Healthy progress
Nepal's maternal mortality rate has dropped from 850 per 100,000 live births twenty years ago to 280 today.
July 8-14, 2011
Headline
Editorial
A healthy majority
"Health reform makes health care more affordable, expands coverage to all citizens and makes our health system sustainable." That was US…
Columns
By The Way by ANURAG ACHARYA
Cooperating with cooperatives
The government's plans and polices, as polices and plans go, are actually quite workable
My Two Paisa by PAAVAN MATHEMA
Staying out of business
The government needs to take a proactive role to encourage SMEs
Chalo Dilli by JYOTI MALHOTRA
India and the 'hood
Manmohan Singh doesn't seem to think there is much to worry about in Nepal, Bhutan or Maldives
Backside by Ass
Shahi Nepal Bayuseba Nigum
Nepal's national airline was flying high as long as the country was an absolute monarchy. As soon as we got a constitutional king in 1990 it…
Nation
No home delivery
Despite war, poverty and political instability Nepal's maternal mortality rate has dropped from 800 per 100,000 live births 20 years ago to 280…
DAMBAR KRISHNA SHRESTHA in BARDIYA
Do hospitals have to be so expensive?
Dhulikhel and Chhetrapati hospitals show the way in making health care affordable to all Nepalis
ELIPHA PRADHANANGA in DHULIKHEL
Birkha Dai's clinic
Birkha Bahadur Rokaya (pictured) walks off the trail to where a fallen tree branch has clogged a stream, causing water to form a puddle on the…
ABHAYA SHRESTHA in MUGU
Interview
Back to the village
Nepali Times spoke to Surender Bhandari, the CEO of Siddhartha Bank, about the challenges and rewards of extending financial services to rural Nepal.
Business
Banking on technology
Dailekh leapfrogs technology to bring banking to rural Nepal
DEWAN RAI in DAILEKH
Review
East meets West
Sukarma performs in La Perriere and makes a former ambassador nostalgic for Nepal
MICHEL JOLIVET
The Lazy Gringo
Real Mexican food is generally an anomaly beyond the Western Hemisphere. Rounds of naan or pita masquerade as tortillas, and sweet, tangy curd…
SOMEPLACE ELSE by MARCO POLLO
Life Times
The greening of Greenland
Book by an Icelandic photographer on how climate change is affecting the livelihoods of the inhabitants of the Arctic Circle has lessons for the Himalaya
Nick Simons Institute
When the friendly 22-year-old American Nick Simons (pictured) arrived in Kathmandu in 2002 he worked for an NGO in the hydropower sector. In…
DHANVANTARI by BUDDHA BASNYAT, MD
From The Nepali Press
"Agree on what can be done now?", Naya Patrika
Interview with Mani Shankar Aiyar of the Indian National Congress, 2 July
Biz Brief
Business happenings of the week
Flying greenYeti Airlines partnered with Tiger Mountain Karnali Lodge & Camp to plant 3500 tree saplings in Bindrapuri Madhyapur community…
In this issue:
Healthy progress | Editorial: A healthy majority | Cooperating with cooperatives | Banking on technology | Staying out of business | The greening of Greenland | Nick Simons Institute | India and the hood | No home delivery | Do hospitals have to be so expensive? | Birkha Dai’s clinic | “Agree on what can be done now…” | Who is next? | Integration not an issue | Backside: Shahi Nepal Bayuseba Nigum