Issue #347

May 4-10, 2007

Headline

Editorial

Good news and bad news

Good news and bad news

WALKLEY The good news is that the media rights group Reporters without Borders has removed Gyanendra and Prachanda from its 'Predators of Press…

Columns

Bye to a maverick
State Of The State by CK LAL

Bye to a maverick

A passionate businessman with a chip on his shoulder and serious drive

Economy’s up
Economic Sense by ARTHA BEED

Economy’s up

Or is it? And how can we know?

Chancing it
Here And There by DANIEL LAK

Chancing it

Only we can make things better for ourselves

May Day! May Day!
Backside by Ass

May Day! May Day!

Not since the slaughter of 256 rare African parakeets has our cow pasture-turned-international airport seen a week as eventful as this. First,…

Nation

The wild west

The wild west

The Maoist attack on a border police post was to protect a lucrative timber smuggling interests

RAMESWOR BOHARA in BANKE

Interview

Leisure

South face solo

South face solo

This month, a Swiss climber will attempt to finish a treacherous route on Annapurna I

BILLI BIERLING

A thief’s tale

A thief’s tale

THOMAS SCHROM The start of Studio 7s production of Habib Tanvir's The Honest Thief is dramatic enough. "Truth is divine. divine is the truth.…

A delicate imagination

A delicate imagination

"I express through water colours the soul of a flower," says Neera Joshi Pradhan, who is perhaps Nepal's only botanical artist. Pradhan's solo…

Moving Target

Happenings

From The Nepali Press

RIP

RIP

Himal Khabarpatrika, 29 April-14 May

Crimefighters

Ram Charan Choudhary, Maoist MP Himal Khabarpatrika, 29 April-14 May

Letters

Letters - Issue #347: NEW ORDER

NEW ORDER Ashraf Ghani says that the intelligence and experience of Nepalis' need to be used ('New order', guest column, #346). Right on. What…

In this issue:

On your marks... |Good news and bad news |Editorial: Bye to a maverick |Getting doctors to stay |Economy’s up |Sick politics |Crimefighters |RIP |South face solo |Terror in |The wild west |The history at the end of history |Mixed bag |The curse of ideology |Chancing it |Backside: May Day! May Day!