Home improvement
Overseas Nepalis meet in Kathmandu, but will they invest in the motherland?
NAVIN SINGH KHADKA
October 10-16, 2003
Headline
Editorial
Centre to centrestage
Paradoxically, the unilateral ceasefire declared by the Maoists has turned out to be unilateral in an unexpected way. It was the government side…
Columns
State Of The State by CK LAL
Homecoming
We should deal with overseas Nepalis with rationalism, not nationalism
Here And There by DANIEL LAK
The real foreign hand
The real foreign interference in Nepal is by market-fundamentalist international financial institutions.
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED
Bipalis in Motherland
Overseas Nepalis are here to see how they can help.
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
The joys of trekking
A trek is a highly recommended past-time, which is by definition a unique and rewarding mountain holiday in which you will come face to face…
Nation
"Like a crow in fog."
Royal Nepal 409 to Hong Kong was just airborne from Kathmandu Thursday morning at 9:48 when Captain GP Rijal noticed the digital navigation…
Storm over Doramba
Two months after the massacre, the Royal Nepali Army and the National Human Rights Commission are still arguing about the real story.
MANJUSHREE THAPA
"Being American doesn’t erase Nepal from our minds."
United States Sharda Thapa, 55, works as a freelance consultant for US-based businesses and is the founder member of the Association of Nepalis…
Carrying Nepal on their backs
Porters are the Tata trucks of Nepal's trekking routes and form the backbone of our tourism industry. Yet these unsung heroes are given little of the credit they deserve.
BEN AYERS
Interview
"We have to forge a win-win situation"
Bhim Udas-coordinator Overseas Nepalis conference in Kathmandu.
History
Book Worm
Credit & Culture - A Substantivist Perspective on Credit and Relations in Nepal
Credit & Culture: A Substantivist Perspective on Credit and Relations in Nepal Michel M?hlich Reimer, 2001 Rs 2,500 The analysis concentrates on…
The Great Indian Dream- Restoring pride to a nation betrayed.
The Great Indian Dream: Restoring pride to a nation betrayed. Malay Chaudhuri, Arindam Chaudhuri Macmillan, 2003 Rs 472 This book not only…
Technology
Fontastic Nepali
The standardisation of Nepali Unicode will revolutionise the way we use computers.
VIBEK RAJ MAURYA
From The Nepali Press
Domestic Brief
Student scoop
Pranav Budhathoki, a Nepali student at London Metropolitan University uncovered a notorious ring of criminals exploiting illegal immigrants by…
A yen for education
For many years Japan supported the Basic and Primary Education Program (BPEP), now it has tacked on an extra Rs 458,293,000 to implement the…
Still they come
Despite the bad press in the international media, Nepal registered yet another robust growth in tourist numbers in September compared to last…
Mountain highs
The Everest Golden Jubilee celebration earlier this year appears to have worked as far as promoting Nepal's mountain tourism is concerned.…
Talking poverty
Autumn seems to be the season of choice for conferences: our own NRN, the APEC in Thailand and now the Second Regional Conference on Poverty…
Letters
State of the state
As a foreigner who has lived and worked in Nepal for three years between 1998-2002, I applaud the sentiments expressed by CK Lal in 'Time to get…
Italics
The Nepali Times is a well-designed newspaper, and certainly one with the most thoroughly done layout and typography I know in Nepal. I take a…
No Spirit
The interview with the manager in Nepal for Seagram ('The spirit of the thing', #162) looked like a paid advertisement. Yes, alcohol is not…
Vegetarian
After reading Sraddha Basnyat's 'A vegetarian Dasai' (#164) I want to thank her for the message about vegetable foods. In my opinion,…
In this issue:
Home improvement | Centre to Centrestage | Editorial: Homecoming | For king and country | Storm over Doramba | The real foreign hand | Being American doesn't erase Nepal from our minds. | Nepal should take advantage of us. | There is a role for us. | We have to forge a win-win situation | Bipalis in Motherland | Carrying Nepal on their backs | Porters in distress | Weight of the world | Wither the donor dollar? | Migrant headache | Positive thinking | I can't be happy anymore | A constitutional monarchy is also a monarchy. | Fontastic Nepali | The joys of trekking