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, in December last year, to date has consumed the world with more than seventy plus million confirmed human infection cases and with over a million deaths across 210 countries and territories till date.
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,...
Control over judicial personnel – a necessity for justice and judicial independence
November 28th, 2020
The appointment of judges and justices dominated the recent news and...
Gender Action Plan – putting women and girls’ rights at the heart of the global recovery for a gender-equal world
November 28th, 2020
Today, the European Commission and the High Representative of the Union...
Too early for complacency
November 25th, 2020
Not long after the national lockdown, people seem to have forgotten...
Hard predicting in the age of polarisation
November 23rd, 2020
The US elections are nearly over, maybe. The country is divided...