On 3rd March 2023 42-year-old Gyem Gyelsthen lost his 38-year-old wife Dresang Dema and his four-year-old daughter Nima Peday in a helicopter crash due to pilot error. While the insurance documents for Druk Air’s helicopter clearly outlined a USD 200,000 insurance per person the international reinsurance companies through a Singaporean …
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New Pyramid scheme similar to Puth gaining popularity While the government may have shut down the Puth scheme there is another very similar one growing in popularity among Bhutanese. While Puth required a minimum of USD 50 to join the Enveer group requires USD 100 to join. Like Puth, the …
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On the 8th of May, the Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (CCAA) put a stop to the Puth Group scheme calling it a pyramid scheme which predominantly focuses on continuous recruitment of new members and is designed to deceive people, is fundamentally unsustainable and prone to eventual collapse, thereby leaving …
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The Office of the Consumer Protection (now Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority) declared the QNet scheme to be a pyramid scheme and banned it in 26 August 2022 asking everyone to stop promoting the scheme or recruiting downline members. QNet essentially marketed itself as an online business where fantastic returns …
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In the recent past whenever questions arose about the Puth Group, some people online put up a 26 January 2024 e-commerce license of a man named Phuntsho Wangdi to give the scheme an air of legitimacy. The Bhutanese tracked down Phuntsho Wangdi who is based in Thimphu and asked him …
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Around a week ago a 6-member group of Chinese tourists spent around 6 nights in Bhutan staying in the top end luxury hotels in Amman Paro and Sixth Sense in Thimphu with room rates of around USD 2,000 per night. The total tour package for Bhutan including air tickets was …
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With tightening visa restrictions and rules in Australia, The Bhutanese sent queries to Australia’s Department of Home Affairs asking the number of visas held by Bhutanese nationals that have been cancelled, from the financial year 2010 – 11 to 2023 – 24 (to 31 March 2024). The Department got back …
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MDH, a popular Indian spice brand, has been in controversy following allegations of pesticide contamination in some of its pre-packaged spice products. This comes after Hong Kong suspended sales of certain spice mixes over high levels of ethylene oxide, triggering Singapore to recall MDH, and another Indian spice brand, Everest, …
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At 138 pages the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Manifesto was by far the longest and most detailed of the five competing political parties. By comparison the Opposition Bhutan Tendrel Party (BTP) which had the shortest manifesto, had only 63 pages. At one level the PDP manifesto arose from experience in …
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Since the Peoples’ Democratic Party’s victory in the parliamentary election, there has been a great anticipation amongst the people that the government honor its pledge to keep Saturdays as a holiday in schools. The government had to carefully consider the pledge from various perspectives, leading to extensive research and resulting …
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