Watched the BBS interview with Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay tonight! What it failed to do was give due credit to the man himself. As he pledged during the election, he alone got the Nu 15 billion economic stimulus package!

Really looking forward to the slashing of internet rates by 50%.

PM Tshering Tobgay meets members of the creative industries - filmmakers, musicians, singers, textile & fashion designers & digital content creators - to optimize the potential of the creative sector, exploring quick fixes, low hanging fruits & long-term sustainable solutions!

Attracting 300k tourists annually & maintaining that number year after year will require massive promotion & whole new level of marketing. Hoping Tourism Bhutan will meaningfully engage our ever growing talent pool from the creative sector to do some portion of these works!

Symbols, even if they are mere constructs, matter to create meaning & identity! And deconstructing symbols is equally important, if not more, to deepen our understanding of their political, social & cultural relevance in an ever changing, fluid world.

Looks like our "high value, low volume" tourism has been effectively replaced by "low value, low volume" tourism. Foreign tour operators are going with the lowest bidder & travel packages to Bhutan are sold at shockingly dirt cheap prices.

Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse's latest film 'Pig at the Crossing', starring talented Kuenzang Norbu (aka Norbs of 'Autumn in Yangtse' fame), will have its virtual world premiere on May 11 across five different time zones. The film was rejected by 30 film festivals.

During his interaction with members of film industry, MOICE minister assured full support to the development of the film sector.

The international bloggers conference is a great idea. After this free junket, international bloggers will go back, make interesting reels and vblogs, and we will get 300k tourists by year end!

Our MPs are underpaid, underused & held accountable every 5 years while the decision making process is hijacked by our bureaucracy. Give more power to MPs, including financial decisions on constituency development & give them bigger cars, bigger than the highest bureaucrat!

Bhutan is the most peaceful country in South Asia and 21st in the global ranking order according to Global Peace Index 2024.

All public service delivery agencies must be rated by the citizens annually, and agency heads and staff must be held accountable if the quality of service(s) falls below a certain threshold! The buck must stop some where!

If the National Assembly Amendment Bill 2024 goes through, MPs will be able to cast a No Confidence Vote against the govt & ministers. A coalition of MPs from ruling, opposition & NC can remove underperforming ministers & even dissolve the govt.

Entitlement & privileges within the civil service is so deeply entrenched & so normalised that nobody even bats an eye when the govt spends millions on big luxe cars for top bureaucrats but the moment MPs talk about it, everyone is quick to jump on them like hungry vultures!

My biggest worry is if everyone is on Tiktok, who's gonna take up nation building? 😎😀

Thimphu streets are teeming with youth openly, quite defiantly, smoking in the public, and many of them are teenagers. All the gains we had achieved with our tobacco law have now gone down the drain! Sad & heartbreaking!

We are seeing the future! #GMC #mindfulnesscity

Sending condolences & prayers to the victims & those affected by the horrific terrorist attack that happened in Pahalgam yesterday. Bhutan strongly condemns such brutal acts of terror & stands firmly with the Government & People of India in solidarity & friendship. Narendra Modi

🇸🇪🇧🇹 On Thursday HM The King of Sweden will hold an audience with HM The King of Bhutan at the Royal Palace in Stockholm