Category: Media

The Right to Information enactment to be discussed during the 10th Session of the Parliament as an Urgent Bill has been shelved after the move garnered just nine votes in the National Council yesterday. Eight members abstained from voting and six voted ‘No’. Gasa’s National Council member, Sangay Khandu,...

Technology is the cutting edge instrument for economic and social progress at this stage. That’s what Bhutan envisioned for while developing the Thimphu IT Park. The government had announced to make Bhutan a techno hub in the region. But, for years, the response from IT companies looked lukewarm. Bhutan...

What struck me most about Bhutan’s experiments with accelerated democracy and plural media is the romanticized idealism behind both. There is so much hope inspired by so much innocence. Gross National Happiness (GNH) is singularly Bhutan’s most successful international export and its defining global brand. It is the enveloping...

An endeavour of the media club to develop reporting and editing skills New Student Newspaper: The Paro college of education (PCE) launched its own student newspaper earlier this week. The 20-page newspaper covers events and activities that take place in the college. The newspaper, which is published in both...

If an argument had to be made in favor of the RTI Act in Bhutan then the Ministry of Health procurement scam would be an apt example. Due to corruption in the tendering process Bhutanese patients for years were subject to sub standard drugs and medical equipment. This was...

Despite reservations on the part of the legislators, experts within the region think so 2-Day Awareness Seminar: Whether the time was right to introduce the right to information legislation in the country was what dominated the discussion at the ongoing two-day awareness seminar on RTI yesterday at Terma Lingka...