Issue #339

March 9-15, 2007

Headline

On sale

On sale

Adoption from Nepal is beginning to look like trafficking

A NEPALI TIMES INVESTIGATION

Editorial

In the interim

In their impatience, the Maoists entered the interim legislature without completing arms management. That created problems all around. Now they…

Columns

The power of one
Guest Column by SUNITA TAMANG

The power of one

If one girl could do this, imagine what governments can do

Youth and hope
Here And There by DANIEL LAK

Youth and hope

Nepal needs to hang on to its most valuable resource, its youngsters

No to June
Eyes Wide Shut by SHEETAL KUMAR

No to June

A flawed election is worse than a delayed election

State Of The State by CK LAL

Let the games begin

The politics of masks, sidestepping, feints, and gambits

What’s the plan, Gyan?
Backside by Ass

What’s the plan, Gyan?

Can't envy Sitaula having to sit through a two-and-half-hour grilling at the kangresi central committee meeting last week. The home minister had…

Nation

Baby bajar

Baby bajar

THOMAS BELL In the cramped Anamnagar office of an adoption broker and his dusty orphanage in Ratopul, Nepali Times this week made arrangements…

ANAGHA NEELAKANTAN

"I want to be a guerrilla"

"I want to be a guerrilla"

PICS: KISHOR RIMAL Travelling to Rolpa from Kathmandu, there are plenty of signs of the physical scars of the ten-year old insurgency. Destroyed…

KISHOR RIMAL in ROLPA

10 years on air

10 years on air

In 1997 Radio Sagarmatha opened the gates for Nepal's radio revolution

Moving Target

From The Nepali Press

Green Wealth

Green Wealth

ANNAPURNA POSTGREEN WEALTH: Since mid-February Maoists have been cutting down sissau trees from Pumori Agro Forestry in Kumrose, Chitwan, whisch…

Suicidal

Editorial in Punarjagaran, 6 March

In this issue:

On sale |In the interim |Editorial: The power of one |Let the games begin |“I want to be a guerrilla” |Bringing the boys back home |Still fearful in Rolpa |Who’s who |Still hopeful |Get on with it |Suicidal |10 years on air |Thinking nationally, acting locally |Youth and hope |Post-truth Nepal |No to June |Baby bajar |Lack of laws |“I want my son back” |Kids as business |Setting up shop |Backside: What’s the plan, Gyan?