Tshering Tshomo from Zhemgang will cut a lonely figure in the National Council as the only woman candidate among the 20 elected candidates. In the NC race of the 89 candidates there were only five women candidates. Whenever the issue of women’s representation comes up the issue of merit always …
Read More »The two threats to banks
The two biggest loan portfolios in the banking sector are Housing loans followed by Service and Tourism Loans and they in the financial year 2021 to 2022 made up around 52 percent of the total loans. The tourism loans which consists mainly of loans to hotels is already impacted due …
Read More »Judicial Support
In the last few years the nation has been outraged by one horrible crime after another, especially against children. At the same time there was growing awareness of rampant sexual harassment in our educational institutions, offices and other places as cases came out. However, the reality for the longest time …
Read More »An uninformed Indian Press
Bhutan is no stranger to having literal fake news floating about it over the years and it must be said that the majority of them are from Indian media outlets either just across the border or in New Delhi. The latest one and perhaps the most damaging one till date …
Read More »Honorable Lyonpo
This week a senior journalist with this paper went to interview the Foreign Minister Dasho Dr Tandi Dorji on an issue that pertains to his ministry. The minister who said he was busy agreed to give five minutes to the journalist, but did not have any concrete answers to the …
Read More »Trust but verify
If one takes a look at the numerous Audit reports and even ACC investigation reports over the years, then a common thread of weak internal controls will string them all together. Be it an accountant or junior official siphoning off a few hundred thousands in a remote area to major …
Read More »Drinking our own Kool-Aid
Bhutan is set to graduate from the Least Developed Countries (LDC) category of the poorest and most vulnerable countries by December 2023. This comes at a time when Bhutan is facing a series of crises like an economic crisis, depleting reserves, huge migration outwards of its professionals and youths and …
Read More »Bhutan’s biggest crisis
We have all been talking and debating about the large numbers of youths and professionals headed to Australia in recent times. It is now time to accept that this is Bhutan’s biggest crisis in recent times. It is also important to note that the loss is not only to Australia …
Read More »Hope
Most of us have seen enough clichéd Hollywood movies expounding on the incredible power of hope against all odds. However, it is particularly relevant to us in these gloomy times as droves of people leave for foreign shores and businesses are not doing great. There is almost a national depression …
Read More »The success behind the failure
Even almost a year later the talk of the town or the nation is still the huge Australia rush, which only seems to be getting bigger by the day with no end in sight. It cannot be denied that the main cause of the rush is economic in nature as …
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