 2021 behind us we now have a very critical year ahead in 2022 on some key fronts. An important task is starting to translate His Majesty’s national call on the 114th National Day into reality on the fronts of service delivery, education, economy, technology and more with the underlying …

The third local government elections are probably the worst ever conducted by the Election Commission of Bhutan (ECB) till date not only in terms of the delayed results, but also in its shabby treatment of the private media. From the 2018 general elections it was amply clear that a large …

If there is one word to take away from the 114th National Day Address, then it is ‘Accountability’ with a capital A. While Bhutanese are good at making grand plans and designs on paper, our bane is when it comes down to implementation and taking accountability for our actions. The …