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  • Nepal Ban urges all parties to maintain momentum to hold elections within timetable Nepal Ban urges all parties to maintain momentum to hold elections within timetable

    24 May 2013 150 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged all parties in Nepal to overcome remaining political obstacles to hold the country's next elections within the existing timetable. In a statement, Mr. Ban's spokesperson said the Secretary-General "has been following events in Nepal closely," and "urges all parties to maintain momentum by overcoming the remaining political obstacles ...

  • Nepals Tibetan Refugees Struggle Under Chinas Shadow

    KATHMANDU Tibetan refugees in Nepal say they face increasing restrictions from Nepalese authorities due to pressure from China. VOA correspondent Aru Pande talks to Tibetans who, for decades, have made the Himalayan country their home. Dolma Lama learned to weave Tibetan carpets from her mother - who fled Tibet and settled in Kathmandu after a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese ...

  • Nepali security guard killed in Taliban attack in Afghanistan

    Nepali security guard killed in Taliban attack in Afghanistan A Nepali guard and an Afghan police officer providing security to the International Organisation of Migration's compound in Kabul died in a Taliban assault on Friday, local reports said. Four of the IOM's staff were wounded, one of them seriously burned by a grenade at the group's guesthouse for international workers, ...

  • 5 climbers feared dead on worlds third-highest peak in Nepal

    Five men who disappeared earlier this week trying to climb the world's third-highest mountain are feared dead, searchers leading the recovery effort in Nepal said on Friday, saying few could survive this ...

  • Five climbers feared dead after going missing on Kanchenjunga

    The five – two Hungarians, two Nepalis and one South Korean – disappeared on Monday, and bad weather was preventing a rescue helicopter from reaching their base ...

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Diary of a Chambermaid (Le Journal d'une femme de chambre) [DVD]

Diary of a Chambermaid (Le Journal d'une femme de chambre) [DVD]

Luis Buñuel's Diary of a Chambermaid (Le Journal d'une femme de chambre) is not one of his better-known or his best films. But, it is a fascinatingly bizarre minor work, a seemingly straightforward country melodrama that becomes gradually weirder as the story progresses even though the surface of the narrative never quite ruptures in absolute absurdity, as in other Bu&nti ... ...

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  • Politics churns in Nepals southern plains

    As the Nepalese political parties deliberate on holding new Constituent Assembly (CA) elections, a whole lot of political churning is taking place in Madhes, the southern plains of Nepal. While efforts are underway from some quarters to form a single party or at least an electoral alliance, some Madhesi leaders are resorting to 'pressure tactics' in order to establish themselves as a ...

  • 05242013 1735 NEPAL - CHINA Chinas rising transportation costs block trade with Nepal

    Marking the feast of Mary Help of Christians, Day of Prayer for China, Francis speaks of the "grace" to "bear and overcome external and internal oppression with patience and love. "Praying for your enemies, for those who make us suffer" is not easy. "But we are" defeated Christians "if we do not forgive our enemies and if we do not pray for ...

  • Everest at 60 the Brits who got there first

    The first to reach the summit; the first to climb without oxygen; the first to climb 10 times; the first woman. On the 60th anniversary of Edward Hillary - a New Zealander - conquering Everest, Mick Conefrey meets the British climbers who ...

  • Mount Everest Phone Call Illegal Says Nepal Government

    A British man climbing Mount Everest to raise money for UK charity Comic Relief may have fallen afoul of the law by making a video call from the top of the mountain. Daniel Hughes summited on Sunday along with scores of other people. But when he got to the top of Everest he did something quite different from the others: He put on a clown nose - the trademark of the charity's fundraising ...

  • Nepal to participate in Dehradun cricket event

    Nepal to participate in Dehradun cricket event A team of Nepali Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) led by Prithu Baskota is set to participate in the 31st All India Uttarakhand Gold Cup Cricket Tournament scheduled to be held from May 26 to June 2, 2013 in Dehradun. Orbanising a press conference in the capital on Thursday, CAN officials informed that the team includes vice-captain Bhuwan Karki ...

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