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The Dark Side Of Our Hydropower Projects V
Full version of my interview appearing in the Business Bhutan issue of today (12th September,...
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The Dark Side Of Our Hydropower Projects VI
My petition has never been about hydropower projects. It has been about the need and the duty to fulfill the Constitutional requirement to ensure intergenerational equity with respect to our natural...
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The Dark Side of Our Hydropower Projects VII
My petition to allow the Chamkhar Chhu to remain undammed and free-flowing has been read around the world. An academician friend from the UK writes to me as follows:Hi Yeshey,I was very heartened to...
View ArticleOne Decade Too Late? No, Two Decades Too Late!
The government had recently said that I am one decade too late in bringing up the issue of the need to keep one river free flowing. But it transpires that I am not one, but two decades late. The...
View ArticleMy Final Post On Keeping Chamkhar Chhu Undammed and Free-flowing
Since the government has announced that they are unwilling to keep Chamkhar Chhu free of dams, this will be the last post I will do on the issue of keeping one of our rivers free of dams. As a...
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Obeisance To The Fourth Druk Gyalpo: Champion of Environmental Conservation
One day in 1970, Mr. Stuart Philby - my principal at Paro High School - asked me to walk with him in the school orchard located at the southern edge of the school. There was an unusual solemnity about...
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60th Birth Anniversary Celebration Photos
It was notified that photography of the most public celebrations of the Birth Anniversary of His Majesty the Fourth Druk Gyalpo at the Changlemithang stadium on 11th November, 2015 was not allowed. I...
View ArticleBhutanese Tourism Industry Under Attack: I
The dream destroyers are at it yet again!The clamor for demolishing the visionary tourism policy of high-value, low-volume, introduced by the Fourth Druk Gyalpo in 1974, is gaining steam from certain...
View ArticleBhutanese Tourism Industry Under Attack: II
The clarion call that is being sounded for the “liberalization” of tourism business is ill advised, poorly timed and based on all the wrong premises. Even worst, I believe that the pursuit of this...
View ArticleBhutanese Tourism Industry Under Attack: III
The concerted effort to “liberalize” the tourism trade in Bhutan seems to be solely focused on de-pegging the Royalty from the Minimum Daily Tariff - and completely doing away with the Minimum Daily...
View ArticleBhutanese Tourism Industry Under Attack: IV
I hear that the proponents of the “liberalization” are not only proposing doing away with the Minimum Daily Tariff but they are sweetening the deal - so they think - by proposing the increase of...
View ArticleBhutanese Tourism Industry Under Attack: V
Whether the debate on the “liberalization” of tourism business passes into law will depend on how many of the members of the two Houses agree or disagree with the motion. However, one thing is certain...
View ArticleBhutanese Tourism Industry Under Attack: VI
The Minimum Daily Tariff has been key to Bhutan’s successful implementation of the high-value, low-impact tourism policy. It is both the launch pad and the vehicle on which rides the policy of...
View ArticleBhutanese Tourism Industry Under Attack: VII
I am truly disgusted that there are people in this country who can contemplate doing away with our very successful Minimum Daily Tariff tourism policy that has seen the industry grow into the most...
View ArticleIn the House of Gods, There is Madness But Not Complete Failure
I am happy to see sense finally prevail among the National Council Members. The NC is now no longer talking of lifting the Minimum Daily Tariff – they are talking of a revision in the tariff.Thank God...
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The Illegal Shingkhar-Gorgan Road, Yet Again
In a world that is beset by climate change related problems, Bhutan is projected as a shining star of environmental conservation. Bhutan has the reputation of being the most “carbon negative” country...
View ArticleRedirect Technological Development on the GNH Path
Recently I met, what I consider an unusual delegate, to the recently concluded GNH Convention in Paro. I say “unusual” because this person works for the world’s premier technology company that touches...
View ArticleMy Dad and His Thoughts
I am currently out of the country and, therefore, immune to the waggeries of the madness that seems to have overtaken the country. Thus, while I am waiting to have my first meeting of the trip with my...
View ArticleNew Throm To Construct Housing for Kholongchu Staff
So … it is finally happening! I offer my congratulations to the government for making this happen.http://www.bbs.bt/news/?p=55175It is a small step for the Kholong Chhu project but a monumental leap...
View ArticleOf Coins & Postage Stamps
For those of you who are interested in numismatics, check the following out:http://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2015/12/Singapore-Mint-issues-2016-Year-of-the-Monkey-coins-for-Bhutan.1.htmlBhutan...
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