Bhutan
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20 April 2024
What exactly is National Land Use Zoning?
National Land Use Zoning (NLUZ) is a comprehensive framework that serves as a strategic guide for managing and optimising the utilisation of land resources across the country. This systematic approach involves recognising current land use patterns, re-…
4 February 2023
The natural water cycle is impacted by buildings and sealed surfaces generating stormwater and altering natural water flow. This stormwater from urban centers is loaded with pollutants often serving as a conduit transferring the pollutant into natural water bodies. Stormwater causing local flooding…
15 December 2022
Bhutan’s is the first carbon-negative country in the world.
Bhutan’s government is keen to ensure that the country’s urbanisation doesn’t lead to a huge increase in carbon emissions or come at the expense of its forests.
Initially, three climate smart breakthrough pilot projects will be built…
18 November 2022
Agriculture development seems to be picking pace only on paper. There are various plans and programmes but the overall production rate seems to be decreasing.
In this context, MP for Sarpang, Anand Rai’s question about decreasing cereal production in the National Council session on November 16 is…
14 October 2022
SC asked landowners to restitute the land they bought to the State
The 18 landowners whose land ownership will be cancelled following the Supreme Court’s verdict say they are denied justice and victimised because of the failure of State machinery.
The landowners, including some drangpons, bought…
27 June 2022
The National Assembly (NA) on June 24 adopted the Forest and Nature Conservation Bill of Bhutan 2021 with 38 ‘Yes’, and two “ No” votes and two abstained.
Chairperson of the Environment and Climate Change Committee, Gyem Dorji, said that the Act, which was enacted in 1995, was not amended for more…
11 May 2022
Nairobi/Rome, le 11 mai 2022. Alors que la guerre en Ukraine fait grimper les prix des aliments, des carburants et des engrais à des niveaux record et menace la sécurité alimentaire dans bon nombre des pays les plus pauvres du monde, le Fonds international de développement agricole (FIDA), un…
24 February 2022
The new law is a tool for Beijing to further expand its sovereignty into its neighbors’ domains.
A new Land Border Law, which China adopted amid heightened tensions with its neighbors, has raised concerns over its implications for border disputes.
The law aims to “resolutely defend [China’s]…
China’s new Land Border Law may legitimise use of civilian settlements to make territorial claims ()
27 November 2021
China’s new land border law that recently grabbed headlines apparently seeks to legitimise its use of the civilian settlement to support territorial claims along its disputed boundaries with India and Bhutan.
There have been reports about China building villages in areas it illegally occupied in…
14 August 2021
Khamdang-Ramjar Member of Parliament (MP) Kuenga Loday has been sentenced to five years in prison by the Trashiyangtse dzongkhag court yesterday for illegal construction of a road in a restricted area.
The court also sentenced his brother, the Khamdang Mangmi, Sangay Tempa to four years and three…
2 August 2021
Many look beyond the city for land
Short of money to renovate her ancestral house in Punakha, a villager in Babesa sold 50 decimals of her wetland. With Nu 3,000 a decimal, it was a good deal in 1996 when construction on wet land was not allowed. The land, which a Thimphu hotelier bought then had…
25 November 2020
Sandwiched between China and India, the tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan is feeling the squeeze as its giant neighbours square up for supremacy.
A close ally of India, Bhutan got a shock when China made sudden new claims in the summer - over a wildlife sanctuary in the east of the country, on land…