Nepalese students contribute $1.6 billion to Australian economy
11 May 2019: Australia’s income from Nepalese international students has been constantly on the rise with data from last financial year showing it has now crossed well over the billion…
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Ex University of Melbourne student is lucky to be alive after troubled 2 days on Mt Annapurna
27 April 2019: A maverick doctor who studied at two Australian universities is lucky to be alive after he ran into life-threatening troubles on Mt Annapurna, one of world’s most…
“Gujarat’s Hitler” Hardik Patel says he would go to Nepal if he ever needed to hire watchmen, “chowkidars”
23 April 2019: In taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chowkidar title, an Indian National Congress (INC) leader has made an extremely upsetting comments against the South Asian…
Sandeep Lamichhane frustrated with the current World Cup set up
24 April 2019: Poster boy of Nepalese cricket, Sandeep Lamichhane, is so frustrated with the current set up of the World Cup that he longs to see the day when…
Sending packages to loved ones in Nepal? Watch how customs sorts your freight in Kathmandu
12 April 2019: A long-time Australian resident purporting to spend some quality time in his country of origin got the shock of his life when he recently witnessed the utter…
Federal Budget 2019: Australia to slash aid budget for Nepal by 42 per cent
3 April 2019: Budget papers show the Australian government has decided to significantly cut down its aid budget for Nepal in the financial year 2019/20. Australia’s estimated aid budget for…
Potential investors urged to use NRNs as the “Sherpas” of investment in Nepal
Ram Khatry I 31 March 2019: Speaking at the closing ceremony of Nepal Investment Summit 2019, Japan-based businessman Bhaban Bhatta has urged potential investors to use non-resident Nepalis as the…
Kathmandu ranked the world’s 19th best destination
27 March 2019: Nepal’s tourism industry, backbone of the mountain nation’s economy, has just received a major boost after being considered one of the top 25 travel destinations for 2019.…
Crazy concentration of Nepalese students in NSW; even more than Indian students
By Ram Khatry 26 March 2019 International students from Nepal seem to favour New South Wales more than any other states when they decide to come to Australia for higher…
Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugee shaves head to raise funds for cancer research
20 March 2019: A young Bhutanese refugee has bid goodbye to her thick, black and beautiful hair aiming to raise funds for the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF). Bidhya Karki,…
“Foreigner” Nepalese is bad business for Prachanda
19 March 2019: It seems Nepalese diaspora is a bad, bad business for Prachanda, Nepal’s former prime minister and the commander-in-chief of the erstwhile guerrilla outfit Nepal Communist Party (Maoist).…
US report claims 24 percent of Nepalese population is stateless
18 March 2019: The US Department of State has claimed that an estimated 5.4 million people in Nepal do not have “citizenship documentation”. In its recently-published Country Reports on Human Rights…
Horrible crimes: Nepalese minors being raped, killed only few hundred metres from home
19 February 2019: A scrutiny of recent media reports about rape and murder of young Nepalese girls, merely 10 to 13 years of age, reveals an extremely confronting development –…
A devout leftist journalist, People’s War and revolutionary-turned political pests of Nepal
By Ram Khatry 13 February 2019 Depending on who you ask, February 13 can either be an auspicious or regrettable day for Nepal and the Nepalese people. If you ask…
Nepal’s Venezuelan love: Prachanda’s wrong rhetoric at the wrong time
By Dr Bharat Raj Paudel 3 February 2019 Nepal has found itself in international limelight since earlier this week after a co-chairman of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal (CPN)…
Lucky Sherpa exits Australia for good, resignation expected upon return
30 January 2019: Community sources in Canberra say ambassador Lucky Sherpa has left Australia for good and is most likely to tender her resignation within few days of her arrival…
No sinister reason behind ex-king not being by Paras Shah’s hospital bed
29 January 2019: Gyanendra Shah’s personal secretary has said there is no sinister reason behind the former king not travelling to Kathmandu to be with Paras Shah as he remains…
3rd water-related incident in 32 days: another Nepalese youth dies in Australian water
27 January 2019: A 25-year-old Nepalese youth has drowned in western Sydney becoming the second citizen of the landlocked South Asian nation to die in Australian water in the last…
Medal of the Order of Australia awarded for trailblazing social entrepreneurship in Nepal
By Ram Khatry 26 January 2019 A Melbourne “social entrepreneur” has been awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her trailblazing philanthropic enterprise that aims to…
After lake city, former king Gyanendra Shah targets Simara and Damak
21 January 2019: Despite scathing comments and complaints by some of Nepal’s most powerful political heavyweights, former king Gyanendra Shah remains unfazed as he continues to visit district after district.…
