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  • Lack of financial aid hampers Nepalese entrepreneurs

    Female entrepreneurs in Nepal say they face many challenges, the largest being a lack of financial assistance from the government and nongovernmental organizations. There are an estimated 30,000 female entrepreneurs in Nepal. Female entrepreneurs who receive free trainings seek to empower other craftswomen by hiring them, marketing their crafts and offering alternative business ...

  • Nepal - In Nepal press faces litigation for critical coverage of courts

    Judicial authorities in Nepal should stop targeting outlets of the Kathmandu-based Kantipur Publications and dismiss a case filed against the organization and one of its journalists that accuses them of contempt of court, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on May 16, 2013.On Monday May 13, lawyer Anjani Kumar Pokhrel filed a case against Kantipur Publications and journalist Vijaya Kumar ...

  • A Himalayan flight full of fear

    The pilot drops his headset. It breaks.The co-pilot leans out of the plane. With a tissue he wipes the condensation fogging the windscreen. He looks like a maverick in chrome aviators and a leather jacket.The 16 passengers in this Tara Air plane swap worried glances. Some of them are clenching teeth, others fidgeting uneasily.As we wait anxiously for take-off on the tarmac at Kathmandu Airport, ...

  • Steven Craig is new UNHCR representative for Nepal

    Steven Craig is new UNHCR representative for Nepal The newly-appointed UNHCR Representative in Nepal Steven Craig Sanders, presented his Letter of Credence to Minister for Foreign Affairs Madhav Prasad Ghimire on Wednesday. Sanders, an American national, has worked with the UN Refugee Agency since 1992 in a number of countries including Bangladesh, Sudan, Indonesia, Democratic Republic of ...

  • 2 Chinese died climbing summits in Nepal

    /enpproperty--> KATHMANDU - Thirty climbers from China, 24 male and 6 female have been registered to scale various summits this spring but two of them have already died, officials said on Wednesday. Li Xiaoshi, 58, from Taiwan, died while attempting the 8,516-meter-tall Lhotse Mountain. ...

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Rabbit Hole

Rabbit Hole

There are few things more inexplicable than the death of a child. Death itself is a difficult enough concept--the severity and finality of it--but when death comes to someone who has only begun to experience life, it is particularly devastating, the kind of blow that can shake the ... ...

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  • Indian woman becomes first female amputee to climb Mount Everest

    Arunima Sinha, 26, from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, reached the peak on Tuesday morning after a slow climb from Everest Base ...

  • Octogenarians race to be oldest Everest climber

    In this Friday, May 17, 2013 photo distributed by Miura Dolphins, 80-year-old Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura, right, and his son, Gota, rest on their way to a camp at 6,500 meters (21,325 feet) from a camp at 6,050 meters (19,849 feet) during their attempt to scale the summit of Mount Everest. According to his management office, Miura plans to reach the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak on ...

  • Nepal living goddess a local oddity

    "It sounds far more complicated than choosing a new Pope," says a visitor from Australia as our guide outlines elaborate, fascinating and strictly observed rituals preceding the appointment of Kathmandu's "living goddess".A sweet-natured young girl is usually selected to become a goddess, a child whose tantrums are rare and who can be counted on to smile demurely at ...

  • Nepali-Canadian 1st double amputee on Everest

    A Nepali-Canadian has become the first double amputee to climb the world's highest mountain.According to Khim Lal Gautam, liaison officer at Nepal's Tourism Ministry, Sudarshan Gautam, the Nepali-Canadian, reached atop Mt Everest at 9:00 am on Monday. Gautam, 30, lost both his hands at the age of 14 in an accident. He was on a mission to spread the message that "disability is not ...

  • Construction works on Tunnel Highway to start within month

    Construction works on Tunnel Highway to start within month Construction works on the Hetauda-Kulekhani-Kathmandu tunnel highway would be started within a month, state-owned news agency RSS reports. Chairman of Federation of Contractors´ Associations of Nepal (FCAN) and manager of the tunnel highway construction, Jayram Lamichhane, said that they would start the construction process ...

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