Issue #224

December 3-9, 2004

Headline

Blocked artery

Blocked artery

For a month now, western Nepal remains cut off by landmined highways

RAMESWOR BOHARA in BARDIYA

Editorial

Ratify Kyoto

Ratify Kyoto

Many things that urgently need to be done in this country are being sidelined because of the conflict and its attendant crises. In fact, the…

Columns

Fig-leaf elections
State Of The State by CK LAL

Fig-leaf elections

Insisting on polls at any cost may cost us democracy and stability

Gundruk diplomacy
Here And There by DANIEL LAK

Gundruk diplomacy

It's in our interest to keep Big Brothers happy

Naming and shaming
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED

Naming and shaming

Defaulters are defaulters and should be called defaulters

Win-win situation
Tee Break by DEEPAK ACHARYA

Win-win situation

With a few more tournaments, our golfers could be hitting a win

Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT

Survive another breeding season

As you young fellows of reproductive age who have had the pleasure of tying the nuptial knots of holy matrimony this week may have noticed,…

Nation

A war on two fronts

A war on two fronts

The people of Nepal's most AIDS-stricken district struggle with an insurgency and an epidemic

RAMESWOR BOHARA in ACHHAM

Helping people like us

Helping people like us

Ex-addicts at a rehab centre in Pokhara address Nepal's growing drug problem

VINCENT ANDROSIGLIO

Building anew

Building anew

As it inaugurates a new secretariat in Kathmandu this week, ICIMOD renews its commitment to Nepal and the Himalayan region

ABHA ELI PHOBOO

Summiting under a shamiana in Lumbini

Summiting under a shamiana in Lumbini

One reason Nepal was saved from total embarrassment was that there was so little international participation at the world Buddhist summit

KANAK MANI DIXIT in LUMBINI

Interview

Business

Review

Leisure

Mountain movies

Mountain movies

The third Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival opens next week

Nature

"Mt Everest is not melting"

"Mt Everest is not melting"

We asked the people of Khumbu what they think about the campaign by green groups to put Chomolungma on the UNESCO danger list so countries cut carbon emissions

NARESH NEWAR in NAMCHE

Sports

Life in free fall

Life in free fall

Nepal's adventure tourism has another adventure: jump off a bridge and swing

AARTI BASNYAT at the LAST RESORT

Nepali Society

Hi, I’m Jungey

Hi, I’m Jungey

Namaste. I am what they call the Greater One Horned Asian Rhinoceros but people here in Kasara call me Jungey. If you are visiting the Royal…

Happenings

From The Nepali Press

Strategic question mark

Strategic question mark

Five thousand women gathered in Dullu to protest Maoist atrocities, but what are the chances it will spread?

Kishore Nepal in Himal Khabarpatrika, 1-15 December

Closing in

Rukum people's government chief Sharun Banthamagar in Machhapuchhre, 25 November

Business Briefs

Nepal says no

The government has balked at pressure from some donors to divide Bhutani refugees for assimilation in Nepal and immigration to Europe and the…

Cosmic travel

The first private Nepali carrier to fly the Kathmandu-Delhi route began its flights on 1 December. Cosmic Air's Fokker 100, which has…

Everest profits

Based on the first three months ending Aswin 2061 unaudited accounts, Everest Bank Ltd (EBL) has declared that their operating profit has shown…

New Products

Two years of Fedex: Everest De Cargo, licensee of FedEx Express, the world's largest express transportation company held a customer event on 20…

Letters

Lessons not learnt

Your excellent coverage of Nepal's power sector 10 years after the inevitable collapse of the badly planned Arun III ('Ten years after…

Ring Road

Thank you for the revealing piece by Padma Sunder Joshi on the absurdity of having an Outer Ring Road for Kathmandu Valley ('Road to nowhere',…

Fungification

In your last editorial ('The world is watching us', #222) you say: 'They want to revisit the commitments made at the Nepal Development Forum to…

Lak

Daniel Lak tells us that the 'America's Christian fundamentalist right' are the equivalent of 'the Islamist movement up to and perhaps just shy…

In this issue:

Blocked artery | Ratify Kyoto | Editorial: Indifferent to differences | Fiig -leaf elections | A war on two fronts | Gundruk Diplomacy | Helping people like us | Why Nepal needs Kyoto | Better late than never anew | " Mt Everest is not melting" | Building anew | Summiting under a shamiana | Our pilots are being pirated | Naming and shaming | It's a jungle out there | Iraq's silent dead | Voodoo economics | Strategic question mark | Bhoteskoshi | Comrade Umesh | Reinstating issue | Closing in | Maoist Makalu | Ranger in actions | 62 cups of tea and tales of war | Win- win situation | Life in free fall | " It's a WTO vs WHO" | Mountain Movies | Hi, I'm Jungey | Survive another breeding season