Nepal activists protest Burma executions
Nepali rights activists this week took to the streets of Kathmandu against the execution of Phyo Zeya Thaw, Kyaw Min Yu (Ko...
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Memories of a country in transition
Yangon Airport sprawled before us, swallowing two women, B and me. There were only so many flights and only so many passengers,...
Asia’s new Cold War
The recent coup in Burma is a stark reminder that the future of democracy in South East and South Asia faces a treacherous path ahead. Although...
Kathmandu remembers Aung San Suu Kyi
Burma is in the news again with this week’s military coup, and Nepalis who had known Aung San Suu Kyi during visits...
The atom bomb saved my life
They ate rats with rotten rice, were ravaged by malaria and beaten by their Japanese captors. Only four of the 300 Nepali...
Lumbini Museum exhibition in Burma
President Bidya Devi Bhandari concluded her four-day state visit to Burma on 19 October by inaugurating an exhibition on Lumbini, a UNESCO...
The new normal
It does not matter who advised Prime Minister K P Oli about attending the dubious Asia-Pacific Summit in Kathmandu last week organised...
Nepal and Burma delay, dilute and deny justice
Nepal’s flourishing diversity of ethnicities, languages and cultures and its socio-cultural closeness to Burma made me feel at home as soon as...
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