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- NRN China supports earthquake victims
Non Resident Nepalis in China have extended financial assistance to the victims of recent earthquake in China that killed tens of thousands of people in Sinchuan province. According to a statement issued by NRN China, its president Dr Sudhi Timilsina
- Tibetans protest again in Nepal capital
Hundreds of Tibetan exiles calling for freedom in their homeland demonstrated in the Nepalese capital Friday until police stopped them. About 500 Tibetans, many of them women, marched on the outskirts of Katmandu for about two miles, holding banners that
- Nepali Congress leaders against joining Maoist-led government
Amid looming questions over the government formation in Nepal, the central members of Nepali Congress of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala have warned the party leadership against taking the 'suicidal' decision to join a Maoist-led coalition. During a
- Picture of Nepal in Austria
Arriving in Innsbruck, Austria, I was struck by how similar the small Alpine city is to Kathmandu -- snow-covered mountains peeking through the hills, a gurgling river running through the city, old palaces and alleys that carry hundreds of years of
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In 1951, the Nepalese monarch ended the century-old system of rule by hereditary premiers and instituted a cabinet system of government. Reforms in 1990 established a multiparty democracy within the framework of a constitutional monarchy. A maoist insugency, launched in 1996, has gained traction and is threatening to bring down the regime. Ten members of the royal family, including the king and queen, were massacred in a family dispute in 2001. In October 2002, the new king dismissed the prime minister and his cabinet for "incompetence" after they dissolved the parliament and were subsequently unable to hold elections because of the ongoing insurgency. The country is now governed by the king and his appointed cabinet until elections can be held at some unspecified future date.
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AFP - Children in South Asia are bearing the brunt of spiralling food prices as malnutrition is on the rise with millions at risk, the UN children's fund said Tuesday.
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