Issue #530

December 3-9, 2010

Headline

Long road ahead

Long road ahead

BIJAY KUMAR MAHATO/RSS Travellers between Birganj and Raxaul make use of local transportation

Editorial

Credit where it's due

Just over a year ago, Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, for her work on economic governance relating especially to the…

Columns

Mission impossible
Plain Speaking by PRASHANT JHA

Mission impossible

Can the Maoists live with not getting everything they want?

Special treatment
Politically Cracked by INDU NEPAL

Special treatment

The 'youth' of Nepal should ask to be treated like adults instead of seeking special protection

Quickie-leaks from KTM
Backside by Ass

Quickie-leaks from KTM

If Prof S D Muni says Chairman Awesome is not really anti-Indian, we have to believe him. And if Muni is right then it means PKD has been lying…

Nation

Re-generation

Re-generation

Mingma Norbu Sherpa Memorial Scholarship helps educate a new generation of environmentalists

RUBEENA MAHATO

Interview

Stopping forced labour

Stopping forced labour

The International Labour Organization's Caroline O'Reilly talks about the organisation's work and labour issues in Nepal

Life Times

Medical marvel

Medical marvel

This story of the rescue of a three-year-old girl, who fell into an icy pond in a little village in the Austrian Alps, defies belief. The…

DHANVANTARI by BUDDHA BASNYAT, MD

International

India or China?

India or China?

China has been able to move faster to boost its economy, but its authoritarian advantage will not endure

JAGDISH BHAGWATI

Tourism

Good business

Good business

Nepali tourist enterprises are discovering that business can be good in every sense of the word

KATY WILLIAMS

From The Nepali Press

False consensus

False consensus

Interview with KP Oli, Standing Committee member of UML, in Chhalphal, 28 November

Biz Brief

New products

Economic dealsTeletalk has launched Colors Mobile's X9 Feather. The model is a full touchscreen business phone that supports Dual GSM cards. X9…

Letters

In this issue:

Editorial:Mission impossible | Stopping forced labour | Re-generation | Bring home the sunshine | Medical marvel | Plastic out, students in | Special treatment | India or China? | Good business | False consensus | Maoist resolution | Welcome Ostrom! | Minister gets home | Disgraceful game | Backside: Quickie-leaks from KTM