Full Coverage: Nepal

06/29/2005 The World Bank has approved of a US $3 million grant to Nepal for its Economic Reform Technical Assistance Project which intends to strengthen home-grown reforms in the areas of public sector capacity, service delivery, social inclusion, governance, and reducing unproductive public sector intervention in the economy.

06/20/2005 Lumbini Community Multimedia Centre (CMC) has recently organized a one-day orientation programme for blind and visually-impaired students of Shri Shanti Model Secondary School in Manigram, a village in Western Nepal. Shri Shanti local government school has about 850 students twenty-eight of which are either blind or visually impaired.

06/20/2005 The Open Knowledge Network, an initiative supported by organisations like MS SWaminathan Research Centre and One World International, promotes the creation and exchange of local content in local languages across the South, supported by a range of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The Nepalese chapter of the Open Knowledge Network was inaugurated recently in a bid to provide electronic resources to rural telecenters throughout the Himalayan Kingdom.

06/20/2005 The Open Knowledge Network, an initiative supported by organisations like MS SWaminathan Research Centre and One World International, promotes the creation and exchange of local content in local languages across the South, supported by a range of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The Nepalese chapter of the Open Knowledge Network was inaugurated recently in a bid to provide electronic resources to rural telecenters throughout the Himalayan Kingdom.

06/16/2005 Amnesty International in a new report - Nepal: Military assistance contributing to grave human rights violations - has said that irresponsible military trade by India, the US and the UK has led to disappearance, torture and abduction of thousands of civilians.

06/16/2005 In a new report, Amnesty International reveals how military arms supplies from the U.S., India, and the UK have facilitated the killing, torture, and abduction of thousands of Nepalese civilians. Amnesty is calling on the world's governments to halt military assistance to Nepal until security forces demonstrate they will uphold human rights.

06/15/2005 The U.S. Department of State is deciding whether to resume security assistance--including arms and ammunition--to the government of Nepal. As widespread violations of human rights continue in the country, Amnesty International wants your support in urging Assistant Secretary of State Rocca to refrain from supplying U.S. arms to Nepal.

06/15/2005 The attention of the Ministry of Information and Communications has been drawn towards the press statement of the Independent Radio Protection Movement issued on Tuesday in connection with the problems that have surfaced regarding the operation of radio stations run under frequency modulation (FM).

06/13/2005 Bolstered by the Supreme Court stay order against the Nepalese government for closing down the radio syndication service, Communication Corner, FM radio owners in Nepal have intensified their nationwide protest programme. The FM radio owners have decided to register their protest by defying the government order and simultaneously broadcasting news of King Gyanendra’s departure for Doha on 13 June at 8 PM on all FM stations throughout the country.

06/12/2005 KATHMANDU, Jun 11 (IPS) - Dipak Budhamagar wants to be a farmer like his father, who was killed by Maoist insurgents during the Tihar festival last November for fleeing a rebel work camp after a month's forced labour.

06/02/2005 Nepalin yhteistyö kaipaa uutta lähestymistapaa, kirjoittaa Suomen Nepalin asiainhoitaja Kehitysuutisissa. Vaikka kehitysyhteistyöllä ollaan tehty parannuksia ruohonjuuritasolla, ei Nepalin yhteiskunnallliseen ja poliittiseen kehitykseen ole pystytty vaikuttamaan niin että demokratiasta ja tasa-arvosta olisi tullut ajattelun valtavirta. Kehitystulokset eivät ole kirjoittajan mukaan vaikuttaneet valtarakenteeseen riittävästi.

06/02/2005 Bellasap in coordination with SAP International and SAP Nepal is organising a South Asian workshop on Knowledge Networking for Peace: Rhetoric or Reality? between July 13-14, 2005 in Kathmandu, Nepal. This workshop will be innovative as new approaches of knowledge sharing like, Open Space Technology, Story Telling, Peer Assist and After Action Review will be adopted.

06/01/2005 This has been said before but given the fact that the present regime is bent on breaking the back of the FM radio sector in Nepal, it needs to be said once again: The growth of the FM radios in Nepal is a clear indication of democratization at work in post-Panchayat Nepali society.

06/01/2005 A writ petition has been filed before the Nepalese apex court by the Managing Director of Communication Corner Pvt Limited, Gopal Guragai, seeking the court's interim order to repeal the government's order banning the organisation producing news items for FM radio stations in Nepal.

06/01/2005 A writ petition has been filed before the Nepalese apex court by the Managing Director of Communication Corner Pvt Limited, Gopal Guragai, seeking the court's interim order to repeal the government's order banning the organisation producing news items for FM radio stations in Nepal.