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…
23 March 2015: Figures obtained from Nepal’s labour ministry indicate that the death toll of Nepalese migrant workers in Qatar increased since the tiny Arab nation won the FIFA World…
By Graham Ashton The internet. The most defining technological accomplishment of the past half century, perhaps. A powerful force for good – online information flow has changed the world, spreading…
The below catalogue of crimes and the accompanying punishments currently trending in the social media alleyways of the Indian subcontinent sums up what a vast number of Indians are saying…
By Prakash Humagain Nepal’s Maoist leaders are now at imminent risk of prosecution while visiting countries that are obligated to arrest perpetrators of human rights violations under laws that call…
Did you know that it was two men from Australia, a country with no real mountains, who changed the way people climb Mt Everest for ever? On 3 October 1984,…
By Safwat Zargar Reflections on the life of Maqbool Bhat through the anatomy of a house. During a trip to North Kashmir’s Kupwara district in late March last year, I, along…
By Krandan Chapagain in Kathmandu British Gurkhas, or Nepalis that serve in the British Army, have refused the offer of ‘special citizenship’ in the new constitution of Nepal and have…
