OPINION

By Vansanglura Vanchhawng Aligning with national education reforms, this article explores how clear teacher expectations in our schools and colleges foster quality education. This collaborative vision bridges students, educators, and the community, supporting Bhutan’s goal of a skilled, value-driven society. 1. Need and Importance of Student-Teacher Participation in Quality Education …

Why Bhutan Must Finally Outlaw Corporal Punishment, In Law, In School, In the Home By Thinley Tobgay If we would never call it discipline when an adult strikes another adult, why do we call it discipline when the victim is a child? Six out of every ten children in Bhutan …

By Minxin Pei CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA—Since its founding almost 77 years ago, the People’s Republic of China has had eight premiers. But only two—Zhao Ziyang and Zhu Rongji—deserve credit for the country’s economic rise. In the 1980s, Zhao translated Deng Xiaoping’s vision of “reform and opening up” into policy, pushing through …

By Emily Wang In one painting, someone is weaving a wedding dress. In another, people watch television. Elsewhere, a figure goes for a walk, flowers are collected, and a group gathers around an apple. These ordinary activities appear to take place while something larger and less certain waits in the …

By Dhanapati Sharma The recent report by The Bhutanese that 299 cases of bullying were reported in Bhutanese schools over the past two years makes every parent, educator, policymaker, and citizen rethink education and the education system. The increase in bullying cases from 116 in 2024 to 183 in 2025 …

By Kaushik Basu NEW DELHI—During the seven years I served as chief economic adviser to the government of India and as chief economist at the World Bank, I came to appreciate what a strange discipline economics is. Parts of it amount to little more than organized common sense, which is …

Kelly Stonelake SEATTLE—When I joined Facebook in 2009, I believed in the mission that founder Mark Zuckerberg espoused: to connect and empower people around the world. We all know how that turned out. Meta, now the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is focused on generating as much engagement …

By Arvind Subramanian WASHINGTON, DC—In the long sweep of history, China’s economic performance over the past 50 years will obviously stand out for the sheer scale and pace of quality-of-life improvements within that country. But China’s impact on the rest of the world has still been underappreciated. True, if the …

Opinion By Dr Pem Namgyal We know that Bhutanese love their near and dear ones, especially when they are ill and in the hospital. They come in droves, bearing baskets of goodies and all sorts of cooked food to have a picnic in the hospital. But that very love could …

By Thompson Ayodele LAGOS—In Nigeria, a cancer diagnosis is often a death sentence. Nearly 130,000 Nigerians receive one each year, and nearly 80,000 die of the disease. An average of 33 women per day in Nigeria are infected with cervical cancer, and 22 women per day die from it. The …