Collective responsibility: the most effective way to fight Covid-19
December 26th, 2020
Detection of community transmission has led to panic throughout Bhutan. It is a crucial time for us as a nation. Our triumph over the pandemic is still possible, but we must keep our focus, work together, and shoulder equal responsibility.
Ensuring the right to information to fight rumours and fake news
December 26th, 2020
Information is power and the right to information is fundamental to...
A Delightful Wonder, the 113th National Day Address
December 19th, 2020
A national day celebration was a relatively local and obscure event;...
Civil service reform –long overdue
December 19th, 2020
Article 26 of the Constitution sets the tone of the nation’s...
Human progress at the precipice
December 18th, 2020
Viruses can jump from animal to human, and around the world...
National Solidarity: Bhutan’s unique response to the Covid-19 pandemic
December 17th, 2020
The ongoing pandemic, which originated from a newly emerged coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2,...
Internalising Our National Day
December 16th, 2020
One hundred and thirteen years since the historic installation of the...
Ready immunization systems to deliver safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines
December 14th, 2020
Across the WHO South-East Asia Region, plans to equitably and efficiently...
Crossing the Constitutional boundaries will undermine democratic values
December 12th, 2020
Yesterday’s Kuensel had a headline “first-degree felony and above will not...
Mountains matter for biodiversity
December 12th, 2020
Newly appointed ICIMOD DG, (Dr) Pema Gyamtsho writes about why mountains...
Bangladesh: 50 Golden Years: Some Personal Reflections
December 8th, 2020
My earliest memories of the country that was to evolve as...
The vulnerability of expropriation of national natural resources for political promises
December 5th, 2020
The Mines and Minerals Bill deliberations in the National Council reminds...
Shangri-La sending an SOS
December 5th, 2020
One of the effects of the so-called “modern development” in Bhutan,...