Issue #91

Nepalis in Thai jails are homesick, hopeless, and abandoned by their motherland.

A spinal injury changed Nancy Sherpa's life. Once an athlete and "very active mom", she now has to watch every move she makes, even the small…

Blue seas, great food, exotic ports--and speak Nepali.

Getting tough on corruption is good. But who watches the watchdog?

The following letter was written by Puskar KC, who is serving a 50 year jail sentence in Bangkok's Bangkwang prison with 12 other Nepali inmates.

Suraj Vaidya-President of the Vaidya's Organisation of Industries and Trading Houses

Saturday afternoon fever in Thamel, and a dancing monk.

Kedar Sharma

The Annapurna and Everest trails benefit, as trekkers pull out of remote areas.

The Chief of Army Staff Prajwalla Sumshere Rana paused after pinning the first star on the shoulders of Dr Radha (Shah) KC, and said to her: "I…

Nepal Samacharpatra, 21 April

Yubaraj Ghimire in Kantipur, 23 April 23, 2002

Aruna Uprety in Rajdhani, 19 April

Interview with Dr Baburam Bhattarai in Jana Awaj, 9 April

We may yet turn into a nation of bounty hunters. The government has offered rewards ranging from one to five million rupees for anyone who nabs…

Security forces from the US Pacific Command left this week after visiting Rolpa and Gorkha to assess military needs. Five earlier missions…

The state Mint has decided to purchase a security-printing machine to print bank cheques and postal stamps in Nepal. Officials say they expect…

The Janak Education Materials Centre will begin publishing English-language textbooks in all subjects taught in grades five through 10. This is…

Last month ministers were engaged in catfights over who took a Rs 200,000 bribe. Pokhara-based industrialist Hari Prasad Pandey, minister for…

The Royal Nepal Army has inadvertently let out what kind of arms the Maoists have captured from their Ghorahi, Mangalsen and Satbaria raids. The…

Last week the Syakar Company Ltd, which brings Honda town cars to Nepal, launched its state-of-the-art showroom, sales and spares facility at…

Close on the heels of other developers, the MS Group launched a new housing scheme last week within the Ring Road in Lalitpur. The housing…

Nepal and India have agreed to lay down a fibre-optic cable along the east-west Mahendra Highway across the entire length of Nepal. Under the…

The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has approved a package to subsidise domestic airlines flying to remote airfields. The plan…

Samsonite Nepal is planning to set up a manufacturing facility in Nepal to serve the Indian market, and take advantage of the free-trade regime…

"A blink or a wink" by Ramyata Limbu (#90) shows this is a prevalent problem here. I myself have been a victim of sexual harassment, and know…

Re: CK Lal's "Fatalism, capitalism and altruism" (#89). What has happened to us along the way? Have we become so self-absorbed and selfish that…

Interesting piece by Eric Steffens on the Keshar Mahal birdlife (“The return of the egrets,” #90). I hope it will give the restorers of the…

When a "great country" denied a visa to my brother, even though he was a senior government official and had a wife and four children in Nepal,…

Thank you for highlighting mayor Keshav Sthapith (“Mr Establishment,” #90). If we had only ten leaders like him, Nepal would be in much better…

I chanced upon Kunda Dixit's "'Sup dudes?" (#89) on the net. Could not make head or tail of it. Was he trying to make a point? What was it? And…