The Prime Minister Dasho Dr Lotay Tshering announced that restrictions will be relaxed once the children from five to 11 get fully vaccinated by mid April 2022. The relaxations which will come phase wise will avoid lockdowns even with cases. What is being relaxed and with what conditions The 7-day …
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The Bhutanese paper launched with a bang on 21 February 2012, 10 years ago on the 32nd Birth anniversary of His Majesty The King with the then Chief Election Commissioner, Dasho Kunzang Wangdi as the Chief Guest. 2012-2013 Stating our investigative intent from day one, we launched the first issue …
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The whole idea of The Bhutanese started in 2011, as a newspaper that would focus on in-depth and investigative journalism and also push the envelope. A difficult birth The paper was subject to an extraordinarily long licensing process by BICMA from October 2011 to February 2012. Even after completing all …
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While the investigative and critical stories listed here in the last 10 years of The Bhutanese are not as high profile as the ones listed in the main story above, they also deserve a mention. 2012-2013 In its fifth issue on 7 March 2012, this paper questioned why the High …
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The launch issue of 21 February 2012 also followed up on a series of investigative stories done by the writer on corruption in procurement in the Health Ministry when the writer was in Kuensel in 2009 which also resulted in ACC investigations and prosecution by the OAG. The issue also …
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“While serving and traveling with His Majesty I have heard some advice which I would like to share with the people today,” said Lyonchhen Dasho Dr Lotay Tshering. Lyonchhen said His Majesty in all his meetings said that the most important thing is to protect the lives of the people. …
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There is a growing voice especially on social media to do away with lockdowns and other restrictions, like for travel, with the main argument being that Omicron is ‘mild’ and there is a greater damage from lockdowns and restrictions than the virus. So with elections in a year’s time and …
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In the second round of mass testing done on 10 February 2022 a lady tested positive from a Norzin Tag building. The lady had gone to meet her father and brother who stay in the basement of the Druk Shopping Complex before there were positive cases there. The father and …
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On Friday 18 February the Ministry of Health dashboard detected three community cases from Changbandhu. The cases were from one family with a family member working in the Royal Academy of Performing Arts (RAPA). The MoH tested the entire RAPA staff and dancers and cordoned off the entire RAPA institute …
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P 1 may be next in line but no final decision yet The Royal Civil Service Commission’s (RCSC) assessments of 59 executives at the Director position level found about one-third of the Directors promising. The RCSC will be further testing their suitability to assume expanded roles. Together with executives at …
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