EDITORIAL

Traditionally, in the eyes of public officials one of the biggest sins a businessman could commit is to drive an expensive car. Another fact is that many public servants favor SOEs over private companies and see the SOE fulfilling a national role, while private companies are regarded as not being …

One of the main responsibilities of the Press is to warn the nation and society of any major impending crisis or disaster, before it happens. This paper has been writing for a while about a perfect economic storm that is now within our horizon. The storm is not an imaginary …

The Economic and Finance Committee of the National Assembly held a high powered hearing on various issues around the Economic Stimulus Plan (ESP). Though this is not the first time that hearings are being held this is the first time that it was done at such a high level with …

The brutal terror attack and killing of 26 innocent tourists on 22nd April in Jammu and Kashmir has triggered military conflict and attacks between India and Pakistan. From the wee hours of 7th May till 9th May there were military attacks and exchanges between both sides with the situation only …

A senior foreign journalist who interviewed several Bhutanese had many good things to say about Bhutan and Bhutanese, but she noted a troubling and deep sense of complacency. It is this sense of complacency that has landed us in all kinds of troubles from mass migration to Australia to the …

In 2006, His Majesty The King, then as a Crown Prince, visited Thailand to inaugurate the Royal Flora Ratchaphruek exposition in Chiang Mai commemorating the 60th Birth anniversary of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. In a simple but thoughtful gesture the Crown Prince gave a bow of respect to the revered Thai …

Bhutan saw the advent of electoral democracy in 2008 with all the state institutions like Parliament and Constitutional bodies. However, a big question for Bhutanese democracy was what would it mean for people beyond voting every five years, how would check and balance really work, will democratic culture take root …

For a long time, Bhutan had the high value and low volume tourism policy, but things changed when Bhutan hired McKinsey during the time of the first government. The McKinsey team which had a lot of young Indian graduates studying and prescribing solutions to accelerate Bhutan’s economic development recommended promoting …

From available public records Kuensel in 2021 made a revenue of Nu 150.09 million a good chunk of which was made possible by direct government printing, advertising and other works as pointed to by the current Finance Secretary who said the government subsidizes Kuensel through such jobs. However, the same …

For the first time in many decades, the global tectonic plates of geopolitics are shifting and it will have significant impacts on Bhutan in the years to come. The foreign policy of U.S. President Donald Trump is firstly an isolationist one that withdraws from its global role, and secondly there …