by Arjun Poudel in The Kathmandu Post,Oct 1, 2023Since Wednesday, thousands of patients across Nepal had been deprived of regular healthcare services as resident doctors nationwide skipped duty to protest Monday’s assault on doctors at Manipal Teaching Hospital in Pokhara. This was not the first time healthcare services have been affected due to doctors’ strikes in Nepal. On September 18, the Nepal Medical Association, an umbrella organisation of medical doctors, called a nationwide strike to…
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by Deepak Pariyar in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 31, 2023Entrepreneurs in Pokhara have urged Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal to request China to conduct regular flights to the newly built international airport in Pokhara from different Chinese cities. They have also urged the prime minister to make an effort for the opening of the Korala pass that connects Mustang and Tibet. Nepal’s Prime Minister Dahal is scheduled for an official visit to Beijing on September…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 26, 2023The government’s key ministries are busy preparing their own agendas in what would be a wish-list from the Nepali side to be discussed during the Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s China visit next month. Dahal is scheduled to travel direct from New York to Hangzhou, China on September 22. He will attend the opening ceremony of the 19th Asian Games to be held in Chinese city…
By Anil Giri & Sangam Prasain in The Kathmandu Post, June 22, 2023On December 31 last year, on the eve of Pokhara International Airport inauguration by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the Chinese Embassy wrote on its Twitter account that “This [Pokhara airport] is the flagship project of the China-Nepal BRI cooperation.” Six months after the airport’s opening, a Sichuan Airlines charter flight landed in Pokhara on Wednesday with 84 passengers on board the Airbus…