On the joyous occasion of His Majesty the King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk’s 33rd birth anniversary, the People’s Democratic Party joins the nation in offering our deepest respects, heartfelt felicitations and prayers for His Majesty’s long life and a long prosperous reign. Long Live the Druk Gyalpo! Bhutan has been blessed with a succession of [...]
I am guilty. My last post was on November 23. That means that I have not updated my blog for about two and half months – 79 days to be exact. That’s a long break. I took the break to collect my thoughts. I also took the break to focus on party matters – to [...]
Social media is amazing. Click on a few buttons, like a page, follow a friend, and, voila!, you know everything that’s going on around you. To politicians, that knowledge is invaluable. It allows them to hear the people, to listen to them, to feel their pulse. But social media has an even bigger gift for [...]
Here’s how I observed International Anticorruption Day yesterday: One, I went through Transparency International’s Corruption Perception index report for 2011. Bhutan is rated 5.7 (10 means perceived to be very clean; 0 means very corrupt) and is ranked a decent 38 out of the 182 countries and territories that were studied. Bhutan’s rating of 5.7 [...]
Dear friends, I’m continuing my tour to the dzongkhags – to congratulate the new local governments, to report on the work of the opposition party, and to discuss what we should focus on during the remainder of our term. I’m in Dagana. Today, after we visit the Impressive Daga Tashi yangtse Dzong, we go to [...]
I have not been able to update this blog – not because I’ve been busy touring our country, but because the data card I use to connect my laptop to the Internet is broken. So while I’ve been able to post updates on Twitter and on Facebook using my cell phone, I have not been [...]
We talked about pensions two years ago. First, we voiced concern that the NPPF pension scheme was sustainable for only 30 years. Then, we discussed the merits of a defined-contribution plan over the existing defined-benefit plan. And then, we expressed alarm that the government was interfering in how our pension scheme was being run. Let’s [...]
We haven’t done this for a while. The first person to get the big picture wins a copy of “Treasures of the Thunder Dragon: A Portrait of Bhutan”.
I just got off the phone with Colin McCowan, popularly known as “Mister Col” by Bhutanese studying in Brisbane, Australia. Col says that he’s in touch with all 25 Bhutanese students in the Brisbane area. And that all of them and their families are safe. The floods have wrecked unimaginable damage in Queensland. So I’m [...]
A friend sent me this. Enjoy …. A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to re-frame or re-interpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect. For this [...]
Tshering Tobgay is a Member of Parliament representing Sombaykha Constitutency in Haa. He is the Leader of the Opposition Party in the National Assembly of Bhutan.
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