October of 2015

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k2

Oct 30, 2015 5 mins read 493 views
The changing face of Laya

k2

Oct 30, 2015 3 mins read 480 views
Bhutan Lottery to start next year

State owned enterprise (SoE)

Oct 30, 2015 1 mins read 489 views
The clay statue maker of Ramtogtok

Sculpture

Oct 30, 2015 2 mins read 615 views
Alcohol - The good, the bad and the ugly sides of drinking [Part Four]

Perspective

Oct 30, 2015 4 mins read 491 views
A library goes mobile for a day

Library

Oct 30, 2015 1 mins read 480 views
Heap of Jewels

Perspective

Oct 30, 2015 5 mins read 479 views
Govt. takes credit for rise in Doing Business ranking

Business

Oct 30, 2015 2 mins read 543 views
Bhutan will meet MDG targets: PM

Sustainable development goals (SDGs)

Oct 30, 2015 2 mins read 458 views
Bhutan, SDGs, and challenges

Global Goals

Oct 30, 2015 2 mins read 492 views
Can we afford to keep digging up our roads?

Letter to the editor

Oct 30, 2015 0 mins read 473 views
BFF needs to be more transparent

Letter to the editor

Oct 30, 2015 1 mins read 482 views
What about the others?

Editorial

Oct 30, 2015 2 mins read 483 views
Eastern circuit still the least explored

Tourism

Oct 30, 2015 3 mins read 439 views
Police investigates tsamdro dispute

Tsamdro (pastureland)

Oct 30, 2015 2 mins read 461 views
High Court convicts Chang Ugyen

Crime

Oct 30, 2015 3 mins read 563 views
Bhutan's first chopper lands

Aviation

Oct 30, 2015 2 mins read 415 views
Cyclonic storm Chapala intensifies

Cyclonic storm

Oct 30, 2015 0 mins read 457 views
Hazelnut arrives in Chukha

Agriculture

Oct 29, 2015 2 mins read 421 views
Man detained for locking up wife and mother-in-law

Crime

Oct 29, 2015 2 mins read 472 views
Be a responsible cyclist

Letter to the editor

Oct 29, 2015 1 mins read 427 views
A social malaise?

Editorial

Oct 29, 2015 2 mins read 485 views
Newborn found abandoned

Crime

Oct 29, 2015 1 mins read 428 views
Farmers upset with poor potato prices

Harvest

Oct 29, 2015 2 mins read 464 views
Curtain falls on Paro thromde issue

Paro thromde

Oct 29, 2015 1 mins read 476 views
The challenges of maintaining traditional architecture

Traditional architecture

Oct 29, 2015 4 mins read 541 views
Light rain in the next 72 hours

Weather

Oct 29, 2015 0 mins read 469 views
Talking dzongkha again?

Letter to the editor

Oct 28, 2015 1 mins read 450 views
Clarifying the misconception on ILCS

Letter to the editor

Oct 27, 2015 1 mins read 499 views
Tencholing and Beyond

Perspective

Oct 28, 2015 5 mins read 488 views
Royal Wedding anniversary golf tournament concludes

Sports

Oct 28, 2015 1 mins read 490 views
Hoteliers seek support to boost tourism in the east

Hoteliers

Oct 28, 2015 2 mins read 421 views
Champion 60 becomes official

Youth

Oct 28, 2015 2 mins read 448 views
Learning through accidents

Editorial

Oct 28, 2015 2 mins read 457 views
Decongesting tourist sites

Tourism

Oct 28, 2015 2 mins read 439 views
High Court acquits three convicted in choeten vandalism

Crime

Oct 28, 2015 2 mins read 424 views
Bhutan easiest country to do business in South Asia

Business

Oct 28, 2015 3 mins read 438 views
High Court convicts three in Lhakhang Karpo case

Lhakhang Karpo

Oct 28, 2015 2 mins read 429 views
Three arrested for alleged drug smuggling

Crime

Oct 28, 2015 3 mins read 444 views
Veteran tournament underway

Basketball

Oct 27, 2015 2 mins read 473 views
The Dzongkha dilemma

Editorial

Oct 27, 2015 2 mins read 439 views
Tashi Gatshel residents happy with LPG service

LPG

Oct 27, 2015 2 mins read 397 views
Non-frame method to stabilize slopes

Landslide

Oct 27, 2015 2 mins read 427 views
UNDP partners with SDF for sustainable development goals

SAARC

Oct 27, 2015 1 mins read 498 views
Cyber security team to be formed by next year

ICT

Oct 27, 2015 2 mins read 428 views
ACC reports decline in complaints of corruption

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)

Oct 27, 2015 2 mins read 590 views
Jigme Namgyel Engineering College offers Power Engineering

