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TRADE-NEPAL
Carpet Industry Frayed at the Edges
By Bhuwan Sharma
KATHMANDU - It was an industry pioneer and had even proved itself successful in the export market. But these days Jawalakhel Handicraft Centre (JHC) is barely able to sustain itself on retail sales, and general manager Chimi Dorjee has been reduced to just recalling how things had been when the going was still good.
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HEALTH-NEPAL
Multiple Problems Mar Fight Against HIV/AIDS
By Bhuwan Sharma
KATHMANDU - To women who have lost their husbands to the killer AIDS disease, learning a skill to earn a living could be a matter of life and death.
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NEPAL
Peace Process Survives Scare But Road Ahead Still Bumpy
By Bhuwan Sharma
KATHMANDU - Nepal’s three major political parties inked a compromise deal Friday, an hour before the expiry of the Constituent Assembly’s (CA’s) tenure, and voted in favor of a bill proposing extension of its term by a year, thus saving the country’s four-year-old peace process from breaking down.
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MEDIA-NEPAL
Self-Censorship Creeping Up After Killings
By Bhuwan Sharma - Asia Media Forum
KATHMANDU - The climate of fear that has been growing in this Himalayan country since the murder of two media entrepreneurs and other attacks on journalists may well push them to turn to more self-censorship.
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POLITICS-NEPAL
Parties at Odds, Peace at Risk
By Damakant Jayshi
KATHMANDU - Nepal’s walk to peace from a decade-long, Maoist-led bloody insurgency that ended four years ago could take longer than expected.
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NEPAL
Witch Tag Only on Dalits, Minorities
By Mallika Aryal
KATHMANDU - Just 40 kms away from the capital Kathmandu, in Thasingtole, Lalitpur District, Kalli Kumari B.K., 46, a local Dalit woman, was mercilessly beaten up. She was accused of being a 'witch', imprisoned in a shed and forced to eat her own excreta
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NEPAL
Widows Break Tradition - Wear Red
By Mallika Aryal
KATHMANDU - Bhagwati Adhikari was a teenager when she was married off to a village boy of the same caste. Just a few years later when she was in her early 20s, she became a widow. Her husband, who worked as a security guard in Kathmandu, was murdered. Adhikari was left alone to support her family.
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POLITICS-NEPAL
Women Push for Gender Equality in New Constitution
By Mallika Aryal
KATHMANDU - A political crisis, which has dragged on for months, crippling progress in drafting a new constitution for Nepal by the Constituent Assembly (CA) has considerably dampened the euphoria of women's organisations here.
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NEPAL
Third Gender Assert Rights
By Renu Kshetry
KATHMANDU - Two years ago, 23-year-old Bhakti Shah, a cadet in the Nepal Army, was dismissed because she was seen to spend most of her free time with a fellow female cadet.
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HEALTH-NEPAL
Baby Boom in Maoist Army
By Renu Kshetry
KATHMANDU - At the annual military parade of the People’s Liberation Army, Nepal’s ex-guerrillas, curious bystanders saw a young woman clad in military fatigues kiss and cuddle a baby before handing her back to an older woman.
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NEPAL
People's Voices: Reflecting on the Republic
By Mallika Aryal
Gorkha Bajar, NEPAL - Maoist hammer and sickle graffiti from last year's constituent assembly (CA) election is still fresh on the walls all around Gorkha Bajar. This historic town, some 150 km west of the capital Kathmandu, used to be a Maoist stronghold during the 'peoples war' from 1996-2006.
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NEPAL
Displaced Choose Urban Homelessness Over Rural Insecurity
By Renu Kshetry
KATHMANDU - Bishnu Maya Dahal, 51, dreams of going back to her village in eastern Nepal.
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DEVELOPMENT-NEPAL
Women Everesters Talk Gender Equality
By Keya Acharya
KATHMANDU - Seven young women have started a seemingly commonplace programme of video presentations at schools in this mountainous Himalayan country. The programme’s contents however are unique.
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Nepal marks the end of a 240-year monarchy and the birth of the republic. Deposed King Gyanendra quit the palace on June 11, 2008, leaving the Nepali people with new questions: Will the new leaders deliver on their promises? Will the poor see their lives improve? Will Nepal be a truly independent, sovereign and inclusive democratic republic?.