Issue #531

December 10-16, 2010

Headline

Safe landing

Safe landing

GORAKH BISTA Simikot airport, district headquarters of Humla, at 2,900m. Most Nepalis seem to have a common hope – a constitution and the…

Editorial

Step it up

Step it up

KIRAN PANDAY The budget has come and gone, as has the much hyped but ultimately disappointing (for all sides) Maoist plenum. With a flurry of…

Columns

Business reporting 101
Strictly Business by ASHUTOSH TIWARI

Business reporting 101

A CEO's hobbies are no guide to his company's business strategy

Against the wind
My Take by DAMAKANT JAYSHI

Against the wind

Imagining we can influence the relationship between Nepal and China is hubris

Plain Speaking by PRASHANT JHA

Better, not good

The 2006 system is an improvement, but only stands because so many Nepalis have seceded from it

Corruption in the time of cholera
Backside by Ass

Corruption in the time of cholera

The Federal Kleptocratic Republic of Nepal should put in a new bid for Transparency International to reconsider our nation's rankings in the…

Business

Tourism

Manang's memories

Manang's memories

Zdenek and Michal Thoma visited Manang, thirty years apart. Here's what they saw.

MICHAL THOMA

Life Times

The wars within

The wars within

Sri Lankan photojournalist Gemunu Amarasinghe draws attention to the human cost of his country's internal conflict

Preventable poisoning

Preventable poisoning

Limitations need to be placed against organophosphate pesticides

DHANVANTARI by BUDDHA BASNYAT, MD

Green ladies

Green ladies

Eco-friendly initiatives of women groups in Dharan

GREEN SCENE by SITA MADEMBA

International

From The Nepali Press

"We are waiting"

"We are waiting"

Interview with NC President Sushil Koirala in Himal Khabarpatrika, 2-15 December

Biz Brief

Business happenings of the week

Bank of the year Nepal Investment Bank received The Bankers Award-2010 from the Banker Magazine. This is the fourth time that NIBL has been…

Letters

In this issue:

Safe landing | Editorial: Set it up | Better, not good | Yeti comes home | Business reporting 101 | Against the wind | Two cents or nonsense? | Manang's Memories | Preventable poisoning | Green ladies | The wars within | Following the Karnali | “We are waiting” | UNMIN exit | Electric buses wait for permits | Stimulate the green race to tackle climate change | Backside: Corruption in the time of cholera