Issue #130

The United States got everyone started into family planning in Nepal 35 years ago.

The UML needs to grow up and see beyond the immediate personal gain of its leaders.

Nepal has become a dynamite stick between two boulders.

Yoshio Ishizaka, executive vice president of Toyota, was in Nepal recently to promote the company, inaugurate a new venture in the capital and…

Nafis Sadik became the UN secretary general's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia

Spring has come to Sundarijal, BP is feeling better. But these lines in English from his prison diary show he is still haunted by forebodings…

A new film that peers under the surface of the Valley's sexual culture.

Both interior and outspoken:

Second in the British Council Short Story (15-18 category)

Durga Lal Shrestha Pasa Puchah Guthi (UK) Rs 200 This anthology of poems by the Kathmandu-born Newar poet speaks eloquently of his experiences…

Bhushan Pathak and Arjun Bhattarai Social Youth Council, 2002 Rs 150 The contents of this slim book covers a wide area that social workers and…

Their interaction in the HimalayasR P Chaudhary, B P Subedi, O R Vetaas and T H Aase (ed) Tribhuvan University, Nepal and University of Bergen,…

A fresh new look at Nepal's fresh water, with the message: no wetlands, no water.

Three decades after taking part in an expedition that climbed the southwest face of Sagarmatha (and 50 years after the world's highest peak was…

Special Editorial in Kantipur, 27 January

Mulyankan, #103

Rajdhani, 30 January

Annapurna Post, 26 January Ujjwal Neupane

Chinese ambassador Wu Cong Yong in Spacetime , 30 January

No, it's not what you think. This is the Nepal pavilion constructed at the Hannover World Expo 2000 in Germany which is an exact replica of the…

There was not a dry eye at the funeral of the late IGP of the Armed Police Force Krishna Mohan Shrestha and his wife Nudup Shrestha, ruthlessly…

Foreign countries have generally welcomed the dramatic ceasefire announcements by the Maoists and government. An Indian Embassy statement said…

Nepali students in Minnesota have set a noble example by contributing towards their motherland at a time of crisis: they raised nearly $ 2,000…

Tobacco and alcohol might mean plenty of revenue but Dr Upendra Devkota appears unmoved by that particular argument. As Nepal's Health Minister,…

Despite gloom and doom, the World Bank sees some silver linings in the Nepali clouds. It's progress report on the Nepal Country Assistance…

The 2002 Human Development Report South Asia published this week by the Mahbub ul Haq Development Centre confirms what we knew all along: South…

My name is Pradeep and after reading the obituary for Krishna Mohan Shrestha on your online edition I wanted to write a few words of tribute.…

Amy Chua's highly over-rated book is reviewed rather uncritically by Daniel Lak ("The worst form of government, except all the others" #129).…

Your issue #129 featured two articles that dealt with Nepal joining the WTO and globalisation in general ("An alternative to Davos" and "Three…

I recently read with great interest and not a little misgiving, "One victory at a time" (#126) regarding the various court cases currently…

In your interview with Badri P Shrestha (“There is enough money to finance development” #127) the finance minister brags correctly about his…

There are thousands of homeless, orphaned and starving children in Nepal, and child adoption is one way to take care of them. I can understand a…

Hey ho for wi-fi in Kathmandu, but forget about the middle classes outside of urban Nepal. In places like Solu Khumbu, we're still waiting for…

After using wireless for well over four months now, I wish I could actually do many of the things that Rajib Subba described in "Cableless and…