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  • Japanese octogenarian becomes oldest to climb Everest

    80-year-old Japanese mountain climber Yuichiro Miura reached the top of Mount Everest on Thursday. Miura is the oldest person to ever reach the Mount Everest summit. (May ...

  • Nepal - Maoist party cadres seize copies of newspaper in Nepal

    Freedom Forum is gravely concerned over a recent press freedom violation that occurred in the capital city of Kathmandu.Early in the morning of May 19, 2013, cadres affiliated with the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) seized all copies of ...

  • Nepali youth NGO among four to win WB grant for innovative idea

    Nepali youth NGO among four to win WB grant for innovative idea Four innovative youth-oriented organisations from four different countries have been selected winners at the Regional Grant Competition, jointly organised by the World Bank (WB), Microsoft and Sarvodaya-Fusion. YUWA from Nepal, Shilpa Sayura Foundation from Sri Lanka, YPSA from Bangladesh, Live & Learn Environmental Education ...

  • Seven dead in Nepal bus disaster

    A bus traveling in far west Nepal Thursday skidded off a hilly road and fell about 50 feet, killing at least seven people and injuring 41 others, police said. It was not immediately known if there were more passengers in the bus, which was traveling to Darchula district from Mahendranagar near the border with India. Nepalnews.com reported the accident occurred about 6 a.m. The injured were ...

  • Eighty-year-old climber on top of world after reaching Everest summit

    Yuichiro Miura, an 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer, says he is feeling elated after becoming the oldest person in history to reach the top of Mount ...

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Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams

Like the first movie, Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams is a fantastically ridiculous kids' adventure-fantasy filled with bizarre creatures, outlandish gadgets, and anything and everything else Rodriguez's supple imagination could conjure up. Working with digital special effects that bring to mind the wonderful stop-motion animation of Ray Harryhausen, Rodriguez (who ... ...

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  • Nepals oldest climber sponsored by govt to defend his record

    The government of Nepal at its cabinet meeting Thursday decided to provide 1 million rupees ($11, 235.9) to Guinness World Record holder Min Bahadur Sherchan, an official at the prime minister's office said."Today's cabinet meeting decided to provide 1 million rupees to Min Bahadur Sherchan for his attempt to scale Mount Everest to defend his record," Rajendra Pandey, Press ...

  • FM Koirala holds trade talks with Australian Ambassador White

    FM Koirala holds trade talks with Australian Ambassador White Finance Minister Shankar Koirala has urged Australia to help boost trade of Nepali goods in order to mitigate trade deficit. During the meeting with Australian Ambassador to Nepal Glen White here in capital on Wednesday, Koirala asked the Ambassador to help bring Australian investment in Nepal’s potential sectors. Thanking ...

  • Climbers feared dead on Nepals mountain

    (41 mins ago) Five climbers, including the first Hungarian to scale Mount Everest, are missing and feared dead on Nepal's treacherous Kangchenjunga mountain, tourism officials said Thursday. The climbers -- two from Hungary, two from Nepal and one from South Korea -- went missing on Monday afternoon as they attempted to climb the 8,586-metre peak, the officials said, AFP reports. ...

  • Trilateral cooperation among China India and Nepal urged

    Nepal's three former prime ministers have called for a trilateral cooperation among Nepal, China and India in order to hasten economic development in the region. In exclusive interviews with Xinhua recently, the three former prime ministers, Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, Puspa Kamal Dahal " Prachanda" and Madhav Kumar Nepal, underscored the importance of trilateral cooperation among the ...

  • Air ticket shortage in Gulf route leaves thousands of Nepalese workers stranded

    Around 20,000 Nepali migrant workers have been stranded in Nepal's capital city Kathmandu due to a shortage of air tickets and an exorbitant hike in ticket prices on the Gulf route. Staffers of Nepal's foreign employment agencies and migrant workers going to countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have not been able to book tickets even for double ...

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