EDITORIAL

If one takes a close look at all of His Majesty’s initiatives and addresses through the years one will notice a common thread flowing through them all. The common thread being a deep and abiding love and concern for his people. Earlier in His Majesty’s reign, His Majesty cris-crossed the …

The results of the latest Non Communicable Diseases (NCD) survey of November and December 2024 is a wakeup call for the nation. The results are alarming to say the least with a record level of people who are obese and those who have high sugar levels in the blood. High …

Recently an Al Jazeera documentary on how carbon neutral Bhutan is becoming a victim of climate change showed the country in positive light and rightly so with our environmental track record. It showed how Bhutan, a country with still around 70 percent forest cover and absorbing more carbon than it …

A foreign investor may wonder why should they invest in the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) or Bhutan for that matter. Bhutan, after all, is a small landlocked country located in the Eastern Himalayas with a very small population. Not the ideal case for an investment pitch. However, a few decades …

A large portion of the credit for Bhutan’s press freedom ranking falling in recent years must be given to the Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC). Civil servants stopped talking to the media from 2022 when two foresters were terminated for speaking to the media and this was soon followed up …

In 2022, after the Supreme Court pronounced the verdict in the Trongsa Land Scam, the JDWNRH President and former Trongsa Dzongda Lhab Dorji stabbed an ACC Director while his family members also attacked ACC officials. This is even though it was a well-documented and investigated land scam case with no …

Bhutan in 2013 had 12 newspapers, 6 radio stations and 2 magazines.  In the last 10 years 5 private newspapers, 3 radio stations and 2 news magazines have shut down leaving behind 7 newspapers and BBS. Until 2010 the situation was fine with 10 newspapers all doing well.  However, government …

For many Bhutanese Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) is something that cannot happen to them, but only to someone else until they get a NCD like diabetes, blood pressure, gout etc. In our current society a sense of complacency and invincibility where people think they have time or that their body can …

Ever since the inception of the Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) project, one of the main questions of the people from the remaining 19 Dzongkhags has been on how it will or will not impact them. The Diamond Strategy announced by His Majesty during the 117th National Day now makes it …

There is no doubt that the nation is facing a series of challenges from the post pandemic economic downturn to the migration of many youths abroad. It is easy to be cynical and give into hopelessness, but this is not helpful and not what the people and nation need. While …