All the king’s (new) men
The reshuffle proves King Gyanendra is not deviating from his roadmap
RAJENDRA DAHAL
December 9-15, 2005
Headline
Editorial
Reshuffling the pack
The king has tried to buy time by falling back on his father's favourite trick of reshuffling the deck. There seems to have been an effort to…
Columns
Nepalipan by RITA THAPA
Letter from Doti
Things are so bad, even restoring peace is not enough any more
Herojig by
Herojig - Issue #276
Guest Column by PREM JUNG THAPA
Breakthrough or betrayal?
Being in love with the Maoists can be more dangerous to Nepali democracy than being at war with them
State Of The State by CK LAL
An uncertain centre
Active monarchists are restive because they have realised Nepalis are not docile anymore
Strictly Business by ASHUTOSH TIWARI
Crazy as a strategy
Nobel winner Thomas Schelling voiced this theory that might be relevant to Nepal
Tee Break by DEEPAK ACHARYA
Golf mega month
Surya Nepal Masters, the country's largest pro sport event, runs 13-17 December
Under My Hat by KUNDA DIXIT
Nepal sweeps Conde Nasty Traveller Awards 2005
Just as we were all about to give up on Nepal comes the happy news that three of the country's tourist spots were voted among the World's Top 75…
Nation
Celine and Sabine
Police have few leads on the suspected murders of two European women on Nagarjun
DHRUBA SIMKHADA
Interview
Stability first to avoid humanitarian crisis
The British aid ministry, DfID, is pumping ?32 million into Nepal this year, making it the kingdom's largest donor. It continues to implement…
Review
Sports
Happenings
Happenings - Issue #276: TASHI DELEK
TASHI DELEK: Foreign Minister Ramesh Nath Pandey welcoming the Chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region of China Chamba Phuntsok at Tribhuban…
Nepali Society
Faces of hope
British artist Jan Salter made the transformation from pure painter to activist a decade ago when she first started painting the faces of Nepali…
From The Nepali Press
The toon school
How cartoonists in the Nepali language press see the party-rebel pact and other issues
Business Briefs
Golf biz
Surya Nepal is sponsoring the 12th edition of the Surya Nepal Masters golf tournament, 13-17 December. Held at Le Meridien Kathmandu Gokarna…
New Products
Luxury cigarettes: Surya Nepal has launched the Surya Classic, a 97-mm “luxury cigarette”. Containing a unique blend of handpicked golden…
Hydro heroics
A Nepal hydro project is one of three winners of the 2005 UNESCO International Hydropower Association (IHA) Blue Planet Prize for excellence.…
Garment sales slide
The main market for garments, Nepal's largest foreign currency earner, continued to disappoint in October. Exports to the United States…
Anniversary earnings
Sanima Development Bank Ltd celebrated its first birthday on Monday by announcing a plan to boost its paid up capital to Rs 320 million…
Letters
Pact
CK Lal's 'Precursors to peace' (State of the State, #275) is pretentious. By defending the political parties and western-bred ideas Lal and…
No moonies here
It was astonishing to see Nepali newspapers praise Sun Myung Moon, a fundamentalist of the 'Unification Church'. Some newspapers even said 'Dr…
Negative
Jemima Sherpa's Guest Column ('Between Mugabe and Shwe', #274) rang true. The outside world has a very negative image of what is happening in…
Diaspora
The Nepali Times keeps using the word 'diaspora' to describe overseas Nepalis. But the word originally referring to the exiled Jews cannot be…
Drucker
Not sure where Ashutosh Tiwari got the information ('Homage to Drucker', #274) that 'tenured professors at top-tier US business schools do not…
Expedition
After reading 'Turf war wrecks expedition' (#275) the question arises why a program with such a positive mission was done without legal…
Correction
Due to an editorial error in the hardcopy edition, the quote of the week attributed to Dipak Gyawali (#276) was from an earlier issue of Nepal…
In this issue:
All the king’s (new) men | Reshuffling the pack | Editorial: Breakthrough or betrayal? | An uncertain centre | Letter from Doti | Stability first to avoid humanitarian crisis | Crazy as a strategy | Empowering bilateral trade | Stoned | The prince’s move | ICU closed | Disband RCCC | Global warning for the Himalaya | Get ‘Experienced’ | Celine and Sabine | War and peace | Come see the big one | Tusker trophy | Nepal sweeps Conde Nasty Traveller Awards 2005