Kathmandu, June 13 -- On 21 March, the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) signed an agreement to launch the Sustainable Tourism Project (STP), a $5 million endea... Read More
Kathmandu, June 12 -- On World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, Reporters without Borders issued a map of the world with the status of press freedom in each country. Most Asian countries had restrictions o... Read More
Kathmandu, June 11 -- Thousands of Nepali students dreaming of an American education have been forced to look elsewhere as the Trump administration's visa restrictions make their future uncertain. Th... Read More
Kathmandu, June 10 -- An international conference on looted cultural objects in Nepal was strategising about how to repatriate sacred icons, when news broke that a 400-year-old jewel studded gilt-copp... Read More
Kathmandu, June 9 -- This week, all seven of Nepal's provincial governments announced their annual budgets even as debate in the federal parliament over the central budget has been stalled for two wee... Read More
Kathmandu, June 8 -- Widespread abuse of antibiotics has led to patients not responding to treatment because bacteria causing infections have developed resistance to the drugs. In 2021 alone, the la... Read More
Kathmandu, June 7 -- Marking 80 years since the dawn of the nuclear age, peace advocates, diplomats, educators, and atomic bomb survivors from around the world gathered for the 'Choose Hope' Symposium... Read More
Nepal, June 6 -- This is the 68th episode of Diaspora Diaries, a Nepali Times series in collaboration with Migration Lab providing a platform to share experiences of living, working and studying abroa... Read More
Kathmandu, June 5 -- Asma BK has been running all her life: she ran away from her home in Rolpa at age 13, became a child worker in a brick kiln in Kathmandu, ran from job to job. Rescued by a child s... Read More
Kathmandu, June 3 -- Israel's ongoing war of annihilation in Gaza has wiped out hospitals, schools, homes, water, and food, reducing the Palestinian territory to a wasteland and leaving a death toll o... Read More