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The Everest Industry

Kathmandu, May 30 -- While Nepal was hosting the Sagarmatha Sambaad international climate conference in Kathmandu this month, on Mt Everest it was pretty much business as usual. The signs of climate... Read More


Born in Nepal, treated as a foreigner

Kathmandu, May 23 -- A growing number of adult adoptees of Nepali origin have started returning to the land of their birth, and seeking not only emotional reconnection but formal recognition through t... Read More


Being Prabal Gurung by design

Kathmandu, May 19 -- Prabal Gurung left Nepal for New York in 1999 to escape years of bullying, sexism and homophobia, and to pursue his dream of becoming a fashion designer. He realised his dream, bu... Read More


A pre-monsoon deja vu

Kathmandu, May 19 -- Janmu Sherpa was a grandmother with a dozen goats and a tea house in Donggang in the Rolwaling Valley. Her stopover served trekkers en route to Tso Rolpa Glacial Lake and the trai... Read More


Nepal in the red

Kathmandu, May 16 -- Nepal's Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel is a Red. And as Finance Minister in a coalition led by his Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) he has the unenviable job of... Read More


Remembering Junko Tabei

Kathmandu, May 16 -- Many events are planned this year for the 75th anniversary of the first ascent of Annapurna, and the 70th anniversary of the first successful expeditions on Kangchenjunga and Maka... Read More


Migrants dying in Saudi FIFA worksites

Kathmandu, May 15 -- In the week that US President Donald Trump visited Saudi Arabia to sign deals worth hundreds of billions of dollars, a rights group published its investigation of deaths of migran... Read More


The reign of the god of rain

Manila, May 9 -- The Rato Matsyendranath Chariot Festival started in Patan this week, one of the longest such carnivals in the world. Matsyendranath is a festival that spans South Asia and is revered... Read More


Ordinary Nepali's extraordinary sacrifice

Kathmandu, May 7 -- Nepal's public sphere is replete with tales of corruption in high places and the powerful stealing the hard-earned deposits of cooperatives. But there are ordinary Nepalis showing ... Read More


Nukes in the neighbourhood

Kathmandu, May 6 -- India and Pakistan are twins separated at birth. Tensions between them have been at a hair trigger ever since independence and has erupted into full scale conflict at least four ti... Read More