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The National Land Commission’s Dispute Settlement Committee (DSC) has shot down the government’s proposal to sell the Trowa theater land to the tenant Kunley Wangchuk as it is not in keeping with the Land Act 2007. The committee cited the provisions of Land Act, 2007 which stipulates that ‘under no …

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) detained Chenda Tobgye on 3 March, 2013 in the Thimphu city police station in connection with the ongoing investigation of the Bangkok embezzlement case which first came to the light in late 2010. The ACC had received the case from the Foreign Ministry in November …

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) during the first hearing in the high court’s full bench said that the Home Minister was found guilty of not abiding by his Majesty’s Kasho of 1987 and was charged for official misconduct of allotting plots to those who were not eligible. However the legal counsel …

Monks at the monastery said the infrastructure started falling apart within a few months’ time Compassion and endurance may have been preached by the Buddha, but contractors through a shoddily-renovated monastery have tested these qualities of resident monks at the historically and culturally significant Pangrizampa monastery in Thimphu. And what …

Among many other incentives, even the candidates’ process trainings for the two companies are funded by the government while tenancy progress at the tech park hasn’t improved a bit Save for the existing two at the Thimphu TechPark Private Limited (TTPL), an uncomfortably good period has passed without any other …

On the first day of hearing at the Construction Development Boards arbitration committee the Ministry of Information and Communication Deputy Executive Engineer, Gyem Dorji admitted that there had been lapses and overpayment in the construction of the Gelephu airport. As per the Royal Audit Authority report Nu 78.27 mn had …

In what some are already calling a case of conflict of interest, the former Director General of the Department of Civil Aviation, Phala Dorji, who is held accountable in the RAA report on domestic airports, has permitted an arbitration on the RAA report. He has done this in his new …

The RAA report has not only stopped at the massive financial, legal and procedural irregularities in the construction of the airport but has also pointed out the environmental lapses in the construction of Younphula and Bathpalathang airports. This includes the probability of flooding in the Gelephu and Bathpalathang airports which …

BCCI says the new system will not mean loss of revenue to government and will also enhance the private sectors competitive edge  The Bhutan chamber of commerce and industry (BCCI) has proposed to bring about a complete change in the current excise tax system and thereby modify the trade agreement …

Bhutanese mining companies with stone quarries under Wangduephodrang supplying materials to the Punatsangchhu hydropower project I and II (PHPA), have raised concerns over foriegn contractors operating mines in the project areas. While some referred to national laws which don’t allow foreigners to operate mines in the country, some cited  economic …