by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 16th, 2022.Nepal and China on Tuesday signed an agreement for the utilisation of Rs15 billion (800 million RMB) in Chinese grants for various projects selected by the Nepali side. Bishnu Pukar Shrestha, Nepali ambassador to China, and Luo Zhaohui, chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), signed the agreement on the behalf of their respective governments, in Beijing. CIDCA is China’s external aid and development…
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by DB Budha in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 16, 2022A week has passed since Tirtharaj Neupane, a 23-year-old man from Jodu in Sinja Rural Municipality-6, left home for Uttarakhand in India. Neupane is one of the six youths who have reached Nepalgunj to cross over to India. While the election fever grips the country, migrant workers from the mountain district of Jumla remain untouched by the frenzy. “People like us can’t afford to get caught…
by Kashiram Dangi in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 15, 2022Barsha Man Pun, the deputy general secretary of CPN (Maoist Centre), is contesting for the federal parliament seat from Rolpa, an epicentre of Maoist insurgency. He is the common candidate of the ruling alliance in the district, which has a single electoral constituency in the House of Representatives. Pun is up against Purna Bahadur Budha Magar, his one-time party comrade and former Maoist combatant who is…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 15, 2022Visiting Chinese Vice Minister for Culture and Tourism Li Qun is leaving for Hong Kong on Tuesday after completing his five-day Nepal visit. He arrived in Kathmandu on Friday night. Li, who is also the head of the National Cultural Heritage Administration, visited Nepal on a “personal” visit and according to the government officials. Earlier, Nepal had asked Chinese officials to postpone the visit until after the November…
Sonam presents the perfect picture of a Tibetan – except that he is in hiding in India, escaping from the tyranny of a Chinese system that broke up his family, took away his job, and forced him to shame his faith under duress.