After the first constitutional case
PM: We have to be mindful of the fact that there are two kinds of taxes, the direct and the indirect. Direct tax is something everybody is obligated to pay what is due and assessed, in the form of income tax, once included into the tax net. Indirect taxes...
Bhutan walks down the ladder on trade
Bhutan’s huge national income from the sale of hydropower to India is almost consumed by the increasing trade deficit, which has grown by 3.5 times in the last fiscal year than that of a year before. Increased trade deficit from Nu 4 billion to Nu 14 billion within a...
Job hunt in Australia
It is almost six months that I became member of the Australian society. It was a mixture of excitement, hope, despair, loneliness and to some extent a bored life. Bhutanese resettled in Australia are luckier than those resettled in other countries in the sense that these Australian-Bhutanese have got...
Come together
The biggest but shattered dream of the Bhutanese in exile was the leadership failure to work hand in hand for the common cause – establishment of democracy and human rights in Bhutan and repatriation of the Bhutanese refugees. Not only for two decades, the leaders remain divided, the culture...
Media must take the lead to speak
I was unfortunate to follow up the new events in Bhutanese media due to my residential shift from Nepal to Australia. Now I have better accessed to internet and computer to have look into what Bhutan is saying these days. Other than normal news flow, I am constantly interested...
Cock fight: two AGs fight in a consitutional case
The attorney general of the country recently made a statement that interested me. It was as part of the first constitutional case being registered in the country by the opposition party. AG Phuntsho Wangdi, a LLM from University of Adelaide, said the opposition MP Damchoe Dorji cannot represent his...