Tag: freedom of expression

Minister Rai, language and communal harmony

It was not an amazing but surely a set back to read in a recent interview with a Nepalese daily newspaper that Information and Communication Minister Nandalal Rai see the possibility of communal violence in the country if the government initiated to revive the Nepali language version of the...

Two years on the hot seat

The Bhutanese government, properly called the first elected government of the kingdom, has completed its second year on the hot seat, without any significant progress at hand to boast for. The biggest achievement for it will be this month end when it holds the SAARC summit for the first...

Myths and reality behind BT affairs

The first private news paper Bhutan Times was forced to go for outsourcing to ensure its regular publication after a group of seven journalists, including its editor, resigned abruptly on October 22 afternoon saying management had undue interference on editorial issues. The problem began shortly after enthronement of Wangcha...