COMMERCIAL CRIMES ON THE CLIMB IN REMOTE BHUTAN
November 1st, 2009
BY KENCHO WANGDI
NESTLED against the Himalayas, Bhutan was one of the last oases of isolation, untouched by commercialism and capitalism. But in the last decade, things have changed, and Bhutan has embraced all the joys of the modern world - and the crime. Kencho Wangdi reports from the Bhutan capital, Thimphu.
UNTIL recently, commercial crime was unheard of in Bhutan, a tiny Himalayan nation the size of Switzerland. Bhutan citizens did not even know the term. Bhutan slowly opened its doors to the outside world from the 1960s; until then it had existed in ...
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