His Majesty The King arrived in Thimphu on 23 April evening after concluding a weeklong Royal Tour of the southern dzongkhags. During the Tour, His Majesty visited Punakha, Tsirang, Sarpang, Gelephu, Samdrup Jongkhar, Samtse and Phuentsholing, meeting with members of the community represented by sector heads, civil servants, local leaders, …
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In mid-April the Forbes Magazine published an article about Druk Holding and Investments (DHI) borrowing millions of dollars in digital assets from two bankrupt crypto currency lenders BlockFi and Celsius. The bankruptcy declarations of these two firms had lead to the public declaration of the transaction records which the magazine …
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One of the big challenges for the National Pension and Provident Fund (NPPF) is that it will start making losses from 2060 onwards with more people drawing pension than contributing to it. With the main aim of making the scheme more sustainable the NPPF has been working with a Malaysian …
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This paper in the first week of February wrote that in the last six months of 2022 from 1 July to 31st December 2022 a total of 6,497 Bhutanese got visas to go to Australia. However, when one includes the updated figures for January, February and March 2023 then the …
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The Prime Minister (PM) held a discussion with the members of the Bhutan Chamber for Commerce and Industry (BCCI) to find ways to address the problems of the private sector. During the meeting, the PM shared that the Sustainable Development Fund (SDF) will no longer be applicable for non-tourists and …
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The RCSC in notification dated 22 April 2023 has increased the retirement age for all civil servants including support staff. Executives who retired at 60 now can retire at 63, professional and management category who retired at 58 now have till 60, SS1 to SS4 who retired at 58 get …
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Of the 10 incumbents who contested only two made it back In the 2013 National Council (NC) elections, of the 18 contesting incumbents a total of six made it back which is around 34 percent of the contesting incumbents. In the 2018 NC elections of the 12 contesting incumbents a …
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Women’s participation in politics has been a popular topic for debate globally and here in Bhutan too. Although women’s participation is encouraged, there are still lesser number of women participating in politics. Currently, out of the 20 elected candidates for the National Council, only one female candidate has been elected …
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The large scale migration from Bhutan in the last few years has generated much debate and even more theories on the causes. This paper in a series of articles so far looked at all the immediate causes mentioned by people leaving and those who have left like livelihood, higher education, …
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And international theories of migration applicable to Bhutan In our current thinking of the migration issue we assume that people move simply to earn more money or due to local factors like unemployment, red tape etc but migration is an outcome of far more complex decisions. With the large levels …
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