Project Yeti
By Kathy Graham 15 June 2017 It sounds like a quest to locate the ever-elusive abominable snowman in the lofty Himalayas. In fact, Project Yeti describes the work of one…
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Has Everest’s iconic Hillary Step really collapsed? Here’s the science
By Mike Searle, University of Oxford 29 May 2017 The Hillary Step, a rocky outcrop at 8,770m, just beneath the summit of Everest (8,850m), has finally succumbed to gravity and partially…
Shesh and Jamuna Ghale merely $353 million shy of joining billionaires club but the philanthropic couple is in no hurry
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 27 May 2017 The only Nepalese couple to appear consecutively in the BRW Rich 200 List over the past eight years is mere $353 million shy…
Two years after the earthquake, why has Nepal failed to recover?
By Hemant Ojha, UNSW; Eileen Baldry, UNSW, and Krishna K. Shrestha, UNSW 13 May 2017 Two years after the devastating earthquakes that struck Nepal, the country is struggling to bounce back.…
Are you a Nepali expatriate minus the momo-making skills? Learn it off an Aussie mum!
By Utsab KC, Adelaide 20 April 2017 “I think we should open a momo take-away!” “Yes! That’s what I was thinking! It will be a huge success!” “Momo could be the…
Former poker machine addict who lost over $200,000 in five years says it’s possible to quit and rebuild life
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 26 February 2017 He was not a millionaire but he surely spent like one, withdrawing not a hundred or two but thousands of dollars at one…
What’s the point of sex? It’s good for your physical, social and mental health
By The act of penetrative sex has evolved over millions of years as a mechanism to deliver sperm to eggs and initiate pregnancy. But there’s more to sex than just…
Mental health the biggest casualty of Nepal earthquake
By Shiva Raj Mishra & Vishnu Khanal, Perth 6 January 2016 Nepal has one of the lowest number of psychiatrists per 100,000 population. According to a World Health Organisation report…
That Sydney of 1975 where it took Indra Ban a year to find another Nepali
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 3 January 2017 Although they come from a small country, the population of Nepali-speaking Australians isn’t small any more. Census 2006 put their strength at nearly twenty five thousand…
Nepali Australians, the highest contributors to Nepal earthquake funds, want “Australia” prominently mentioned at Laprak Model Village
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 7 November 2016 The one million plus dollars that NRNA Australia sent to Nepal in the aftermath of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake last year must play…
Melbourne woman’s mission to raise $84,000 so that a bunch of Kathmandu kids can have a safe school
13October 2016: A young Melbourne woman, who was in Nepal months before the devastating earthquake, is doing everything she can to provide a safer and modern learning environment to a bunch of underprivileged…
Living in Kathmandu: “Sometimes I feel as if my lungs are getting stuffed with dirt…. It’s suffocating”
By Shiva Raj Mishra, Perth 26 September 2016 Shristi Bhochhibhoya lives in Kathmandu, home to some five million people. She has fond memories of her early days as she grew up…
Death of Tamakoshi-3: How Nepal lost A$ 2.15 billion due to ‘unfriendly bureaucracy’ and Indian blockade
By Ram Khatry Experts including Nepal’s award-winning former finance minister say Oli Government’s loss of credibility, a notoriously unfriendly bureaucracy and India’s blockade on the landlocked country are some key reasons that…
NRN movement in Australia: Lacklustre NCC, negligible member base and petty politics
By Ram Khatry …
Nepal’s heritage sites on shaky ground after devastating quake
6 June 2015 11:12 PM AEST: Against the backdrop of Nepal’s humming capital of Kathmandu, in a centre just off Durbar Square, it would be difficult to miss the elderly woman smiling…
Nepal: Psychological first aid helps Nepalese rebuild their lives
By msf.org 1 June 2015 10:42 PM AEST: In the first earthquake that hit Nepal on 25 April, people lost their loved ones, their homes and their belongings. Despite the massive destruction,…
India and China move closer as Modi tours ‘Act East’ policy
By Jiye Kim This past week, Narendra Modi has visited China (May 14-16), Mongolia (May 17) and South Korea (May 18-19). The Indian prime minister’s tour has demonstrated his nation’s…
Earthquake orphans: what Nepal can learn from Haiti
By Kate van Doore 19 May 2015 10:59 PM AEST: Following the earthquake in 2010, Westerners flocked to Haiti to “rescue” orphaned and lost children. The “rescue” included the evacuation of children…
Search-and-rescue worker looks back on ‘intense,’ rewarding deployment in quake-hit Nepal
8 May 2015 – As international search-and-rescue teams start wrapping up their activities in Nepal following the Government’s decision to call off ground operations there, Dewey Perks, a rescue worker…
Helicopters bring more journalists than food: Channel Kaanchha of Barpak
by ram khatry 6 May 2015 10:42 AM AEST: Four to five helicopters land at Barpak everyday creating an impression to an outsider that the hard-hit people of the ground zero of the…
