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May 12 2008, Sumit

A senior police officer said the protesters were arrested for carrying the Tibetan flag and wearing head bands that read “Free Tibet.”

Activists said the protesters were arrested from around the royal palace in Kathmandu while they were gathering...

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May 11 2008 by AP0 Comments

Police detained more than 600 female Tibetan protesters, including many Buddhist nuns, on Sunday after breaking up several demonstrations against China’s recent crackdown in Tibet.

 
 
May 11 2008 by AP0 Comments

Police detained more than 600 female Tibetan protesters, including many Buddhist nuns, on Sunday after breaking up several demonstrations in Nepal’s capital against China’s recent crackdown in Tibet.

 
 
May 9 2008 by AP0 Comments

Nepal allowed the climbing season on Mount Everest to resume Friday after blocking access to hundreds of climbers so a Chinese team carrying the Olympic flame could ascend without the threat of protests.

 
 
May 8 2008 by AP0 Comments

Several hundred Tibetan protesters tried to storm the Chinese Embassy’s visa office in Nepal on Thursday, kicking the gates and throwing banners inside the fortified compound. More than 200 were detained.

 
 
May 7 2008 by AP0 Comments

Nepal’s monarch may soon by reduced to a commoner _ but there is one place he will always be king.

 
 
May 2 2008 by AP0 Comments

The American ambassador to Nepal has met for the first time with the leader of the country’s former communist rebels, which Washington still officially considers terrorists, the U.S. Embassy said Friday.

 
 
May 2 2008 by AP0 Comments

The U.S. Embassy in Nepal says the American ambassador has met with the leader of the country’s former communist rebels.

 
 
Apr 29 2008 by AP0 Comments

Nepal has imposed a near-blackout on communications on its side of Mount Everest, trekking company officials said Tuesday, hours after the government acknowledged it had deported an American mountaineer caught at base camp with a “Free Tibet” banner.

 
 
Apr 29 2008 by AP0 Comments

Nepal has deported an American mountaineer found on Mount Everest with a “Free Tibet” banner and has banned him from all climbing activities in the country for two years, officials said Tuesday.

 
 
Apr 28 2008 by AP0 Comments

Thousands of Tibetans, mostly monks and nuns, held another of their near-daily demonstrations Monday in Nepal’s capital, urging the U.N. to investigate China’s crackdown on protests in their homeland, but for the first time they were not stopped by police.

 
 
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Apr 12 2008 by Anindita0 Comments

For 240 years Nepal has been under the rule of the Shah Dynasty, revered as incarnations of the Hindu God Vishnu. In 2001, the then deranged Crown Prince killed most of the Royal Family in a shooting, including his father (King Birendra), and then...

 
 
Jan 28 2008 by Asmita0 Comments

Its really ridiculous how the worshippers of Hollywood goddesses (or any pretty woman) find the objects of their desire to be incapable of natural bodily functions and urges (barred the reproductive kinds!). The beauties are deemed to use the...

 
 
Dec 24 2007 by Pratyush0 Comments

On Sunday, the government in Nepal has finally agreed to eliminate the centuries-old monarchy in the country following by a meeting with Maoist former rebels. According to an official, the decision of get rid of monarchy will go into effect only...

 
 
Nov 21 2007 by Subhankar0 Comments

Locked between India and China is a small but volatile country called Nepal, which is fast spiraling out of control. The Maoist rebels are dissatisfied that the nation remains a monarch and decreasing resources cripple the Nepalese government. So...

 
 
Nov 16 2007 by Sunit0 Comments

Trafficking of women and young girls is on the rise in the tiny Himalayan country of Nepal. It is of no surprise that women from the impoverished parts of the country make up the majority of the trafficked victims. Years of political uncertainty,...

 
 
Oct 29 2007 by Subhankar0 Comments

The Nepal crisis drags on. The debate on whether the monarchy in Nepal should remain at all appears to have no end in sight and the tiny, poverty-stricken South Asian nation sandwiched between India and China is sinking deeper and deeper into...

 
 
Oct 16 2007 by Balbhadra Rana0 Comments

King Gyanendra’s fate is being discussed furiously behind closed doors as the Maoists demand that monarchy be dissolved immediately in Nepal. In fact, he is the reason why the constituent assembly elections were postponed from the scheduled date of...

 
 
Oct 11 2007 by Sunit0 Comments

Nepal, yet to recover from the bloody Maoist insurgency that had gripped the Himalayan kingdom since 1996, killing thousands of people and countless unaccounted for, is heading for a fresh round of potential instability. The peace accord signed by the...

 
 
Oct 8 2007 by Balbhadra Rana0 Comments

India has often been caught napping on Nepal. The royal coup in 2005 by king Gyanendra had surprised India; while Pakistan and China had known beforehand of it. The announcement of postponement of the November elections in Nepal has left India...

 
 
Oct 6 2007 by Subhankar0 Comments

The signing of a peace deal in 2006 between the Maoist rebels and the Nepalese government brought a much needed full stop to a decade of fighting and violence. But if anyone thought that that was the end of the matter and the tiny Asian country...

 
 
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Tibetan exiles scuffle with Nepalese police officers during a protest against the Chinese government in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, May, 16, 2008. Hundreds of Tibetan exiles calling for freedom in their homeland demonstrated in the Nepalese capital Friday...