Opinions

It is not unusual when one has to make a minimum of one round around the Norzin Lam to park a car. With insufficient car parking spaces and the narrow lane, driving around Norzin Lam is a pain. Norzin Lam is one street that every driver wants to avoid. Applying breaks, pressing the clutch and accelerator time and again.

Training healthcare workers on appropriate wheelchair management is a leap forward in Bhutan as reported in the May 4th edition of Kuensel, titled "Improving mobility for the disabled".

In the 1980s, Bhutan had the largest United Nations Volunteers programme in the world. For many years international volunteers helped to build infrastructure,

One of Bhutan’s spectacular attempts to popularise an alternative development paradigm that puts happiness at the centre of our development philosophy and our unprecedented efforts to conserve our pristine natural environment has drawn numerous accolades in the international arena.

In 1994, UNESCO declared October 5 as the World Teacher’s Day. The day is observed to appreciate, assess, and improve the educators of the nation.

Retirement can be the saddest or happiest day of our lives and it all depends on the daily simple financial decisions we make today.

Our country is still in her early stage of democracy. Even so, we have witnessed how undesirable party politics has become in the recent years. Our people are now more alienated from one another than they were a decade or so ago.

As economic development takes place, the need for increased consumption and production puts pressure on the environment and its limited resources to fulfil unlimited needs.

His Royal Highness the Gyalsey is Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, a name that bears the weight of history, echoes the promise of the future, and frames his own destiny.

With the naming of the Prince as HRH Gyalsey Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck at Punakha Dzong yesterday on the holy occasion of Zhabdrung Kuchoe, the past, present and future of Bhutan came together.