As we celebrate the World AIDS Day tomorrow, it’s also time to look back how far we have fared in our fight against HIV/AIDS since the first case was detected in 1993. There is no denying that the number has augmented today and a total of 667 HIV positive cases (328 female) have been diagnosed […]
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The idea to facilitate community-based sustainable tourism, especially homestays in places like Gangtey and Phobjikha valleys in Wangdue, has been good. It has not only given tourists and guests have an experience of the real Bhutanese village life, but also benefited the local rural people who run these homestays. Homestays have become their alternate source […]
Read MoreAround the same time 11 years ago, we saw history in the making as His Majesty Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck was officially crowned as the fifth hereditary King of Bhutan. The sacrosanct ceremony where His Majesty received the sacred Dhar or scarf as per tradition in Punakha Dzong was held on November 1, 2008, an […]
Read More“How dare you?” thundered Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg at the UN climate summit this year. She was confronting the nations for the devastation they had unleashed on planet earth even as they talked about money and the economics of power. She was compelling them to face the fact that they would be responsible […]
Read MoreMany of us have been horrified by the rape of two minors that took place within two consecutive days in Dagana and Paro earlier this week. In Dagana, a five-year-old girl was allegedly raped on September 18. On the next day on September 19, a class II student of a school in Paro, who was […]
Read MoreSocial media has changed the way how we give friends updates, share pictures and reconnect. It has quickly become a popular and efficient way to keep in touch and provided people with a platform to communicate information in a way that they may otherwise never have considered. But what most users of Facebook and Twitter […]
Read MoreA tragedy occurred last week: a six-week-old baby died at the Largyab Basic Health unit in Dagana after hours of waiting for an ambulance that had run out of fuel. We are struck with wonder and disbelief at this but maybe we cannot quite comprehend the grief and frustration of the parents of the baby […]
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One incidence of child sexual abuse was reported every week last year. The highest number of cases was reported from Gelephu. The perpetrators were men. What is the problem here? Where are we going wrong? Don’t we have strong enough policies and laws to protect our children and prevent such cases of abuse? Right now, […]
Read MoreWhat started as mid-term review by the first democratically elected government has given way to the annual performance agreement (APA), which was initiated by the previous government. Currently, the government has been signing almost one APA after another, including most recently with the Thromde and the information and communications ministry. The APA has a cascading […]
Read MoreCurrently, Bhutan has a huge problem with unemployment and job forecasting. For instance, a huge number of engineering students are being churned out on a regular basis but they don’t have jobs. Whom do we blame? The labor ministry for failing to forecast employment or the education sector for the same? It’s a shame that […]
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