I was horrified to learn that an oil tanker burst into flames in the BOD’s petrol pump in Samdrup Jongkhar. (Read Bhutan Observer article) The fire was quickly contained, but only after two men had been seriously injured. We’re lucky that the fire didn’t spread to and cause unimaginable damage to the residents of Samdrup [...]
I’m going to the wedding too, remarked my friend, can you tell me where it is? I told him that the happy event was taking place opposite the RSPN’s old office, below the new Norling building in lower Changangkha. My friend’s blank look promoted me to continue: at the Chubachu roundabout take the road to [...]
The double-lane road below Norzin Lam has recently attracted a lot of attention. Dorji Wangchuk, in his blog, complained that he was clueless about the purpose of the “middle road”. And Kuensel questioned government officials why the road was built in the first place. The double-lane road was built to take away Norzin Lam’s vehicular [...]
Last week, Bhutan Times reported that a model town will be built in Denchi, Pema Gatshel (A new town like no other; Bhutan Times; 11 February – I couldn’t find the article on BT’s unfriendly website, so please bear with the numerous quotations). The article quoted our prime minister as announcing that Denchi “… will [...]
I went on a fieldtrip today. I went to Thimphu town. Almost every building has an attic. And almost every attic violates Thimphu’s building regulations. Because they were illegal, earlier attics are discrete. Their builders went to great lengths to hide their attics, to make them look uninhabited. But because the first attics were not [...]
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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