Sirisena: as culpable as Rajapaksa
On the surface, Sri Lanka and Nepal don’t have much in common except that they are both members of the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC), a bloc of…
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The Nepali drug boss who supplied heroin to Bali Nine
Little does Australia’s Nepalese community know that at the heart of the life and death situation facing Bali Nine members Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan was a notorious Nepalese called…
Bhutanese refugees embrace change in land of the lucky
By Esther Nimmo It was the second time I had travelled back to Nepal without leaving the city of Adelaide. I pulled up in front of Indra Adhikari’s house in…
International students contributed $15.7 billion to Australian economy in 2014
Despite a massive negative publicity in 2009 when there were few instances of attacks on Indian students, Australia’s export income from international students has shown steady growth. Official figures indicate that those…
Banished and excluded: the Girmit of Fiji
By Rajendra Prasad The story of how the Empire’s forgotten slaves overcame the political legacy of colonialism. In 1975, Sakeasi Butadroka, an indigenous Fijian nationalist politician, moved a motion in…
