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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Cody Hudson got the bugs from his grandfather who used to be a volunteer on rescue missions operating on New Zealand’s highest mountain, the treacherous Mount Cook. The old man’s love…
A careful study of news reports suggests despite widespread knowledge of ‘marriage bureaus’ running bogus operations, Nepali authorities failed to stem the business model of human-traffickers who prey on young…
An acclaimed travel publication of Australia has named Garden of Dreams, the neo classical historical garden in the heart of Kathmandu CBD, as one of top six gardens in the…
