Issue #19

Hotel unions and owners are on a collision course, and the impact could shatter Nepal's tourism industry

The Ring Road can be developed and protected through com-munity participation. Shanti Thapa of Maharajgunj has done it.

The benign weather is lulling us into believing that aside from the garbage and the traffic, things are still pretty much what they once were.

The Valley's main artery has been slashed at several places, but no one seems to care.

atan's temple to Balkumari is beautifully located on the outskirts of the town. The city hasn't reached it yet, and the track that leads to it,…

Purna Bahadur Vaidya has written over a twenty-year period 84 poems in Nepal Bhasa: La La Kha (Water is Water: a collection of 84 poems…

Nepal's football fraternity waits as the match moves into extra time.

Go to the Bhote Kosi from 1-3 December for the annual Nepali River Festival

what's a lovingly restored 18th-century palace doing with a spectacular collection of rare artefacts from Tibet, India and the western Himalaya?…

Giving a building that has outlived its original purpose a new lease on life is a way of utilising a cultural heritage resource for the benefit…

The latest translocation operation is aimed at creating a third viable population of the greater one-horned rhinoceros in Nepal.

ashmina Ranjit paints for women's causes. Last year she portrayed feminine characters in her installations. This year it is sexuality-female…

hey say you have to give in order to receive. Regardless of size, the first earning of the day of Easy Link Cyber Caf? in Thamel goes to a fund…

Saptahik Nepalipatra, 25 November

Jana Ahwan, 24 November

Saptahik Bimarsa, 24 November

Drishti, 28 November.

Drishti, 28 November

Shree Ruprekha, 29 November

A Xinhua report from Beijing last week said Mount Everest is shrinking as a result of global warming. Scientists from the Chinese State Bureau…

A year after the government threw out 640 smoke-belching diesel three-wheelers from the streets of Kathmandu, it has decided on a blanket ban on…

Doctors say Hepatitis B, the "silent killer", is becoming a major problem, with 200 new liver cancer patients being added every year. The…

It appears that another deal by the Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation (RNAC) may be terminated after a sub-committee of the parliament's Public…

The Nepal Rastra Bank has prepared an 18-point strategy which includes prescriptions for the financial sector and relates to its own supervision…

The Vishal Group Limited-promoters of Nepal Industrial and Commercial Bank, among others-and India's Life Insurance Corporation have joined…

A new controversy has clouded the Arun-III hydroelectricity project, with the government blaming EurOrient for not paying Rs 40.2 million as…

Himal Power Limited (HPL) officials have ruled out a renegotiation of the power purchase agreement with the Nepal Electricity Authority, arguing…

The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has decided to charge about 130,000 residents living on the main thoroughfares a fee for collecting household…

This is in reference to the item "Future of KMTNC bleak" (From the Nepali Press, #17) which was translated and reproduced from Deshantar. It…

Enjoyed reading the brilliant editorial (Al and W, #16) on the US election fiasco. I especially liked the punch-line: "The world has too much at…

I read the article by Jan Salter about Ujeli ("Ujeli", #18). The organisation and the people involved are to be commended for their help to…

Thank you for highlighting the impending hotel strike ("DEADLOCK", #18). It looks like neither the politicised unions nor the hotel owners care…

Thank you for printing the excellent expose by Hem Bahadur Bista on the plunder of northern Humla ("Nepali timber to Tibet", #17). The…