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  • Goa turns into an employment hub for Nepalese

    Goa has emerged as the favourite destination for Nepalese as hundreds get employment in the hospitality industry here. Tourism and the hotel industry flourish in Goa and the hotels and restaurants in Panaji employ a large number of people from Nepal. Offering enticing opportunities, good pay packages and other facilities; the industry has turned into a hub for employment for them. Viren, a ...

  • Mid and Far West Tourism festival held in Kathmandu

    Artists dance during the second day of the three-day Mid and Far West Tourism festival in Kathmandu, capital of Nepal, on May 25, 2013. (Xinhua/Sunil ...

  • Nepal Serious Concerns For Security of Human Rights Defence

    1. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) wishes to highlight the continuing need for closer monitoring by the Human Rights Council and the international community of the renewed threats and attacks that human rights defenders working in Nepal have had to face since the beginning of the year. Worries about potential reprisals from the former belligerents have arisen following progress in ...

  • Plan to install ladder close to peak of Mount Everest

    Now, almost exactly 60 years after Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the top, a new plan has been mooted to install a ladder, the Guardian ...

  • Nepal Parties Must Hold Elections within Timetable

    Monday, 27 May 2013, 11:51 am Press Release: UN News Nepal: Ban Urges All Parties to 'Maintain Momentum' To Hold Elections within TimetableNew York, May 24 2013 - 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 ...

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El Norte [Blu-Ray]

El Norte [Blu-Ray]

When Gregory Navas El Norte was first released, Variety described it as the first independent American epic, and I cant think of a better description of this deeply moving film that is simultaneously entrancing, horrifying, sad, and profoundly humane. The story of two young Guatem ... ...

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  • Former Nepal PM Baburam Bhattarai all praise for Chinese ‘dream’

    Xi Jinping , calling his idea of the Chinese dream as a "dream of the whole world". Bhattarai, a Communist ideologue, told the official Xinhua news agency that the Chinese dream was entirely different from the western dream, which thrived on colonization and exploitation of the third world. "The Chinese dream is about ending that domination and granting freedom to all people of ...

  • Oldest Everest climber returns from landmark ascent as Nepali octogenarian braces to break his record

    Oldest Everest climber returns from landmark ascent as Nepali octogenarian braces to break his record A brief improvement in weather conditions has allowed the oldest person to climb Mount Everest to leave the mountain on a helicopter. According to an Associated Press report, the aircraft picked up 80-year-old Yuichiro Miura at Camp 2 and flew him to the base camp and then to Kathmandu on ...

  • No more Everest says oldest to climb highest peak

    Yuichiro Miura, who reached the top of Mount Everest at the age of 80 last week, said Sunday that he will not attempt any more climbs of the world's highest peak - even as his one-year-older rival was at Everest's base camp attempting to regain his title as the oldest to conquer the ...

  • Chinese dream is dream of whole humanity Nepals former PM

    Nepal's former Prime Minister and Vice-Chairman of Unified Communist party of Nepal (Maoist) Baburam Bhattarai said that Chinese dream is a dream of whole humanity as well as of Nepalese people.The former prime minister, who is known as a Communist ideologue in his party, said in a recent exclusive interview with Xinhua, that Chinese dream is a dream of oppressed humanity of the world who ...

  • New records reflection mark Everest 60th anniversary

    KATHMANDU, Nepal (AFP) - Sixty years ago this week two men became the first to stand on the roof of the world in a remarkable feat of endurance and strength of the human spirit.As the May 29 anniversary of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary's summit of Mount Everest approaches, hundreds of people from all walks of life, and with varying motivations, are trying to follow in their ...

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