Jigme Namgyel Engineering College

Oct 27, 2015 1 mins read 419 views
Samdrupjongkhar to get a 40-bed hospital by next Plan

Hospital

Oct 27, 2015 2 mins read 418 views
Road widening works unsettles Sha Ngawang people

Land

Oct 27, 2015 3 mins read 411 views
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Reflecting on access to information

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New FDI regime offers wider access to foreign investors in agriculture

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Bhutan attracts major impact finance commitments at SDG forum

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Businesses propose action oriented public-private forum to address private sector woes

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Taxes our forefathers paid

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Gym that asks you to grow, not just train

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Happiness with Mr Bhutan

Happiness can be described in countless ways, yet it is always experienced as one. Even if we fail to put it into words, we still recognise it. Sometimes, only when old words fade from the ton...

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Happiness with Mr Bhutan

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Dec 16, 2025 4 mins read 747 views
Making GST work past early hiccups

The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a major fiscal reform in recent years. These new reforms are part of a broader effort to modernise the country’s tax system to make taxation fairer, more efficient, and more business-friendly, while also increasing the tax base.

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The cost of delay

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A new chapter for Kuensel

Two decades ago, in February 2005, Kuensel increased its publication frequency to twice a week. This move was a direct response to our readers’ growing needs and a conscious preparation for the n...

Jan 03, 2026 2 mins read 898 views
Strengthening the third sector

Over the years, the civil society sector has quietly assumed a critical role in bridging policy and people. Often referred to as the third sector, CSOs have emerged as indispensable partners in Bhutan’s pursuit...

Dec 31, 2025 2 mins read 1,173 views
Why selective privatisation in healthcare makes sense

The debate on private sector participation in healthcare has reached an unhelpful impasse. This is mainly because it is...

Dec 30, 2025 2 mins read 1,533 views
Agencies must be held accountable for financial irregularities

The Royal Audit Authority’s (RAA) latest annual report is disturbing, to say the least. Financial irregularities reached...

Dec 29, 2025 2 mins read 3,014 views
What about moral and ethical accountability?

The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) investigation into the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP) loan was meant to settle...

Dec 27, 2025 2 mins read 1,911 views
Citizens building a nation’s future

The fourth round of the Gelephu Mindfulness City volunteer programme, which drew a record 10,000 participants, pushing total participation beyond 22,500, must be celebrated as a national moment. The overwhelming number of volunteer...

Dec 26, 2025 2 mins read 1,563 views
The promise of Bhutan-Thailand Free Trade Agreement

The parliamentary endorsement of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Thailand marks a watershed moment in Bhutan’s econo...

Dec 25, 2025 2 mins read 1,488 views
Time to open farms to foreign labour

The shortage of farm labour is a real problem faced by farming households across the country.  Over the years, this has undermined productivity, escalated food prices, and led to a steady increase in fallow land. Against this ba...

Dec 24, 2025 2 mins read 910 views
Amochu quarriers call for flood walls after millions in losses

Phuentsholing—Businesses involved in extracting and exporting boulders, gravel, and sand along the Amochu river are call...

Oct 16, 2025 2 mins read 2,526 views
Sir, your advice to the younger generation?

Choose your environment Your environment is the invisible hand that constantly shapes the way you think, feel, and act....

Nov 19, 2025 1 mins read 859 views
Happiness with Mr Bhutan

Our global culture has conditioned us to spend the best of ourselves in the pursuit of a “decent living” whatever that m...

Sep 22, 2025 4 mins read 3,748 views
Ask Mr Bhutan

In a world that constantly advertises, applauds, and sells consumption, acquisition and growth at all costs, cultivating...

Aug 18, 2025 2 mins read 5,134 views
Building inclusive sports

For 15-year-old Nima Dema, a student from Tendruk Central School in Samtse, the opportunity to take part in the ongoing...

Dec 23, 2025 2 mins read 1,126 views
Punatsangchhu-I restarts, but at a heavy price

The resumption of works on the 1,200-megawatt Punatsangchhu Hydropower Project I offers a flicker of hope. After all, th...

Dec 22, 2025 2 mins read 1,812 views
Cost of complacent breathing

Bhutan’s clean air is becoming a comforting myth—pleasant to repeat, dangerous to believe. For years, we have worn the r...

Dec 20, 2025 2 mins read 1,122 views
Entrepreneurs need support, not slogans

We love to talk about innovation, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance. In fact, we use these words in excess in policy d...

Dec 19, 2025 2 mins read 1,158 views
A common destiny, a collective future

The 118th National Day of Bhutan, celebrated in the sacred Bumthang Valley at the historic Wangduechoeling Palace ground...

Dec 18, 2025 3 mins read 1,586 views

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