by Balram Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 8, 2023The demand for Nepali products has started to pick up in the Chinese market as Beijing has reopened two-way trade from the Rasuwagadhi-Kerung port, which was shut since the start of the Covid pandemic. Nepali traders have been exporting goods such as flour, turmeric, chilly, bamboo stool, grass broom, handicrafts, cosmetics, noodles and among others to Tibet via Rasuwagadhi. According to the local traders, the Tibetans…
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by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 8, 2023With the poor show in the November 20 federal and provincial polls and the rise of new forces from elections, the CPN (Maoist Centre) seems to have felt the need for some hard work to keep itself relevant. To bolster its chances, the party has decided to go for a broader left unity. A meeting of office bearers of the ruling party on Saturday formed…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 8, 2023Former prime minister and CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli on Saturday took a jibe at the Nepali Congress while also indirectly criticising India. Without naming India, Oli said that neighbouring countries are showing unnecessary interest in government formation in Nepal and urged them not to intervene in the country’s internal affairs. As the political parties were preparing to elect the new prime minister, according to one…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 6, 2023Independent candidates who rebelled against their parties when denied election tickets in the November polls have started returning to their mother organisations. Of them, the winners have been making a beeline to the parties they quit. Such lawmakers’ return becomes a win-win situation for both sides because the lawmaker can again become active in the old organisation while the party gets one more seat in Parliament,…
report The Himalayan Times, January 6, 2023Kathmandu: The Madhav Kumar Nepal-led CPN (Unified Socialist) continues to keep the seven-party alliance and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal guessing on what it will do on January 10 when the Dahal-led government seeks the vote of confidence. The ongoing politburo meeting of the party ended today, saying nothing about the vote of confidence. Dahal had sought the CPN (US) support in the trust vote, but CPN (US) Spokesperson…
Report in Kathmandu Post, January 7, 2023The common minimum programme, a document outlining the coalition government’s primary objectives, a draft of which was circulated on Friday, has focused on easing the delivery of government services. The document appears to have also addressed key concerns of the member parties of the ruling alliance. The draft of the common minimum programme prepared by a task-force led by Finance Minister Bishnu Paudel promises a time card system for…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 6, 2023 Nearly two years after the dissolution of the powerful Nepal Communist Party that was formed after a merger between the CPN-UML and the CPN (Maoist Centre), the CPN (Unified Socialist) on Thursday formed a four-member task force to explore the possibility of unity among left-leaning political forces in Nepal. CPN (Unified Socialist) Deputy General Secretary and spokesman Jagannath Khatiwada said the four-member task force is led by…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 5, 2023Nepali Congress spokesperson Prakash Sharan Mahat on Wednesday claimed that the present ruling coalition has a short life as it is a coming together of opportunistic political forces. The Congress reaction comes around 10 days after it lost the battle to lead the new government despite being the largest party in the House of Representatives. On December 25, hours before the deadline for claiming the new…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 5, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is preparing to expand his Cabinet only after securing a vote of confidence in Parliament on January 10. But he is struggling to distribute ministerial posts given the composition of the ruling coalition. While the coalition partners have yet to reach a clear understanding on power-sharing, the Janata Samajbadi Party, one of the partners, is still undecided on whether to…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, January 4, 2023The CPN (Unified Socialist), which was formed in 2021 by a dissident faction of the CPN-UML, failed to cross the three percent vote threshold under the proportional representation system in the November 20 elections. As a result, it lost the national party status. And now 16 months after splitting from the UML, the Unified Socialist is talking about unifying Nepal’s left parties. The party’s politburo meeting,…
Three Nepali women escape their coercive Chinese employers in Laos. They still feel unsafe back home
by Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, January 4, 2023Lalita’s husband, Rajan, doesn’t have free time to think these days. His brain is occupied by a loan of Rs290,000, which he paid to a Chinese agent two months ago to enable his sick wife to return from a Laos-based call centre. Rajan, 35, is now learning the Korean language and is into ride-sharing gigs, so that he can pay his four-year-old son’s monthly school fee…