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BY TENZING LAMSANG IN THIMPHU

BHUTAN is a small Himalayan nation striving to strengthen its financial infrastructure and transparency while pursuing happiness as an economic policy goal for some 710,000 inhabitants living in a parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

For a perspective on progress, Accountancy Futures talked to Jigmi Rinzin, a hugely influential Bhutanese and Asia accountancy voice as: a member of the Bhutanese parliament serving on several economic committees including the Public Accounts Committee (PAC); former chief auditor at Bhutan’s Royal Audit Authority (RAA); and secretary general of the Asia Regional Association of Public Accounts Committees (ARAPAC).…

BY TENZING LAMSANG in BHUTAN

Tenzing Lamsang reports from Bhutan on an ACCA Fellow’s roles in fostering good audit and accounting practice there and throughout Asia.

HE displays a tough streak in combatting fraud, corruption and governmental waste, but also a mellower side in his public service ethic and support for his country’s pursuit of happiness.…

BY TENZING LAMSANG in BHUTAN

JIGMI’S TIPS: WORKING IN BHUTAN

? ACCA, CA and CPA from different bodies globally have equal status in law.

? If an employee, pick an industry you are comfortable with: there is plenty of choice.

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BY TENZING LAMSANG, IN THIMPHU

THE OPENING up of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan to the world through globalisation, and its newly democratic government’s domestic political and economic liberalisation reforms in recent years, has made the tiny state – with a population of fewer than 700,000 – increasingly vulnerable to international money laundering and cross border financial crime.…

BY WANG FANGQING, IN SHANGHAI; AND TENZING LAMSANG, IN THIMPHU, BHUTAN

THE CHINESE government is fighting to contain a fresh outbreak of avian flu virus H5N1 in central China farms, according to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). Cases have been increasing since January, and Beijing has been reassuring meat consumers there is no risk to their health: "The H5N1 virus is only contagious among animals.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI

HYDRO-ELECTRIC power is of critical importance to the tiny landlocked nation Bhutan, hidden deep in the folds of the Himalayas, with economic and military giants China to the north and India to the south. Indeed, its government regards hydropower energy as being instrumental in shifting the country from being recognised by the United Nations as a least developed into an emerging developing country in the south-east Asia.…

Kencho Wangdi

The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is renowned for its untouched mountainous beauty. It is also known for its political innovation: it tobacco sales ban and use of ‘gross national happiness country’ as a yardstick for development. But it may soon become known as a higher education hub of Asia, if current plans go well.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI

THE HIMALAYAN Kingdom of Bhutan recently passed its most rigorous Tobacco Control Bill yet in what some commentators say is a desperate attempt to salvage the country’s image as a tobacco-free nation. The first bill, endorsed in 2004, failed.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE, AHMAD PATHONI, GAVIN BLAIR, RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, WANG FANGQING, HELEN FLUSFELDER, KARRYN MILLER, KEITH NUTHALL and ALAN OSBORN

THE BRITISH writer Oscar Wilde wrote: "A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.…

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.…