Bhutan News
Power to the people
12 March, 2010 - Prime Minister Jigme Y Thinley has sent a strong message to the dzongdags – let party workers participate in development process or the government would resign together with the party workers. Those, who know him as a no-nonsense person, will believe him. The message from the DPT ... [more]
Barter not Bhutan
Prime Minister is rightly doubtful about joining WTO. WTO is too huge and consumerist for tiny Bhutan. Its philosophy is free trade, which is consumerist in nature. Consumerism is for huge trading economies, not for a young, rudimentary economy like Bhutan. Bhutan stands to gain little from free trade because we ... [more]
Towards creating a knowledge economy
Education for sometimes now has been grabbing media attention. Sometimes for good reasons and other times for bad reasons. If the recent signing of the performance compact between the Ministry of Education and the Royal University of Bhutan (RUB) is anything to go by, tertiary education in Bhutan is almost going ... [more]
BHUTANESE WOMEN: LONG WAY TO GO
The Asia Pacific region has seen vibrant economic development but has made limited progress on gender equality. This was revealed in the Asia Pacific Human Development Report 2010. The report stated that discrimination and neglect are threatening women’s survival in the Asia-Pacific region, where women suffer from some of the world’s ... [more]
Additional aircraft for Drukair
To meet growing demand, the national airline may need another Airbus and a small plane 11 March, 2010 - As the country prepares to accommodate more tourists in another year or two, and with more and more Bhutanese able to afford trips abroad, Bhutan’s national airline, Drukair, is also gearing up ... [more]
2-day GNH seminar starts
The prime minister with the Indian ambassador Pavan K Varma and co-organiser Malvika Singh at the opening ceremony 11 March, 2010 - In an engagement that goes beyond the usual bilateral relations between the two countries, an academic delegation from India will meet with Bhutanese counterparts for a two-day seminar on ... [more]
Tourism Tariff
McKinsey liberalisation policy reversed with tariff rise to USD 250 Tourism Tariff 10 March, 2010 - The country’s tour operators are doubly happy about the government’s decision to strike down the tariff liberalisation proposal and instead raise it to USD 250 a tourist a day. Many tour operators felt the ... [more]
GNH TORCH BEARERS
A GNH wave – if one may call it that – is building up within Bhutan with school students vouching that their beliefs, attitudes and even their lives were transformed by what they learned during the recent GNH meetings in Thimphu and Paro. They said they have become much more humane, ... [more]
English library books for rural students
9 March, 2010 - (From left: Director of department of school education, Tshewang Tandin, and Proprietor of Yana Expeditions, Tashi Kelson Tobgay) Yana Expeditions, a tour company based in Thimphu, and president of Unique Journeys International in Canada, Linda Sawyer, donated the first batch of around 3,000 English library books ... [more]
GNH in action
16 Class XII students explain to the PM how they practise the philosophy Feedback Session The prime minister interacts with participants of the Education For GNH workshop 9 March, 2010 - A few students in the capital, who lived within walking distance from school, but would rather have their parents ... [more]