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Taxation, Then Representation

Bhutan's first GST arrived on 1 January 2026 and the anger followed it. An editorial from the BhutanWiki Editorial Team on the double-taxed transition, the exemption U-turn, the qu…

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The Happiest Country On Earth Is Running Out Of Bhutanese

The Royal Government has just confirmed it will pay families Nu 10,000 a month (around USD 105) for every third child, because the birth rate has collapsed and the young will not s…

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The No Objection State

The state's Toyota monopoly cancelled its first competition with a permission slip. An editorial from the BhutanWiki Editorial Team on data sold at 65 percent over its audited cost…

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The Problem Was Never the Home Care

A magazine investigation has tallied hundreds of millions of Ohio Medicaid dollars paid to home-care companies and grouped the operators by the Nepali surname Adhikari, presenting…

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What If Gelephu Fails?

Gelephu Mindfulness City is a roughly USD 100 billion bet — about thirty times Bhutan's GDP — staked on a single city. An editorial from the BhutanWiki Editorial Team on the scale…

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What Kind of People Gut the Arts?

When the Royal University of Bhutan abolished its Arts and Humanities programmes in 2022–23, it stranded thousands of students and broke its own decentralised charter. An editorial…

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