March, 2010
PM on performance compacts
The implementing authorities, upon failing to live up to the commitments made by signing a performance compact, will have the moral obligation of admitting that they have failed by submitting their resignation, receiving a reprimand or being embarrassed by the media, Prime Minister said at the cabinet’s monthly meeting with ... [more]
Cleaner Technology and Environment Management
Cleaner Technology and Environment Management 26 March, 2010 - While many Bhutanese industries have been in the news for their poor pollution standards and average balance sheets, some are looking at adopting a program that could address both issues. The ministry of economic affairs’ program called ‘Cleaner Technology and Environmental ... [more]
Help From Hiroshima
Picture Story 26 March, 2010 - As part of promoting international peace, the city of Hiroshima, under the Hiroshima international cooperation project, donated one reconditioned garbage truck to Thimphu city corporation. The donation has been made to assist the effort to improve waste management system in Bhutan. Hiroshima city has already ... [more]
GNH and Democracy in Bhutan
Bhutan will set new standards if it ensures that delivery processes in critical areas succeed in generating collective happiness, writes Malvika Singh It is heartening to watch, witness and listen to leaders obsessed and committed to developing mechanisms and processes by which they can administer their country and bring ‘collective happiness’ ... [more]
A positive step towards transparency
Monthly Meet The Press 25 March, 2010 - In what is a positive development towards making the government functioning transparent, the prime minister Lyonchhoen Jigme Y Thinley and his cabinet will meet the press every month to answer queries from journalists. The first question and answer session with the press, which ... [more]
World Tuberculosis Day
World Tuberculosis Day 25 March, 2010 - It’s unusual for a farmer to even partake in a marathon, and more so when he wins the race. A farmer from Kajeena in Haa, Jamyang, caused many jaws to drop and uncontrollable laughter after that, when he bagged the first prize in the ... [more]
Incorporating GNH into economy
Green and sustainable economic activities to be backed with incentives Economic Development Policy 25 March, 2010 - Much has been done to beef up the country’s economy, just as much has been said about the need to protect its environment that is underpinned by the gross national happiness (GNH) philosophy. Lyonchhoen ... [more]
State Funding For Parties
Till democracy takes root in popular culture, says Lyonchhoen, parties will need state support Open To Inquiry: The prime minister and cabinet ministers field questions from the media State Funding For Parties 25 March, 2010 - Only state funding can rescue Bhutan’s bankrupt political parties, prime minister Lyonchhoen Jigmi Y ... [more]
BHUTAN MEMOIRS FOR RAANA HAIDER
Just four days in Bhutan, and Raana Haider, the wife of the former Bangladeshi secretary and ambassador to Bhutan, Tufail K. Haider, is mesmerized by the ‘land of myth, marvel and jaw-dropping beauty’. She has travelled from Beirut and Cairo to Delhi, Paris and Tokyo but the Dragon Kingdom has enthralled ... [more]
CONSTRUCTION EXPO IN JUNE
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) is going to organize a construction expo starting June 2 at Changlingmithang in Thimphu. A five-day expo will provide platform to foster new business relationships, a workshop to explore innovation and a venue to experience new tools and equipments. Phub Tshering, the General Secretary ... [more]