By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 08, 2023Nepali officials are seeking negotiations with China to put into force the proposed plan to electrify some of the remote bordering villages of Nepal with the Chinese grid. Officials said they want assistance from the northern neighbour as it will be costly to connect the villages to the domestic grid due to difficult geography. Nepal had asked the Chinese side to supply electricity from the…
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by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post,Nov 7, 2023Nepal continues to remain among the lowest-ranked countries in South Asia in terms of human development even though the country has made rapid progress in the last few decades, a United Nations report says. Nepal’s human development index (HDI) value in 2021 stood at 0.602 which is third worst after the war-torn Afghanistan and Pakistan, which is also facing an economic crisis lately, according to the…
By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 31, 2023Nepal and China welcomed the successful opening of the Lizi-Nechung port near the Tibet border, as per the joint statement issued during Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s visit to China in late September. The port is situated across the border from Nepal’s bordering village Korala in Mustang district. However, it is not sure when the border would reopen for regular bilateral trade and exchanges, according…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 21, 2023China has in recent months stepped up its engagement across several fronts in Nepal. It is sending several high-profile leaders and officials to Nepal in order to engage with different state entities while it is also inviting Nepali leaders, top officials and civil society members, among others, to China. One of its goals is to build support for various programmes launched by President Xi Jinping. After…
report in Nepalnews.com, Oct 18, 2023 at 07:36pmPrime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has expressed his commitment to make every possible effort to modernize the Nepal Police and establish it as an efficient, responsible and influential organization in the national and international sector. At a programme organized to mark the 68th Police Day at Police Headquarters at Naxal on Tuesday, PM Dahal lauded that it was the matter of pride and important ‘capital’ of the country…
By Thira Lal Bhusal in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 16, 2023Ganesh Gurung has extensively studied the situation of Nepali migrant workers employed all over the world. In light of the tragic killing of 10 Nepali students in Israel, Thira Lal Bhusal of the Post sat with him to discuss pertinent issues of foreign employment including worker safety and ways to resolve them. Excerpts: The recent killings of Nepali students in Israel have again brought to…
report in Nepalnews.com, Oct 15, 2023Unorganized, and weak political parties and leaders are blamed for rising corruption in Nepal. According to a report entitled ‘Corruption Reflection Nepal, 2023’ unveiled by the Alternative Foundation here on Saturday, corruption prevails in several forms in Nepal and the main forms are bribery, embezzlement, fraud, and extortion and abuse of power, nepotism, and favoritism are deeply rooted in Nepalese culture, back-supporting corruption. According to the findings of the study,…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 13, 2023Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Narayan Kaji Shrestha will represent Nepal in the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF) to be held in Beijing on October 17 and 18. Although invitations to the event were sent to the government of Nepal and other line ministers like Energy Minister Shakti Basnet and Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport Prakash Jwala, Prime…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 6, 2023United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who is arriving in Kathmandu on October 13 on a four-day official visit, will be flying to Beijing on October 16 to participate in the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF). China has also invited the Nepal government to the BRF event, but Kathmandu has yet to decide who will participate in the event. China is hosting…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 6, 2023United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who is arriving in Kathmandu on October 13 on a four-day official visit, will be flying to Beijing on October 16 to participate in the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF). China has also invited the Nepal government to the BRF event, but Kathmandu has yet to decide who will participate in the event. China is hosting…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 4, 2023China has opened the door for the import of over a dozen medicinal herbs from Nepal for producing medicine. When Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal visited China in late September, the two countries signed the Protocol of Phytosanitary Requirements for the export of plant-derived medicinal materials for Chinese medicine from Nepal to China. The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development and the General Administration of…