EDITORIAL

Every elected government so far has come in promising and attempting to solve a host of issues in five years and very often, by the end of it, they make minimal impact in all the areas due to a dissipated impact. However, the results can be quite different if a …

In many ways the 2008-18 was a lost decade for private sector development. The main reason is that the governments and the bureaucracy were obsessed by 10,000 MW by 2020. We were told that hydropower is the silver bullet to our economic woes. In the middle of the 2012-13 Rupee Crisis …

One of the most important developments in the 12th plan is the large scale decentralization of budget and authority to the local governments in 205 Gewogs and 20 Dzongkhags across the country. The concept of Wangtse Chirphel or decentralization is an important one in the evolution of Bhutanese democracy. There …

In 2018 Bhutan launched its first satellite into space. The satellite program did not happen overnight but was the culmination of at least two years of preparation in training the four Bhutanese space engineers, building and launching the CubeSat and building a ground station as part of a project envisioned …

The Japan LEP case has seen the arrest of the two BEO agents based on a police complaint by the parents after the government washed its hands of the case. Earlier, the government had given a virtual clean chit to the Labour DG who supervised the whole program despite an …

A bird’s eye view of the ‘Learn and Earn’ program in Japan now shows that most of the 700 Bhutanese students never had a chance. The program which was first started by Japan in 2008 was meant to get foreign students to learn the Japanese language in two years and …

Early in school, most people encounter one form of Intellectual Property (IP) as students are not allowed to pass off the work of famous authors as their own. If they do so in their homework or projects, then they are accused of plagiarism and lose marks with the teacher. There …

The case of Sonam Tamang, a Learn and Earn Program (LEP) student who fell into coma with massive brain damage after getting TB and Meningitis in Japan, has elicited much sympathy. It is perhaps time to ask why Sonam is in the state she is in today and who failed …

Generally speaking, the DNT government has been given credit for being smart in the way it approached a host of issues -including the recent the pay hike. However, trust a smart person or in this case -the government to make some basic but fundamental errors. The government may not have …

A major consequence of austerity measures by successive governments is a continuing decimation of the private media as advertisement budgets get cut, and so the crisis is a creation of the government, unintended as it may be. This decimation flies in the face of the responsibility of any government to …